OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Trade & Economic Development is 7. 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
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
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
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
The impact of informality on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of institutional quality	13
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 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
Import competition and pollution abatement: Firm-level evidence from China	11
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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