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

Article	Citations
The measurement of zombie enterprise under information asymmetry–a case of China’s iron and steel industry	63
The impact of green finance on sustainable development: an investigation into national ESG performance	47
Exports and long-run growth: The case of Spain, 1850-2020	41
FDI spillover effect on the green productivity of Vietnam manufacturing firms: the role of absorptive capacity	36
Ownership structure and corporate cash holdings in Jordan: the role of government ownership	32
The interrelationships between bank risk and charter value in ASIAN-5	22
On the economics of CO ₂ contracts in the enhanced oil recovery industry	22
Biased innovation and network evolution: digital driver for green innovation of manufacturing in China	20
Rollover restrictions and firm export behavior: evidence from China	18
Logistics input complexity and comparative advantage in manufacturing: based on the perspective of global value chains	17
Forecasting 2030 CO ₂ reduction targets for Russia as a major emitter using different estimation scenarios	16
Fiscal regimes and debt sustainability in Colombia	16
Currency crisis, capital flow regulations, and political performance: assessing high and middle-income economies	16
Does technological diversity in M&A networks improve ESG performance?	16
Does intellectual property protection stimulate digital economy development?	15
Impact of competition on product innovation: evidence from Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises	15
Export destination and firm upgrading: evidence from Spain	13
Impact of mixed ownership reforms on firm innovation–empirical evidence from China	12
Do FinTech algorithms reduce gender inequality in banks loans? A quantitative study from the USA	12
Multi-dimensional competition in local governments, performance pressures, and corporate green innovation in China	12
The intertemporal relation between economic growth, total hours worked, and labor income of salaried and non-salaried workers in Colombia	11
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
Zombie firms and resource allocation: research trends and developments during the spread of COVID-19	11
A novel hybrid decision support methodology for data-driven comparative analysis of EU macroeconomic performance	11

Economic growth and poverty in sub‑Saharan African countries: non‑linearity and exports threshold effect	10
US domestic sentiment reactions to climate and economic policy uncertainties: a quantile ARDL approach	10
The euro at 25: how demand, supply and policy shocks contributed to inflation in the euro area countries	10
Bank performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: does income diversification help?	10
Beyond work-life balance: decomposing the gender gap in physical activity	10
Mapping energy poverty measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: a new global panel dataset	9
Oil price passthrough to consumer price inflation in South Africa: the role of the inflation environment	9
Household production effects of non-wage benefits and working conditions in Ghana	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
South African inflation response to fiscal policy shocks	8
“Governance in action: transforming financial landscape through innovation among developing countries”	8
Structural change, elasticity of substitution, and growth	8
Asymmetric information, credential assessment services and earnings of new immigrants	8
Statement of Retraction: using bibliometrics to understand algorithmic finance	8
Economic and health impacts of China’s comprehensive health care system reform	8
Investment timing and quantity under ambiguity and business cycles	8
Illicit financial flows in Africa: linkages with terrorist activity and public investment	8
An improved model accuracy for forecasting risk measures: application of ensemble methods	8
Annual report tone and divergence of opinion: evidence from textual analysis	8
School finance centralization and revenue levels: evidence from a school finance reform	7
The effect of oil price fluctuation on the economy: what can we learn from alternative models?	7
Educational stream choice and labour market outcomes in Bangladesh: evidence from general and madrasah schooling	7
Can high-speed train improve the innovation ability of enterprises?	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
Assortative mating, marital stability and the role of business cycles in the United States from 1968 to 2011	7
Corporate ESG performance and the capital market’s information environment: evidence from analysts’ forecasts	6
The impact of environmental information disclosure on the cost of debt: evidence from China	6
A meta-regression analysis on judicial efficiency literature: the role of methodological and courts diversity	6
Human capital and firms’ markup: evidence from China	6
The unintended consequences of environmental tax for green innovation: evidence from China	6
Understanding the exchange rate responses: a focus on monetary and output shocks in the context of Pakistan	6
The cost of electricity interruption for manufacturing firms in Ethiopia: valuing outage by applying stated preference approach	6
Political uncertainty and cryptocurrency futures and spot market efficiency: evidence from the 2024 U.S. presidential election	6
Total factor productivity and firm size in the German energy industry: evidence from a symbolic transfer entropy panel causality test	6
Dynamic forecasting of banking crises with a Qual VAR	6
Cross-price elasticity between licit and illicit cigarette consumption in Brazil	6
Effects of trade openness on environmental quality: evidence from developing countries	5
A new analytical framework for investigating the debt-growth nexus in E7 economies	5
The impacts of armed conflicts on prenatal and delivery care utilization	5
Empirical study on the impact of commodity financialization on the effectiveness of monetary policy	5
The linkages between trade, financial openness, and economic growth in China: an ARDL-bound test approach	5
Dampen macroeconomic volatility: a useful role of capital controls on international trade	5
Is air transport sustainable in remote regions? A socio-environmental perspective	5
Internet technology and regional financial fraud: evidence from Broadband expansion in China	5
Are high school degrees and university diplomas equally heritable in the US? A new measure of relative intergenerational mobility	5
Non-tariff Measures in Services Sector: a PPML Analysis	4
The dynamic of discriminatory reform: how does discretionary pricing neutralize the productivity gains of energy subsidy reform in Iran?	4
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores and portfolio performance: evidence from South Africa	4
Spatial location and agglomeration economies in exports: empirical evidence by technological intensities in Brazil	4

CEO confidence bias and strategic choice: a general framework	4
Unpacking the effects of scams in marketplace lending: investor confidence and attention	4
Data note for cross-country data on social cohesion and Covid-19	4
Predicting the future of the corporate market: a proposed dual fraud-bankruptcy score based on evidence from Romanian companies	4
Capital flows, EU integration and the global financial crisis: an empirical analysis	4
Technical efficiency of U.S. Western Great Plains wheat farms using stochastic frontier analysis	3
Do non-performing loans matter for bank lending and the business cycle in euro area countries?	3
Inflation and price discovery in advanced economies	3
Green finance policy and regional air pollution control: a two-wheel drive by government departments and financial institutions	3
Event-study approach: the case of Airbnb and hotel stocks	3
The impact of mandatory military service on labor outcomes. Evidence from Spain	3
Influences of various pricing points: an experimental study of plastic bags in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
Two digital divides and income inequality: a global perspective	3
Her job, her safety? Domestic violence and women’s economic empowerment in Ethiopia	3
The effects of demand and supply shocks on income inequality and price heterogeneity: evidence from Korea*	3
Could climate change be a driver of migration flows from Asia? A panel data analysis	3
Market power versus efficiency in the Ecuadorian bank credit market	3
Global value chain participation and the technology structure of exports: experience from the Central and Southeast European countries	3
The impact of heterogeneity in bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment	3
Does financial deleveraging affect governments’ desirability of privatization? Evidence from the Chinese listed local SOEs	3
The impact of shocks on the macroeconomy under endogenous and exogenous capital controls	3
Economic impacts of the maritime silk road initiative on the Suez Canal	3
The U.S. debt ceiling standoff and financial markets’ reactions	3
Optimization in volatility estimation for imperfect financial markets: a GARCH modeling analysis	3
A Bayesian vector-autoregressive application with time-varying parameters on the monetary shocks–production network nexus	2
Can machine learning surpass human investors? Evidence from adaptive herding behaviour in US, China and India	2
Do psychopathic traits predict criminal activity?	2
Economic convergence of Balkan regions towards EU	2
Economic freedom, institutional quality, and manufacturing development in African countries	2
Bank profitability under environmental and climate pressures: the case of European banks	2
What drives income inequality? Bayesian evidence from the emerging market economies	2
Intraday Bitcoin price shocks: when bad news is good news	2
Do eco-innovations and disaggregated environmental taxes promote load capacity factor? Evidence from Australia	2
Corporate social responsibility and trade credit during periods of monetary contraction	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
What are the main variables that influence the dynamics of Ecuador’s sovereign risk?	2
Artificial intelligence and dynamic pricing: a systematic literature review	2
Effect of digital economy development on human capital: evidence from Chinese cities	2
Currency pegs and volatility in West African Economic and Monetary Union during COVID-19	2
Correction	2
Economic AI on the move: the relationship between sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and weight gain in Kyrgyzstan	2