OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Financial Management is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Can quantitative investment improve market efficiency?—Evidence from China	226
Issue Information: European Financial Management 4/2022	137
Issue Information: European Financial Management 4/2024	95
Executive Equity‐Based Compensation and Tournament Incentives	67
Restraining Overconfident CEOs Through Credit Ratings	61
Charity Experience of Directors and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence	57
Correction to “The Impact of Credit Reforms on Bank Loans and Firm Leverage Around the World”	47
Arbitrage asymmetry, mispricing and the illiquidity premium	41
Can ESG activities stabilise IPO prices? Evidence from the Hong Kong stock market	41
Lead independent director and earnings management	40
How Responsive Are Mortgage Lending Conditions to Flood Risk? The Case of the Netherlands	37
Euro area banks' interest rate risk exposure to level, slope and curvature swings in the yield curve	35
Voting in the Stock Market–Retail Investor Preferences During COVID‐19	34
Issue Information: European Financial Management 03/2025	33
Spillovers of PE investments	26
What Can Individual Investors Learn From Posting? Evidence From a Fintech Platform in China	25
Bank Technology M&As and Market Valuation: Lessons From the COVID‐19 Shock	25
Burden the Hand: Regulatory Intensity and Payout Policy	24
Embracing the Future or Buying Into the Bubble: Do Sophisticated Institutions Invest in Crypto Assets?	24
Media Sentiment and Price Run‐Ups	23
Ordeal by innocence in the big‐data era: Intended data breach disclosure, unintended real activities manipulation	21
I will trade, just not today: Individual investor trading activity around birthdays	18
Hedge Fund Investment in Exchange Traded Funds	17
Sustainable Portfolio Construction via Machine Learning: ESG, SDG and Sentiment	17
ESG Performance of Firms and the Structure of Loan Syndicates: Moderating Role of Relationship	17

Time Zone Difference and Equity Market Price Efficiency Post‐Earnings Announcements	16
The performance of socially responsible investments: A meta‐analysis	16
Should Firms Avoid Relying on Key Employees? Evidence From Inventors	15
The Impact of Risk Exposure and Environmental Conditions on European Banking Efficiency	15
The market impact of systemic risk capital surcharges	14
Bond Fund Herding and Corporate Bond Issuance	13
Coordinated monitoring and mergers and acquisitions	13
Issue Information: European Financial Management 2/2023	13
Financial uncertainty and stock market volatility	13
Gender, workplace preferences and firm performance: Looking through the glass door	13
The role of inventory in firm resilience to the Covid‐19 pandemic	13
The Effects of Prudential Regulation on Corporate Acquisitions: The Insurance Industry Case	12
The impact of blockchain on firms' environmental and social performance	12
De‐branching, too‐much‐branching, and cost of debt of SMEs in Slovakia	11
Lending quality and contracts enforcement reforms	11
Stock Market Response to Private Corruption: The Moderation Role of Public Perceptions	11
Green SPACs	11
Tracing environmental sustainability footprints in cross‐border M&A activity	10
State‐Dependent Hedging in Pairs Trading During Volatile Periods	10
Taken as an Exploiting Tool: When ESOPs Meet Controlling Shareholders' Share Pledging in an Emerging Market	10
CEO Connectedness and Firm Transparency	9
Short‐selling restriction and return predictability: Evidence from China	9
Optimal Hedging Strategies in the Low‐Sulphur Bunker Fuel Landscape	9
Catering and cash savings	9
The Role of ESG in Shaping the Impact of Financial Development on Banks' Performance	9
M&A Strategies for Industry Entry: Firm Sizes and Market Concentration	9
Empirical Asset Pricing via Machine Learning: The Role of Research Design Choices	8
ESG Ratings Disagreement and Trading Behaviour	8
When Do Optimistic CEOs Enhance Firm Value?	8
Greening the Ties: Exploring Political Influence on Green Innovation in China	8
The influence of incoming CEOs	8
Integrating Externalities Into Incentive Design in Multidivisional Firms	8
Firm‐Level Financing Strategies and Environmental Risk: Global Evidence	8
The Liquidity Sprint: Short‐Term Cash Needs and Access to Credit	7
Like a moth to a flame: Do stock market bubbles exacerbate credit risks of peer‐to‐peer lending?	7
Information asymmetry, east–west cultural differences, and divergence in investor reactions	7
Modelling failure rates with machine‐learning models: Evidence from a panel of UK firms	7
CEOs' general managerial skills and corporate risk taking subject to the moderator of CEO tenure	7
Industrial heterogeneity, governance structure and firm value	7
ESG disclosure, CEO power and incentives and corporate risk‐taking	7
Extreme risk dependence between green bonds and financial markets	6
Benefit corporation certification and financial performance: Capital structure matters	6
Machine learning methods in finance: Recent applications and prospects	6
Foreign versus domestic SPACs in the US Market	6
Social networks and managerial rent‐seeking: Evidence from executive trading profitability	6
Build, buy or partner? The relative performance of an acquisitive strategy	6
Option compensation, dynamic investment and capital structure	6
Orderbook demand for corporate bonds	5
Buy the dip?	5
Venture Capital and Vulnerability: Navigating Natural Disasters and Investment Resilience	5

Can Central Bank Digital Currencies Promote the Internationalization of Currencies?	5
Does social capital foster sustainable investment?	5