OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Review of Economics & Finance is 60. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 exposure, financial flexibility, and corporate leverage adjustment	465
Does intergenerational mobility affect corporate innovation? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises	290
Board independence and PIPE offerings	265
Impacts of population aging on bank loan portfolios: Evidence from China	260
Trade facilitation and firms exports: Evidence from customs data	227
The peer effects of PIPEs	224
Board gender diversity and cost of equity: Evidence from mandatory female board representation	196
Can rural health insurance coverage improve educational attainment? Evidence from new cooperative medical scheme in China	159
Local CEOs and environmentally-friendly enterprise behaviour	155
Capital structure and corporate litigation	144
Can the degree of party membership among management enhance corporate innovation performance? The moderating role of technology finance	138
Effects of shareholder proposals on the market value of Japanese firms	137
Dig the treasure nearby: The impact of local supplier preference on trade credit financing	114
Forecasting stock volatility using pseudo-out-of-sample information	108
Only strong short-term contrarian effect exists in Chinese stock market: The role of the T+1 trading mechanism	102
Does heterogeneous media sentiment matter the ‘green premium’? An empirical evidence from the Chinese bond market	101
Does environmental regulation affect labor investment Efficiency?Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	100
Determinants of the price of bitcoin: An analysis with machine learning and interpretability techniques	99
Controlling shareholder expropriation and labor investment efficiency	96
Debt finance and economic activity in the euro-area: evidence on asymmetric and maturity effects	94
Behavioral aspects of household portfolio choice: Effects of loss aversion on life insurance uptake and savings	93
Variation in the competition − Efficiency nexus: Evidence from emerging markets	88
Measuring the productivity of urban commercial banks in China	84
Active or passive portfolio: A tracking error analysis under uncertainty theory	82
Why have UK universities become more indebted over time?	79

Cybersecurity policy, ESG and operational risk: A Virtuous relationship to improve banks’ performance	78
Can green credit policy increase corporate pollution abatement efforts? Evidence from China	76
Climate change exposure in uncertain times: A text-based approach	75
An indicator of monetary bias for emerging and partially dollarized economies: The case of Uruguay	74
Renaissance of climate policy uncertainty: The effects of U.S. presidential election on energy markets volatility	74
Impact of low-carbon energy structure transition on rural revitalization	73
Regional economic policy uncertainty, implicit government guarantees and bank's risk-taking	73
A comprehensive analysis of the decline in the market-to-book ratio of European banks	71
Exploring the dynamic linkages between carbon trading market and smart technology indices: A multi-dimensional analysis of China's case	71
Do financing constraints affect the financial integrity of firms?	71
Non-linear nexus between economic policy uncertainty and bank lending	70
How does corporate diversification affect earnings management? A path analysis approach	69
Risk-premium shocks and the prudent exchange rate policy	69
The impact of different recommendation algorithms on consumer search behavior and merchants competition	69
Scale of cities and social trust: Evidence from China	68
Exploring the dynamic links, implications for hedging and investment strategies between Sukuk and commodity market volatility: Evidence from country level analysis	68
Financial crises, bank efficiency and survival: Theory, literature and emerging market evidence	67
Debt's shadow: How leverage weighs down investment	67
Do China and USA differ in the interrelationship between green bond and ESG markets?	67
Market-timing performance of mutual fund investors in Emerging Markets	67
Impact of Government Public Data Openness on Agricultural Total Factor Productivity	65
Global uncertainty and the spillover of tail risk between green and Islamic markets: A time-frequency domain approach with portfolio implications	65
Corporate ESG performance and trade credit financing – Evidence from China	65
Deliberate premarket underpricing: New evidence on IPO pricing using machine learning	65
Do the dynamics of macroeconomic attention drive the yen/dollar exchange market volatility?	65
Extreme dynamic connectedness and hedging strategy across commodity, bond, currency, and stock markets: Evidence from Asian Pacific, Canada, Mexico, and US countries	64
Crowding out or crowding in? Reevaluating the effect of government spending on private economic activities	64
Digital finance, capital misallocation and corporate innovation	62
Dynamic spillover between green cryptocurrencies and stocks: A portfolio implication	62
Measuring Chinese climate uncertainty	62
Policy-driven employment structure transformation: The role of innovation and education investment	62
Editorial Board	61
Business cycles in emerging markets: The role of liability dollarization and valuation effects	60
The heterogeneity of interest-induced MPC: Evidence from mortgage borrowers	60
Competitive runs on Government debt	60