OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Post-Communist Economies is 1. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Institutions and R&D engagement of SMEs in Laos	46
The exodus of Western manufacturing corporations from Russia – an extension of observations	18
How does cultural diversity impact entrepreneurship? Evidence from dialect diversity in China	15
Time interval choices in forecasting stock market indices of CEE and SEE countries	13
Is there an asymmetric effect of exchange rate volatility on exports and imports in the Central, East and Southeast European countries?	13
Misuse of institutions and economic performance: some evidence from Serbia	10
The role of public grants in shaping business performance: evidence from Croatia’s rural development program	9
Social trust and risky financial market participation: Evidence from China	9
Impact of energy consumption on income inequality in CEE countries	9
The impact of fdi and regional factors on economic growth in Vietnamese provinces: A spatial econometric analysis	9
Territories of accelerated development: another case of policy failure in Russia?	8
The hybrid Phillips curve and inflation in post-Soviet Central Asia and the South Caucasus	8
Captured institutions and permeated business – the longevity of Hungarian autocracy	7
Impact of digitalization on corporate financial profitability: the case of Russia	7
An analysis of government expenditures on innovation and regional economic growth in China’s provinces using regime-switching modeling	6
Does the demographic dividend with human capital development yield an economic dividend? Evidence from Central Asia	6
Credit availability and corporate risk-taking: evidence from China’s green credit policy	6
Language skills and unemployment: post-Soviet bilingualism in Latvia	6
Macroeconomic shock spillovers from Russia to Kazakhstan	6
The peer effect on green innovation behaviour of Chinese manufacturing firms	5
Were Chinese style reforms a potential alternative for Russia? A reflection on state capitalism, democratic socialism, and transition	5
Anti-corruption and firm innovation: political path dependence perspective	5
Dependency meets illiberalism: expansion of the EV battery sector in Central Europe	5
The exodus of Western manufacturing corporations from Russia–the beginning	4
Problems and prospects for organic agriculture in Russia	4

Deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation patterns in V4 countries – industry 4.0 as a way forward?	4
The performance of politically connected firms in South East Europe: state capture or business capture?	4
Correction	4
Russia’s support for authoritarian regimes through food trade	4
Order through incidents? Instruments of development policy under Mishustin	4
Technology startups in Central and Eastern Europe: are they CEE-specific?	4
Social and economic development from an integrated sustainability perspective: analysing the interaction of social capital, income level, and income inequality in China	4
Drivers of household saving in East Central European countries. A push and pull model perspective	4
Market segmentation, marketisation change speed and R&D investment of private firms	4
Paradise lost: Russian multinationals under deglobalization, 2014–2021	4
A thickened demand for populism: comparison of voters’ attitudes in CEE and Western Europe	4
Institutions, corruption and transparency in effective healthcare public procurement: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	4
Strategies and challenges of sustainable development in Eurasia	3
Bribery by privately owned firms: an ownership origin perspective	3
Post-communist firms’ independent green R&D and productivity growth under globalisation	3
The Impact of Recentralisation on FDI: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment	3
Sailing through the storm – performance of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Participation, transparency and trust in local governance in transitional countries: the case of Vietnam	3
Beyond resource intensity: unveiling the determinants of Russian MNEs’ integration into global value chains	3
Export, economic complexity and growth in the integrated periphery of the European automotive industry	3
The impact of the Russia–Ukraine conflict on the behaviour of individual investors	3
Serbia’s multi-vector foreign policy: the effects on trade with the European Union and Russia	3
Taxation as a factor in investment attractiveness in the Visegrád countries	3
China’s economic strategy in post-communist nations: trade, FDI, and infrastructure investments under the Belt and Road Initiative	2
From wars to waves: geopolitical risks and environmental investment behaviour	2
Varieties of clientelism and poverty: evidence from a comparative subnational analysis of Romania	2
Double-edged sword effect of digital economy on FDI: evidence from Chinese cities	2
Does one good turn deserve another? Evidence from China’s trade and aid policy	2
Monetary policy in the service of financial nationalism. The case of post-2013 Hungary	2
Disentangling the semi-periphery: evolutionary trajectories and perspectives of the Austrian and Hungarian automotive industries	2
Costs of economic growth: new insights on wealth and income inequalities in the post-communist countries	2
Financial constraints and firms’ innovation activities in post-communist economies	2
Glass ceiling or glass cliff: an examination of the role of female board members on market performance in Poland	2
Happiness in the steppe: exploring the connection between security and wellbeing in Kazakhstan	2
Unveiling the shadows: tracing the informal economy in the Balkans from 1996 to 2021	2
Mechanisms of exchange rate determination in the soft and hard managed floating regime: the case of Serbia	2
Religion, gender norms and fertility in Muslim post-communist economies	2
Breakdown: what went wrong with deposit insurance in Russia	2
Innovations and their complementarities: which types of innovations drive export performance?	2
Is post-communism still relevant today?	2
Financial development and firm growth: the role of proactivity of provincial leadership	2
Global environmental politics and international organizations: the Eurasian and European experience	2
Foreign direct investment in Vietnam: how local institutions matter?	1
Determinants of product sophistication in Vietnam: findings from the firm–multi-product level microdata approach	1
Entrepreneurship and local development in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe – new challenges are ahead: editorial	1
Direct search or remote search? Export market expansion path for firms in underdeveloped areas - evidence from the five cities of the Hexi Corridor, China	1
Foreign divestment and domestic investment in Eastern European countries	1
Investment dynamics in central and eastern Europe: a nonlinear approach	1
Enlisting oil and gas companies for Russia’s Arctic development. Implementation in a rent-based political economy	1
Knowledge base, innovation network, and innovation in different types of high-tech industries - a comparative study of STI (science-technology-innovation) and DUI (learning by doing, using and interac	1

Green initiatives and sustainability practices of Russian environmentalists in exile in Georgia	1
Capability morphology and firm growth in middle-income economies: evidence from Kosovo’s manufacturing sector	1
Shadow economy in post-communist economies: what role do financial development, ICT infrastructure, and institutional quality play?	1
Uncertainty in Central and Eastern European markets. Evidence from Twitter-based uncertainty measures	1
Local corruption and corporate cash holdings: the interactive effect of the anti-corruption campaign in Vietnam	1
Confidence in formal and reliance on informal institutions – complementary or substituting relationship? – evidence from Albania	1
An examination of the relationship between implicit taxes and market structure: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	1
Cultivating green growth through innovative city pilot policies: Evidence from China	1
Can foreign investors accurately operate and obtain excess returns? Evidence from China	1
Can SEE economies grow stronger together? Empirical evidence from the CEFTA region	1
The reorientation of Russia’s trade corridors since the invasion of Ukraine	1
The machine tool industry of Russia at a time of war and sanctions	1
International labour migration and people’s views towards economic and political systems in transition countries	1
Estimation of a small open economy DSGE model for Kazakhstan	1
Effects of public pensions on elderly poverty: insights from an ageing China	1
Economic drivers of tax revenue: insights from European economies	1
Financial investment under banking uncertainty: evidence from Vietnamese firms	1
A stringent necessity: addressing fiscal bubbles with fiscal rules in Central and Eastern Europe	1