OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Review of Economics & Finance is 61. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A comprehensive analysis of the decline in the market-to-book ratio of European banks	510
Impact of low-carbon energy structure transition on rural revitalization	328
Only strong short-term contrarian effect exists in Chinese stock market: The role of the T+1 trading mechanism	307
Effects of shareholder proposals on the market value of Japanese firms	232
Variation in the competition − Efficiency nexus: Evidence from emerging markets	217
An indicator of monetary bias for emerging and partially dollarized economies: The case of Uruguay	188
Why have UK universities become more indebted over time?	168
Debt finance and economic activity in the euro-area: evidence on asymmetric and maturity effects	164
Impacts of population aging on bank loan portfolios: Evidence from China	158
Can the degree of party membership among management enhance corporate innovation performance? The moderating role of technology finance	153
Measuring the productivity of urban commercial banks in China	135
Capital structure and corporate litigation	129
Cybersecurity policy, ESG and operational risk: A Virtuous relationship to improve banks’ performance	124
Local CEOs and environmentally-friendly enterprise behaviour	123
Market-timing performance of mutual fund investors in Emerging Markets	114
Climate change exposure in uncertain times: A text-based approach	112
Forecasting stock volatility using pseudo-out-of-sample information	107
Does intergenerational mobility affect corporate innovation? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises	98
Determinants of the price of bitcoin: An analysis with machine learning and interpretability techniques	94
Risk-premium shocks and the prudent exchange rate policy	94
Debt's shadow: How leverage weighs down investment	92
COVID-19 exposure, financial flexibility, and corporate leverage adjustment	91
Active or passive portfolio: A tracking error analysis under uncertainty theory	89
Can green credit policy increase corporate pollution abatement efforts? Evidence from China	87
Exploring the dynamic linkages between carbon trading market and smart technology indices: A multi-dimensional analysis of China's case	86

The impact of different recommendation algorithms on consumer search behavior and merchants competition	85
The synergistic effects of financial development and industrial structure on urban decarbonization	82
Can the development of agricultural insurance promote the resilience of agricultural economy? The dynamic mechanisms of the digital economy development	81
CEO career experience and insurance innovation in China	81
(Im)perfect Substitutes: Business angels and crowd sourced start-up funding	80
Renaissance of climate policy uncertainty: The effects of U.S. presidential election on energy markets volatility	79
The peer effects of PIPEs	79
Board gender diversity and cost of equity: Evidence from mandatory female board representation	78
Do Peer Narrative Disclosures Support or Disrupt Efficient Investment?	77
Global uncertainty and the spillover of tail risk between green and Islamic markets: A time-frequency domain approach with portfolio implications	76
Do the dynamics of macroeconomic attention drive the yen/dollar exchange market volatility?	75
Dig the treasure nearby: The impact of local supplier preference on trade credit financing	75
Do financing constraints affect the financial integrity of firms?	74
Do China and USA differ in the interrelationship between green bond and ESG markets?	73
Non-linear nexus between economic policy uncertainty and bank lending	73
Does heterogeneous media sentiment matter the ‘green premium’? An empirical evidence from the Chinese bond market	73
Quantile time-frequency spillovers among climate policy uncertainty, energy markets, and stock markets	73
Does environmental regulation affect labor investment Efficiency?Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	72
Behavioral aspects of household portfolio choice: Effects of loss aversion on life insurance uptake and savings	72
Crowding out or crowding in? Reevaluating the effect of government spending on private economic activities	72
Digital finance, capital misallocation and corporate innovation	71
Crime and credit: Analyzing the impact of organized crime perceptions on loan restrictions	71
Media sentiment, financial services, and corporate investment levels	71
How do enterprises deal with environmental protection “fee-to-tax” reform? Evidence from ESG information greenwashing in China	71
Dual-model synergy for audit opinion prediction: A collaborative LLM agent framework approach	70
Impact of government public data openness on agricultural total factor productivity	70
Artificial intelligence policy uncertainty and corporate Greenwashing: Evidence from China	69
Widening income inequality and the decline in fertility intentions: Micro evidence from Chinese households	69
The nonlinear impact of trade policy uncertainty on corporate ESG performance	67
Policy-driven employment structure transformation: The role of innovation and education investment	66
How does corporate diversification affect earnings management? A path analysis approach	66
Exploring the dynamic links, implications for hedging and investment strategies between Sukuk and commodity market volatility: Evidence from country level analysis	65
Regional economic policy uncertainty, implicit government guarantees and bank's risk-taking	65
Dynamic spillover between green cryptocurrencies and stocks: A portfolio implication	62
Extreme dynamic connectedness and hedging strategy across commodity, bond, currency, and stock markets: Evidence from Asian Pacific, Canada, Mexico, and US countries	62
Controlling shareholder expropriation and labor investment efficiency	61