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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Institutions and R&D engagement of SMEs in Laos	38
The exodus of Western manufacturing corporations from Russia – an extension of observations	28
How does cultural diversity impact entrepreneurship? Evidence from dialect diversity in China	27
Impact of the environmental taxes on reduction of emission from transport in Latvia	25
Time interval choices in forecasting stock market indices of CEE and SEE countries	20
Is there an asymmetric effect of exchange rate volatility on exports and imports in the Central, East and Southeast European countries?	17
Social trust and risky financial market participation: Evidence from China	16
Misuse of institutions and economic performance: some evidence from Serbia	16
The role of public grants in shaping business performance: evidence from Croatia’s rural development program	15
On the relationship between managers’ preferences and debt financing: evidence from Vietnamese firms	15
The impact of fdi and regional factors on economic growth in Vietnamese provinces: A spatial econometric analysis	15
Does the demographic dividend with human capital development yield an economic dividend? Evidence from Central Asia	13
Territories of accelerated development: another case of policy failure in Russia?	13
Macroeconomic shock spillovers from Russia to Kazakhstan	12
Captured institutions and permeated business – the longevity of Hungarian autocracy	12
Impact of digitalization on corporate financial profitability: the case of Russia	9
Credit availability and corporate risk-taking: evidence from China’s green credit policy	9
Language skills and unemployment: post-Soviet bilingualism in Latvia	8
An analysis of government expenditures on innovation and regional economic growth in China’s provinces using regime-switching modeling	7
Drivers of household saving in East Central European countries. A push and pull model perspective	7
Are small towns doomed to decline? The case of a post-socialist CEE country	6
Deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation patterns in V4 countries – industry 4.0 as a way forward?	6
Market segmentation, marketisation change speed and R&D investment of private firms	6
The peer effect on green innovation behaviour of Chinese manufacturing firms	6
Problems and prospects for organic agriculture in Russia	6

Technology startups in Central and Eastern Europe: are they CEE-specific?	5
Russia’s support for authoritarian regimes through food trade	5
Correction	5
The exodus of Western manufacturing corporations from Russia–the beginning	5
Anti-corruption and firm innovation: political path dependence perspective	5
Were Chinese style reforms a potential alternative for Russia? A reflection on state capitalism, democratic socialism, and transition	5
Strategies and challenges of sustainable development in Eurasia	4
The performance of politically connected firms in South East Europe: state capture or business capture?	4
The Impact of Recentralisation on FDI: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment	4
Institutions, corruption and transparency in effective healthcare public procurement: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	4
Export, economic complexity and growth in the integrated periphery of the European automotive industry	4
Social and economic development from an integrated sustainability perspective: analysing the interaction of social capital, income level, and income inequality in China	4
A thickened demand for populism: comparison of voters’ attitudes in CEE and Western Europe	4
Sailing through the storm – performance of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Bribery by privately owned firms: an ownership origin perspective	3
Religion, gender norms and fertility in Muslim post-communist economies	3
Taxation as a factor in investment attractiveness in the Visegrád countries	3
Serbia’s multi-vector foreign policy: the effects on trade with the European Union and Russia	3
Post-communist firms’ independent green R&D and productivity growth under globalisation	3
From wars to waves: geopolitical risks and environmental investment behaviour	3
Participation, transparency and trust in local governance in transitional countries: the case of Vietnam	3
Relationship between unemployment and new business registrations at the local level: the case of Poland	3
Innovations and their complementarities: which types of innovations drive export performance?	3
A new vision about the influence of major stock markets in CEEC indices: a bidirectional dynamic analysis using transfer entropy	2
Happiness in the steppe: exploring the connection between security and wellbeing in Kazakhstan	2
Disentangling the semi-periphery: evolutionary trajectories and perspectives of the Austrian and Hungarian automotive industries	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
Breakdown: what went wrong with deposit insurance in Russia	2
Financial constraints and firms’ innovation activities in post-communist economies	2
Mechanisms of exchange rate determination in the soft and hard managed floating regime: the case of Serbia	2
Global environmental politics and international organizations: the Eurasian and European experience	2
Costs of economic growth: new insights on wealth and income inequalities in the post-communist countries	2
Does one good turn deserve another? Evidence from China’s trade and aid policy	2
Is post-communism still relevant today?	2
Can foreign investors accurately operate and obtain excess returns? Evidence from China	1
Effects of public pensions on elderly poverty: insights from an ageing China	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
Foreign direct investment in Vietnam: how local institutions matter?	1
The reorientation of Russia’s trade corridors since the invasion of Ukraine	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
Estimation of a small open economy DSGE model for Kazakhstan	1
Investment dynamics in central and eastern Europe: a nonlinear approach	1
Cultivating green growth through innovative city pilot policies: Evidence from China	1
Firm-level additionality effects of investments and employment tax credits in Polish Special Economic Zones	1
Financial investment under banking uncertainty: evidence from Vietnamese firms	1
Small business in Russia: institutions, market potential, taxes and digitalization	1
Uncertainty in Central and Eastern European markets. Evidence from Twitter-based uncertainty measures	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
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
An examination of the relationship between implicit taxes and market structure: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	1
Enlisting oil and gas companies for Russia’s Arctic development. Implementation in a rent-based political economy	1
A stringent necessity: addressing fiscal bubbles with fiscal rules in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Post-accession backsliding and European Union environmental policies	1
Inequality in pre-industrial Bohemia: The city of Budweis	1
Determinants of product sophistication in Vietnam: findings from the firm–multi-product level microdata approach	1
Janos Kornai and his memorable work	1
Can SEE economies grow stronger together? Empirical evidence from the CEFTA region	1
Economic drivers of tax revenue: insights from European economies	1