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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Balancing the books: The role of energy-related uncertainty in corporate leverage	308
Editorial Board	185
Foreign bank lending in the U.S. during three U.S. recessions	167
The regulatory environment and financial constraints of private firms in the European Union	114
Liquidity spillovers in the global stock markets: Lessons for risk management	112
Fiduciary or loyalty? Evidence from top management counsel and stock liquidity	94
Do Sukuk provide diversification benefits to conventional bond investors? Evidence from Turkey	82
The digital economy, market integration and environmental gains	74
Profitability and low-risk anomalies reexamined	65
How does foreign economic policy uncertainty affect domestic analyst earnings forecasts?	61
Supply chain contagion effects of negative CSR events: A stock market reaction perspective	59
Does social capital matter in underwriter's fees?	58
Under the microscope: Trade initiation activities around earnings and takeover announcements in a market with continuous disclosure	52
Public sector unions and municipal debt	51
Deferring real options with solar renewable energy certificates	50
Macroeconomic news and treasury futures return volatility: Do treasury auctions matter?	50
Heterogeneity in the information content of 8-K disclosures about private targets: Acquirer size and target significance	47
Foreword to 2021 New Zealand Finance Meeting	43
Culture and exit mechanisms: International evidence	42
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	41
Does bank capital reduce liquidity creation?	41
ESG activities and firm cash flow	40
The impact of reporting changes on hidden liquidity: Evidence from the Chicago stock exchange	39
Data breaches (hacking) and trade credit	39
Asset securitizations and bank stability: Evidence from different banking systems	37

Greasing the wheels of irreversible investment: International evidence on the economic effects of corruption	36
Stabilizing global foreign exchange markets in the time of COVID-19: The role of vaccinations	36
Busy board and corporate debt maturity structure	35
Research on safe-haven currencies under global uncertainty —A new perception based on the East Asian market	35
Equity misvaluation and debt markets	34
The impact of capital on bank profitability during the COVID-19 pandemic	33
Money talks, green walks: Does financial inclusion promote green sustainability in Africa?	33
Tail risk transmission in technology-driven markets	32
Corporate governance and dynamics capital structure: evidence from Vietnam	30
Tokenization of sukuk: Ethereum case study	30
Green property finance and CO2 emissions in the building industry	29
Global perspectives on corporate social responsibility, political institutions, and the political economy	29
Do large-cap exchange-traded funds perform better than their small-cap counterparts in extreme market conditions?	29
Impact of Fintech on labor allocation efficiency in firms: Empirical evidence from China	27
Information content of the limit order book: A cross-sectional analysis in Borsa Istanbul	26
Price sensitivity of the consumer-investor: Evidence from energy prices and mutual fund fees	25
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles	24
Risk governance and financial stability: A comparative study of conventional and Islamic banks in the GCC	24
Equity market response to natural disasters: Does firm's corporate social responsibility make difference?	24
Does asset-based uncertainty drive asymmetric return connectedness across regional ESG markets?	23
Dynamic spillover effects among green bond, renewable energy stocks and carbon markets during COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for hedging and investments strategies	23
Climate risk, ESG performance, and ESG sentiment in US commercial banks	23
Corporate political risk and environmental performance	21
Editorial Board	21
Firm valuations and board compensation: Evidence from alternative banking models	20
Corporate social responsibility as a common risk factor	20
Resistance or motivation? Impact of climate risk on corporate greenwashing: An empirical study of Chinese enterprises	20
Editorial Board	20
Climate transition risk in sovereign bond markets	20
Informational linkage and price discovery between China's futures and spot markets: Evidence from the US–China trade dispute	20
Learning, foreign operations and operating performance	20
FinTech entrepreneurial ecosystem in India: Role of incubators and accelerators	20
Terror threat and investor sentiment: International evidence	19
Free trade and the efficiency of financial markets	19
The green transition and tech firms' financial performance: Insights from patent data	19
Multinationals and stock return comovement	19
Editorial Board	18
Extreme weather, climate risk, and the lead–lag role of carbon	18
Exploring the drivers of investment in Fintech: Board composition and home bias in banking	18
Does the location of directors' additional positions matter? A new dimension of board structure	17
Trend following or reversal: Does culture affect predictions and trading behavior?	17
Clusters of social impact firms: A complex network approach	17
Do Muslim CEOs and Muslim stakeholders prefer Islamic debt financing?	16
Measuring the risk appetite of bank-controlling shareholders: The Risk-Weighted Ownership index	16
CSR in the bond market: Pricing stakeholders and the moderating role of the institutional context	16
Credit market conditions, expected return proxies, and bank stock returns	16
FinTech development and commercial bank efficiency in China	16
The “night effect” of intraday trading: Evidence from Chinese gold and silver futures markets	16
Editorial: Special issue on green finance and the post-COVID-19 world	15
Editorial Board	15

CEO and CFO equity compensation and dividend payout over the firm lifecycle	15
Stock returns and income inequality: Asymmetric evidence from state level data in the U.S.	15
Financial turbulence, systemic risk and the predictability of stock market volatility	15
Cross-sector comovements and policy impact in the COVID-19 stock market: A dynamic factor approach	15
Political legitimacy and CSR reporting: Evidence from non-SOEs in China	15
Can technical trading beat the foreign exchange market in times of crisis?	14
Limits of arbitrage and their impact on market efficiency: Evidence from China	14
Information asymmetry in non-US stocks: The compounding and mitigating effects of tax havens and corruption	14
Property crime and lottery-related anomalies	14
Deep reinforcement learning for portfolio selection	14
Bridging the gap: Uncovering static and dynamic relationships between digital assets and BRICS equity markets	13
The impact of news on the volatility of ESG firms	12
Spreading the fear: The central role of CBOE VIX in global stock market uncertainty	12
Extreme connectedness of agri-commodities with stock markets and its determinants	12
Which market dominates the price discovery in currency futures? The case of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange	12
A time–frequency comovement and causality relationship between Bitcoin hashrate and energy commodity markets	12
Opportunistic earnings management or performance-related effects? Evidence from dividend-paying firms	12
State contingent banking and asset price bubbles: The case of Islamic banking industry	12
Economic policy uncertainty and the inhibitory effect of firms' green technology innovation	12
Role of digital finance, investment, and trade in technological progress	12
Digital technology innovation and corporate resilience	12
Bank scandal contagion: Evidence from the Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal	12
Unlocking the black box of sentiment and cryptocurrency: What, which, why, when and how?	11
Short selling patterns in cross-listed stocks	11
Are hedge fund managers skilled?	11
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]	11
Risk implications of dependence in the commodities: A copula-based analysis	11
Internationalization and firm performance	11
Technical efficiency of Islamic and conventional banks with undesirable output: Evidence from a stochastic meta-frontier directional distance function	11
High-speed railway opening and urban green productivity in the post-COVID-19: Evidence from green finance	11
Monetary winds of change: Exploring the link between policy shifts and bank profitability in developed and emerging European markets	11
Real asset liquidity, cash holdings, and the cost of corporate debt	11
Capital structure of Islamic banks: How different are they from conventional banks?	11