OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Finance Journal is 11. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Balancing the books: The role of energy-related uncertainty in corporate leverage	348
The diminishing lustre: Gold's market volatility and the fading safe haven effect	205
Editorial Board	119
The regulatory environment and financial constraints of private firms in the European Union	118
Liquidity spillovers in the global stock markets: Lessons for risk management	110
The digital economy, market integration and environmental gains	85
How does foreign economic policy uncertainty affect domestic analyst earnings forecasts?	75
Profitability and low-risk anomalies reexamined	72
Do Sukuk provide diversification benefits to conventional bond investors? Evidence from Turkey	68
Fiduciary or loyalty? Evidence from top management counsel and stock liquidity	55
Watchdogs of greenwashing: The role of long-term institutional cross-ownership	55
Public sector unions and municipal debt	52
Under the microscope: Trade initiation activities around earnings and takeover announcements in a market with continuous disclosure	48
Foreword to 2021 New Zealand Finance Meeting	48
The stock market effects of committing and setting GHG targets: evidence from the science-based targets initiative	48
Culture and exit mechanisms: International evidence	46
How do voting powers matter in equity finance? Evidence from chinese private placements	44
Deferring real options with solar renewable energy certificates	43
Supply chain contagion effects of negative CSR events: A stock market reaction perspective	43
Does bank capital reduce liquidity creation?	43
Does news related to digital economy and central bank digital currency affect digital economy ETFs? Evidence from TVP-VAR connectedness and wavelet local multiple correlation analyses	43
Does social capital matter in underwriter's fees?	43
Data breaches (hacking) and trade credit	42
The impact of reporting changes on hidden liquidity: Evidence from the Chicago stock exchange	41
Asset securitizations and bank stability: Evidence from different banking systems	41

Equity misvaluation and debt markets	40
ESG activities and firm cash flow	40
Money talks, green walks: Does financial inclusion promote green sustainability in Africa?	39
The impact of capital on bank profitability during the COVID-19 pandemic	38
Global perspectives on corporate social responsibility, political institutions, and the political economy	36
Greasing the wheels of irreversible investment: International evidence on the economic effects of corruption	35
Stabilizing global foreign exchange markets in the time of COVID-19: The role of vaccinations	34
Tail risk transmission in technology-driven markets	34
Busy board and corporate debt maturity structure	32
Green property finance and CO2 emissions in the building industry	31
Do large-cap exchange-traded funds perform better than their small-cap counterparts in extreme market conditions?	31
Impact of Fintech on labor allocation efficiency in firms: Empirical evidence from China	31
Tokenization of sukuk: Ethereum case study	28
Research on safe-haven currencies under global uncertainty —A new perception based on the East Asian market	27
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles	27
Price sensitivity of the consumer-investor: Evidence from energy prices and mutual fund fees	27
Equity market response to natural disasters: Does firm's corporate social responsibility make difference?	26
Information content of the limit order book: A cross-sectional analysis in Borsa Istanbul	26
Climate risk, ESG performance, and ESG sentiment in US commercial banks	25
Dynamic spillover effects among green bond, renewable energy stocks and carbon markets during COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for hedging and investments strategies	25
Risk governance and financial stability: A comparative study of conventional and Islamic banks in the GCC	25
Does asset-based uncertainty drive asymmetric return connectedness across regional ESG markets?	24
Editorial Board	24
Learning, foreign operations and operating performance	23
Corporate social responsibility as a common risk factor	23
Editorial Board	23
Informational linkage and price discovery between China's futures and spot markets: Evidence from the US–China trade dispute	23
The green transition and tech firms' financial performance: Insights from patent data	22
FinTech entrepreneurial ecosystem in India: Role of incubators and accelerators	21
Firm valuations and board compensation: Evidence from alternative banking models	21
Corporate political risk and environmental performance	21
Climate transition risk in sovereign bond markets	20
Resistance or motivation? Impact of climate risk on corporate greenwashing: An empirical study of Chinese enterprises	20
Clusters of social impact firms: A complex network approach	20
Editorial Board	20
Financial turbulence, systemic risk and the predictability of stock market volatility	20
Measuring the risk appetite of bank-controlling shareholders: The Risk-Weighted Ownership index	19
The “night effect” of intraday trading: Evidence from Chinese gold and silver futures markets	19
Credit market conditions, expected return proxies, and bank stock returns	18
CSR in the bond market: Pricing stakeholders and the moderating role of the institutional context	18
Foreign institutional investors and share pledging: Evidence from China's stock market openness reform	18
Trend following or reversal: Does culture affect predictions and trading behavior?	18
Multinationals and stock return comovement	18
Terror threat and investor sentiment: International evidence	18
Do Muslim CEOs and Muslim stakeholders prefer Islamic debt financing?	17
Exploring the drivers of investment in Fintech: Board composition and home bias in banking	17
Extreme weather, climate risk, and the lead–lag role of carbon	17
Property crime and lottery-related anomalies	16
Net stable funding ratio: Implication for Bank stability in Europe	16
Stock returns and income inequality: Asymmetric evidence from state level data in the U.S.	16

Editorial: Special issue on green finance and the post-COVID-19 world	16
Information asymmetry in non-US stocks: The compounding and mitigating effects of tax havens and corruption	16
Editorial Board	16
Opportunistic earnings management or performance-related effects? Evidence from dividend-paying firms	16
FinTech development and commercial bank efficiency in China	16
ESG rating disagreement and the cost of equity capital	15
Deep reinforcement learning for portfolio selection	15
Cross-sector comovements and policy impact in the COVID-19 stock market: A dynamic factor approach	15
Bridging the gap: Uncovering static and dynamic relationships between digital assets and BRICS equity markets	15
Digital technology innovation and corporate resilience	15
Limits of arbitrage and their impact on market efficiency: Evidence from China	14
Political legitimacy and CSR reporting: Evidence from non-SOEs in China	14
Spreading the fear: The central role of CBOE VIX in global stock market uncertainty	14
Sailing through uncertainty: Shipping's role in financial shock transmission and hedging strategies	14
Bank scandal contagion: Evidence from the Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal	14
The impact of news on the volatility of ESG firms	14
Economic policy uncertainty and the inhibitory effect of firms' green technology innovation	14
Role of digital finance, investment, and trade in technological progress	14
When ESG news talks: How media sentiment shapes corporate financial behavior in China	13
Risk implications of dependence in the commodities: A copula-based analysis	13
State contingent banking and asset price bubbles: The case of Islamic banking industry	13
Which market dominates the price discovery in currency futures? The case of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange	13
Monetary winds of change: Exploring the link between policy shifts and bank profitability in developed and emerging European markets	13
In search of COVID-19 and stock market behavior	12
Corrigendum to “Private placement, share prices, volume and financial crisis: An emerging market study” [Global Finance Journal Volume 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 203–221]	12
Extreme connectedness of agri-commodities with stock markets and its determinants	12
Intraday impact of macroeconomic and COVID-19 news on Latin American stock indexes	12
Internationalization and firm performance	12
Real asset liquidity, cash holdings, and the cost of corporate debt	12
Business expectations and public policies amid exogenous shocks: The COVID-19 case in Latin America	12
Firm performance & effective mitigation of adverse business scenarios	12
Unlocking the black box of sentiment and cryptocurrency: What, which, why, when and how?	12
Trading behaviour and market sentiment: Firm-level evidence from an emerging Islamic market	12
Technical efficiency of Islamic and conventional banks with undesirable output: Evidence from a stochastic meta-frontier directional distance function	11
Ownership concentration and equity transactions: The ambivalent role of controlling shareholders in firm performance in Latin American contexts	11
Dynamics of mining markets: Equilibrium implications for professional and casual miners	11
Technological progress and carbon emissions: Evidence from the European Union	11
Capital structure of Islamic banks: How different are they from conventional banks?	11
Comparing the impact of Chinese and U.S. economic policy uncertainty on the volatility of major global stock markets	11
Green bonds: Do investors benefit from third-party certification?	11