OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics is 12. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental decentralization, digital finance and green technology innovation	294
Renewable Energy Consumption, CO2 Emissions, and Economic Growth Nexus: A Simultaneity Spatial Modeling Analysis of EU Countries	237
Does the development of the internet contribute to air pollution control in China? Mechanism discussion and empirical test	164
Renewable energy, CO2 emissions and value added: Empirical evidence from countries with different income levels	134
Export product diversification and energy efficiency: Empirical evidence from OECD countries	129
Energy consumption structural adjustment and carbon neutrality in the post-COVID-19 era	108
The effect of the spatial heterogeneity of human capital structure on regional green total factor productivity	106
Heterogeneous effects of industrialization on the environment: Evidence from panel quantile regression	99
Determinants of renewable and non-renewable energy demand in China	81
Role of financial inclusion, green innovation, and energy efficiency for environmental performance? Evidence from developed and emerging economies in the lens of sustainable development	75
Exploring the nexus between tourism development and environmental quality: Role of Renewable energy consumption and Income	74
The impact of foreign direct investment on emission reduction targets: Evidence from high- and middle-income countries	70
The dynamic relationship between economic growth and life expectancy: Contradictory role of energy consumption and financial development in Pakistan	66
Key drivers of renewable energy deployment in the MENA Region: Empirical evidence using panel quantile regression	65
Poverty and vulnerability of environmental degradation in Sub-Saharan African countries: what causes what?	63
High-quality Economic Growth under the Influence of Technological Innovation Preference in China: A Numerical Simulation from the Government Financial Perspective	63
Comparative advantage, endowment structure, and trade imbalances	61
New patterns in China's regional green development: An interval Malmquist–Luenberger productivity analysis	60
The role of non-oil exports, tourism and renewable energy to achieve sustainable economic growth: What we learn from the experience of Saudi Arabia	57
Does green innovation, energy productivity and environmental taxes limit carbon emissions in developed economies: Implications for sustainable development	55
Exploring the role of export product quality and economic complexity for economic progress of developed economies: Does institutional quality matter?	54
Escaping the middle-income technology trap: A comparative analysis of industrial policies in China, Brazil and South Africa	51
Research on the regional spatial effects of green development and environmental governance in China based on a spatial autocorrelation model	49
The effect of manufacturing agglomerations on smog pollution	48
State-owned enterprise reform in China: The new structural economics perspective	46

From FDI to economic complexity: a panel Granger causality analysis	45
The impact of digital finance on residential carbon emissions: Evidence from China	44
The impact of eco-innovation on CO2 emission reductions: Evidence from selected petroleum companies	44
Labour market flexibility, economic crisis and youth unemployment in Italy	44
Does environmental pollution promote China's crime rate? A new perspective through government official corruption	44
Regional and provincial CO2 emission reduction task decomposition of China's 2030 carbon emission peak based on the efficiency, equity and synthesizing principles	44
Technology vs. workers: the case of Italy’s Industry 4.0 factories	43
Can a colonial legacy explain the pollution haven hypothesis? A city-level panel analysis	42
Foreign capital towards SDGs 1 & 2—Ending Poverty and hunger: The role of agricultural production	38
The effects of national environmental information disclosure program on the upgradation of regional industrial structure: Evidence from 286 prefecture-level cities in China	36
How does China's land finance affect its carbon emissions?	36
A new artificial neural networks algorithm to analyze the nexus among logistics performance, energy demand, and environmental degradation	35
How can entrepreneurship and educational capital lead to environmental sustainability?	35
Can innovation really bring economic growth? The role of social filter in China	34
How does air pollution affect urban innovation capability? Evidence from 281 cities in China	33
Do information and communications technology spillovers affect labor productivity?	32
Analysis of China's urban household indirect carbon emissions drivers under the background of population aging	32
Heterogeneous foreign direct investment and local innovation in Italian Provinces	32
Carbon emission post-coronavirus: Continual decline or rebound?	31
Directed technological progress driven by diversified industrial structural change	31
A quarter century of inflation targeting & structural change in exchange rate pass-through: Evidence from the first three movers	31
European union membership and CO2 emissions: A structural decomposition analysis	30
The spatial spillover effect of China's carbon emissions trading policy on industrial carbon intensity: Evidence from a spatial difference-in-difference method	30
Digital financial inclusion and energy-environment performance: What can learn from China	27
Does oil drive income inequality? New panel evidence	27
Can green industrial policy improve total factor productivity? Firm-level evidence from China	27
Multiple relationships between fixed-asset investment and industrial structure evolution in China–Based on Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) analysis and VAR model	26
Selective industrial policy and ‘sustainable’ structural change. Discussing the political economy of sectoral priorities in the US	26
Why did some countries catch-up, while others got stuck in the middle? Stages of productive sophistication and smart industrial policies	26
Testing the Smile Curve: Functional Specialisation and Value Creation in GVCs	25
How can export improve firms’ energy efficiency? The role of innovation investment	25
Potential Output in Theory and Practice: A Revision and Update of Okun's Original Method	25
In order to stand up you must keep cycling: Change and coordination in complex evolving economies	25
Not so disruptive yet? Characteristics, distribution and determinants of robots in Europe	25
Polycentric agglomeration, market integration and green economic efficiency	25
Social capital, quality of institutions and lockdown. Evidence from Italian provinces	24
Impacts of inward FDIs and ICT penetration on the industrialisation of Sub-Saharan African countries	23
The effect of global and regional stock market shocks on safe haven assets	23
Access to finance among small and medium-sized enterprises and job creation in Africa	23
Economic complexity and the globalization of services	22
Occurrence of turning point on environmental Kuznets curve in the process of (de)industrialization	22
Fuzzy Einstein WASPAS approach for the economic and societal dynamics of the climate change mitigation strategies in urban mobility planning	22
Coordination between sulfur dioxide pollution control and rapid economic growth in China: Evidence from satellite observations and spatial econometric models	22
The changing pattern of wage returns to education in post-reform China	22
A New Developmentalist model of structural change, economic growth and middle-income traps	22
Green transformation in China: Structures of endowment, investment, and employment	21
The contribution of trade to production-Based carbon dioxide emissions	21
Unveiling the causal relationships among banking competition, stock and insurance market development, and economic growth in Europe	21
Predicting the spread of COVID-19 in Italy using machine learning: Do socio-economic factors matter?	21
China’s energy intensity change in 1997–2015: Non-vertical adjusted structural decomposition analysis based on input-output tables	21

Countermeasures against economic crisis from COVID-19 pandemic in China: An analysis of effectiveness and trade-offs	21
Intermediate import, independent innovation and export sophistication of Chinese manufacturing enterprises	21
Does firm innovation improve aggregate industry productivity? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms	21
Varieties of deindustrialization and patterns of diversification: why microchips are not potato chips	20
Relative Productivity, Country Size and Export Diversification	20
Global Environmental Value Chain Embeddedness and Enterprise Production Efficiency Improvement	20
Smile curves in global value chains: Foreign- vs. domestic-owned firms; the U.S. vs. China	19
Investigating the nexus between economic complexity and energy-related environmental risks in the USA: Empirical evidence from a novel multivariate quantile-on-quantile regression	19
State ownership and innovations: Lessons from the mixed-ownership reforms of China's listed companies	19
Financial inclusion, the shadow economy and economic growth in developing economies	19
Uneven development and the balance of payments constrained model: Terms of trade, economic cycles, and productivity catching-up	18
Structural evolution of real estate industry in China: 2002-2017	18
Export starters and exiters: Do innovation and finance matter?	18
Pathway to cleaner environment: How effective are renewable electricity and financial development approaches?	18
Social movements in times of inequalities: Struggling against austerity in Europe	18
Growth led by government expenditure and exports: Public and external debt stability in a supermultiplier model	18
Structural change and labour productivity growth in Morocco	18
Knowledge creation in state-owned enterprises	18
The economic theory of qualitative green growth	17
Infrastructure and growth: A survey of macro-econometric research	17
Distribution dynamics of China's household consumption upgrading	17
Mobility in times of pandemics: Evidence on the spread of COVID19 in Italy's labour market areas	17
The threshold effect of manufacturing Servitization on carbon emission: An empirical analysis based on multinational panel data	17
The effect of income inequality on human capital inequality: Evidence from China	17
R&D-based economic growth in a supermultiplier model	17
Innovation, export performance and trade elasticities across different sectors	16
An Evaluation of the Efficiency of China’s green investment in the “Belt and Road” countries	16
Convergence among the CEE-8 economies and their catch-up towards the EU-15	16
The economic impacts of COVID-19 and city lockdown: Early evidence from China	15
The effects of monetary policy on income and wealth inequality in the U.S. Exploring different channels	15
The role of internal devaluation in correcting external deficits: The case of Spain	15
Impact of water and energy infrastructure on local well-being: an agent-based analysis of the water-energy-food nexus	15
Institutional constraints to China's low carbon transition: A case study of China's coal-to-gas program	15
How money drives US congressional elections: Linear models of money and outcomes	15
Conjugation of border and domestic carbon adjustment and implications under production and consumption-based accounting of India's National Emission Inventory: A recursive dynamic CGE analysis	15
Innovation in private and state-owned enterprises: A cross-industry analysis of patenting activity	15
Development strategy, resource misallocation and economic performance	15
Income polarization in the USA: What happened to the middle class in the last few decades?	15
Polarization and the middle class in China: A non-parametric evaluation using CHNS and CHIP data	15
Heterogeneous low-carbon targets and energy structure optimization: Does stricter carbon regulation really matter?	15
Innovation and job quality. A firm-level exploration	15
Environmental innovations, income distribution, international competitiveness and environmental policies: a Kaleckian growth model with a balance of payments constraint	14
Why the same degree of economic policy uncertainty can produce different outcomes in energy efficiency? New evidence from China	14
Cost-competitiveness and structural change in value chains – vertically-integrated analysis of the European automotive sector	14
Air pollution, migration costs, and urban residents’ welfare: A spatial general equilibrium analysis from China	14
The adoption of digital technologies: Investment, skills, work organisation	14
Who collects intellectual rents from knowledge and innovation hubs? questioning the sustainability of the singapore model	14
How does export diversification affect income inequality? International evidence	14
Impact of population ageing on carbon emissions: A case of China's urban households	14
What is the relationship between government response and COVID-19 pandemics? Global evidence of 118 countries	13
Trade openness, export structure, and labor productivity in developing countries: Evidence from panel VAR approach	13
Industrial growth, health care policy uncertainty and carbon emissions: Do trade and tax policy uncertainties matter for sustainable development in the USA?	13
How effective is the construction sector in promoting the circular economy in Brazil and France? : A waste input-output analysis	13
On the adjustment of capacity utilisation to aggregate demand: Revisiting an old Sraffian critique to the Neo-Kaleckian model	13
The trade-off between the economic and environmental footprints of multinationals’ foreign affiliates	13
Discussing Secular Stagnation: A case for freeing good ideas from theoretical constraints?	13
Resilience and economic structure. Are they related?	13
Linkages between services and manufacturing as a new channel for GVC development: Evidence from CEE countries	13
Labor productivity growth in sub-Sahara African LDCs: sectoral contributions and macroeconomic factors	12
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on China's economic structure: An input–output approach	12
Mapping carbon footprint along global value chains: A study based on firm heterogeneity in China	12
Behind climate change: Extreme heat and health cost	12
Coupling environmental transition and social prosperity: a scenario-analysis of the Italian case	12
The distributional dimension of the resource curse: Commodity price shocks and income inequality	12
Labour flexibility, internal migration and productivity in Italian regions	12
Who Benefits from Global Value Chain Participation? Does Functional Specialization Matter?	12
Quality of employment and employment protection. Effects of employment protection on temporary and permanent employment	12
Varieties of capitalism and East Asia: Long-term evolution, structural change, and the end of East Asian capitalism	12
Offshoring, industry heterogeneity and employment	12