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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Acquiring innovation – Do Chinese acquisitions in developed countries spur innovation at home?	43
Welfare effects of introducing quality certification system for developing countries: Evidence from the Chinese experience*	38
What robustly determines FDI in emerging markets and developing countries? A sensitivity analysis	35
Does trade openness affect migrants' marriage? Evidence from China	24
The causality relationship between income inequality, debt, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries ¹	23
Home country institutional restraint and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese heterogeneity enterprises	19
Border rejections and African agricultural exports: Insights from RASFF data and robust gravity model estimation	16
Does financial development foster economic globalization in emerging economies? Time series evidence from China and India	16
Uncovering the dynamic relationship between oil prices and external trade in OECD countries	16
Local demand and firms’ upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from China	16
The China trade shock and the European Union's employment	16
Firm-level capabilities and response to a negative export shock: 2014 Russian embargo on the West	16
Terrorist attacks, security concerns, and GVC positions – an empirical cross-country study based on industry heterogeneity	15
Impact of trade on industry-level output	14
Frontiers vs catch-up countries: Multi-group PLS for assessing the influence of digitalization, science, technology, and ICT trade on economic globalization	13
Have the PFTZs narrowed the regional economic gap? – Verification based on difference in differences method	13
The impact of informality on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of institutional quality	13
The impact of special economic zones on structural change	12
Impact of cross-border data restrictions on the quality of exports: Evidence from China	12
Energy imports as inhibitor of economic growth: The role of impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption	12
The relationship between FDI, political risk and institutional quality in sub-Saharan Africa	12
The impact of population aging on economic growth in Korea: Revisiting the export-led growth hypothesis framework	11
The effect of cultural exports on inbound tourism: An empirical analysis of Türkiye	11
FDI spillovers and female employment: A developing country perspective	11
Exports of intermediate goods and innovation: Evidence from China’s firms	11

China trade shock: Is there a reversal of Dutch disease for exporters of primary commodities?	11
Assessing the impact of free trade agreement (FTA) signing on China’s outbound labor services	11
Import competition and pollution abatement: Firm-level evidence from China	11
Exchange rate movements and trade balance in developing economies: Evidence of symmetry and country-specific asymmetries	10
Do remittances have an asymmetrical effect on financial development? Empirical evidence from Turkey	10
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	10
The alternative version of J-curve hypothesis testing: Evidence between the USA and Canada	10
How significant is trade, macroeconomic management, and economic integration for foreign indebtedness in West African countries?	10
Examining the effect of insurance development on economic complexity: Evidence from Africa	10
International trade and institutional quality in West African Economic and Monetary Union countries: A causality analysis	9
Does inward foreign direct investment deregulation enhance innovation quality in domestic firms? Evidence from China	9
An empirical investigation of capital flight and economic growth nexus in Africa	9
Responsiveness of United States – China bilateral commodity trade to real exchange rate misalignment: Does the complexity of traded products matter?	9
Executive compensation and worker wages during the global trade collapse: Evidence from Japanese firms	9
International remittances and trade in sub-Saharan Africa: Does size matter? Evidence from endogenous dynamic panel threshold model	9
Uniform versus discriminatory tariffs in increasing marginal costs and endogenous competition	9
Asymmetric trade uncertainty-environmental quality nexus: evidence from quantile estimation	9
Asymmetric effects of exchange rate on bilateral tourism trade balance: evidence from Turkey	9
The impact of financial crises on the relationship between imports, exports, and consumption-based CO2 emissions: Do country income levels matter?	9
Can the coordinated development of two-way FDI promote carbon emission reduction? Evidence from industrial sectors in China	8
Agglomeration and its mechanisms on exporting directly	8
Price discrimination in the transport industry and the gains from trade	8
The effects of R&D subsidies for joint R&D in a vertically related industry	8
Can data flow provisions facilitate trade in goods and services? —Analysis based on the TAPED database	8
Emigration and tax revenue	8
Investment treaty reforms to prevent developing country regulatory chill from causing global warming	8
Testing the export-led growth hypothesis in Turkey: New evidence from time and frequency domain causality approaches	8
Export tax rebates and enterprise export resilience in China	8
Adjustments in markups after a Free Trade Agreement: An analysis of Pakistani firms gaining increased access to China	8
Country-of-origin effects on technology transfer in foreign direct investment	8
Export servitization of Chinese cities and individuals’ marriage and childbearing performance	7
Artificial intelligence and export green sophistication	7
The impact of OFDI on skill-biased technological change in China's manufacturing: Evidence from the Belt and Road Initiative	7
How the African Continental Free Trade Area impacts firms’ export survival: Some lessons from Kenya	7
Does merchant guild culture boost corporate outward foreign direct investment? An institutional support perspective	7
Trade openness, market integration, and manufacturing activity in Africa: an empirical investigation	7
Aid for trade and export performance of recipient countries: The moderating role of institutions	7
Factors driving current account performance of South Asian economies: A comparative empirical analysis	7
The influence of key economic globalization factors on economic growth and environmental quality: An empirical study in Southeast Asian countries	7
Impacts of deep trade agreements on trade and welfare – An application to China joining the RCEP and CPTPP	7
Influence of overseas ethnic Chinese networks on China’s outward foreign direct investment	7
Do international tourism arrivals, infrastructural development, and trade openness promote economic complexity in Africa?	6
Effects of capital flow restrictions: Evidence of welfare improvement	6
The impact of FTAs on export duration: Evidence from China’s agricultural firms	6
Best paper 2023	6
Financial vs. trade openness: Where openness matters for CPI inflation and where it doesn’t	6
Does GVC participation help industrial upgrading in developing countries? New evidence from panel data analysis	6
The role of external shocks in driving macroeconomic fluctuations of emerging economies	6
Trade openness and green technology: The extent of trade openness and environmental policy matter	6
Do countries’ interdependence, asymmetry, and policy variances matter in the remittance-poverty causal nexus?	6

Cleaner production regulation and firms’ ratio of domestic value added in exports: evidence from China’s cleaner production standards	6
Job prospects and labour mobility in China	6
Asymmetric impact of multifarious exchange rate shocks on stock prices: Fresh insights from multiple thresholds nonlinear autoregressive distributed-lag approach	6
An analysis on the relationship between ICT, financial development and economic growth: Evidence from Asian developing countries	6
Storm survivors: Evidence from firms in times of pandemic	5
How does quality of institutions affect the impact of technology adoption on export performance in Africa?	5
The short-run and long-run impacts of foreign aid and remittances on economic growth: Evidence from African countries	5
Economic sanctions and global banking flows: The moderating roles of financial market properties and institutional quality	5
Determinants of service trade: How information and communication technology-based services are different?	5
Heterogeneous effects of inward investment, trade and funds transfer on improved misery index in EAC-6	5
Inter-and intra-Asian regional value chains: Identifying country characteristics	5
Cross-border data flow regulations and the structure of the global NEV industrial chain	5
Structural change and export diversification: A comparison of CARICOM’s position	5
The potential of China's tea trade and how it affects China's economic growth	5
How far India has succeeded in harnessing its export potential in rice? Evidence Using Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model	5
How does business credit environment affect exports performance of small and medium-sized enterprises: Evidence in China	5
Does financial development and economic growth matter for services export? Cross-country evidence from OECD countries	5
Policy-induced distortion, market-oriented correction, and R&D spatial spillover – Empirical evidence from Chinese industry	5
Financial inclusion, household consumption instability and democracy in developing countries: A finite mixture of regressions approach	5
Does Sino-US trade friction hurt corporate resilience? Evidence from Chinese enterprises	5
The choice of technology and international trade	5
Dynamic linkages between trade, growth, inequality, and poverty in emerging countries: An application of panel ARDL approach	5
Global value chains and product sophistication in developing countries; the case of Indian manufacturing	5
The threshold effect of public debt on the twin imbalances: Evidence from MENA countries	5
Can intellectual property protection promote domestic value added in exports? Evidence from mainland China	4
Corporate financialization and export product quality: evidence from China	4
Antecedents of skilled international immigrants to Vietnam: The importance of global network and institutional quality	4
Diversifying the export basket of creative products and accelerating economic growth	4
The impact of information and communication technologies on export diversification: Evidence from developing countries	4
Do export responses to exchange rate movements differ in micro export flows?	4
Import quality upgrading and skill premium: Evidence from China	4
Does sectoral concentration matter for export competitiveness?	4
Product quality and export probability: Evidence from a large developing country	4
The asymmetric effects of exchange rate volatility on UK–Pakistan trade flows: New evidence from nonlinear ARDL approach	4
Official visits and foreign direct investment	4
Bilateral value chain reshaping through regional trade agreements deepening: Evidence from belt and road countries	4
Foreign direct investment, human capital and export diversification in Africa: A panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) model analysis	4
Effects of export diversification on economic vulnerability: the case of WAEMU countries	4
Belt and road initiative and export sophistication: The role of China’s outward foreign direct investment	4
The impact of China’s AI exports on human development across global emerging economies	4
Frequency-domain and time-varying asymmetric Granger causality between real effective exchange rates and remittances in Mexico	4
Estimating the elasticity of substitution: An index-number approach	4
Impact of logistics performance on international trade - a test based on meta-analysis	4
Tariff discrimination for co-existence of domestic and foreign firms with increasing marginal costs	4
Revisiting the twin deficits hypothesis in the United States: Further evidence based on system-equation ADL test for threshold cointegration	4
Judicial independence and foreign direct investment: Evidence from China	4
Has trade liberalization played a helpful, benign, or malign role on economic growth within the ECOWAS trading bloc?	4
Asymmetric effect of consumption expenditure on import function in Saudi Arabia	3
Financial development and global trade: Insights from G20 economies	3
Mapping the dynamics of FDI in China: Convergence, divergence, and policy insights within free trade zones and beyond	3
Untapping the role of trade facilitation indicators, logistics and information technology in export expansion and diversification	3
Best paper 2024	3
How transport infrastructures enhance trade between Africa and the EU: Evidence of the Spanish-Moroccan case	3
Does cultural distance hinder the bilateral trade of cultural products? evidence from China	3
Murky trade waters: Regional tariff commitments and non-tariff measures in Africa	3
International linkages and female share of employment: Plant-level evidence from a developing country	3
Firms’ participation in global value chains marketing activities and performance: the roles of international experience and technological turbulence	3
Regional trade agreements and intelligent transformation of export manufacturing	3
Political competition, optimal upstream managerial delegation for an SOE, and optimal downstream industrial policy	3
Import of technologically complex products by Chinese high-tech enterprises and outward foreign direct investment under strategic political game conflicts between major powers	3
Impact of trade openness on agricultural income inequality in Korea: Income differences according to farmers' age	3
The contingent effects of economic growth and institutions on income inequality: An empirical study	3
Exports and innovation under trade conflicts: A dynamic and heterogeneous perspective	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
The impact of trade on schooling over the last five decades in developing countries	3