OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Review of Economics & Finance is 56. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Trade facilitation and firms exports: Evidence from customs data	382
Debt's shadow: How leverage weighs down investment	331
The impact of different recommendation algorithms on consumer search behavior and merchants competition	233
Market-timing performance of mutual fund investors in Emerging Markets	223
Can rural health insurance coverage improve educational attainment? Evidence from new cooperative medical scheme in China	212
Digital finance, capital misallocation and corporate innovation	194
Why have UK universities become more indebted over time?	193
Extreme dynamic connectedness and hedging strategy across commodity, bond, currency, and stock markets: Evidence from Asian Pacific, Canada, Mexico, and US countries	168
Does environmental regulation affect labor investment Efficiency?Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	166
Effects of shareholder proposals on the market value of Japanese firms	142
Active or passive portfolio: A tracking error analysis under uncertainty theory	132
Do China and USA differ in the interrelationship between green bond and ESG markets?	124
COVID-19 exposure, financial flexibility, and corporate leverage adjustment	121
Do the dynamics of macroeconomic attention drive the yen/dollar exchange market volatility?	120
Does intergenerational mobility affect corporate innovation? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises	117
Only strong short-term contrarian effect exists in Chinese stock market: The role of the T+1 trading mechanism	112
Dynamic spillover between green cryptocurrencies and stocks: A portfolio implication	105
Board independence and PIPE offerings	99
An indicator of monetary bias for emerging and partially dollarized economies: The case of Uruguay	97
Behavioral aspects of household portfolio choice: Effects of loss aversion on life insurance uptake and savings	92
Risk-premium shocks and the prudent exchange rate policy	88
Debt finance and economic activity in the euro-area: evidence on asymmetric and maturity effects	87
The peer effects of PIPEs	85
Measuring the productivity of urban commercial banks in China	82
Determinants of the price of bitcoin: An analysis with machine learning and interpretability techniques	79

Climate change exposure in uncertain times: A text-based approach	75
Crowding out or crowding in? Reevaluating the effect of government spending on private economic activities	75
How does corporate diversification affect earnings management? A path analysis approach	73
Do financing constraints affect the financial integrity of firms?	71
Controlling shareholder expropriation and labor investment efficiency	70
Does heterogeneous media sentiment matter the ‘green premium’? An empirical evidence from the Chinese bond market	69
Impacts of population aging on bank loan portfolios: Evidence from China	69
Board gender diversity and cost of equity: Evidence from mandatory female board representation	69
Global uncertainty and the spillover of tail risk between green and Islamic markets: A time-frequency domain approach with portfolio implications	68
Exploring the dynamic links, implications for hedging and investment strategies between Sukuk and commodity market volatility: Evidence from country level analysis	67
Renaissance of climate policy uncertainty: The effects of U.S. presidential election on energy markets volatility	66
Forecasting stock volatility using pseudo-out-of-sample information	64
Variation in the competition − Efficiency nexus: Evidence from emerging markets	64
Scale of cities and social trust: Evidence from China	64
Financial crises, bank efficiency and survival: Theory, literature and emerging market evidence	63
Local CEOs and environmentally-friendly enterprise behaviour	63
Deliberate premarket underpricing: New evidence on IPO pricing using machine learning	62
Can green credit policy increase corporate pollution abatement efforts? Evidence from China	62
Policy-driven employment structure transformation: The role of innovation and education investment	61
Cybersecurity policy, ESG and operational risk: A Virtuous relationship to improve banks’ performance	61
Capital structure and corporate litigation	61
Financial openness and capital inflows to emerging markets: In search of robust evidence	60
Dig the treasure nearby: The impact of local supplier preference on trade credit financing	60
Non-linear nexus between economic policy uncertainty and bank lending	60
Measuring Chinese climate uncertainty	59
The impact of monetary and fiscal policy on FinTech firms during the crisis	58
Directors' and officers’ liability insurance and the pricing of seasoned equity offerings	58
Can digital inclusive finance reduce household poverty? Evidence from the China household finance survey	58
Corporate ESG performance and trade credit financing – Evidence from China	58
The nexus between toxic-air pollution, health expenditure, and economic growth: An empirical study using ARDL	57
Editorial Board	56
Competitive runs on Government debt	56