OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of World Economy is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Taxation of MNE profits in an R&D driven economy: Beneficial tax havens and minimum taxes	71
The Impact of International Students on UK Trade of Cultural Goods	64
U.S. Competitiveness and External Debt: Some Overlooked Aspects of the Crisis in the ‘American Order’	61
Information asymmetry and dynamic sourcing: Evidence from Chinese firms	60
The effect of obtaining EU citizenship in former transition economies on remittance flows	53
Nowcasting services trade for the G7 economies	50
Navigating Bilateral Digital Trade Flows: The Role of Digital Intellectual Property Agreement Networks	48
Multinational Enterprises and Between‐Firm Wage Inequality Across European Regions	46
Military Alliance and International Trade:Evidence from NATO Enlargement	42
Industrial Chain Risk Exposure and Economic Volatility: A Framework Incorporating Foreign‐Invested Enterprises	41
Using synthetic control method to estimate the growth effects of economic liberalisation: Evidence from transition economies	41
The impact of internet platform usage on firms' exports: New evidence for Turkish firms	40
Intangible trade: Understanding the relationship between trade barriers and mode of supply in services sectors	37
The least developed countries' Services Waiver, Aid for Trade for services and services exports	36
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The Quality and Price of Africa's Imports of Digital Goods	33
Infrastructure and intra‐regional trade in Africa	31
Global Value Chain Disruptions During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Korean Firm‐Level Evidence	28
FDI and product and process innovation of SMEs in Vietnam: The role of institutions	28
Culture, Institutions and Economic Growth	27
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Global Governance, Economic Sanctions and Agricultural Trade in a Fragmenting World Economy	22
Does antidumping drive exporters out of the market? Some evidence from Brazil	21
Going out by doing good: The effect of mandatory CSR disclosure on outward FDI of Chinese firms	21
Military alliance and international trade: Evidence from NATO enlargement	20
Intra‐African trade and corruption: Evidence from sub‐Saharan African countries	20
Determinants of intangible capital investment in Vietnam: A firm‐level analysis	19
African economic integration and trade	19
The nonlinear relationship between poverty and financial globalisation: A panel quantile regression approach	17
Diversification in Trade and Foreign Investment and Resilience to the COVID ‐19 Shock: Firm‐Level Evidence Using Japanese Customs Data	16
Cultural Ties, FDI and Firm Performance: Evidence From Investment in China Originating in Hong Kong and Macau	16
Do international investment agreements attract foreign direct investment in knowledge intensive industries?	16
Covid‐19 in America: Global supply chain reconsidered	16
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Need of External Finance and Financial Development: Evidence From Tariff Shocks of Chinese Cities	16
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Optimum financial areas: Retooling the governance of global finance	16
Features and evolution of the ‘Belt and Road’ regional value chain: Complex network analysis	15
Assessing the effect of the Round Table on Responsible Soy certification on soybean exports	15
Cross‐country linkages between ASEAN and non‐ASEAN‐RCEP member states: A global VAR analysis	15
Trade policy review of Singapore	15
The delayed impact of containers on U.S. international trade growth	14
A positive effect of uncertainty shocks on the economy: Is the chase over?	14
Firm‐Level Concentration of Chinese Exports in Individual Markets	14
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Comparing alternative China and the US arrangements with CPTPP	13
How do export credit services shape firm growth?	13
The trade effect of regional trade agreements in the presence of duty drawbacks	13
Enabling Effects of Digital Technology on Enterprise Export Product Quality: Evidence From China	13
The spillover effect of global uncertainty through input–output linkage	13
Digital‐Real Integration and Trade Network Centrality: Evidence From China	13
Digitalisation of International Trade in Intellectual Properties: An Approach Based on the Utility Theory of Technology Value	13
Globalisation and carbon dioxide emissions inequality in OECD countries	13
Regional integration and non‐tariff barriers to Intra‐Sub‐Saharan Africa trade	12
Digital Services Trade Barriers and the Resilience of Global Value Chains	12
The trade impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	12
Regional inequalities in the age of nearshoring	12
How Does Regional Trade Policy Uncertainty Affect the Quality of Imported Products?—An Analysis Using CAFTA	12
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Heterogeneous impacts of regional trade liberalisation on export entry and training: A multi‐destination perspective	11
Does offshoring raise female employment in a developing country? Evidence from Indonesian manufacturing plants	11
Estimating the landlocked penalty for international trade	11
Expropriation Without Compensation: Copper in Chile, 1970–1973	11
Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement: Potential Gains	11
‘From aspirations for climate action to the reality of climate disasters’: Can remittances play key role in disaster response?	11
Pre‐Crisis Conditions and Financial Crisis Duration	11
How Pandemics Affect International Investment: Evidence From M&As During SARS ‐ CoV ‐1 in Chin	11
Institution‐Driven Comparative Advantage and Digital Trade: Evidence From Digital Legal Framework	11
On the economic and political determinants of trade in natural gas	10
Does Digitalisation Promote the Servicification of Manufacturing? Firm‐Level Evidence From China	10

Does it matter where you invest? The impact of foreign direct investments on domestic job creation and destruction	10
U.S.‐South America trade and the J‐Curve: An asymmetric analysis	10
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Trade liberalisation and the extensive margin of differentiated goods: Evidence from China*	9
Do Digital Trade Rules Within the RTAs Promote Trade and Welfare Growth?	9
U.S.–China trade war and corporate reallocation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	9
The heterogeneous effects of trade policy on trade resilience during the 2020 trade downturn	9
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Firm innovation under import competition from low‐wage countries	9
Similarity of NTMs and Its Impact on Import Unit Values	8
Capturing Value at Home? Special Economic Zones and Domestic Value Added	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
Trade policy in a ‘double‐landlocked’ transition economy: Kyrgyzstan	8
Labour‐saving automation: A direct measure of occupational exposure	8
The Rising Labour Costs and the Servitisation of Manufacturing Enterprises: An Empirical Investigation of Chinese Enterprises	8
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The EMU Effect on Trade: A Re‐Assessment Accounting for Staggered Treatment Adoption	8
Improving Exports: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange	7
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The effects of digital trade policies on digital trade	7
Foreign influence: The international transmission of gender equality	7
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Services trade policy and industry performance in African economies	7
Alternative measures of price inflation and the perception of real income in Germany	7
The Heterogeneous Effects of Uncertainty on Trade	7
Who are pure exporters?	7
Trade misreporting: Evidence from Pakistani importers	7
How Does Trade Policy Respond to the Polycrisis: Analysis of the Argentinean Case	7
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The economic growth–travel frequency nexus in China: Importance of the transport Kuznets curve	7
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Foreign Affiliates' Position in Global Value Chains and Local Sourcing in Chile: Evidence From Plant‐Level Panel Data	7
Long‐run effects of trade liberalisation on local labour markets: Evidence from South Africa	7
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Export controls and innovation performance: Unravelling the complex relationship between blacklisted Chinese firms and U.S. suppliers	7
COVID‐19, Import Relationships and New Formation: Evidence From Colombian Importers	7
Is price undertaking a more friendly protection policy than an anti‐dumping duty?¹	7
Correction to “Bank wholesale funding in an era of rising geopolitical risk”	7
Bank‐intermediated trade finance and the intensive margin of African trade	6
Internet penetration and multi‐product exporters: Firm‐level evidence from China	6
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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	6
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Trade‐induced reduction in unemployment of a high‐wage economy	6
The Impact of China–Africa Bilateral Tax Treaties on Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Africa	6
How exporters neutralised an increase in tariffs	6
The mystery of misreported trade: A novel method to identify distorted trade figures	6
Cutting Russia's fossil fuel exports: Short‐term economic pain for long‐term environmental gain	6
Economic costs of friendshoring	6
Intellectual Property Institutions, Comparative Advantage and Technology Transfer	6
Air pollution and firms' export product quality: Evidence from China	6
Trade policy uncertainty and capacity utilisation rate: Firm‐level evidence from China's WTO accession	6
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
The pro‐competitive effects of indirect export exposures: Evidence from China	5
Minimising COVID‐19 transmission cases: Do policies and institutions matter?	5
Special Economic Zone and Local Economic Performance in China: Evidence From Tianjin	5
International trademark protection strength: 1990–2020	5
EU agriculture under an import stop for food and feed	5
Geopolitical competition, globalisation and WTO reform	5
The effect of soaring housing prices on the quality of export products: Evidence from China	5
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FDI, financial constraint and partial ownership	5
How bilateral foreign direct investment influences environmental convergence	5
The European Union and within‐country income inequalities. The case of the new member states	5
The landscape of CO₂ emissions across Africa: A comparative perspective	5
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Linking Southern Africa to South Africa's exports: New opportunities for regional value chains	5
The effects of foreign direct investment on human capital accumulation—Evidence from China	5
Have Robots Grounded the Flying Geese? Evidence From Greenfield FDI Announcements	5
Do imports of intermediate inputs generate higher productivity? Evidence from Ecuadorian manufacturing firms	4
Foreign Direct Investment Attractiveness in Africa: The Role of Special Economic Zones	4
Exchange rate undervaluation and African surges: What do we learn from exported products?	4
Digital connectedness and exports upgrading: Is sub‐Saharan Africa catching up?	4
Social Awareness, Corporate Environmental Investment and Export: Evidence From China	4

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Multinationals and domestic total factor productivity: Competition effects, knowledge spillovers and foreign ownership	4
The nexus between natural disasters, supply chains and trade—Revisiting the role of preferential trade agreements in disaster risk reduction	4
Digital Imports and Firm‐Level Employment: Evidence From China	4
Not‐So‐Innocent Bystanders: Trade With Neighbours of Sanctioned Countries	4
The evolving international effects of China's government spending	4
How Industrial Robots Are Reshaping the Division of Labour in Global Value Chains—On the Basis of the Production Length Perspective	4
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FDI, production networks and firm behaviour: Evidence from the South African automotive industry	4
Offshoring and the dynamics of employment, production, and imports: Evidence from the German International Sourcing Survey	4
Are software automation and teleworker substitutes? Preliminary evidence from Japan	4
The effect of inequality of opportunity on entrepreneurship: Evidence from China	4
Oman's trade achievements with Singapore given the Gulf–Singapore Free Trade Agreement	4
Internet linkage and international trade: From the perspective of risk alleviation	4
The Corden Prize	4
Digital intensity, trade costs and exports' quality upgrading	4
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From Trade to Tensions: How Economic Interdependence Shapes Diplomatic Hospitality, 1989–2019	4
Ripple effects in regional value chains: Evidence from an episode of the US–China trade war	4