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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The measurement of zombie enterprise under information asymmetry–a case of China’s iron and steel industry	53
Portuguese exports during the great recession: regional heterogeneity in export responses to domestic demand shocks	53
The impact of green finance on sustainable development: an investigation into national ESG performance	42
Exports and long-run growth: The case of Spain, 1850-2020	36
The interrelationships between bank risk and charter value in ASIAN-5	35
Ownership structure and corporate cash holdings in Jordan: the role of government ownership	26
FDI spillover effect on the green productivity of Vietnam manufacturing firms: the role of absorptive capacity	26
Currency crisis, capital flow regulations, and political performance: assessing high and middle-income economies	24
Logistics input complexity and comparative advantage in manufacturing: based on the perspective of global value chains	20
Does technological diversity in M&A networks improve ESG performance?	19
Rollover restrictions and firm export behavior: evidence from China	17
Fiscal regimes and debt sustainability in Colombia	17
Forecasting 2030 CO ₂ reduction targets for Russia as a major emitter using different estimation scenarios	16
Biased innovation and network evolution: digital driver for green innovation of manufacturing in China	15
Export destination and firm upgrading: evidence from Spain	14
Impact of competition on product innovation: evidence from Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises	13
Multi-dimensional competition in local governments, performance pressures, and corporate green innovation in China	13
The intertemporal relation between economic growth, total hours worked, and labor income of salaried and non-salaried workers in Colombia	13
Do FinTech algorithms reduce gender inequality in banks loans? A quantitative study from the USA	13
A novel hybrid decision support methodology for data-driven comparative analysis of EU macroeconomic performance	13
Impact of mixed ownership reforms on firm innovation–empirical evidence from China	13
Geopolitical and climate change risks affect FDI inflows: a bayesian panel data analysis	12
Zombie firms and resource allocation: research trends and developments during the spread of COVID-19	12
The causal relationship between green technologies, green innovation and GDP growth	12
Training for transformation: the impact of investor-led training on yields, farm output, and food security among Ghanaian rice farmers	11

Migration and adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in Ghana	11
US domestic sentiment reactions to climate and economic policy uncertainties: a quantile ARDL approach	11
Beyond work-life balance: decomposing the gender gap in physical activity	10
Bank performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: does income diversification help?	10
The euro at 25: how demand, supply and policy shocks contributed to inflation in the euro area countries	10
Mapping energy poverty measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: a new global panel dataset	10
Household production effects of non-wage benefits and working conditions in Ghana	9
Statement of Retraction: using bibliometrics to understand algorithmic finance	9
Oil price passthrough to consumer price inflation in South Africa: the role of the inflation environment	9
Economic and health impacts of China’s comprehensive health care system reform	9
South African inflation response to fiscal policy shocks	9
An improved model accuracy for forecasting risk measures: application of ensemble methods	9
Economic growth and poverty in sub‑Saharan African countries: non‑linearity and exports threshold effect	8
Structural change, elasticity of substitution, and growth	8
Investment timing and quantity under ambiguity and business cycles	8
“Governance in action: transforming financial landscape through innovation among developing countries”	8
Illicit financial flows in Africa: linkages with terrorist activity and public investment	8
Annual report tone and divergence of opinion: evidence from textual analysis	8
Analyzing time-different connectedness among systemic financial markets during the financial crisis and conventional era: New evidence from the VARX-DCC-MEGARCH model	8
Assortative mating, marital stability and the role of business cycles in the United States from 1968 to 2011	7
Educational stream choice and labour market outcomes in Bangladesh: evidence from general and madrasah schooling	7
School quality and labor market earnings: some new results on an old debate	7
Have credit card services become important to monetary aggregation? An application of sign restricted Bayesian VAR	7
The unintended consequences of environmental tax for green innovation: evidence from China	7
Political uncertainty and cryptocurrency futures and spot market efficiency: evidence from the 2024 U.S. presidential election	7
School finance centralization and revenue levels: evidence from a school finance reform	7
Corporate ESG performance and the capital market’s information environment: evidence from analysts’ forecasts	6
The cost of producing health human capital: evidence from medical education in Afghanistan	6
The linkages between trade, financial openness, and economic growth in China: an ARDL-bound test approach	6
The impact of environmental information disclosure on the cost of debt: evidence from China	6
A new analytical framework for investigating the debt-growth nexus in E7 economies	6
Understanding the exchange rate responses: a focus on monetary and output shocks in the context of Pakistan	6
A meta-regression analysis on judicial efficiency literature: the role of methodological and courts diversity	6
Total factor productivity and firm size in the German energy industry: evidence from a symbolic transfer entropy panel causality test	6
The cost of electricity interruption for manufacturing firms in Ethiopia: valuing outage by applying stated preference approach	6
Dynamic forecasting of banking crises with a Qual VAR	5
Non-tariff Measures in Services Sector: a PPML Analysis	5
Internet technology and regional financial fraud: evidence from Broadband expansion in China	5
Effects of trade openness on environmental quality: evidence from developing countries	5
Data note for cross-country data on social cohesion and Covid-19	5
Cross-price elasticity between licit and illicit cigarette consumption in Brazil	5
Is air transport sustainable in remote regions? A socio-environmental perspective	5
The dynamic of discriminatory reform: how does discretionary pricing neutralize the productivity gains of energy subsidy reform in Iran?	5
Empirical study on the impact of commodity financialization on the effectiveness of monetary policy	5
Are high school degrees and university diplomas equally heritable in the US? A new measure of relative intergenerational mobility	4
Unpacking the effects of scams in marketplace lending: investor confidence and attention	4
Market power versus efficiency in the Ecuadorian bank credit market	4
The impact of shocks on the macroeconomy under endogenous and exogenous capital controls	4
Distance matters: the limits of government in upgrading export enterprises—evidence from China	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 U.S. debt ceiling standoff and financial markets’ reactions	4
Spatial location and agglomeration economies in exports: empirical evidence by technological intensities in Brazil	4
Predicting the future of the corporate market: a proposed dual fraud-bankruptcy score based on evidence from Romanian companies	4
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores and portfolio performance: evidence from South Africa	4
Do non-performing loans matter for bank lending and the business cycle in euro area countries?	4
Influences of various pricing points: an experimental study of plastic bags in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
Global value chain participation and the technology structure of exports: experience from the Central and Southeast European countries	3
A Bayesian vector-autoregressive application with time-varying parameters on the monetary shocks–production network nexus	3
Event-study approach: the case of Airbnb and hotel stocks	3
Optimization in volatility estimation for imperfect financial markets: a GARCH modeling analysis	3
Does financial deleveraging affect governments’ desirability of privatization? Evidence from the Chinese listed local SOEs	3
The effects of demand and supply shocks on income inequality and price heterogeneity: evidence from Korea*	3
The impact of heterogeneity in bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment	3
Economic impacts of the maritime silk road initiative on the Suez Canal	3
Technical efficiency of U.S. Western Great Plains wheat farms using stochastic frontier analysis	3
Inflation and price discovery in advanced economies	3
Could climate change be a driver of migration flows from Asia? A panel data analysis	3
Unemployment insurance benefits and motives for corporate financial investment: evidence from China	3
Two digital divides and income inequality: a global perspective	2
Effect of digital economy development on human capital: evidence from Chinese cities	2
Do eco-innovations and disaggregated environmental taxes promote load capacity factor? Evidence from Australia	2
Do psychopathic traits predict criminal activity?	2
Corporate social responsibility and trade credit during periods of monetary contraction	2
Chilean government bond yields: an econometric analysis	2
Can machine learning surpass human investors? Evidence from adaptive herding behaviour in US, China and India	2
What are the main variables that influence the dynamics of Ecuador’s sovereign risk?	2
What drives income inequality? Bayesian evidence from the emerging market economies	2
Currency pegs and volatility in West African Economic and Monetary Union during COVID-19	2
Correction	2
Economic freedom, institutional quality, and manufacturing development in African countries	2
The impact of mandatory military service on labor outcomes. Evidence from Spain	2
Intraday Bitcoin price shocks: when bad news is good news	2
Artificial intelligence and dynamic pricing: a systematic literature review	2
Economic convergence of Balkan regions towards EU	2
From potential to practice: a new framework for assessing job resilience in lockdowns	2
Income elasticity of demand for tanning bed usage: evidence from survey data	2