OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Trade & Economic Development is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Does trade openness affect migrants' marriage? Evidence from China	45
The China trade shock and the European Union's employment	43
Local demand and firms’ upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from China	40
Does financial development foster economic globalization in emerging economies? Time series evidence from China and India	33
The causality relationship between income inequality, debt, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries ¹	31
Acquiring innovation – Do Chinese acquisitions in developed countries spur innovation at home?	26
Welfare effects of introducing quality certification system for developing countries: Evidence from the Chinese experience*	25
Firm-level capabilities and response to a negative export shock: 2014 Russian embargo on the West	25
What robustly determines FDI in emerging markets and developing countries? A sensitivity analysis	24
The growth impact of trade openness: A comparative analysis of the USA and China	24
Wage effects of global value chains participation and position: An industry-level analysis¹	20
Home country institutional restraint and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese heterogeneity enterprises	19
Does institutional quality matter for export product quality? Evidence from China	18
Import demand elasticities revisited	18
Does economic complexity influence the efficacy of foreign direct investment? An empirical inquiry	18
Have the PFTZs narrowed the regional economic gap? – Verification based on difference in differences method	17
Adjustment to trade opening: The case of labor share in India's manufacturing industry	16
Revisiting the link between trade openness and economic growth using panel methods	16
The Economic Complexity Index (ECI) and output volatility: High vs. low income countries	16
Oil price volatility and US dollar exchange rate volatility of some oil-dependent economies	16
Renewable energy consumption, globalization, and economic growth shocks: Evidence from G7 countries	15
Terrorist attacks, security concerns, and GVC positions – an empirical cross-country study based on industry heterogeneity	14
Energy imports as inhibitor of economic growth: The role of impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption	14
Impact of trade on industry-level output	14
Uncovering the dynamic relationship between oil prices and external trade in OECD countries	14

The impact of special economic zones on structural change	13
Regional integration and product quality upgrading: The case of Vietnam’s manufacturing industries	13
The effect of cultural exports on inbound tourism: An empirical analysis of Türkiye	12
Best paper 2021	12
Heterogeneous Impacts of COVID-19 on trade: Evidence from China’s province-level data	12
Poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa: The mixed roles of democracy and trade openness	12
The relationship between FDI, political risk and institutional quality in sub-Saharan Africa	12
Exports of intermediate goods and innovation: Evidence from China’s firms	11
Income inequality and trade of ‘Made in China’	11
Effects of destination countries financial development and public export credit guarantees on Spanish exports	11
The impact of population aging on economic growth in Korea: Revisiting the export-led growth hypothesis framework	11
Exchange rate volatility and Turkey-Germany bilateral trade: An asymmetry analysis	11
Exchange rate movements and trade balance in developing economies: Evidence of symmetry and country-specific asymmetries	10
Assessing the impact of free trade agreement (FTA) signing on China’s outbound labor services	10
Does new donors' aid affect gross exports and GVC participation differently?	10
Import competition and pollution abatement: Firm-level evidence from China	9
Examining the effect of insurance development on economic complexity: Evidence from Africa	8
CO₂emissions, export and foreign direct investment: Empirical evidence from Middle East and North Africa Region	7
Low-wage competition: pains from trade for medium-wage countries	7
The alternative version of J-curve hypothesis testing: Evidence between the USA and Canada	7
Executive compensation and worker wages during the global trade collapse: Evidence from Japanese firms	7
Do remittances impact on entrepreneurial activities? Evidence from a panel data analysis	7
International trade and institutional quality in West African Economic and Monetary Union countries: A causality analysis	7
Foreign exchange market response to pandemic-induced fear: Evidence from (a)symmetric wild bootstrap likelihood ratio approach	7
Responsiveness of United States – China bilateral commodity trade to real exchange rate misalignment: Does the complexity of traded products matter?	7
Bilateral foreign direct investments: differential effects of tariffs in source and destination countries	7
Asymmetric trade uncertainty-environmental quality nexus: evidence from quantile estimation	7
Do remittances have an asymmetrical effect on financial development? Empirical evidence from Turkey	7
The asymmetric effect of financial development on human capital: Evidence from a nonlinear ARDL approach	7
How significant is trade, macroeconomic management, and economic integration for foreign indebtedness in West African countries?	6
An empirical investigation of capital flight and economic growth nexus in Africa	6
Gravity channels in trade	6
Asymmetric effects of exchange rate on bilateral tourism trade balance: evidence from Turkey	6
Uniform versus discriminatory tariffs in increasing marginal costs and endogenous competition	6
International remittances and trade in sub-Saharan Africa: Does size matter? Evidence from endogenous dynamic panel threshold model	6
Testing the export-led growth hypothesis in Turkey: New evidence from time and frequency domain causality approaches	6
The effects of FDI on economic growth in Africa	6
The impact of financial crises on the relationship between imports, exports, and consumption-based CO2 emissions: Do country income levels matter?	6
Foreign direct investment and income inequality: Does institutional quality matter?	6
The effect of trade on market power — evidence from developing economies	6
Does the import diversity of inputs mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on global value chains?	5
Impacts of deep trade agreements on trade and welfare – An application to China joining the RCEP and CPTPP	5
Logistics input intensity, trade facilitation and comparative advantage	5
Can data flow provisions facilitate trade in goods and services? —Analysis based on the TAPED database	5
Aid for trade and export performance of recipient countries: The moderating role of institutions	5
Adjustments in markups after a Free Trade Agreement: An analysis of Pakistani firms gaining increased access to China	5
The inefficiency of exporting SMEs: Evidence from manufacturing industry	5
Investment treaty reforms to prevent developing country regulatory chill from causing global warming	5
Can the coordinated development of two-way FDI promote carbon emission reduction? Evidence from industrial sectors in China	5
Emigration and tax revenue	5

Factors driving current account performance of South Asian economies: A comparative empirical analysis	5
How the African Continental Free Trade Area impacts firms’ export survival: Some lessons from Kenya	5
The innovation and exports interplay across Africa: Does business environment matter?	5
Agglomeration and its mechanisms on exporting directly	5
Export tax rebates and enterprise export resilience in China	5
Price discrimination in the transport industry and the gains from trade	5
Country-of-origin effects on technology transfer in foreign direct investment	5