OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Asian Economics is 6. 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
Editorial Board	72
The employment effects of regional market integration: Evidence from China	67
The long-run effect of light manufacturing expansion on human capital: Evidence from South Korea	61
Spread of E-commerce, prices and inflation dynamics: Evidence from online price big data in Korea	50
Carbon capture and storage investment strategy towards the dual carbon goals	48
Trust and contracting with foreign banks: Evidence from China	47
Impact of the Internet on the exports in ocean-based manufacturing: Firm-level evidence from China	47
Tracing the regional dual value chains: Measurement on the production position and evidence from China	44
The impact of monetary and fiscal stimulus on stock returns during the COVID-19 Pandemic	40
Dynamic impact of shadow economy and corruption on environmental sustainability: What role renewable energy consumption play in case of South Asian Economies	39
Exploring the influence of extreme heat on corporate energy efficiency	39
Policy intervention and stock market stability risks: Evidence from carbon emission trading policy on energy firms in China	38
China's urban digital patent scale and patent knowledge breadth: Spatial-temporal evolution characteristics and influencing factors	37
International spillovers of U.S. monetary uncertainty and equity market volatility to China’s stock markets	36
The aging tax on potential growth in Asia	36
Estimating the effects of regional value chains of the RCEP in a GVC-CGE model	33
Individual preferences toward inward foreign direct investment: A survey experiment	29
Inflation targeting and monetary policy response in India	29
Debt maturity and firms’ environmental behavior: Evidence from the establishment of city commercial banks in China	28
How exporting moderates the impact of COVID-19 on real earnings management in Korea	28
The impact of artificial intelligence on labor market: A study based on bibliometric analysis	28
Do export tax rebates promote firm upgrading? Evidences from labor-intensive firms in China	27
The impact of robot adoption on firm’s OFDI: Evidence from China	27
A primer on a closed-loop system for international settlements in emerging market economies	27
Economic and environmental outcomes of economic transition: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China	26

Time use among urban women in China at different income levels	26
Climate policy uncertainty, environmental risk aversion, and import structure adjustment	25
The evaluation of economic impact of the Basel Convention on the trade of waste electrical and electronic equipment	24
Does Fintech benefit financial disintermediation? Evidence based on provinces in China from 2013 to 2018	23
How does teaching pedagogy affect students’ non-cognitive skills	23
Effects of urban-rural medical insurance integration on health: Evidence from rural China	23
A wise investment by urban governments: Evidence from intelligent sports facilities	22
Thirty years of indian economic research: A bibliometric analysis of its evolution and global influence	22
Possible development path for agricultural economic and trade cooperation in FTAAP: A numerical simulation	21
How digital technology can improve new quality productive forces? ——Perspective of total factor agricultural carbon productivity	21
The dual effects of digitization: An enterprise perspective	20
The cancellation risk of China's life insurance industry and its impact on the market	20
Internet exposure during adolescence and age at first marriage	20
Impact of global liquidity on Indian financial markets and monetary policy outcomes: An ARDL approach	18
Central-local environmental policy consistency, streamlining and delegation reform, and urban entrepreneurial executive density	18
Economic policy uncertainty, individual job hopping, and job match	18
Enterprises’ bargaining power, supervision by public opinion, and environmental regulations: Evidence from the pollutant discharge permit system of China	17
Determinants of international students’ decision to remain in Japan to work after graduation	17
A study on the impact of Regional Trade Agreement digital trade rules on global innovation network	17
Sovereign debt risk, government ESG, and bank stock performance	17
How does digital environmental supervision affect corporate economic efficiency? Company-level evidence from China	16
The impact of cross-border capital flows macro-prudential management policy on bank credit	16
How artificial intelligence affects international industrial transfer — Evidence from industrial robot application	16
Do financial markets react to emerging economies’ asset purchase program? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic period	16
The role of family support in the well-being of older people: Evidence from Malaysia and Viet Nam	16
How is remittance related to prices and output? New evidence from Fiji’s data	16
The clan imprint within gender wage gap: Evidence from China	15
Are social norms an obstacle to honest behavior? Theory and experimental evidence	15
The impact of digitization in manufacturing on female employment and gender wage gap	15
The Belt and Road Initiative and China's diversifying food imports: A perspective on the "Five-pronged approach"	15
The link between fiscal decentralization and poverty – Evidence from Indonesia	14
Does Nepal’s inflation converge with India’s inflation?	14
Editorial Board	14
Seeking gains but incurring losses: A study on the employment effect of zombie firms in China	13
Impact of city size on self-employment behavior: Evidence from Chinese migrants	13
Environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements and export product quality of Chinese firms	13
Oil price pass-through to inflation in emerging Asia	13
Peer effect of fund trading and the risk of individual stock	13
AI-driven unemployment risk and household financial decision: Evidence from China	13
Can crop insurance help optimize farmers’ decisions on pesticides use? Evidence from family farms in East China	13
Economic development of land-border regions under ASEAN economic integration	13
Ordinary exports or processing exports? The role of industrial robots on the choice of export modes	13
Rising housing rents and migrants' marriage formation: Evidence from China	13
Guarantee networks and financial resource allocation: Firm-level evidence from China	13
Editorial	12
Editorial Board	12
Industry salary gap incentive and enterprise innovation	12
Does air pollution influence music sentiment? Measuring music sentiment by machine learning	12
Editorial Board	12
The motherhood penalty in employment: Evidence from UK Asian mothers during the pandemic	12

Fostering non-cognitive skills and academic performance: Experimental evidence from women’s-only colleges in Pakistan	12
Measuring performance: Ranking state success over two decades in India	12
How does fiscal policy affect green innovation development? Evidence from 30 provinces in China	12
Investment growth target and the composition of government expenditure: Theory and evidence from China	12
Editorial Board	11
Institutional governance and energy security: Unveiling the drivers of global value chain participation in Asian economies	11
The impact of financial development on the income and consumption levels of China’s rural residents	11
Rules of origin and exports in developing economies: The case of garment products	11
Electricity price cross-subsidies and enterprises’ green total factor productivity: Empirical evidence from Chinese industrial listed enterprises	11
Land titling: Promoting internal migration in China?	11
Human capital of grassroots leaders and vulnerability to poverty: Evidence from rural China	11
Investigating the influence of parents' work hours on children's human capital formation: An empirical study of Chinese families	11
The Commuter’s dividend: Dockless bike sharing and wage premium in urban labor market	10
Can export trade drive green transformation development of Chinese enterprises? based on the dual perspectives of export density and export domestic value-added rate	10
Local government consumption and firm performance: Evidence from the "TPCs" in China	10
Fertility and female mental health	10
Shadow banking activities of non-financial companies and the information content of stock prices	10
Shutting down or helping to transform? Green fiscal policy, fiscal decentralisation and investment efficiency of heavily polluting companies—A capacity utilisation-based perspective	10
Food inflation and monetary policy in emerging economies	10
Gender imbalance, wife’s bargain power and shrinking household size in Rural China	10
Editorial Board	9
China's labor market demand in the shadow of COVID-19: Evidence from an online job board	9
The information externality of public firms’ employment in the municipal corporate bond market in China	9
Tax incentive and corporate financial performance: Evidence from income tax revenue sharing reform in China	9
Constraints and incentives: Promoting air pollution governance through performance evaluation system	9
Institutional quality and macrofinancial resilience in Asia	9
Determinants and impacts of rural crime victimization: Evidence from a case study in Southeast Asia	9
Off-farm employment, farmland transfer and agricultural investment behavior: A study of joint decision-making among North China Plain farmers	9
Parenting styles across generations and children’s social-emotional development: The mediating role of caregivers’ mental health	9
Editorial Board	8
International comparison of the impact of digital transformation on employment	8
Measuring the onshore and offshore RMB markets: A test for CNY, CNH and CNT	8
Family background and intergenerational mobility in a transition economy: Evidence from China	8
Wage differentials between local and foreign workers in Macao: Discrimination?	8
Foreign trade and innovation sustainability: Evidence from China	8
Intelligent manufacturing and corporate human capital upgrade in China	8
Editorial Board	8
Optimizing public expenditure for knowledge-based growth: Evidence from provincial data in Vietnam	8
Trends and drivers of income inequality in the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam since the early 2000s: A decomposition analysis	8
Learning to be an entrepreneur in cities	8
The haze reduction effect in china under the digital economy	8
Returning the favor: Official consumption and government–company reciprocity	8
The effectiveness of financial industry in promoting the high-quality development of energy industry	8
Data policy restrictions and cross-border E-commerce: Evidence from China	8
The role of education in career inheritance in China	7
The effects of inflation targeting on price stability: The case of South Korea	7
Oil price uncertainty and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese bond market	7
Is the transition to electric vehicles a crisis or an opportunity? The South Korean automotive industry experience	7
The aggregate gains of eliminating gender and ethnic gaps in the Malaysian labor market	7
Impact of high-speed rail on the mismatch of labor and industry allocations: Evidence from Chinese cities in 2000-2019	7
How to guide venture capital to startups? Evidence from China's Science and Technology Innovation Board	7
The hidden benefit of environmental regulation: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China	7
The impact of regional trade agreements on the quality of export products in China’s manufacturing industry	7
Medium and long-term impact of SARS on total factor productivity（TFP): Empirical evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises	7
Demonetisation and labour force participation in India: The impact of governance and political alignment	7
Parenthood and the gender wage gap in urban China	6
Housing cycle and firm investment: International firm-level evidence	6
Transmission of external shocks and regional heterogeneity: Evidence from Korean province-level data	6
Understanding the role of trade agreements in Indonesia’s FDI	6
Political turnover and firm innovation in China: The moderating role of innovation and entrepreneurship environment	6
Agglomeration and resilience: Impact of Covid-19 on clustered and non-clustered SMEs in Bangladesh	6
Innovation strategies and productivity growth in developing countries: Firm-level evidence from Pakistani manufacturers	6
Labor protection and firms’ risk-taking behavior: evidence from China’s New Labor Contract Law	6
Does ease of doing business promote renewable energy development? Evidence from 162 economies	6
Crude oil price shocks and idiosyncratic risk: Implications for business groups	6
The opposite innovation impacts of air and water pollution regulations: Evidence from the total emissions control policy in China	6
Innovation on wings: The impact of air route opening on cross-city collaborative innovation	6
Can broadband infrastructure construction promote equality of opportunity? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	6
Why boys tend to engage in bullying behavior more frequently than girls? Evidence from China	6
Market access and educational inequality in China	6
Rules of Origin, Import of Inputs and Firm Innovation	6
Financing constraints and the export partnerships with RCEP: Evidence from manufacturing firms in China	6
The Impact of COVID-19 on Chinese trade and production: An empirical analysis of processing trade with Japan and the US	6
Firm-level Utilization Rates of Regional Trade Agreements: Importers’ Perspective	6
Leaders’ capabilities and organizational efficiency: Evidence from the national taxation bureaucracy in China	6
Can digital economy narrow the regional economic gap? Evidence from China	6