OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economic Systems is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental regulation, pollution reduction and green innovation: The case of the Chinese Water Ecological Civilization City Pilot policy	113
Environmental regulations in private and mixed duopolies: Taxes on emissions versus green R&D subsidies	48
Can innovation improve income inequality? Evidence from panel data	46
Ownership structure and firm performance in emerging markets: A comparative meta-analysis of East European EU member states, Russia and China	44
Exploring the linkage between human capital and economic growth: A look at 141 developing and developed countries	41
Gender equality and economic complexity	39
Does institutional quality affect financial inclusion in Africa? A panel data analysis	35
Institutional quality and human capital development in Africa	29
FDI spillovers and firm productivity during crisis: Empirical evidence from transition economies	29
Public spending, public governance and economic growth at the Vietnamese provincial level: A disaggregate analysis	26
The impact of oil price changes on selected macroeconomic indicators in Azerbaijan	26
A spatial analysis of inward FDI and urban–rural wage inequality in China	22
The effect of corruption on environmental performance: Does spatial dependence play a role?	22
Corruption control, shadow economy and income inequality: Evidence from Asia	22
Finance, institutions, and innovation activities in China	20
The effects of agglomeration externalities on urban green total-factor productivity in China	19
The importance of being networked: The costs of informal networking in the Western Balkans region	19
Financial globalization and technological innovation: International evidence	18
The effects of an environmental accountability system on local environmental governance and firms’ emissions	18
Financial development and governance: A panel data analysis incorporating cross-sectional dependence	17
Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A nonlinear analysis	15
Bank competition, financial development and macroeconomic stability: Empirical evidence from emerging economies	15
Foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from India	15
Economic policy uncertainty and enterprise value: Evidence from Chinese listed enterprises	15
The impact of political risk on FDI exit decisions	13

The (non-)Keynesian effects of fiscal austerity: New evidence from a large sample	12
The effect of economic growth on banking system performance: An interregional and comparative study of Sub-Saharan Africa and developed economies	12
Bridging Africa’s income inequality gap: How relevant is China’s outward FDI to Africa?	12
Do tax reductions stimulate firm productivity? A quasi-natural experiment from China	11
Does having a semimandatory dividend policy enhance investor confidence? Research on dividend-financing behavior	11
Systemic risk in European financial and energy sectors: Dynamic factor copula approach	11
Regional innovation disparities in Italy: The role of governance	11
Assessing the impact of religion on environmental quality	10
Press freedom and corruption in business-state interactions	10
The finance-growth nexus: The role of banks	10
Institutional perspective of financial sector development: A multidimensional assessment	10
The impact of policy, political and economic uncertainty on corporate capital investment in the emerging markets of Eastern Europe and Turkey	10
The relationship between R&D, innovation and productivity in emerging economies: CDM model and alternatives	10
The impact of prudential toolkits on loan growth in Central and Eastern European banking systems	9
U.S.-German commodity trade and the J-curve: New evidence from asymmetry analysis	9
Cyclicality of bank credit growth: Conventional vs Islamic banks in the GCC	9
Economic sentiment and business cycles: A spillover methodology approach	9
Evaluating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment, income distribution and poverty in Turkey	9
Ageing of routine jobs in Europe	9
The performance of publicly funded startups in Romania	8
Do vertical ecological compensation policies promote green economic development: A case study of the transfer payments policy for China’s National Key Ecological Function Zones	8
Where does the EU cohesion policy produce its benefits? A model analysis of the international spillovers generated by the policy	8
The unique dollarization case of Lebanon	8
Multilevel determinants of FDI: A regional comparative analysis	8
What has caused China’s economic growth?	8
Benchmarking institutional variety in the eurozone: An empirical investigation	8
Oil structural shocks, bank-level characteristics, and systemic risk: Evidence from dual banking systems	8
Favoring the small and the plenty: Islamic banking for MSMEs	8
R&D subsidies and productivity in eastern European countries	8
Productivity impacts of infrastructure development in Asia	8
How do trade openness, public expenditure and institutional performance affect unemployment in OIC countries? Evidence from the DCCE approach	7
Do independent fiscal institutions cause better fiscal outcomes in the European Union?	7
Openness, rural-urban inequality, and happiness in China	7
Nonlinearity in the effects of financial development and financial structure on unemployment	7
Credit bureaus, corruption and banking stability	7
The role of financial development on the underground economy in regards to Europe’s 2020 strategy	7
Fiscal performance and elections in the context of a transition economy	7
New insights into the role of global factors in BRICS stock markets: A quantile cointegration approach	7
Agricultural productivity growth and the development of manufacturing in developing Asia	7
Following the leaders? A study of co-movement and volatility spillover in BRICS currencies	7
Trust or bust: Growth effects of knowledge, human and social capital revisited	6
The role of fiscal policies for external imbalances: Evidence from the European Union	6
Bank diversification and ESG activities: A global perspective	6
Are exchange rates less important for trade in a more globalized world? Evidence for the new EU members	6
Elections and provisioning behavior: Assessing the Indian evidence	6
Rent-seeking, promotion pressure and green economic efficiency: Evidence from China	6
Financial conditions and monetary policy in the US	6
On the role of institutional factors in shaping working capital management policies: Empirical evidence from European listed firms	6
Does inflation worsen income inequality? A meta-analysis	6
Financial development, portfolio investments and the real economy in Africa	6

The macroeconomic response to real and financial factors, commodity prices, and monetary policy: International evidence	6
Political environment and bank performance: Does bank size matter?	6
Unemployment shocks and material deprivation in the European Union: A synthetic control approach	6
Credit behavior and financial stability in an emerging economy	6
The impact of intellectual property rights protection on trade: The role of a “third country” in market power and market expansion effects	5
Trade openness, financial openness, and macroeconomic volatility	5
Inward FDI and the quality of domestic institutions: A cross-country panel VAR analysis	5
Oil dependence and entrepreneurship: Non-linear evidence	5
What drives household inflation expectations in South Africa? Demographics and anchoring under inflation targeting	5
An empirical analysis of the impact of banking regulations on sustainable financial inclusion in the CEMAC region	5
Multinomial modeling methods: Predicting four decades of international banking crises	5
Threshold effects of terms of trade on Latin American growth	5
Cultural distance and cross-border bank linkages	5
Does colonisation explain the low level of growth in African financial markets?	5
IFRS, financial development and income inequality: An empirical study using mediation analysis	5
Gender diversity, gender norms and firm performance: Evidence from India	5
Winners and losers after 25 years of transition: Decreasing wage inequality in Slovenia	5
Tax morale: Framing and fairness	5
Institutional determinants of the effective tax rate in G7 and BRIC countries	5
Rent-seeking in an emerging market: A DSGE approach	4
The impact of national culture on systemic risk	4
Are the effects of minimum wage on the labour market the same across countries? A meta-analysis spanning a century	4
Bank efficiency and access to credit: International evidence	4
Servitization across countries and sectors: Evidence from world input-output data	4
The shocks of natural disasters on NPLs: Global evidence	4
Macroeconomic responses of emerging market economies to oil price shocks: An analysis by region and resource profile	4
The effects of monetary policy in Russia: A factor-augmented VAR approach	4
Self-reported tax compliance in post-transition Estonia	3
Is R&D spending influenced by disinvestment and local political corruption? The case of Indian central public sector enterprises	3
Strategic location of firms: Does it empower bribe givers or bribe takers?	3
Gross capital inflows and outflows: Twins or distant cousins?	3
Bank herding and systemic risk	3
Determinants of macroeconomic resilience in the euro area: An empirical assessment of national policy levers	3
An assessment of the effect of partisan ideology on shale gas production and the implications for environmental regulations	3
Ethnic identity and economic welfare	3
Inclusion of the RMB in SDRs and the impossible trinity in China	3
Is there a diversification “cost” of Shari’ah compliance? Empirical evidence from Malaysian equities	3
Sources of financing: Which ones are more effective in innovation–growth linkage?	3
The effect of economic incentives on corporate environmental investment: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing listed firms	3
Latent social distancing: Identification, causes and consequences	3
Bank lending: The bank ownership focus in the pre- and post-global financial crisis periods	3
A note on bride kidnapping and labour supply behaviour of Kyrgyz women	3
Can inflation targeting reduce price information asymmetry and alleviate corruptive behavior? Evidence from developing countries	3
The Kuznets curve of the rich	3
Income inequality and systemic banking crises: A nonlinear nexus	3
Welfare-improving policy on medical tourism and labor productivity: A theoretical analysis	3
The impact of institutional quality on manufacturing sectors: A panel data analysis	3
Public debt management and private financial development	3
The US current account, sustainability, and the international monetary system	2
Fiscal transfers in Turkey: Do politics matter?	2
Globalization in lifelong gender inclusive education for structural transformation in Africa	2
The gap that survived the transition: The gender wage gap in Estonia over three decades	2
A maximum entropy bootstrap approach to financial development and economic growth in China	2
Sustainable energy deployment in developing countries: The role of composition of energy aid	2
Business cycles and redistribution: The role of government quality	2
The Fama-French model for estimating the cost of equity capital: The impact of real options of investment projects	2
It's a man's world? The rise of female entrepreneurship during privatization in Serbia	2
A profit-to-provisioning approach to setting the countercyclical capital buffer	2
Financial depth versus more comprehensive metrics of financial development in tests of the finance-growth nexus	2
Dialect diversity and labor income share in China	2
Does more finance mean more inequality in times of crisis?	2
FDI forward spillover effects in emerging markets: A comparative meta-analysis of China and Eastern Europe	2
Regional convergence in Russia: Estimating an augmented Solow model	2
Growth and welfare effects of corruption penalties	2
Individualism, economic freedom, and the development of the shadow economy	2
Foreign capital inflows and poverty linkages in South Asia: Do the forms of capital inflows matter?	2
Central bank’s forecasts and lack of transparency: An assessment of the effect on private expectations in a large emerging economy	2
Does population aging coexist with income inequality in the long run? Evidence from selected Asia-Pacific countries	2
Socio-political instability and growth dynamics	2
Modeling conflict impact and postconflict reconstruction: The case of Yemen	2
Panel cointegration, quantile regressions, asymmetric adjustments and crises: The case of EU current accounts	2
Forecasting stock prices with commodity prices: New evidence from Feasible Quasi Generalized Least Squares (FQGLS) with non-linearities	2
Information asymmetry, agency costs, and payout policies: An international analysis of IFRS adoption and the global financial crisis	2
FDI and income inequality in tax-haven countries: The relevance of tax pressure	2
Local institutions, external finance and investment decisions of small businesses in Vietnam	2
The transmission of international shocks to CIS economies: A global VAR approach	2
A Dutch disease approach into the premature deindustrialization	2