OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of International Trade & Economic Development is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The China trade shock and the European Union's employment	55
Acquiring innovation – Do Chinese acquisitions in developed countries spur innovation at home?	37
Welfare effects of introducing quality certification system for developing countries: Evidence from the Chinese experience*	33
The causality relationship between income inequality, debt, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries ¹	32
Firm-level capabilities and response to a negative export shock: 2014 Russian embargo on the West	31
Does trade openness affect migrants' marriage? Evidence from China	29
What robustly determines FDI in emerging markets and developing countries? A sensitivity analysis	21
Home country institutional restraint and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese heterogeneity enterprises	20
Wage effects of global value chains participation and position: An industry-level analysis¹	19
Local demand and firms’ upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from China	19
Does financial development foster economic globalization in emerging economies? Time series evidence from China and India	19
Uncovering the dynamic relationship between oil prices and external trade in OECD countries	17
Does economic complexity influence the efficacy of foreign direct investment? An empirical inquiry	17
Terrorist attacks, security concerns, and GVC positions – an empirical cross-country study based on industry heterogeneity	16
Have the PFTZs narrowed the regional economic gap? – Verification based on difference in differences method	15
The impact of special economic zones on structural change	14
Energy imports as inhibitor of economic growth: The role of impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption	14
The effect of cultural exports on inbound tourism: An empirical analysis of Türkiye	14
Impact of trade on industry-level output	14
Best paper 2021	14
Heterogeneous Impacts of COVID-19 on trade: Evidence from China’s province-level data	13
The relationship between FDI, political risk and institutional quality in sub-Saharan Africa	11
Exchange rate volatility and Turkey-Germany bilateral trade: An asymmetry analysis	11
The impact of population aging on economic growth in Korea: Revisiting the export-led growth hypothesis framework	11
Exports of intermediate goods and innovation: Evidence from China’s firms	10

Assessing the impact of free trade agreement (FTA) signing on China’s outbound labor services	10
China trade shock: Is there a reversal of Dutch disease for exporters of primary commodities?	10
Import competition and pollution abatement: Firm-level evidence from China	9
Examining the effect of insurance development on economic complexity: Evidence from Africa	9
Bilateral foreign direct investments: differential effects of tariffs in source and destination countries	9
Exchange rate movements and trade balance in developing economies: Evidence of symmetry and country-specific asymmetries	9
Low-wage competition: pains from trade for medium-wage countries	9
The alternative version of J-curve hypothesis testing: Evidence between the USA and Canada	8
Asymmetric trade uncertainty-environmental quality nexus: evidence from quantile estimation	8
How significant is trade, macroeconomic management, and economic integration for foreign indebtedness in West African countries?	8
International trade and institutional quality in West African Economic and Monetary Union countries: A causality analysis	8
Do remittances have an asymmetrical effect on financial development? Empirical evidence from Turkey	8
Responsiveness of United States – China bilateral commodity trade to real exchange rate misalignment: Does the complexity of traded products matter?	8
The asymmetric effect of financial development on human capital: Evidence from a nonlinear ARDL approach	8
Unveiling the impact of geopolitical conflict on digital trade: An empirical study based on the Russia–Ukraine war and China's cross-border e-commerce	8
Executive compensation and worker wages during the global trade collapse: Evidence from Japanese firms	8
The effects of FDI on economic growth in Africa	8
Uniform versus discriminatory tariffs in increasing marginal costs and endogenous competition	7
An empirical investigation of capital flight and economic growth nexus in Africa	7
The effects of R&D subsidies for joint R&D in a vertically related industry	7
Export tax rebates and enterprise export resilience in China	7
Asymmetric effects of exchange rate on bilateral tourism trade balance: evidence from Turkey	7
Gravity channels in trade	7
Emigration and tax revenue	7
Agglomeration and its mechanisms on exporting directly	7
Can data flow provisions facilitate trade in goods and services? —Analysis based on the TAPED database	7
The impact of financial crises on the relationship between imports, exports, and consumption-based CO2 emissions: Do country income levels matter?	7
Testing the export-led growth hypothesis in Turkey: New evidence from time and frequency domain causality approaches	7
International remittances and trade in sub-Saharan Africa: Does size matter? Evidence from endogenous dynamic panel threshold model	7
The effect of trade on market power — evidence from developing economies	7
Can the coordinated development of two-way FDI promote carbon emission reduction? Evidence from industrial sectors in China	7
Does merchant guild culture boost corporate outward foreign direct investment? An institutional support perspective	6
Investment treaty reforms to prevent developing country regulatory chill from causing global warming	6
The influence of key economic globalization factors on economic growth and environmental quality: An empirical study in Southeast Asian countries	6
The innovation and exports interplay across Africa: Does business environment matter?	6
Aid for trade and export performance of recipient countries: The moderating role of institutions	6
Artificial intelligence and export green sophistication	6
Impacts of deep trade agreements on trade and welfare – An application to China joining the RCEP and CPTPP	6
Price discrimination in the transport industry and the gains from trade	6
How the African Continental Free Trade Area impacts firms’ export survival: Some lessons from Kenya	6
Factors driving current account performance of South Asian economies: A comparative empirical analysis	6
Country-of-origin effects on technology transfer in foreign direct investment	6
Adjustments in markups after a Free Trade Agreement: An analysis of Pakistani firms gaining increased access to China	6
The inefficiency of exporting SMEs: Evidence from manufacturing industry	6
Export servitization of Chinese cities and individuals’ marriage and childbearing performance	5
Does GVC participation help industrial upgrading in developing countries? New evidence from panel data analysis	5
Effects of capital flow restrictions: Evidence of welfare improvement	5
Trade openness and green technology: The extent of trade openness and environmental policy matter	5
Structural change and export diversification: A comparison of CARICOM’s position	5
Does financial development and economic growth matter for services export? Cross-country evidence from OECD countries	5

Do international tourism arrivals, infrastructural development, and trade openness promote economic complexity in Africa?	5
Job prospects and labour mobility in China	5
Asymmetric impact of multifarious exchange rate shocks on stock prices: Fresh insights from multiple thresholds nonlinear autoregressive distributed-lag approach	5
An analysis on the relationship between ICT, financial development and economic growth: Evidence from Asian developing countries	5
How far India has succeeded in harnessing its export potential in rice? Evidence Using Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model	5
The impact of FTAs on export duration: Evidence from China’s agricultural firms	5
Do countries’ interdependence, asymmetry, and policy variances matter in the remittance-poverty causal nexus?	5
Influence of overseas ethnic Chinese networks on China’s outward foreign direct investment	5
Cleaner production regulation and firms’ ratio of domestic value added in exports: evidence from China’s cleaner production standards	5
The role of external shocks in driving macroeconomic fluctuations of emerging economies	5
Best paper 2023	5
Does Sino-US trade friction hurt corporate resilience? Evidence from Chinese enterprises	5
The threshold effect of public debt on the twin imbalances: Evidence from MENA countries	4
How does quality of institutions affect the impact of technology adoption on export performance in Africa?	4
Heterogeneous effects of inward investment, trade and funds transfer on improved misery index in EAC-6	4
The short-run and long-run impacts of foreign aid and remittances on economic growth: Evidence from African countries	4
The investment volatility-dampening role of foreign aid in poor sub-Saharan African countries	4
Effects of FDI on trade among countries along the Belt and Road: A network perspective	4
The choice of technology and international trade	4
Official visits and foreign direct investment	4
Storm survivors: Evidence from firms in times of pandemic	4
Policy-induced distortion, market-oriented correction, and R&D spatial spillover – Empirical evidence from Chinese industry	4
Globalization, government regulation, and country risk: International evidence	4
Determinants of service trade: How information and communication technology-based services are different?	4
Global value chains and product sophistication in developing countries; the case of Indian manufacturing	4
Inter-and intra-Asian regional value chains: Identifying country characteristics	4
How does business credit environment affect exports performance of small and medium-sized enterprises: Evidence in China	4
Dynamic linkages between trade, growth, inequality, and poverty in emerging countries: An application of panel ARDL approach	4
Financial inclusion, household consumption instability and democracy in developing countries: A finite mixture of regressions approach	4
The potential of China's tea trade and how it affects China's economic growth	4
Economic sanctions and global banking flows: The moderating roles of financial market properties and institutional quality	4
Impact of logistics performance on international trade - a test based on meta-analysis	4
Murky trade waters: Regional tariff commitments and non-tariff measures in Africa	3
Asymmetric effect of consumption expenditure on import function in Saudi Arabia	3
Impact of trade openness on agricultural income inequality in Korea: Income differences according to farmers' age	3
Best paper 2024	3
Revisiting the twin deficits hypothesis in the United States: Further evidence based on system-equation ADL test for threshold cointegration	3
Diversifying the export basket of creative products and accelerating economic growth	3
Global value chains and shadow economy: A multi-dimensional analysis	3
Preference shifts and wage inequality	3
Has trade liberalization played a helpful, benign, or malign role on economic growth within the ECOWAS trading bloc?	3
Do export responses to exchange rate movements differ in micro export flows?	3
Antecedents of skilled international immigrants to Vietnam: The importance of global network and institutional quality	3
Belt and road initiative and export sophistication: The role of China’s outward foreign direct investment	3
Political competition, optimal upstream managerial delegation for an SOE, and optimal downstream industrial policy	3
International linkages and female share of employment: Plant-level evidence from a developing country	3
The impact of trade on schooling over the last five decades in developing countries	3
Product regulation or protectionism?	3
International trade policy uncertainty spillover on stock market: Evidence from fragile five economies	3
Asymmetric role of human capital and trade liberalization in the economic growth of Pakistan: Fresh evidence from the nonlinear analysis	3
The asymmetric effects of exchange rate volatility on UK–Pakistan trade flows: New evidence from nonlinear ARDL approach	3
Globalization and business cycles synchronization in sub-Saharan Africa	3
Effects of export diversification on economic vulnerability: the case of WAEMU countries	3
Estimating the elasticity of substitution: An index-number approach	3
Tariff discrimination for co-existence of domestic and foreign firms with increasing marginal costs	3
The impact of information and communication technologies on export diversification: Evidence from developing countries	3
Judicial independence and foreign direct investment: Evidence from China	3
Financial development and global trade: Insights from G20 economies	3
How transport infrastructures enhance trade between Africa and the EU: Evidence of the Spanish-Moroccan case	3
Import quality upgrading and skill premium: Evidence from China	3
Can intellectual property protection promote domestic value added in exports? Evidence from mainland China	3
The impact of China’s AI exports on human development across global emerging economies	3
Foreign direct investment, human capital and export diversification in Africa: A panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) model analysis	3
Corporate financialization and export product quality: evidence from China	3
Product quality and export probability: Evidence from a large developing country	3
Frequency-domain and time-varying asymmetric Granger causality between real effective exchange rates and remittances in Mexico	3
Bilateral value chain reshaping through regional trade agreements deepening: Evidence from belt and road countries	3
Does cross-border e-commerce improve China’s imported product quality? – A quasi-natural experiment based on the establishment of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones	3