OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economic Systems is 6. 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
The impact of oil price changes on selected macroeconomic indicators in Azerbaijan	26
Public spending, public governance and economic growth at the Vietnamese provincial level: A disaggregate analysis	26
Corruption control, shadow economy and income inequality: Evidence from Asia	22
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
Finance, institutions, and innovation activities in China	20
The importance of being networked: The costs of informal networking in the Western Balkans region	19
The effects of agglomeration externalities on urban green total-factor productivity in China	19
The effects of an environmental accountability system on local environmental governance and firms’ emissions	18
Financial globalization and technological innovation: International evidence	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
The relationship between R&D, innovation and productivity in emerging economies: CDM model and alternatives	10
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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