OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of World Economy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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Taxation of MNE profits in an R&D driven economy: Beneficial tax havens and minimum taxes	64
The Impact of International Students on UK Trade of Cultural Goods	58
Intangible trade: Understanding the relationship between trade barriers and mode of supply in services sectors	55
Information asymmetry and dynamic sourcing: Evidence from Chinese firms	47
COVID‐19, trade and trade policy	47
The effect of obtaining EU citizenship in former transition economies on remittance flows	44
Nowcasting services trade for the G7 economies	41
Using synthetic control method to estimate the growth effects of economic liberalisation: Evidence from transition economies	37
Multinational Enterprises and Between‐Firm Wage Inequality Across European Regions	37
The least developed countries' Services Waiver, Aid for Trade for services and services exports	37
Military Alliance and International Trade:Evidence from NATO Enlargement	36
The impact of internet platform usage on firms' exports: New evidence for Turkish firms	36
Navigating Bilateral Digital Trade Flows: The Role of Digital Intellectual Property Agreement Networks	33
Industrial Chain Risk Exposure and Economic Volatility: A Framework Incorporating Foreign‐Invested Enterprises	31
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Going out by doing good: The effect of mandatory CSR disclosure on outward FDI of Chinese firms	30
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FDI and product and process innovation of SMEs in Vietnam: The role of institutions	27
Culture, Institutions and Economic Growth	25
Determinants of intangible capital investment in Vietnam: A firm‐level analysis	24
Intra‐African trade and corruption: Evidence from sub‐Saharan African countries	24
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International trade and labour market integration of immigrants	18
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Military alliance and international trade: Evidence from NATO enlargement	16
Global Value Chain Disruptions During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Korean Firm‐Level Evidence	16
The nonlinear relationship between poverty and financial globalisation: A panel quantile regression approach	16
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Infrastructure and intra‐regional trade in Africa	15
African economic integration and trade	15
Covid‐19 in America: Global supply chain reconsidered	15
Global Governance, Economic Sanctions and Agricultural Trade in a Fragmenting World Economy	15
Does antidumping drive exporters out of the market? Some evidence from Brazil	15
Diversification in Trade and Foreign Investment and Resilience to the COVID ‐19 Shock: Firm‐Level Evidence Using Japanese Customs Data	15
Do international investment agreements attract foreign direct investment in knowledge intensive industries?	14
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The Quality and Price of Africa's Imports of Digital Goods	14
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Cultural Ties, FDI and Firm Performance: Evidence From Investment in China Originating in Hong Kong and Macau	13
The spillover effect of global uncertainty through input–output linkage	13
A positive effect of uncertainty shocks on the economy: Is the chase over?	13
Assessing the effect of the Round Table on Responsible Soy certification on soybean exports	13
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The trade effect of regional trade agreements in the presence of duty drawbacks	12
Firm‐Level Concentration of Chinese Exports in Individual Markets	12
The delayed impact of containers on U.S. international trade growth	12
Regional integration and non‐tariff barriers to Intra‐Sub‐Saharan Africa trade	11
Features and evolution of the ‘Belt and Road’ regional value chain: Complex network analysis	11
How do export credit services shape firm growth?	11
How Does Regional Trade Policy Uncertainty Affect the Quality of Imported Products?—An Analysis Using CAFTA	11
Trade policy review of Singapore	11
The trade impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	11
Regional inequalities in the age of nearshoring	11
Globalisation and carbon dioxide emissions inequality in OECD countries	10
Expropriation Without Compensation: Copper in Chile, 1970–1973	10
Pre‐Crisis Conditions and Financial Crisis Duration	10
Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement: Potential Gains	10
Cross‐country linkages between ASEAN and non‐ASEAN‐RCEP member states: A global VAR analysis	10
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U.S.‐South America trade and the J‐Curve: An asymmetric analysis	10
How Pandemics Affect International Investment: Evidence From M&As During SARS‐CoV‐1 in China	10
The heterogeneous effects of trade policy on trade resilience during the 2020 trade downturn	10
Optimum financial areas: Retooling the governance of global finance	10
Comparing alternative China and the US arrangements with CPTPP	10
Trade liberalisation and the extensive margin of differentiated goods: Evidence from China*	10
Heterogeneous impacts of regional trade liberalisation on export entry and training: A multi‐destination perspective	10
Institution‐Driven Comparative Advantage and Digital Trade: Evidence From Digital Legal Framework	9
U.S.–China trade war and corporate reallocation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	9
Does offshoring raise female employment in a developing country? Evidence from Indonesian manufacturing plants	9
Firm innovation under import competition from low‐wage countries	9
‘From aspirations for climate action to the reality of climate disasters’: Can remittances play key role in disaster response?	9
Estimating the landlocked penalty for international trade	9

Does it matter where you invest? The impact of foreign direct investments on domestic job creation and destruction	9
On the economic and political determinants of trade in natural gas	9
The EMU Effect on Trade: A Re‐Assessment Accounting for Staggered Treatment Adoption	8
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Labour‐saving automation: A direct measure of occupational exposure	8
Similarity of NTMs and Its Impact on Import Unit Values	8
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Robots in action	8
Impact of International Investment Agreements on Japanese FDI: A firm‐level analysis^†	8
The Rising Labour Costs and the Servitisation of Manufacturing Enterprises: An Empirical Investigation of Chinese Enterprises	8
The effects of digital trade policies on digital trade	8
Rethinking regional integration in Africa for inclusive and sustainable development: Introduction to the special issue	8
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The effects of restrictive measures on cross‐border investment: Evidence from OECD and emerging countries	8
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Quality of imported intermediates, innovation behaviour and markups: Firm‐level evidence from China	8
Trade policy in a ‘double‐landlocked’ transition economy: Kyrgyzstan	8
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Foreign Affiliates' Position in Global Value Chains and Local Sourcing in Chile: Evidence From Plant‐Level Panel Data	8
Long‐run effects of trade liberalisation on local labour markets: Evidence from South Africa	7
Improving Exports: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange	7
How Does Trade Policy Respond to the Polycrisis: Analysis of the Argentinean Case	7
The Heterogeneous Effects of Uncertainty on Trade	7
Who are pure exporters?	7
To default or not? The aftermath of sovereign defaults and IMF programs in economic crises	7
Can money buy friendship?—Evidence from the US and China’s competition for influence through foreign aid	7
What drives most jumps in global crude oil prices? Fundamental shortage conditions, cartel, geopolitics or the behaviour of financial market participants	6
Correction to “Bank wholesale funding in an era of rising geopolitical risk”	6
Alternative measures of price inflation and the perception of real income in Germany	6
COVID‐19, Import Relationships and New Formation: Evidence From Colombian Importers	6
Foreign influence: The international transmission of gender equality	6
Services trade policy and industry performance in African economies	6
Air pollution and firms' export product quality: Evidence from China	6
Cutting Russia's fossil fuel exports: Short‐term economic pain for long‐term environmental gain	6
Trade policy uncertainty and capacity utilisation rate: Firm‐level evidence from China's WTO accession	6
The economic growth–travel frequency nexus in China: Importance of the transport Kuznets curve	6
Is price undertaking a more friendly protection policy than an anti‐dumping duty?¹	6
Trade misreporting: Evidence from Pakistani importers	6
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The mystery of misreported trade: A novel method to identify distorted trade figures	6
What drives updates of inflation expectations? A Bayesian VAR analysis for the G‐7 countries	6
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How exporters neutralised an increase in tariffs	6
Export controls and innovation performance: Unravelling the complex relationship between blacklisted Chinese firms and U.S. suppliers	6
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Producer service foreign direct investment and pollution in China	6
Internet penetration and multi‐product exporters: Firm‐level evidence from China	5
Economic costs of friendshoring	5
FDI, financial constraint and partial ownership	5
The effect of soaring housing prices on the quality of export products: Evidence from China	5
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Globalisation and national commodity cycles: The case of wine in Australia	5
Impacts of globalisation on the adoption of remote work: Evidence from a survey in Japan during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Bank‐intermediated trade finance and the intensive margin of African trade	5
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Geopolitical competition, globalisation and WTO reform	5
Minimising COVID‐19 transmission cases: Do policies and institutions matter?	5
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Have Robots Grounded the Flying Geese? Evidence From Greenfield FDI Announcements	5
The European Union and within‐country income inequalities. The case of the new member states	5
Modelling global value chains: From trade costs to policy impacts	5
Network‐adjusted market share and the currency denomination of trade	5
EU agriculture under an import stop for food and feed	5
Trade‐induced reduction in unemployment of a high‐wage economy	5
International trademark protection strength: 1990–2020	5
Digital connectedness and exports upgrading: Is sub‐Saharan Africa catching up?	5
Linking Southern Africa to South Africa's exports: New opportunities for regional value chains	5
The pro‐competitive effects of indirect export exposures: Evidence from China	5
Intellectual Property Institutions, Comparative Advantage and Technology Transfer	5
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The landscape of CO₂ emissions across Africa: A comparative perspective	5
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Digital intensity, trade costs and exports' quality upgrading	4
Special Economic Zone and Local Economic Performance in China: Evidence From Tianjin	4
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Are software automation and teleworker substitutes? Preliminary evidence from Japan	4
Oman's trade achievements with Singapore given the Gulf–Singapore Free Trade Agreement	4
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The Corden Prize	4
Social Awareness, Corporate Environmental Investment and Export: Evidence From China	4
The evolving international effects of China's government spending	4
Do imports of intermediate inputs generate higher productivity? Evidence from Ecuadorian manufacturing firms	4
China's anti‐corruption campaign and outward foreign direct investment by state‐owned enterprises	4
How bilateral foreign direct investment influences environmental convergence	4
The effects of foreign direct investment on human capital accumulation—Evidence from China	4
Offshoring and the dynamics of employment, production, and imports: Evidence from the German International Sourcing Survey	4
The West’s Teeth: IMF conditionality during the Cold War	4
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Internet linkage and international trade: From the perspective of risk alleviation	4
Dynamic impacts of intermittent trade conflicts	3
Turning green through within‐firm adjustment: Evidence from environmental court in China	3
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Economic ideas and Taiwan's shift to export promotion in the 1950s	3
Trade Policy Review of Turkey	3
Matrix completion of world trade: An analysis of interpretability through Shapley values	3
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Digital Imports and Firm‐Level Employment: Evidence From China	3
From Trade to Tensions: How Economic Interdependence Shapes Diplomatic Hospitality, 1989–2019	3
Not‐So‐Innocent Bystanders: Trade With Neighbours of Sanctioned Countries	3
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Global value chains and the CPTPP	3
Let us misinvoice more? The effect ofde jurecapital controls on trade misinvoicing	3
Labour market flexibility and domestic value‐added trade: Evidence from the hukou reform in China	3
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An analysis of value chain trade in Africa	3
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Extra‐EU immigrants and labour productivity: New evidence from Italian firms	3
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On COVID‐19 pandemic and China’s foreign trade	3
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Exploring the driving mechanism and the evolution of the low‐carbon economy transition: Lessons from OECD developed countries	3
Ripple effects in regional value chains: Evidence from an episode of the US–China trade war	3
Foreign Direct Investment Attractiveness in Africa: The Role of Special Economic Zones	3
Multinationals and domestic total factor productivity: Competition effects, knowledge spillovers and foreign ownership	3
Trade Effects of the US–China Trade War on a Third Country: Preventing Trade Rerouting From China	3
Foreign Direct Investment and Quality‐Upgrading Spillovers in Indonesia	3
Global value chains, trade shocks and jobs: An application to Brexit	3
Real exchange rate shocks and new product margins in the export market	3
Monetary union in Southeast Asia: An assessment of the optimum currency area theory*	3
Exposure to FDI and attitudes towards multinational enterprises: Do M&A matter?	3
Remittance flows and informal economies in post‐Soviet transition countries	3
Exposure to trade disruptions in case of the Russia–Ukraine conflict: A product network approach	3
Fiscal federalism and foreign direct investment – An empirical analysis	3
Land regulations, innovation and productivity: Firm‐level evidence from China	3
Detecting learning from importing: The effect of importing behaviour on R&D expenditures of Chinese firms	3
Industrial Robot Imports and Firm Innovation: A Large Language Model	3
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FDI, production networks and firm behaviour: Evidence from the South African automotive industry	3
Exchange rate undervaluation and African surges: What do we learn from exported products?	3
The effect of inequality of opportunity on entrepreneurship: Evidence from China	3
The nexus between natural disasters, supply chains and trade—Revisiting the role of preferential trade agreements in disaster risk reduction	3
Trade development and agricultural productivity change: Evidence from China	3
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Covid‐19 pandemic and its impact on capital and output distortions: Evidence from China	3
Quantifying the costs of utilising regional trade agreements	3
The Interest Rate Effects of Government Debt Maturity: Solving the Bond Conundrum	2
The Language of Uncertainty: Reading Türkiye's Economic Pulse Through Geopolitical Fog	2
How do we make trade policy in Britain? How should we?	2
Can labour market institutions mitigate the China syndrome? Evidence from regional labour markets in Europe	2
Export diversification and macroeconomic shocks	2
Emission reduction and value‐added export nexus at firm level	2
Service offshoring and its impacts on wages: An occupation‐oriented analysis of Germany	2
African continental free trade area and greenfield investment: Likely effect and transmission channels	2
Revisiting Trade and Income in the New Era of Globalisation—Distance, Big Boats and Natural Barriers to Trade	2
Bilateral servicification in global value chains and deep trade agreements	2
Epidemic outbreak and foreign direct investment fluctuation	2
Do political relations affect exports to China? Evidence from the ‘Quad’	2
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Global shocks and the dynamics of EU countries' specialisation	2
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Export competition between China and Latin America and the Caribbean in the United States market	2
How taste proximity affects consumer quality valuation of imported varieties: Evidence from the French food sector	2
Do firms hedge against political tensions? Evidence from Chinese food importers of Norwegian salmon	2
Constraints on currency market movements – Implications for the RMB exchange rate regime	2
The impact of industrial robots on export stability	2
The effectiveness of embargoes: Evidence from Russia	2
Free trade agreements partnership and value chain linkages: Evidence from China	2
COVID‐19 test‐kit trade and trade policy: Implications for developing countries	2
Do deep regional trade agreements strengthen anti‐corruption? A social network analysis	2
The impact ofCOVID‐19 on international tourism flows to Italy: Evidence from mobile phone data	2
Services' trade in Africa: Structure and growth	2
Prudential regulation and bank solvency based on flexible distributions: An example for evaluating the impact of monetary policy	2
When market leads innovation: The interplay of internationalisation, innovation and productivity among Swedish wood manufacturing SMEs	2
Indian buyers in global markets: Quality, prices and productivity	2
Fiscal and current account imbalances: The cases of Germany and Portugal	2
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The impact of climate change on international trade: A gravity model estimation	2
Indirect channel of trade agreements in deepening global value chains	2
The multilateral trade policy of the Arab league countries: An empirical investigation	2
On the trade effects of bilateral SPS measures in developed and developing countries	2
The European Union's withdrawal of trade preferences for Cambodia	2