OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Monocentricity or polycentricity? The study on the enterprise environmental performance of urban spatial structure	41
Productivity loss and misallocation of resources in Southeast Asia	28
The effect of ESG ratings on corporate green innovation strategies: evidence from China	26
Cultural heterogeneity, acquisition experience and the performance of Chinese cross-border acquisitions	18
Exploring the impact of industrial environment uncertainty on export sophistication	18
On the link between the real exchange rate and domestic investment in Asia: Are there asymmetric effects?	16
Labour market effects of social insurance reform in Vietnam	16
US dollar is losing it position of a reserve currency: how new BRICS development bank can ensure a soft landing	15
The oxford handbook of industrial policy	13
Winners and losers in a knowledge-based economy: investigating the policy packages for an inclusive growth based on a computable general equilibrium analysis of Korea	12
Insight of the Chinese enterprises’ investment performance along ‘one belt one road’	12
Extreme climate risk and rural household consumption	10
Quantile causal relationship between Bitcoin and stock indices	9
Federal transfers and sub-national spending in India: an analysis of the stimulatory effect	8
The macroeconomic effects of COVID-19 vaccinations in five Asian countries	8
FDI inflows and the economic growth of city clusters: evidence from China's Yangtze River Economic Belt	8
Institutional openness and firm’s green innovation: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	7
Social isolation: a key to explain a migrant worker cigarette smoking	7
The persistence of China’s great famine on individuals’ choice to pursue self-employment	7
Projections of private vehicle ownership, energy demand and vehicular emissions – a study of metropolitan cities in India	7
A study of the anti-poverty effect of minimum wage in underdeveloped areas: based on the perspective of farmers’ employment choices and income	7
Carbon emissions, consumption structure upgrading, and high-quality economic development: empirical evidence from China	7
Can the university matching mechanism in Malaysia do better? An experimental evaluation of three matching mechanisms	7
Tax competition and urban economic resilience: an investigation of the “local-neighborhood” effect in China	7
Global Value Chains (GVCs) participation patterns and impacts on productivity growth in the Asian economies	6

Measurement and spatial-temporal convergence analysis of high-quality development of service industry: new city-level evidence in China	6
Impact of Afghan refugees on the labor market of Pakistan	6
Does health aid reduce infant mortality? Cross-country evidence	6
Poverty, inequality, and growth dynamics in Indian states: pre-COVID, COVID, and post-COVID insights from Consumer Pyramids Household Survey	6
Building an open and stable capital market: a supervision intensity perspective	6
Investigating SME’s credit constraints: a trinary approach	5
The coal price and spot electricity market nexus in India: evidence from the quantile-on-quantile approach	5
Key barriers to foreign direct investment: are they different across manufacturing and services sectors in Malaysia?	5
Trade-restricting impacts of non-tariff measures in Bangladesh	5
Economic policy uncertainty and firm performance: evidence from China	5
Internal migrants, skill complementarity and wage premium for local workers: a micro econometric analysis of Chinese households	5
Uncertainty and China’s cross-border mergers and acquisitions	5
A Markov switching approach to business cycles in India	5
Do investment tax incentives promote firm pollution abatement investment? Evidence from China’s value-added tax reform	4
Economics of catching up and leapfrogging: how have Malaysia and Thailand fared against South Korea and Taiwan in the electronics industry?	4
The inflation impact of monetary financing: empirical evidence from South Asian countries	4
Quantity or quality: who makes manufacturing stronger?	4
How does financial openness affect economic growth at different stages of economies?	4
High-speed rail and urban innovation: based on the perspective of labor mobility	4
Misplacing social capital in women’s economic wellbeing – the experience of microcredit from Bangladesh	4
Determining fiscal equalization transfers for elementary education to Indian States	4
Correction	4
Are more generous health insurance positively associated with health outcomes of the elderly? evidence from China	4
Drivers of land use efficiency among ethnic minority groups in Vietnam: a longitudinal study	4
Like parents, like children? Intergenerational poverty transmission in China	4
The effect of the regulation of the total amount of household loans on lending behavior of Korean banks	4
Food delivery application user segmentation in the mobile marketing world in China	4
Spillover effects of environmental regulation along industrial chains: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment	4
Impact of homestead housing on the allocation of financial assets of Chinese rural households	4
Does government support make small and medium-sized enterprises reluctant to grow? Evidence from South Korea	4
Land finance and corporate pollution behavior: micro-level evidence from Chinese firms	4
Financial income and married women’s labor participation in urban China	3
Food expenditure of the poorest deciles: expected vulnerability and counterintuitive indulgence?	3
Productivity growth convergence across Indian states: a spatial dynamic panel analysis	3
The impact of public spending in education and health on human development in India	3
Occupational feminization, gender, and wages: evidence from Thailand	3
Does the Belt and Road Initiative affect the business environment of participating countries?	3
Income convergence of Indian states in the post-reform period: evidence from panel stationarity tests with smooth structural breaks	3
Trade liberalisation and export competitiveness of Indian manufacturing industries: some explanations	3
Self-employment survival in China: does family involvement matter?	3
Higher education quality improvement and economic growth in China	3
Analyzing monetary policies and bank credit in Indonesia’s provincial clusters amidst COVID-19 pandemic	3
Economic policy uncertainty, resource endowments and industrial structure transformation	3
Comparative study on infrastructure and export trade of the host country and OFDI efficiency of China	3
China’s ‘Healthy Silk Road’ initiative: implication for maternal and infant health	3
The impact of digital technology development on cross-industry labor mobility: evidence from China	3
Indonesian foreign investment policy under oligarchic economy: striking balance between economic nationalism and liberalization	3
Politically connected independent directors are ‘helping hand’ and ‘grabbing hand’ for CSR performance of firms in Pakistan	3
The Asian economy: contemporary issues and challenges *The Asian economy: contemporary issues and challenges* ,	3
From nickel to Electric cars? Indonesia’s resource cum automotive industry policy	3

Unlocking the financing dilemma of small and medium-sized enterprises: a study on the mechanism and effects of supply chain finance	3
Party alternation and fiscal performance—evidence from Taiwan’s local government	3
The welfare effects of service trade liberalization: evidence from the Chinese movie industry	3