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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Institutions and R&D engagement of SMEs in Laos	49
How does cultural diversity impact entrepreneurship? Evidence from dialect diversity in China	19
The exodus of Western manufacturing corporations from Russia – an extension of observations	13
Is there an asymmetric effect of exchange rate volatility on exports and imports in the Central, East and Southeast European countries?	12
Misuse of institutions and economic performance: some evidence from Serbia	10
Social trust and risky financial market participation: Evidence from China	10
The impact of fdi and regional factors on economic growth in Vietnamese provinces: A spatial econometric analysis	9
Time interval choices in forecasting stock market indices of CEE and SEE countries	9
Impact of energy consumption on income inequality in CEE countries	9
The hybrid Phillips curve and inflation in post-Soviet Central Asia and the South Caucasus	8
The role of public grants in shaping business performance: evidence from Croatia’s rural development program	8
Resolving price and exchange rate puzzles with the structural VAR model: Evidence from Uzbekistan	8
Impact of digitalization on corporate financial profitability: the case of Russia	7
Macroeconomic shock spillovers from Russia to Kazakhstan	7
Language skills and unemployment: post-Soviet bilingualism in Latvia	6
Captured institutions and permeated business – the longevity of Hungarian autocracy	6
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
Were Chinese style reforms a potential alternative for Russia? A reflection on state capitalism, democratic socialism, and transition	5
Deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation patterns in V4 countries – industry 4.0 as a way forward?	5
The ABCs of Russia’s post-transition growth: what went wrong?	5
Anti-corruption and firm innovation: political path dependence perspective	5
Problems and prospects for organic agriculture in Russia	5
Dependency meets illiberalism: expansion of the EV battery sector in Central Europe	5

A new chapter in the FDI-based Central and Eastern European growth model?	5
Drivers of household saving in East Central European countries. A push and pull model perspective	5
Order through incidents? Instruments of development policy under Mishustin	4
The peer effect on green innovation behaviour of Chinese manufacturing firms	4
Paradise lost: Russian multinationals under deglobalization, 2014–2021	4
Analysis of income convergence in Russian regions based on Markov chains	4
Market segmentation, marketisation change speed and R&D investment of private firms	4
Exploring the drivers behind tax base erosion: evidence from Poland’s banking sector	4
Correction	4
The exodus of Western manufacturing corporations from Russia–the beginning	4
Russia’s support for authoritarian regimes through food trade	4
Technology startups in Central and Eastern Europe: are they CEE-specific?	4
Middle income convergence trap phenomenon in CEE countries	3
Sailing through the storm – performance of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
A thickened demand for populism: comparison of voters’ attitudes in CEE and Western Europe	3
Social and economic development from an integrated sustainability perspective: analysing the interaction of social capital, income level, and income inequality in China	3
Post-communist firms’ independent green R&D and productivity growth under globalisation	3
The performance of politically connected firms in South East Europe: state capture or business capture?	3
The impact of the Russia–Ukraine conflict on the behaviour of individual investors	3
Export, economic complexity and growth in the integrated periphery of the European automotive industry	3
Global financial shocks and inflationary dynamics in Kazakhstan	3
Institutions, corruption and transparency in effective healthcare public procurement: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	3
Bribery by privately owned firms: an ownership origin perspective	2
Serbia’s multi-vector foreign policy: the effects on trade with the European Union and Russia	2
Breakdown: what went wrong with deposit insurance in Russia	2
Double-edged sword effect of digital economy on FDI: evidence from Chinese cities	2
Happiness in the steppe: exploring the connection between security and wellbeing in Kazakhstan	2
Financial development and firm growth: the role of proactivity of provincial leadership	2
Costs of economic growth: new insights on wealth and income inequalities in the post-communist countries	2
Beyond resource intensity: unveiling the determinants of Russian MNEs’ integration into global value chains	2
Religion, gender norms and fertility in Muslim post-communist economies	2
Innovations and their complementarities: which types of innovations drive export performance?	2
Disentangling the semi-periphery: evolutionary trajectories and perspectives of the Austrian and Hungarian automotive industries	2
Mechanisms of exchange rate determination in the soft and hard managed floating regime: the case of Serbia	2
Unveiling the shadows: tracing the informal economy in the Balkans from 1996 to 2021	2
Varieties of clientelism and poverty: evidence from a comparative subnational analysis of Romania	2
Taxation as a factor in investment attractiveness in the Visegrád countries	2
From wars to waves: geopolitical risks and environmental investment behaviour	2
China’s economic strategy in post-communist nations: trade, FDI, and infrastructure investments under the Belt and Road Initiative	2
Does one good turn deserve another? Evidence from China’s trade and aid policy	2
Glass ceiling or glass cliff: an examination of the role of female board members on market performance in Poland	2
Monetary policy in the service of financial nationalism. The case of post-2013 Hungary	2
Economic drivers of tax revenue: insights from European economies	1
Not your typical populists: the influence of populist policies on economic convergence in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Shadow economy in post-communist economies: what role do financial development, ICT infrastructure, and institutional quality play?	1
Estimation of a small open economy DSGE model for Kazakhstan	1
Foreign divestment and domestic investment in Eastern European countries	1
Entrepreneurship and local development in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe – new challenges are ahead: editorial	1
Green factory certification and corporate maturity mismatch	1
Financial investment under banking uncertainty: evidence from Vietnamese firms	1

Foreign direct investment in Vietnam: how local institutions matter?	1
The machine tool industry of Russia at a time of war and sanctions	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
Determinants of product sophistication in Vietnam: findings from the firm–multi-product level microdata approach	1
Investment dynamics in central and eastern Europe: a nonlinear approach	1
Green initiatives and sustainability practices of Russian environmentalists in exile in Georgia	1
Can foreign investors accurately operate and obtain excess returns? Evidence from China	1
Local corruption and corporate cash holdings: the interactive effect of the anti-corruption campaign in Vietnam	1
Can SEE economies grow stronger together? Empirical evidence from the CEFTA region	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
Labour share and international trade in the Vietnamese manufacturing industries	1
Determinants of unemployment in Romania’s transition economy: analyzing the roles of government expenditure, population aging, inflation, human capital, and economic growth	1
International labour migration and people’s views towards economic and political systems in transition countries	1
Confidence in formal and reliance on informal institutions – complementary or substituting relationship? – evidence from Albania	1
Cultivating green growth through innovative city pilot policies: Evidence from China	1
Capability morphology and firm growth in middle-income economies: evidence from Kosovo’s manufacturing sector	1
A stringent necessity: addressing fiscal bubbles with fiscal rules in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Uncertainty in Central and Eastern European markets. Evidence from Twitter-based uncertainty measures	1