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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The China trade shock and the European Union's employment	54
Acquiring innovation – Do Chinese acquisitions in developed countries spur innovation at home?	36
Welfare effects of introducing quality certification system for developing countries: Evidence from the Chinese experience*	32
The causality relationship between income inequality, debt, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries ¹	30
Firm-level capabilities and response to a negative export shock: 2014 Russian embargo on the West	29
Does trade openness affect migrants' marriage? Evidence from China	28
Does financial development foster economic globalization in emerging economies? Time series evidence from China and India	20
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
Does economic complexity influence the efficacy of foreign direct investment? An empirical inquiry	19
Local demand and firms’ upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from China	19
What robustly determines FDI in emerging markets and developing countries? A sensitivity analysis	18
Uncovering the dynamic relationship between oil prices and external trade in OECD countries	17
Terrorist attacks, security concerns, and GVC positions – an empirical cross-country study based on industry heterogeneity	16
Energy imports as inhibitor of economic growth: The role of impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption	14
Best paper 2021	14
Impact of trade on industry-level output	14
Have the PFTZs narrowed the regional economic gap? – Verification based on difference in differences method	14
The impact of special economic zones on structural change	13
The effect of cultural exports on inbound tourism: An empirical analysis of Türkiye	13
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
Exchange rate volatility and Turkey-Germany bilateral trade: An asymmetry analysis	11
Exports of intermediate goods and innovation: Evidence from China’s firms	11
Heterogeneous Impacts of COVID-19 on trade: Evidence from China’s province-level data	11

Assessing the impact of free trade agreement (FTA) signing on China’s outbound labor services	10
Exchange rate movements and trade balance in developing economies: Evidence of symmetry and country-specific asymmetries	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	10
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
The asymmetric effect of financial development on human capital: Evidence from a nonlinear ARDL approach	9
Asymmetric trade uncertainty-environmental quality nexus: evidence from quantile estimation	8
The effects of FDI on economic growth in Africa	8
Low-wage competition: pains from trade for medium-wage countries	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
The alternative version of J-curve hypothesis testing: Evidence between the USA and Canada	8
Responsiveness of United States – China bilateral commodity trade to real exchange rate misalignment: Does the complexity of traded products matter?	8
Do remittances have an asymmetrical effect on financial development? Empirical evidence from Turkey	8
Asymmetric effects of exchange rate on bilateral tourism trade balance: evidence from Turkey	8
Executive compensation and worker wages during the global trade collapse: Evidence from Japanese firms	7
Testing the export-led growth hypothesis in Turkey: New evidence from time and frequency domain causality approaches	7
An empirical investigation of capital flight and economic growth nexus in Africa	7
Gravity channels in trade	7
How significant is trade, macroeconomic management, and economic integration for foreign indebtedness in West African countries?	7
Uniform versus discriminatory tariffs in increasing marginal costs and endogenous competition	7
Emigration and tax revenue	7
International trade and institutional quality in West African Economic and Monetary Union countries: A causality analysis	7
The impact of financial crises on the relationship between imports, exports, and consumption-based CO2 emissions: Do country income levels matter?	7
International remittances and trade in sub-Saharan Africa: Does size matter? Evidence from endogenous dynamic panel threshold model	7
Can the coordinated development of two-way FDI promote carbon emission reduction? Evidence from industrial sectors in China	7
The innovation and exports interplay across Africa: Does business environment matter?	6
Does merchant guild culture boost corporate outward foreign direct investment? An institutional support perspective	6
The inefficiency of exporting SMEs: Evidence from manufacturing industry	6
Adjustments in markups after a Free Trade Agreement: An analysis of Pakistani firms gaining increased access to China	6
Price discrimination in the transport industry and the gains from trade	6
Logistics input intensity, trade facilitation and comparative advantage	6
Impacts of deep trade agreements on trade and welfare – An application to China joining the RCEP and CPTPP	6
Country-of-origin effects on technology transfer in foreign direct investment	6
Investment treaty reforms to prevent developing country regulatory chill from causing global warming	6
Can data flow provisions facilitate trade in goods and services? —Analysis based on the TAPED database	6
Agglomeration and its mechanisms on exporting directly	6
Artificial intelligence and export green sophistication	6
Factors driving current account performance of South Asian economies: A comparative empirical analysis	6
Aid for trade and export performance of recipient countries: The moderating role of institutions	6
Export tax rebates and enterprise export resilience in China	6
The effect of trade on market power — evidence from developing economies	6
The effects of R&D subsidies for joint R&D in a vertically related industry	6
Do international tourism arrivals, infrastructural development, and trade openness promote economic complexity in Africa?	5
Job prospects and labour mobility in China	5
How the African Continental Free Trade Area impacts firms’ export survival: Some lessons from Kenya	5
The impact of FTAs on export duration: Evidence from China’s agricultural firms	5
Best paper 2023	5
On the environmental effects of development and non-development expenditure in India: Evidence from an asymmetric ARDL model	5
Effects of capital flow restrictions: Evidence of welfare improvement	5

Influence of overseas ethnic Chinese networks on China’s outward foreign direct investment	5
Does GVC participation help industrial upgrading in developing countries? New evidence from panel data analysis	5
The role of external shocks in driving macroeconomic fluctuations of emerging economies	5
An analysis on the relationship between ICT, financial development and economic growth: Evidence from Asian developing countries	5
Structural change and export diversification: A comparison of CARICOM’s position	5
Asymmetric impact of multifarious exchange rate shocks on stock prices: Fresh insights from multiple thresholds nonlinear autoregressive distributed-lag approach	5
Export servitization of Chinese cities and individuals’ marriage and childbearing performance	5
Cleaner production regulation and firms’ ratio of domestic value added in exports: evidence from China’s cleaner production standards	5
The influence of key economic globalization factors on economic growth and environmental quality: An empirical study in Southeast Asian countries	5
Trade openness and green technology: The extent of trade openness and environmental policy matter	5
Do countries’ interdependence, asymmetry, and policy variances matter in the remittance-poverty causal nexus?	5
How far India has succeeded in harnessing its export potential in rice? Evidence Using Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model	5