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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The measurement of zombie enterprise under information asymmetry–a case of China’s iron and steel industry	48
The impact of green finance on sustainable development: an investigation into national ESG performance	45
Exports and long-run growth: The case of Spain, 1850-2020	39
FDI spillover effect on the green productivity of Vietnam manufacturing firms: the role of absorptive capacity	32
Ownership structure and corporate cash holdings in Jordan: the role of government ownership	27
The interrelationships between bank risk and charter value in ASIAN-5	22
Biased innovation and network evolution: digital driver for green innovation of manufacturing in China	22
Rollover restrictions and firm export behavior: evidence from China	19
Logistics input complexity and comparative advantage in manufacturing: based on the perspective of global value chains	18
Forecasting 2030 CO ₂ reduction targets for Russia as a major emitter using different estimation scenarios	17
Fiscal regimes and debt sustainability in Colombia	16
Does technological diversity in M&A networks improve ESG performance?	16
Currency crisis, capital flow regulations, and political performance: assessing high and middle-income economies	16
Impact of competition on product innovation: evidence from Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises	15
Export destination and firm upgrading: evidence from Spain	14
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	12
Impact of mixed ownership reforms on firm innovation–empirical evidence from China	12
Zombie firms and resource allocation: research trends and developments during the spread of COVID-19	12
Do FinTech algorithms reduce gender inequality in banks loans? A quantitative study from the USA	12
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
Bank performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: does income diversification help?	11
A novel hybrid decision support methodology for data-driven comparative analysis of EU macroeconomic performance	11
Training for transformation: the impact of investor-led training on yields, farm output, and food security among Ghanaian rice farmers	11

Beyond work-life balance: decomposing the gender gap in physical activity	10
Economic growth and poverty in sub‑Saharan African countries: non‑linearity and exports threshold effect	10
Mapping energy poverty measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: a new global panel dataset	10
The euro at 25: how demand, supply and policy shocks contributed to inflation in the euro area countries	10
Statement of Retraction: using bibliometrics to understand algorithmic finance	9
South African inflation response to fiscal policy shocks	9
Oil price passthrough to consumer price inflation in South Africa: the role of the inflation environment	9
Annual report tone and divergence of opinion: evidence from textual analysis	8
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
“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
School finance centralization and revenue levels: evidence from a school finance reform	8
An improved model accuracy for forecasting risk measures: application of ensemble methods	8
Economic and health impacts of China’s comprehensive health care system reform	8
Investment timing and quantity under ambiguity and business cycles	8
Structural change, elasticity of substitution, and growth	8
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
Political uncertainty and cryptocurrency futures and spot market efficiency: evidence from the 2024 U.S. presidential election	7
Can high-speed train improve the innovation ability of enterprises?	7
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
The effect of oil price fluctuation on the economy: what can we learn from alternative models?	6
Corporate ESG performance and the capital market’s information environment: evidence from analysts’ forecasts	6
Understanding the exchange rate responses: a focus on monetary and output shocks in the context of Pakistan	6
The unintended consequences of environmental tax for green innovation: evidence from China	6
A meta-regression analysis on judicial efficiency literature: the role of methodological and courts diversity	6
Dynamic forecasting of banking crises with a Qual VAR	6
The impact of environmental information disclosure on the cost of debt: evidence from China	6
The cost of producing health human capital: evidence from medical education in Afghanistan	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	5
The linkages between trade, financial openness, and economic growth in China: an ARDL-bound test approach	5
Empirical study on the impact of commodity financialization on the effectiveness of monetary policy	5
A new analytical framework for investigating the debt-growth nexus in E7 economies	5
Dampen macroeconomic volatility: a useful role of capital controls on international trade	5
Internet technology and regional financial fraud: evidence from Broadband expansion in China	5
Cross-price elasticity between licit and illicit cigarette consumption in Brazil	5
Effects of trade openness on environmental quality: evidence from developing countries	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?	4
Spatial location and agglomeration economies in exports: empirical evidence by technological intensities in Brazil	4
Distance matters: the limits of government in upgrading export enterprises—evidence from China	4
Are high school degrees and university diplomas equally heritable in the US? A new measure of relative intergenerational mobility	4
Capital flows, EU integration and the global financial crisis: an empirical analysis	4
Data note for cross-country data on social cohesion and Covid-19	4
Non-tariff Measures in Services Sector: a PPML Analysis	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	3

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores and portfolio performance: evidence from South Africa	3
The impact of shocks on the macroeconomy under endogenous and exogenous capital controls	3
Predicting the future of the corporate market: a proposed dual fraud-bankruptcy score based on evidence from Romanian companies	3
The impact of mandatory military service on labor outcomes. Evidence from Spain	3
Does financial deleveraging affect governments’ desirability of privatization? Evidence from the Chinese listed local SOEs	3
What are the main variables that influence the dynamics of Ecuador’s sovereign risk?	3
The impact of heterogeneity in bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment	3
The U.S. debt ceiling standoff and financial markets’ reactions	3
Influences of various pricing points: an experimental study of plastic bags in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
Market power versus efficiency in the Ecuadorian bank credit market	3
Economic impacts of the maritime silk road initiative on the Suez Canal	3
Global value chain participation and the technology structure of exports: experience from the Central and Southeast European countries	3
Inflation and price discovery in advanced economies	3
Event-study approach: the case of Airbnb and hotel stocks	3
Do non-performing loans matter for bank lending and the business cycle in euro area countries?	3
Unpacking the effects of scams in marketplace lending: investor confidence and attention	3
Could climate change be a driver of migration flows from Asia? A panel data analysis	3
Optimization in volatility estimation for imperfect financial markets: a GARCH modeling analysis	3
Technical efficiency of U.S. Western Great Plains wheat farms using stochastic frontier analysis	3
The effects of demand and supply shocks on income inequality and price heterogeneity: evidence from Korea*	3
Two digital divides and income inequality: a global perspective	2
Effect of digital economy development on human capital: evidence from Chinese cities	2
Corporate social responsibility and trade credit during periods of monetary contraction	2
Currency pegs and volatility in West African Economic and Monetary Union during COVID-19	2
Correction	2
Artificial intelligence and dynamic pricing: a systematic literature review	2
Intraday Bitcoin price shocks: when bad news is good news	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
Income elasticity of demand for tanning bed usage: evidence from survey data	2
A Bayesian vector-autoregressive application with time-varying parameters on the monetary shocks–production network nexus	2
Do eco-innovations and disaggregated environmental taxes promote load capacity factor? Evidence from Australia	2
What drives income inequality? Bayesian evidence from the emerging market economies	2
Economic freedom, institutional quality, and manufacturing development in African countries	2
From potential to practice: a new framework for assessing job resilience in lockdowns	2
Economic AI on the move: the relationship between sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and weight gain in Kyrgyzstan	2