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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Taxation of MNE profits in an R&D driven economy: Beneficial tax havens and minimum taxes	56
Using synthetic control method to estimate the growth effects of economic liberalisation: Evidence from transition economies	52
COVID‐19, trade and trade policy	52
Information asymmetry and dynamic sourcing: Evidence from Chinese firms	46
The effect of obtaining EU citizenship in former transition economies on remittance flows	45
Nowcasting services trade for the G7 economies	40
The impact of internet platform usage on firms' exports: New evidence for Turkish firms	36
The least developed countries' Services Waiver, Aid for Trade for services and services exports	35
Intangible trade: Understanding the relationship between trade barriers and mode of supply in services sectors	34
The Impact of International Students on UK Trade of Cultural Goods	34
Industrial Chain Risk Exposure and Economic Volatility: A Framework Incorporating Foreign‐Invested Enterprises	30
Multinational Enterprises and Between‐Firm Wage Inequality Across European Regions	29
Navigating Bilateral Digital Trade Flows: The Role of Digital Intellectual Property Agreement Networks	28
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International trade and labour market integration of immigrants	24
Intra‐African trade and corruption: Evidence from sub‐Saharan African countries	23
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Global Value Chain Disruptions During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Korean Firm‐Level Evidence	23
Global Governance, Economic Sanctions and Agricultural Trade in a Fragmenting World Economy	22

Determinants of intangible capital investment in Vietnam: A firm‐level analysis	22
Culture, Institutions and Economic Growth	21
African economic integration and trade	19
The nonlinear relationship between poverty and financial globalisation: A panel quantile regression approach	19
Covid‐19 in America: Global supply chain reconsidered	18
Does antidumping drive exporters out of the market? Some evidence from Brazil	18
FDI and product and process innovation of SMEs in Vietnam: The role of institutions	18
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Going out by doing good: The effect of mandatory CSR disclosure on outward FDI of Chinese firms	15
Military alliance and international trade: Evidence from NATO enlargement	15
How COVID‐19 vaccine supply chains emerged in the midst of a pandemic	14
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The Quality and Price of Africa's Imports of Digital Goods	14
The trade effect of regional trade agreements in the presence of duty drawbacks	14
Infrastructure and intra‐regional trade in Africa	14
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A positive effect of uncertainty shocks on the economy: Is the chase over?	13
The spillover effect of global uncertainty through input–output linkage	13
Comparing alternative China and the US arrangements with CPTPP	13
Firm‐Level Concentration of Chinese Exports in Individual Markets	13
Trade policy review of Singapore	12
How do export credit services shape firm growth?	12
Cross‐country linkages between ASEAN and non‐ASEAN‐RCEP member states: A global VAR analysis	12
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Assessing the effect of the Round Table on Responsible Soy certification on soybean exports	12
Features and evolution of the ‘Belt and Road’ regional value chain: Complex network analysis	12
Optimum financial areas: Retooling the governance of global finance	12
The trade impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	11
Regional inequalities in the age of nearshoring	11
Do international investment agreements attract foreign direct investment in knowledge intensive industries?	11
How Does Regional Trade Policy Uncertainty Affect the Quality of Imported Products?—An Analysis Using CAFTA	11
Globalisation and carbon dioxide emissions inequality in OECD countries	11
Firm innovation under import competition from low‐wage countries	10
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U.S.‐South America trade and the J‐Curve: An asymmetric analysis	10
Does it matter where you invest? The impact of foreign direct investments on domestic job creation and destruction	10
Cultural Ties, FDI and Firm Performance: Evidence From Investment in China Originating in Hong Kong and Macau	10
Development aid and illicit capital flight: Evidence from Nepal	10
Does offshoring raise female employment in a developing country? Evidence from Indonesian manufacturing plants	10
The delayed impact of containers on U.S. international trade growth	10
Regional integration and non‐tariff barriers to Intra‐Sub‐Saharan Africa trade	10
‘From aspirations for climate action to the reality of climate disasters’: Can remittances play key role in disaster response?	9
Pre‐Crisis Conditions and Financial Crisis Duration	9
Expropriation Without Compensation: Copper in Chile, 1970–1973	9
Trade liberalisation and the extensive margin of differentiated goods: Evidence from China*	9
The heterogeneous effects of trade policy on trade resilience during the 2020 trade downturn	8
How Pandemics Affect International Investment: Evidence From M&As During SARS‐CoV‐1 in China	8
Estimating the landlocked penalty for international trade	8
The effects of digital trade policies on digital trade	8
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Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement: Potential Gains	8
On the economic and political determinants of trade in natural gas	8
Impact of International Investment Agreements on Japanese FDI: A firm‐level analysis^†	8
Rethinking regional integration in Africa for inclusive and sustainable development: Introduction to the special issue	8
Robots in action	8
Heterogeneous impacts of regional trade liberalisation on export entry and training: A multi‐destination perspective	8
Institutional similarity, firm heterogeneity and export sophistication	8
U.S.–China trade war and corporate reallocation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	8
Trade policy in a ‘double‐landlocked’ transition economy: Kyrgyzstan	8
Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons: Are embargoes effective?	8
Similarity of NTMs and Its Impact on Import Unit Values	8
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Long‐run effects of trade liberalisation on local labour markets: Evidence from South Africa	7
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Uncertainty on Trade	7
To default or not? The aftermath of sovereign defaults and IMF programs in economic crises	7
Quality of imported intermediates, innovation behaviour and markups: Firm‐level evidence from China	7
How Does Trade Policy Respond to the Polycrisis: Analysis of the Argentinean Case	7
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Revisiting economic effectiveness of foreign aid: The case of Japanese aid to China	7
The effects of restrictive measures on cross‐border investment: Evidence from OECD and emerging countries	7
Labour‐saving automation: A direct measure of occupational exposure	7
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Can money buy friendship?—Evidence from the US and China’s competition for influence through foreign aid	7
Is price undertaking a more friendly protection policy than an anti‐dumping duty?¹	6
Trade misreporting: Evidence from Pakistani importers	6
Improving Exports: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange	6
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Cutting Russia's fossil fuel exports: Short‐term economic pain for long‐term environmental gain	6
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Trade policy uncertainty and capacity utilisation rate: Firm‐level evidence from China's WTO accession	6
Foreign influence: The international transmission of gender equality	6
Foreign Affiliates' Position in Global Value Chains and Local Sourcing in Chile: Evidence From Plant‐Level Panel Data	6
Who are pure exporters?	6
COVID‐19, Import Relationships and New Formation: Evidence From Colombian Importers	6
The pro‐competitive effects of foreign firm entry: Evidence from the Korean retail sector	6
What drives updates of inflation expectations? A Bayesian VAR analysis for the G‐7 countries	6
Export controls and innovation performance: Unravelling the complex relationship between blacklisted Chinese firms and U.S. suppliers	6
Complexity, tacit knowledge and the scope for technological catch‐up	6
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Mini‐symposium: Institutions, policies and performance	5
The mystery of misreported trade: A novel method to identify distorted trade figures	5
Determinants of regional trade agreement utilisation: Evidence from multiple import countries in Asia	5
Bank‐intermediated trade finance and the intensive margin of African trade	5
Trade agreements and participation in global value chains: Empirical evidence from Latin America	5
The exports of higher education services from OECD countries to Asian countries: A gravity approach	5
Producer service foreign direct investment and pollution in China	5
When does foreign direct investment lead to inclusive growth?	5
Services trade policy and industry performance in African economies	5
The economic growth–travel frequency nexus in China: Importance of the transport Kuznets curve	5
Globalisation, economic uncertainty and labour market regulations: Implications for the COVID‐19 crisis	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
Modelling global value chains: From trade costs to policy impacts	5
Intellectual Property Institutions, Comparative Advantage and Technology Transfer	5
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What drives most jumps in global crude oil prices? Fundamental shortage conditions, cartel, geopolitics or the behaviour of financial market participants	5
Correction to “Bank wholesale funding in an era of rising geopolitical risk”	5
How exporters neutralised an increase in tariffs	5
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Trade‐induced reduction in unemployment of a high‐wage economy	5
Network‐adjusted market share and the currency denomination of trade	5
EU agriculture under an import stop for food and feed	5
The role of human capital in structural change and growth in an open economy: Innovative and absorptive capacity effects	5
Air pollution and firms' export product quality: Evidence from China	5
Alternative measures of price inflation and the perception of real income in Germany	5
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Minimising COVID‐19 transmission cases: Do policies and institutions matter?	4
Special Economic Zone and Local Economic Performance in China: Evidence From Tianjin	4
Oman's trade achievements with Singapore given the Gulf–Singapore Free Trade Agreement	4
Do imports of intermediate inputs generate higher productivity? Evidence from Ecuadorian manufacturing firms	4
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Digital intensity, trade costs and exports' quality upgrading	4
How bilateral foreign direct investment influences environmental convergence	4
Internet penetration and multi‐product exporters: Firm‐level evidence from China	4
Economic costs of friendshoring	4
The landscape of CO₂ emissions across Africa: A comparative perspective	4

The pro‐competitive effects of indirect export exposures: Evidence from China	4
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Are software automation and teleworker substitutes? Preliminary evidence from Japan	4
Global value chain participation and its impact on industrial upgrading	4
The Corden Prize	4
Digital connectedness and exports upgrading: Is sub‐Saharan Africa catching up?	4
Linking Southern Africa to South Africa's exports: New opportunities for regional value chains	4
Have Robots Grounded the Flying Geese? Evidence From Greenfield FDI Announcements	4
The effect of soaring housing prices on the quality of export products: Evidence from China	4
Geopolitical competition, globalisation and WTO reform	4
International trademark protection strength: 1990–2020	4
FDI, financial constraint and partial ownership	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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The European Union and within‐country income inequalities. The case of the new member states	4
The effects of foreign direct investment on human capital accumulation—Evidence from China	4
On COVID‐19 pandemic and China’s foreign trade	3
Exposure to FDI and attitudes towards multinational enterprises: Do M&A matter?	3
Land regulations, innovation and productivity: Firm‐level evidence from China	3
Foreign Direct Investment and Quality‐Upgrading Spillovers in Indonesia	3
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Detecting learning from importing: The effect of importing behaviour on R&D expenditures of Chinese firms	3
Ripple effects in regional value chains: Evidence from an episode of the US–China trade war	3
Multinationals and domestic total factor productivity: Competition effects, knowledge spillovers and foreign ownership	3
The evolving international effects of China's government spending	3
Endogenous transport price, R&D spillovers, and trade	3
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Remittance flows and informal economies in post‐Soviet transition countries	3
Revisiting the nexus between globalisation and the shadow economy: Untying the influences of de jure versus de facto globalisation	3
Exposure to trade disruptions in case of the Russia–Ukraine conflict: A product network approach	3
Global value chains, trade shocks and jobs: An application to Brexit	3
Reduced ‘Border effects’, Free Trade Agreements and international trade	3
Dynamic impacts of intermittent trade conflicts	3
Industrial Robot Imports and Firm Innovation: A Large Language Model	3
Covid‐19 pandemic and its impact on capital and output distortions: Evidence from China	3
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China's anti‐corruption campaign and outward foreign direct investment by state‐owned enterprises	3
The nexus between natural disasters, supply chains and trade—Revisiting the role of preferential trade agreements in disaster risk reduction	3
Exchange rate undervaluation and African surges: What do we learn from exported products?	3
FDI, production networks and firm behaviour: Evidence from the South African automotive industry	3
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Global value chains and the CPTPP	3
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An analysis of value chain trade in Africa	3
Exploring the driving mechanism and the evolution of the low‐carbon economy transition: Lessons from OECD developed countries	3
Financial structure and earnings manipulation activities in China	3
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Trade development and agricultural productivity change: Evidence from China	3
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Foreign Direct Investment Attractiveness in Africa: The Role of Special Economic Zones	3
Speculative attacks and investor attention	3
Internet linkage and international trade: From the perspective of risk alleviation	3
The effect of inequality of opportunity on entrepreneurship: Evidence from China	3
Labour market flexibility and domestic value‐added trade: Evidence from the hukou reform in China	3
Trade Policy Review of Turkey	3
Extra‐EU immigrants and labour productivity: New evidence from Italian firms	3
Trade Effects of the US–China Trade War on a Third Country: Preventing Trade Rerouting From China	3
Economic ideas and Taiwan's shift to export promotion in the 1950s	2
Takeoffs and Trade: A Sorted Effects Approach	2
Global shocks and the dynamics of EU countries' specialisation	2
The European Union's withdrawal of trade preferences for Cambodia	2
Indirect channel of trade agreements in deepening global value chains	2
An analysis of the trade policy review of the European Union	2
The impact ofCOVID‐19 on international tourism flows to Italy: Evidence from mobile phone data	2
Free trade agreements partnership and value chain linkages: Evidence from China	2
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Social Clauses in Free Trade Agreements: An Efficient Tool to Improve Labour Standards?	2
COVID‐19 test‐kit trade and trade policy: Implications for developing countries	2
The international service trade effects of bilateral investment treaties	2
Quantifying the costs of utilising regional trade agreements	2
Introduction to INFER special issue on “new aspects of economic and financial integration”	2
Prudential regulation and bank solvency based on flexible distributions: An example for evaluating the impact of monetary policy	2
Bilateral servicification in global value chains and deep trade agreements	2
Effects of exchange rates and invoiced currencies on trade: Evidence from South Korea	2
Productivity and wage effects of firm‐level upstreamness: Evidence from Belgian linked panel data	2
The multilateral trade policy of the Arab league countries: An empirical investigation	2
Cheaper and faster: The role of air services agreements on transportation	2
How do we make trade policy in Britain? How should we?	2
Matrix completion of world trade: An analysis of interpretability through Shapley values	2
When market leads innovation: The interplay of internationalisation, innovation and productivity among Swedish wood manufacturing SMEs	2
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Industrial Policy and Domestic Value‐Added in Production and Exports: The Chinese Experience	2
Can labour market institutions mitigate the China syndrome? Evidence from regional labour markets in Europe	2
The impact of climate change on international trade: A gravity model estimation	2
Export competition between China and Latin America and the Caribbean in the United States market	2
Epidemic outbreak and foreign direct investment fluctuation	2
The effectiveness of embargoes: Evidence from Russia	2
The heterogeneous effects of trade agreements with labour provisions	2
The impact of industrial robots on export stability	2
Public health emergencies and international trade in the context of global value chains: Evidence from COVID‐19 in China	2