OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Trade & Economic Development is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The threshold effect of public debt on the twin imbalances: Evidence from MENA countries	37
The impact of financial crises on the relationship between imports, exports, and consumption-based CO2 emissions: Do country income levels matter?	34
Policy-induced distortion, market-oriented correction, and R&D spatial spillover – Empirical evidence from Chinese industry	33
Home country institutional restraint and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese heterogeneity enterprises	27
Pegged exchange rate regime and its impact on inflation in BRICS nations: Country-wise evidence	26
The potential of China's tea trade and how it affects China's economic growth	23
Acquiring innovation – Do Chinese acquisitions in developed countries spur innovation at home?	21
Agricultural exports and agricultural economic growth in developed countries: Evidence from OECD countries	21
Does trade openness affect migrants' marriage? Evidence from China	20
Welfare effects of introducing quality certification system for developing countries: Evidence from the Chinese experience*	19
The growth impact of trade openness: A comparative analysis of the USA and China	17
The effects of US-Japan trade agreements on production, sales, factor demand, and price in competition and firm structure	17
Testing the export-led growth hypothesis in Turkey: New evidence from time and frequency domain causality approaches	16
Foreign direct investment and income inequality: Does institutional quality matter?	16
Within- and between-firm wage inequalities and trade integration in GVC	15
The China trade shock and the European Union's employment	14
Effects of Services on Economic Growth in Albania: An ARDL Approach	14
Extreme exchange rate dynamics and export trade in the selected oil-exporting countries in Africa. Multiple asymmetric threshold non-linear ARDL approach	14
Heterogeneous effects of inward investment, trade and funds transfer on improved misery index in EAC-6	13
The effects of trade openness on rural-urban sectoral employment, wages, and earnings: Evidence from Peru's second wave of trade liberalization	13
Firm-level capabilities and response to a negative export shock: 2014 Russian embargo on the West	13
The short-run and long-run impacts of foreign aid and remittances on economic growth: Evidence from African countries	12
The upsurge of trade protectionism in sub-Saharan Africa since the 2008 crisis: Is the twin deficit guilty?	12
The investment volatility-dampening role of foreign aid in poor sub-Saharan African countries	12
Exports and innovation under trade conflicts: A dynamic and heterogeneous perspective	11

Does financial development foster economic globalization in emerging economies? Time series evidence from China and India	11
An empirical investigation of capital flight and economic growth nexus in Africa	11
Impact of export intensity on energy intensity in manufacturing plants: Evidence from India	11
Uniform versus discriminatory tariffs in increasing marginal costs and endogenous competition	11
Friends or foe? The complementarity or substitutability of financial development and FDI, financial development, and trade openness on domestic investment	10
Globalization, government regulation, and country risk: International evidence	10
The impact of real exchange rate on international trade: Evidence from panel structural VAR model	9
Enterprise heterogeneity, agglomeration model, and urban exports: Evidence from Chinese cities and micro enterprises	9
Gravity channels in trade	9
Wage effects of global value chains participation and position: An industry-level analysis¹	9
Welfare implications of trade liberalization when revenue matters	8
Firms’ participation in global value chains marketing activities and performance: the roles of international experience and technological turbulence	8
Financial inclusion, household consumption instability and democracy in developing countries: A finite mixture of regressions approach	8
Untapping the role of trade facilitation indicators, logistics and information technology in export expansion and diversification	8
Does institutional quality matter for export product quality? Evidence from China	8
Does economic complexity influence the efficacy of foreign direct investment? An empirical inquiry	8
Import demand elasticities revisited	8
Local demand and firms’ upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from China	7
The causality relationship between income inequality, debt, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries ¹	7
Does international trade lead to uneven development or convergent growth?	7
How does quality of institutions affect the impact of technology adoption on export performance in Africa?	7
Tariff rates in gravity	7
What robustly determines FDI in emerging markets and developing countries? A sensitivity analysis	7
Correction	7
Understanding the nexus between energy sources and export performance: Evidence from emerging economies	7
International remittances and trade in sub-Saharan Africa: Does size matter? Evidence from endogenous dynamic panel threshold model	7
Uncovering asymmetrical contagion effects: US monetary policy and emerging markets	7
Does ICT promote digitizable product trade? – Evidence from Chinese exports to the ‘Belt and Road’ countries	6
Regional integration and product quality upgrading: The case of Vietnam’s manufacturing industries	6
How does business credit environment affect exports performance of small and medium-sized enterprises: Evidence in China	6
Modelling trade specialisation of Slovakia and Czechia in automobile industry	6
The effect of trade on market power — evidence from developing economies	6
Revisiting domestic support to agriculture at the WTO: Ensuring a level playing field	6
Uncovering the dynamic relationship between oil prices and external trade in OECD countries	6
R&D, exports and employment growth: firm-level evidence using administrative data from South Africa	5
Differential impact of the Great Recession on foreign and domestic firms in China: Did processing trade play a role in export performance?	5
How digital finance impacts trade credit in supply chains: An analysis from Chinese A-share listed companies	5
Human capital, governance, foreign direct investment and their relationship with TFP growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	5
Global value chains and product sophistication in developing countries; the case of Indian manufacturing	5
Emigration and tax revenue	5
Energy imports as inhibitor of economic growth: The role of impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption	5
Effects of FDI on trade among countries along the Belt and Road: A network perspective	5
The effects of trade intermediaries on firms’ export market diversification: Evidence from China	5
Environmental regulation, trade openness and polluting emissions: City-level empirical evidence from China	5
On trade policy and workers’ transition between the formal and informal sectors: An application to the MENA region in the time of COVID-19	5
Exchange rate appreciation and outward FDI in China	5
Best paper 2022	5
Effects of decolonization on bilateral trade: Evidence from natural experiments	5
The choice of technology and international trade	5
Exporters’ productivity and margins of trade deflection: theory and micro-evidence	4

Can data flow provisions facilitate trade in goods and services? —Analysis based on the TAPED database	4
Impact of trade on industry-level output	4
The impacts of lockdown policies on trade margins in the Philippines	4
Real exchange rates and remittance inflows in Jamaica	4
The impact of host country institutional quality on OFDI: Evidence from China	4
Official visits and foreign direct investment	4
The role of side payment requirements in free trade negotiations under asymmetric information	4
Does fintech facilitate enterprise outward foreign direct investment? Evidence from China	4
A sectoral analysis of a developing country's exports in the context of trade integration: Evidence from Colombia	4
Bilateral value chain reshaping through regional trade agreements deepening: Evidence from belt and road countries	4
Terrorist attacks, security concerns, and GVC positions – an empirical cross-country study based on industry heterogeneity	4
Global value chain participation and firm capacity utilization: Evidence from China	4
Logistics input intensity, trade facilitation and comparative advantage	4
Export tax rebates and enterprise export resilience in China	4
Adjustment to trade opening: The case of labor share in India's manufacturing industry	4
Multiple shocks and the external market structure of China’s manufacturing industry	4
Have the PFTZs narrowed the regional economic gap? – Verification based on difference in differences method	4
Inter-and intra-Asian regional value chains: Identifying country characteristics	4
Tackling the shadow economy through inflation and access to credit	4
Agglomeration and its mechanisms on exporting directly	4