OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Economics is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The measurement of zombie enterprise under information asymmetry–a case of China’s iron and steel industry	53
The impact of green finance on sustainable development: an investigation into national ESG performance	34
Money demand under a fixed exchange rate regime: the case of Saudi Arabia	34
Ownership structure and corporate cash holdings in Jordan: the role of government ownership	30
On the economics of CO ₂ contracts in the enhanced oil recovery industry	26
Exports and long-run growth: The case of Spain, 1850-2020	25
The interrelationships between bank risk and charter value in ASIAN-5	23
FDI spillover effect on the green productivity of Vietnam manufacturing firms: the role of absorptive capacity	17
Exchange rate pass-through to domestic inflation in a pricing model incorporating distribution chain structure	15
Logistics input complexity and comparative advantage in manufacturing: based on the perspective of global value chains	15
Biased innovation and network evolution: digital driver for green innovation of manufacturing in China	14
Price response of the high fructose corn syrup industry in the United States: a Bertrand model application	14
Rollover restrictions and firm export behavior: evidence from China	14
Fiscal regimes and debt sustainability in Colombia	13
Should I stay or should I go? migration intentions of teenagers with parents working abroad	13
Does intellectual property protection stimulate digital economy development?	12
Forecasting 2030 CO ₂ reduction targets for Russia as a major emitter using different estimation scenarios	11
Gender implicit bias and glass ceiling effects	11
Do FinTech algorithms reduce gender inequality in banks loans? A quantitative study from the USA	11
Export destination and firm upgrading: evidence from Spain	10
Zombie firms and resource allocation: research trends and developments during the spread of COVID-19	10
An improved model accuracy for forecasting risk measures: application of ensemble methods	10
Multi-dimensional competition in local governments, performance pressures, and corporate green innovation in China	10
Migration and adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in Ghana	10
Bank performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: does income diversification help?	10

Impact of mixed ownership reforms on firm innovation–empirical evidence from China	10
US domestic sentiment reactions to climate and economic policy uncertainties: a quantile ARDL approach	10
Mapping energy poverty measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: a new global panel dataset	9
Asymmetric information, credential assessment services and earnings of new immigrants	9
Statement of Retraction: using bibliometrics to understand algorithmic finance	9
Economic growth and poverty in sub‑Saharan African countries: non‑linearity and exports threshold effect	9
The euro at 25: how demand, supply and policy shocks contributed to inflation in the euro area countries	9
Economic and health impacts of China’s comprehensive health care system reform	9
Annual report tone and divergence of opinion: evidence from textual analysis	8
Oil price passthrough to consumer price inflation in South Africa: the role of the inflation environment	8
South African inflation response to fiscal policy shocks	8
School finance centralization and revenue levels: evidence from a school finance reform	7
Political uncertainty and cryptocurrency futures and spot market efficiency: evidence from the 2024 U.S. presidential election	7
Analyzing time-different connectedness among systemic financial markets during the financial crisis and conventional era: New evidence from the VARX-DCC-MEGARCH model	7
Investment timing and quantity under ambiguity and business cycles	7
Have credit card services become important to monetary aggregation? An application of sign restricted Bayesian VAR	7
What drives risk in China’s soybean futures market? Evidence from a flexible GARCH-MIDAS model	7
Can high-speed train improve the innovation ability of enterprises?	7
Human capital and firms’ markup: evidence from China	6
The intertemporal connection between preschool delay of gratification and later academic performance in primary schools: evidence from China	6
Total factor productivity and firm size in the German energy industry: evidence from a symbolic transfer entropy panel causality test	6
Cross-price elasticity between licit and illicit cigarette consumption in Brazil	6
Land defragmentation in China: does rental transaction inside acquaintance networks matter?	6
The unintended consequences of environmental tax for green innovation: evidence from China	6
School quality and labor market earnings: some new results on an old debate	6
Corporate ESG performance and the capital market’s information environment: evidence from analysts’ forecasts	6
A meta-regression analysis on judicial efficiency literature: the role of methodological and courts diversity	6
The cost of electricity interruption for manufacturing firms in Ethiopia: valuing outage by applying stated preference approach	6
The effect of oil price fluctuation on the economy: what can we learn from alternative models?	6
Assortative mating, marital stability and the role of business cycles in the United States from 1968 to 2011	6
The impact of environmental information disclosure on the cost of debt: evidence from China	6
Is air transport sustainable in remote regions? A socio-environmental perspective	6
The linkages between trade, financial openness, and economic growth in China: an ARDL-bound test approach	6
CEO confidence bias and strategic choice: a general framework	5
Dynamic forecasting of banking crises with a Qual VAR	5
Internet technology and regional financial fraud: evidence from Broadband expansion in China	5
Data note for cross-country data on social cohesion and Covid-19	5
The impacts of armed conflicts on prenatal and delivery care utilization	5
Does family life cycle influence farm households’ adoption decisions concerning sustainable agricultural technology?	5
The dynamic of discriminatory reform: how does discretionary pricing neutralize the productivity gains of energy subsidy reform in Iran?	5
Effects of trade openness on environmental quality: evidence from developing countries	5
Value-at-risk in the presence of asset price bubbles	5
Spatial location and agglomeration economies in exports: empirical evidence by technological intensities in Brazil	4
Unpacking the effects of scams in marketplace lending: investor confidence and attention	4
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores and portfolio performance: evidence from South Africa	4
Market power versus efficiency in the Ecuadorian bank credit market	4
Could climate change be a driver of migration flows from Asia? A panel data analysis	4
Are high school degrees and university diplomas equally heritable in the US? A new measure of relative intergenerational mobility	4
Dampen macroeconomic volatility: a useful role of capital controls on international trade	4
Green finance policy and regional air pollution control: a two-wheel drive by government departments and financial institutions	4

Her job, her safety? Domestic violence and women’s economic empowerment in Ethiopia	4
The impact of heterogeneity in bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment	4
Event-study approach: the case of Airbnb and hotel stocks	4
Non-tariff Measures in Services Sector: a PPML Analysis	4
Capital flows, EU integration and the global financial crisis: an empirical analysis	4
Predicting the future of the corporate market: a proposed dual fraud-bankruptcy score based on evidence from Romanian companies	4
Role of bank competition in determining liquidity creation: evidence from GCC countries	4
Do non-performing loans matter for bank lending and the business cycle in euro area countries?	4
Under the same roof? The Green Belt and Road Initiative and firms’ heterogeneous responses	4
The impact of mandatory military service on labor outcomes. Evidence from Spain	3
Two digital divides and income inequality: a global perspective	3
What drives income inequality? Bayesian evidence from the emerging market economies	3
An economic approach to marriage	3
What are the main variables that influence the dynamics of Ecuador’s sovereign risk?	3
Technical efficiency of U.S. Western Great Plains wheat farms using stochastic frontier analysis	3
Influences of various pricing points: an experimental study of plastic bags in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
The effects of demand and supply shocks on income inequality and price heterogeneity: evidence from Korea*	3
Does financial deleveraging affect governments’ desirability of privatization? Evidence from the Chinese listed local SOEs	3
Global value chain participation and the technology structure of exports: experience from the Central and Southeast European countries	3
Economic impacts of the maritime silk road initiative on the Suez Canal	3
A Bayesian vector-autoregressive application with time-varying parameters on the monetary shocks–production network nexus	3
Can machine learning surpass human investors? Evidence from adaptive herding behaviour in US, China and India	2
Do psychopathic traits predict criminal activity?	2
Corporate social responsibility and trade credit during periods of monetary contraction	2
Economic AI on the move: the relationship between sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and weight gain in Kyrgyzstan	2
Chilean government bond yields: an econometric analysis	2
Financial inclusion strategies for slum households: insights from a conjoint analysis	2
Examining the impact of income diversification on bank performance: Are foreign banks heterogeneous?	2
Income elasticity of demand for tanning bed usage: evidence from survey data	2
Artificial intelligence and dynamic pricing: a systematic literature review	2
Advances in estimating the Phillips curve	2
Impact of trade policy uncertainty on export products quality: new evidence by considering role of social capital	2
Bank profitability under environmental and climate pressures: the case of European banks	2
Corruption and government revenue: Evidence of a non-linear relationship driven by crises	2
Market devotion: understanding the Ram Mandir event influence on the Indian stock market using event study method	2
Intraday Bitcoin price shocks: when bad news is good news	2
Economic convergence of Balkan regions towards EU	2
Currency pegs and volatility in West African Economic and Monetary Union during COVID-19	2
Economic freedom, institutional quality, and manufacturing development in African countries	2
An empirical analysis of e-cigarette addiction	2
Evaluating the spatial spillover effects of political stability and agricultural foreign direct investment on food security	2
Trade promotion organisations in the pandemic world	2