OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Finance Journal is 13. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The diminishing lustre: Gold's market volatility and the fading safe haven effect	250
Profitability and low-risk anomalies reexamined	163
How does foreign economic policy uncertainty affect domestic analyst earnings forecasts?	109
The regulatory environment and financial constraints of private firms in the European Union	71
Fiduciary or loyalty? Evidence from top management counsel and stock liquidity	67
Liquidity spillovers in the global stock markets: Lessons for risk management	66
The digital economy, market integration and environmental gains	64
Watchdogs of greenwashing: The role of long-term institutional cross-ownership	62
Balancing the books: The role of energy-related uncertainty in corporate leverage	59
Public sector unions and municipal debt	58
How do voting powers matter in equity finance? Evidence from chinese private placements	57
Does social capital matter in underwriter's fees?	56
Supply chain contagion effects of negative CSR events: A stock market reaction perspective	55
Under the microscope: Trade initiation activities around earnings and takeover announcements in a market with continuous disclosure	53
Foreword to 2021 New Zealand Finance Meeting	52
The stock market effects of committing and setting GHG targets: evidence from the science-based targets initiative	51
Deferring real options with solar renewable energy certificates	50
Culture and exit mechanisms: International evidence	49
Does bank capital reduce liquidity creation?	48
Data breaches (hacking) and trade credit	47
The impact of reporting changes on hidden liquidity: Evidence from the Chicago stock exchange	47
ESG activities and firm cash flow	46
Weather risk and financial markets: Credit risk, stock returns, and corporate fundamentals	44
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	44
Equity misvaluation and debt markets	42

Research on safe-haven currencies under global uncertainty —A new perception based on the East Asian market	41
Busy board and corporate debt maturity structure	41
The impact of capital on bank profitability during the COVID-19 pandemic	41
Money talks, green walks: Does financial inclusion promote green sustainability in Africa?	38
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	34
Do large-cap exchange-traded funds perform better than their small-cap counterparts in extreme market conditions?	34
Global perspectives on corporate social responsibility, political institutions, and the political economy	34
Information content of the limit order book: A cross-sectional analysis in Borsa Istanbul	33
Tail risk transmission in technology-driven markets	33
Equity market response to natural disasters: Does firm's corporate social responsibility make difference?	33
Impact of Fintech on labor allocation efficiency in firms: Empirical evidence from China	33
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles	33
Climate risk, ESG performance, and ESG sentiment in US commercial banks	32
Risk governance and financial stability: A comparative study of conventional and Islamic banks in the GCC	31
Does asset-based uncertainty drive asymmetric return connectedness across regional ESG markets?	31
Editorial Board	29
Are mutual fund inflow restrictions intended to protect or promote? A profit-driven explanation based on China's mutual funds	29
Editorial Board	28
Corporate social responsibility as a common risk factor	27
The green transition and tech firms' financial performance: Insights from patent data	27
Learning, foreign operations and operating performance	27
Informational linkage and price discovery between China's futures and spot markets: Evidence from the US–China trade dispute	27
Resistance or motivation? Impact of climate risk on corporate greenwashing: An empirical study of Chinese enterprises	26
FinTech entrepreneurial ecosystem in India: Role of incubators and accelerators	26
Climate transition risk in sovereign bond markets	26
Corporate political risk and environmental performance	25
Measuring the risk appetite of bank-controlling shareholders: The Risk-Weighted Ownership index	25
Materiality is in the eye of the beholder: China's enhanced Reg FD and information efficiency	25
Trend following or reversal: Does culture affect predictions and trading behavior?	24
FinTech development and commercial bank efficiency in China	24
Credit market conditions, expected return proxies, and bank stock returns	24
The “night effect” of intraday trading: Evidence from Chinese gold and silver futures markets	24
Do Muslim CEOs and Muslim stakeholders prefer Islamic debt financing?	24
Terror threat and investor sentiment: International evidence	23
Exploring the drivers of investment in Fintech: Board composition and home bias in banking	23
Multinationals and stock return comovement	23
Clusters of social impact firms: A complex network approach	23
Foreign institutional investors and share pledging: Evidence from China's stock market openness reform	22
Financial turbulence, systemic risk and the predictability of stock market volatility	22
Extreme weather, climate risk, and the lead–lag role of carbon	21
Editorial: Special issue on green finance and the post-COVID-19 world	21
Walking quietly: Fiduciary waivers and blockholder exit	21
Economic policy uncertainty and the inhibitory effect of firms' green technology innovation	20
Deep reinforcement learning for portfolio selection	20
Stock returns and income inequality: Asymmetric evidence from state level data in the U.S.	20
Role of digital finance, investment, and trade in technological progress	20
Limits of arbitrage and their impact on market efficiency: Evidence from China	20
ESG rating disagreement and the cost of equity capital	20
Climate change exposure and precautionary financial policy: Cross-country evidence	20

Opportunistic earnings management or performance-related effects? Evidence from dividend-paying firms	19
Property crime and lottery-related anomalies	19
Cross-sector comovements and policy impact in the COVID-19 stock market: A dynamic factor approach	18
Bridging the gap: Uncovering static and dynamic relationships between digital assets and BRICS equity markets	18
Editorial Board	18
Information asymmetry in non-US stocks: The compounding and mitigating effects of tax havens and corruption	18
Political legitimacy and CSR reporting: Evidence from non-SOEs in China	18
Digital technology innovation and corporate resilience	17
Net stable funding ratio: Implication for Bank stability in Europe	17
Sailing through uncertainty: Shipping's role in financial shock transmission and hedging strategies	17
Which market dominates the price discovery in currency futures? The case of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange	16
Editorial Board	16
Bank scandal contagion: Evidence from the Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal	15
Risk implications of dependence in the commodities: A copula-based analysis	15
Extreme connectedness of agri-commodities with stock markets and its determinants	15
Unlocking the black box of sentiment and cryptocurrency: What, which, why, when and how?	15
When ESG news talks: How media sentiment shapes corporate financial behavior in China	15
Internationalization and firm performance	15
Ownership concentration and equity transactions: The ambivalent role of controlling shareholders in firm performance in Latin American contexts	14
Sovereign fiscal capacity, implicit subsidies, and bank value	14
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]	14
Comparing the impact of Chinese and U.S. economic policy uncertainty on the volatility of major global stock markets	14
Intraday impact of macroeconomic and COVID-19 news on Latin American stock indexes	14
Monetary winds of change: Exploring the link between policy shifts and bank profitability in developed and emerging European markets	14
Technological progress and carbon emissions: Evidence from the European Union	14
Business expectations and public policies amid exogenous shocks: The COVID-19 case in Latin America	14
Firm performance & effective mitigation of adverse business scenarios	14
Nonparametric identification of factors for the cross-section of Latin American stock returns	14
Does climate risk influence exchange rates?	14
Capital structure of Islamic banks: How different are they from conventional banks?	13
In search of COVID-19 and stock market behavior	13
Explaining differences in CEO gender diversity across industries: Do personality traits matter?	13
Trading behaviour and market sentiment: Firm-level evidence from an emerging Islamic market	13
The evolution of corporate social responsibility in China: Do political connection and ownership matter?	13
Green bonds: Do investors benefit from third-party certification?	13
Real asset liquidity, cash holdings, and the cost of corporate debt	13
Disaster response: The COVID-19 pandemic and insider trading around the world	13