OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Review of Economics & Finance is 50. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Who is financing corporate green innovation?	235
Does fintech innovation improve bank efficiency? Evidence from China’s banking industry	220
The impact of clean energy consumption on economic growth in China: Is environmental regulation a curse or a blessing?	172
Pandemic-related financial market volatility spillovers: Evidence from the Chinese COVID-19 epicentre	161
Does digital finance promote manufacturing servitization: Micro evidence from China	153
Event study on the reaction of the developed and emerging stock markets to the 2019-nCoV outbreak	139
Does enterprise digital transformation contribute to the carbon emission reduction? Micro-level evidence from China	139
COVID-19 pandemic and firm performance: Cross-country evidence	137
Human Capital efficiency and equity funds’ performance during the COVID-19 pandemic	135
Financial inclusion and economic growth: The role of governance in selected MENA countries	130
The effect of digital transformation on real economy enterprises’ total factor productivity	108
Economic policy uncertainty and firm innovation: Evidence from a risk-taking perspective	102
The realized volatility of commodity futures: Interconnectedness and determinants	98
Predictive role of online investor sentiment for cryptocurrency market: Evidence from happiness and fears	90
A bibliometric review of sukuk literature	89
Infectious disease-related uncertainty and the safe-haven characteristic of US treasury securities	86
Multilayer information spillover networks analysis of China’s financial institutions based on variance decompositions	81
Financial development and entrepreneurship	80
Oil price uncertainty and enterprise total factor productivity: Evidence from China	74
Dynamic connectedness among the implied volatilities of oil prices and financial assets: New evidence of the COVID-19 pandemic	73
What are bitcoin market reactions to its-related events?	72
A study on the motivation of financialization in emerging markets: The case of Chinese nonfinancial corporations	70
Corporate ESG performance and trade credit financing – Evidence from China	69
Environmental regulation and corporate R&D investment—evidence from a quasi-natural experiment	68
How does corporate ESG performance affect bond credit spreads: Empirical evidence from China	68

Effect of ESG performance on the cost of equity capital: Evidence from China	68
Digital financial capability and entrepreneurial performance	67
The resilience of Islamic equity funds during COVID-19: Evidence from risk adjusted performance, investment styles and volatility timing	66
Loan loss provisioning of US banks: Economic policy uncertainty and discretionary behavior	65
How do independent directors view corporate social responsibility (CSR) during a stressful time? Evidence from the financial crisis	60
Feeling the heat: Climate risks and the cost of sovereign borrowing	59
Time-varying interactions between geopolitical risks and renewable energy consumption	59
Environmental information disclosure and firms’ green innovation: Evidence from China	59
Connectedness between cryptocurrency and technology sectors: International evidence	58
The impact of COVID-19 on the efficiency of microfinance institutions	58
The effects of uncertainty measures on commodity prices from a time-varying perspective	56
Cryptocurrency price volatility and investor attention	55
Vertical fiscal imbalance, transfer payments, and fiscal sustainability of local governments in China	55
Effect of oil price uncertainty on clean energy metal stocks in China: Evidence from a nonparametric causality-in-quantiles approach	54
Understanding cryptocurrency volatility: The role of oil market shocks	53
New technical indicators and stock returns predictability	53
Time-varying geopolitical risk and oil prices	52
Extreme directional spillovers between investor attention and green bond markets	52
Blockchain: A carbon-neutral facilitator or an environmental destroyer?	52
Corporate financial asset holdings under economic policy uncertainty: Precautionary saving or speculating?	52
The impact of information communication technology on energy demand: Some international evidence	52
Comparing search-engine and social-media attentions in finance research: Evidence from cryptocurrencies	51
FDI productivity spillovers and absorptive capacity in Brazilian firms: A threshold regression analysis	51
Economic policy uncertainty, financial development, and financial constraints: Evidence from China	50
Dynamic risk spillover among crude oil, economic policy uncertainty and Chinese financial sectors	50
Does Bitcoin or gold react to financial stress alike? Evidence from the U.S. and China	50
Can bank credit withstand falling house price in China?	50