OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Review of Financial Analysis is 81. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Foundation-controlled firms and CEO compensation	704
Multinational corporations and share pledging of the controlling shareholder	547
CEO war trauma and corporate tax avoidance	495
The power of religion: Islamic investing in the lab	480
Sustainability arbitrage pricing of ESG derivatives	327
Evolutionary game analysis of digital inclusive finance for high-quality development of small and medium-sized enterprises	305
Corrigendum to “Specialization in bank lending and firm deleveraging: Evidence from China” [International Review of Financial Analysis; Volume103 (2025) Start page–End page/Article Number 104188]	265
Exploring the source of the financial performance in Chinese banks: A risk-adjusted decomposition approach	264
Trade debts and bank lending in years of crisis	258
Micro Mechanisms Driving China's Clean Energy Flourish: Business Expansion and Financing	225
Concealment and detection: The influence of management tone on analyst forecast revisions	191
In government-supported academic institutions we trust: Enterprise postdoctoral programmes and stock liquidity	185
Breaking the green investment dilemma of heavily polluting firms: Evidence from carbon market trading through the Lens of signaling and risk sharing	182
Natural disaster experiences and household entrepreneurship: Evidence from China	176
Multiscale risk spillovers among critical mineral markets - insights from conditional and aggregated connectedness approach	174
Does information transmission alleviate the salience bias of fund managers?	164
Stock and sovereign returns linkages: Time-varying causality and extreme-quantile determinants	161
Value effects of sovereign wealth funds' exclusionary policies: The case of the Norwegian government pension fund-global (NGPF-G)	159
Cybersecurity and executive compensation: Can inside debt-induced risk aversion improve cyber risk management effectiveness?	158
Speaking business: A systematic literature review of linguistic structures and financial reporting behavior	158
Empty pledges and powerless conventions: How transition climate risks are disrupting financial markets?	157
University shareholding and corporate innovation: Evidence from China	157
Depositor market discipline: New evidence from selling failed banks	153
Corporate social irresponsibility: The relationship between ESG misconduct and the cost of equity	151
Data governance, investment resilience, and corporate performance enhancement	147

Spillover effect of shadow banking business governance: A perspective on audit pricing decisions	144
Energy commodity spillovers and herding behavior: Evidence from EU ETS-listed firms	144
Supply chain finance digitalization and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from China	143
Digital technology penetration and supply chain resilience improvement: Enterprise innovation strategies in the digital age	141
Impact and moderating mechanism of corporate tax avoidance on firm value from the perspective of corporate governance	139
Can parental financial literacy enhance children's higher education opportunities?	137
Corporate social responsibility and the choice of payment method in mergers and acquisitions	136
Fund trading divergence and performance contribution	135
Risk factors disclosure and corporate philanthropy	134
A conditional higher-moment CAPM	133
Effects of inflation and macroprudential policies on bank risk: Evidence from emerging economies	128
Bank affiliation and mutual funds’ trading strategy distinctiveness	127
Information connectedness of international crude oil futures: Evidence from SC, WTI, and Brent	126
Subsidiary financing choices: The roles of institutional distances from home countries	124
Ambiguity and asset pricing: An empirical investigation for an emerging market	123
Good volatility, bad volatility, and the cross section of cryptocurrency returns	123
The RMB value added real effective exchange rate: Theory, measurement and analysis	120
Chaos, overfitting and equilibrium: To what extent can machine learning beat the financial market?	120
Sequential questioning and structured responses: Enhancing the information effectiveness of corporate site visits	118
Asset redeployability and firm value amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A real options perspective	116
Corporate environmental performance and bond financing cost: A multi-stakeholder signaling perspective	116
Institutional environment and qualified foreign institutional investors' trust in auditing	113
Supply chain financing, digital financial inclusion and enterprise innovation: Evidence from China	113
Sustainability indices nexus: Green economy, ESG, environment and clean energy	112
Information interaction among institutional investors and stock price crash risk based on multiplex networks	112
Risk culture in corporate innovation	112
Digitalization and banks' efficiency: Evidence from a European analysis	111
Climate risk and bank liquidity creation: International evidence	110
2024 U.S. presidential elections: An event study for U.S. and non-U.S. fossil fuel and renewable listed firms	110
Attention to biodiversity and stock returns	104
How active is your (nominally) actively managed quantitative fund?	101
Challenges to corporate supply chain stability under the trend of expert power concentration	99
Strategy choices in strategic risk-taking: Does climate risk matter?	99
Predicting equity premium out-of-sample by conditioning on newspaper-based uncertainty measures: A comparative study	98
Does the connectedness among fossil energy returns matter for renewable energy stock returns? Fresh insights from the Cross-Quantilogram analysis	97
Uncertainty and cryptocurrency returns: A lesson from turbulent times	97
Government open data and corporate supply chain concentration	96
Does corporate culture impact tax shelter? A machine learning approach	95
Can digital inclusive finance narrow the internal and external wage gaps in enterprises?	92
Greening the future: How green manufacturing shapes corporate environmental and ESG success	92
The effects of overnight events on daytime trading sessions	91
Does geopolitical risk affect firms' idiosyncratic volatility? Evidence from China	91
Tax incentives, supply chain spillovers, and enterprise technological innovation	90
Should Basel-style liquidity requirements be set countercyclically? Evidence from a numerical analysis	90
Retailers' risk attitudes and the value of cooperation in supply chain finance under investment-loan linkage financing	89
Does investor attitude toward carbon neutrality affect stock returns in China?	89
Transforming banking: Examining the role of AI technology innovation in boosting banks financial performance	88
Financial flexibility, firm performance, and financial distress: A comparative study of China and the U.S. during pandemics	88
Which is more important in stock market forecasting: Attention or sentiment?	86
Retracted: Towards sustainable development: How does ESG performance promotes corporate green transformation	85

Heterogeneous impacts of climate change news on China's financial markets	85
Dynamic spillovers between leading cryptocurrencies and derivatives tokens: Insights from a quantile VAR approach	85
Do central bankers' characteristics matter for Africa? Ethnic favoritism, fractionalization, and inflation	82
Benefits and costs: The impact of capital control on growth-at-risk in China	81
Serving the truth: Do directors with media background improve financial reporting quality?	81
Loan amendments and capital structure	81
Bank loan renegotiation and financial institutions' network	81