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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Domestic political risk, global economic policy uncertainty, and banks’ profitability: evidence from Ukrainian banks	41
Democratization and Firm Innovation: Evidence from European and Central Asian post-Communist States	34
Addressing the growth and employment effects of the extractive industries: white and black box illustrations from Kazakhstan	28
Geopolitical games in Eurasian regionalism: ideational interactions and regional international organisations	27
Environmental conflict management: a comparative cross-cultural perspective of China and Russia	26
Environmental conflict, renewable energy, or both? Public opinion on small hydropower plants in Serbia	25
Credit availability and corporate risk-taking: evidence from China’s green credit policy	24
Environmental commitments and rhetoric over the Pandemic crisis: social media and legitimation of the AIIB, the EAEU, and the EU	23
Legal framework, political environment and economic freedom in central and Eastern Europe: do they matter for economic growth?	18
The impact of new actors in global environmental politics: the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development meets China	15
Nuclear supply chain and environmental justice struggles in Soviet and Post-Soviet countries	14
The Belt and Road Initiative, Asian infrastructure investment bank, and the role of enterprise heterogeneity in China’s outward foreign direct investment	14
A multi-speed fiscal Europe? Fiscal rules and fiscal performance in the EU former communist countries	14
Leadership in high-level forums on energy governance: China and Russia compared	14
The Eurasian Economic Union: integration without liberalisation?	14
Post-Soviet states and CO₂ emissions: the role of foreign direct investment	13
Greenhouse gas emissions regulation in fossil fuels exporting countries: opportunities and challenges for Russia	13
Green credit policy and corporate diversification: evidence from China	13
The asymmetric effects of fiscal policy on inflation and economic activity in post-communist European countries	12
Strategies and challenges of sustainable development in Eurasia	12
The footprints of COVID-19 on Central Eastern European stock markets: an intraday analysis	12
Do social and environmental capabilities improve bank stability? Evidence from transition countries	12
Impact of the environmental taxes on reduction of emission from transport in Latvia	11
Global environmental politics and international organizations: the Eurasian and European experience	11
State ownership, quality of sub-national governance, and total factor productivity of firms in Vietnam	11

Kazakhstan’s climate change policy: reflecting national strength, green economy aspirations and international agenda	9
Global governance and Eurasian international organisations: lessons learned and future agenda	9
Global Governance and Interaction between International Institutions: The Challenge of the Eurasian International Organizations	9
University-industry linkages, regional entrepreneurship and economic growth: evidence from China	8
Do entrepreneurial firms suffer more from bribery? An empirical study of businesses in Vietnam	8
The evolution of China’s modern economy and its implications on future growth	8
Stock market development and economic growth: the case of the Republic of Serbia	7
The effect of energy prices on energy intensity improvement – the case of the chemical industry in the V4 countries	6
Real Effective Exchange Rates and deindustrialization: Evidence from 25 Post-Communist Eastern European countries	6
Beyond oil: the international integration of the Russian economy between macroeconomic constraints and sectoral dynamics	6
Russian agroholdings and their role in agriculture	6
Role of institutions in the corruption and firm innovation nexus: evidence from former Soviet Union countries	6
A new vision about the influence of major stock markets in CEEC indices: a bidirectional dynamic analysis using transfer entropy	6
Trends in public debt sustainability in Central and Eastern EU countries	5
Post-accession backsliding and European Union environmental policies	5
From the USSR to the polar silk road: the rise of the strategic Russian Arctic port range	5
Examining the impact of government spending on the finance-growth nexus: evidence from post-communist economies	5
Income inequality and environmental quality in China: a semi-parametric analysis applied to provincial panel data	5
Moving towards developmental regionalism? industrial cooperation in the Eurasian Economic Union from an Armenian and Belarusian perspective	5
A new form of parallel trading within economics relations between Russia and China	5
Tax factors affecting FDI allocation in the EU post-socialist states	5
Managing the “Post Miracle” Economy in China: Crisis of Growth Model and Policy Responses	5
Overcoming constraints to immigrant entrepreneurship in Croatia: the role of formal and informal institutions	5
Financial repression and financial risk: the case of China	4
Estimating the effects of fiscal policy on GDP growth in Romania in 2015-2017 using the synthetic control method	4
Small business in Russia: institutions, market potential, taxes and digitalization	4
Decentralisation and fiscal performance in Central and Eastern Europe	4
A simple macro-econometric simultaneous equation model for the Russian economy	4
Populism and economic policy: lessons from Central and Eastern Europe	4
Greater Eurasia: more than a vision?	4
The Eurasian Economic Union – keeping up with the EU and China	4
Regional development and foreign direct investment in transition countries: a case-study for regions in Ukraine	4
Eurasian regionalism and the WTO: a building block or a stumbling stone?	3
Participation, transparency and trust in local governance in transitional countries: the case of Vietnam	3
Territories of accelerated development: another case of policy failure in Russia?	3
One transition story does not fit them all: initial regional conditions and new business formation after communism	3
Relationship between unemployment and new business registrations at the local level: the case of Poland	3
Press and informal institutions as FDI barriers: what changed in Slovenia between 1992 and 2018?	3
Aggregate and regional effects of financialisation in CEE countries	3
Readiness and resilience of the health systems of the UK and Russia during Covid-19 epidemics in 2020-2021: impacts of priorities, shortages and rationing	3
How do economic activities spur the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia? A dynamic panel data analysis	3
The rise of collateral-based finance under state capitalism in Russia	3
Support for nuclear power in Central Asia: examining historical and spatial separation	3
Regional efficiency of the real estate industry in 35 large and medium-sized cities in China: a meta-frontier SBM approach	3
Chinese bank managers’ perceptions of barriers to the implementation of green credit in corporate loan decision-making	2
NATO vs. the CSTO: security threat perceptions and responses to secessionist conflicts in Eurasia	2
Priorities, shortages, and rationing in the UK and Russia national health services during 2000–2019: initial conditions for responses to Covid-19	2
Enlisting oil and gas companies for Russia’s Arctic development. Implementation in a rent-based political economy	2
Interaction of Eurasian and international financial institutions	2
Competitiveness through new industrialisation in the EAEU	2

Corporate profit misalignment: evidence from German headquarter companies and their foreign affiliates	2
Debt-growth link after an economic crisis: The case of Central and Southeast Europe	2
Effects of public pensions on elderly poverty: insights from an ageing China	2
Total factor productivity gap between the “New” and “Old” Europe: an industry-level perspective	2
Optimal fiscal policy in a model with search-and-matching frictions: the case of Bulgaria (1999–2018)	2
On the relationship between managers’ preferences and debt financing: evidence from Vietnamese firms	2
Human capital and economic growth in Central Asia	1
Social trust and risky financial market participation: Evidence from China	1
Remittances, FDI and economic growth: the case of South-East European countries	1
Determinants of product sophistication in Vietnam: findings from the firm–multi-product level microdata approach	1
New challenges for fiscal policy in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Measuring dynamic capabilities in Russian companies	1
Economic resourcefulness as a determinant of saving and borrowing in Poland	1
Janos Kornai and his memorable work	1
Problems and prospects for organic agriculture in Russia	1
Disentangling the semi-periphery: evolutionary trajectories and perspectives of the Austrian and Hungarian automotive industries	1
The state’s activity on the development of digital capitalism: evidence from Russia	1
Institutions, corruption and transparency in effective healthcare public procurement: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	1
Differences and similarities between key drivers of youth and senior starting entrepreneurs in Central and Eastern European countries	1
The challenges of the transition to market economies for post-communist East Asian countries	1
Is post-communism still relevant today?	1
Financial constraints and firms’ innovation activities in post-communist economies	1
The effects of bank levies post-financial crisis in Eastern Europe	1
Does firm performance withstand the test of time? New evidence from a transactional economy	1
Are small towns doomed to decline? The case of a post-socialist CEE country	1
Russia’s changing role in the international agri-food system and why it matters	1
Breakdown: what went wrong with deposit insurance in Russia	1
The post-soviet Moldovan capitalism: between oligarchic political economy and reciprocity	1
The performance of politically connected firms in South East Europe: state capture or business capture?	1
Russia in international economic institutions: are there contradictions in the regional and global agendas?	1
Innovations and their complementarities: which types of innovations drive export performance?	1
Costs of economic growth: new insights on wealth and income inequalities in the post-communist countries	1
Does a ‘reform’ socialist legacy serve as an asset or a liability for democratic transformation? Considering some roots of ‘Orbanism’	1
Strategic drivers behind the digital transformation of subsidiaries: a longitudinal approach	1
Reflections on FDI in an post-communist country in the context of EU membership: retrospectives and prospects	1
International labour migration and people’s views towards economic and political systems in transition countries	1
Does the demographic dividend with human capital development yield an economic dividend? Evidence from Central Asia	1
Defending business interests in Russia: collective action and social investments as bargaining chips	1