OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Finance Research Letters is 83. 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
Recurrent neural network based parameter estimation of Hawkes model on high-frequency financial data	362
Unconventional, conventional monetary policies, and optimal energy supply structure in China	344
Why Was There More Household Stock Market Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?	314
Political appointees and firms’ long-term capital market performance: Evidence from Central European countries	286
Regional social capital and stock price crash risk: Evidence from the US	276
Price discovery share: An order invariant measure of price discovery	273
How do Equity Investors Assess the Efficiency of Global Financial Institutions?	253
Exploring the effect of VAT carryforward and refund policy on enhancing innovation efficiency among China's A-share listed firms	223
Can old sin make new shame? Stock market reactions to the release of movies re-exposing past corporate scandals	215
Global value chain participation and income inequality within enterprises: An empirical study based on Chinese-listed companies	209
Unveiling the Yin and Yang of expansionary monetary policy: Differential impact on inequality in China based on a national-level survey	208
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on IPO underpricing: Evidence from China	208
Does customer concentration affect corporate risk-taking? Evidence from China	206
Market similarity and cross-border investment performance	205
Do workers benefit from on-the-job training? New evidence from matched employer-employee data	200
ESG ratings and female corporate leadership: Evidence from African firms	197
Soybean futures responses to meteorological disaster risk —— Empirical evidence from the Chicago board of trade	195
Remarks on the behaviour of financial market efficiency during the COVID-19 pandemic. The case of VIX	191
Human capital and corporate social investment: The effect of public policy	178
Editorial Board	171
Learning about unprecedented events: Agent-based modelling and the stock market impact of COVID-19	164
Infection, invasion, and inflation: Recent lessons	161
Repo haircuts: Market practices and the impact of minimum requirements on leverage	156
Banks’ ESG disclosure: A new scoring model	153
Correlation impulse response functions	149

The impact of North Korean nuclear threat on stock market linkages in Northeast Asia: The case of South Korea, China, and Japan	149
Cross-country spillover effects of interest rate and credit constraint policies	147
International tax incentives, cross-border research and development, and corporate innovation performance	141
Is it a matter of governance or judicial favoritism? Legal expertise at an executive level and its use in cases of corporate financial fraud	139
Rescue one and sacrifice others? Corporate tunneling phenomenon under China's new delisting regulations	137
Capital market openness and bank credit risk: Evidence from listed commercial banks	136
Impacts of gender inequality on international trade and innovation	132
How Russian-Ukrainian geopolitical risks affect Chinese commodity and financial markets?	126
Impact of SciTech – Finance integration policy implementation on SME innovation performance: Mediating effect of tax burden	125
Prediction of market value of firms with corporate sustainability performance data using machine learning models	125
Foreign equity lookback options with guarantees	124
Stepping forward with ease: Government debt governance as a catalyst for entrepreneurship	123
Legal background of corporate management and corporate audit quality	120
Community activism, Social ties and ESG campaign success	120
Does tax policy affect corporate environmental investment?	119
Small price bias in the cryptocurrency market. A cognitive bias revealed by emotions on social networks	118
Environmental policies on the systematic risk of critical metals companies	118
Green gains: The impact of REITs' environmental performance on sustainability-linked loan interest rates	117
Crises and changes: The impacts of CSR expenditure on loan and subsidy allocation in China's Pre- and Post-Pandemic periods	117
Effects of China’s capital controls on individual asset categories	116
Futures, provisional sales, and earnings management in the global gold mining industry	115
Historical Determinants of Fintech Development: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings	113
Management buyouts in times of economic policy uncertainty	112
Cokurtosis and the Ability of Mutual Fund Managers	112
Assessing the volatility of green firms	111
How the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) impacts FinTech: The implication of P2P lending markets	110
Does individual SREP results reveal real news?	110
Financial institution agglomeration and corporate labor allocation efficiency—Based on the context of government debt expansion	107
Strategic IPO timing of technology innovation-driven enterprises: A differential game analysis of market returns, disclosure costs, and industry dynamics	107
An economic definition of ‘Fear of Missing Out’ (FOMO)	107
The effect of COVID-19 vaccine on the international financial markets	105
Editorial Board	103
Community resilience and house prices: A machine learning approach	102
Risk disclosure and stock price crash risk: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	102
The role of gender in sales behaviour: Evidence from institutional financial brokerage	102
Does gambling culture affect firms’ investment efficiency?	101
Using machine learning Meta-Classifiers to detect financial frauds	101
Is it all about noise? Investor sentiment and risk nexus: evidence from China	100
Peer digitalization and corporate investment decision	98
The equity market response to climate change litigation	97
Do investors herd under global crises? A comparative study between Chinese and the United States stock markets	97
A look across the big pond and into the abyss — Performance of earnout deals in Europe and in times of crisis	96
The impact of inclusive finance and education investment on new quality productivity: The nonlinear mediating effect of education development	96
Correlation among climate risk, climate policy uncertainty, and carbon-intensive stock markets in China	94
Cryptocurrencies and the threat versus the act event of geopolitical risk	92
Inspection supervision and corporate green total factor productivity	92
The impact of corporate ESG performance on buyers’ bargaining power in the industrial chain: Evidence from China	92
Exploring the time-varying dependence between Bitcoin and the global stock market: Evidence from a TVP-VAR approach	92
Fintech, financial regulation and corporate financialization: Evidence from China	91
Market reactions to layoff announcements during crises: Examining impacts and conditioners	90

Limit Order Book dynamics and order size modelling using Compound Hawkes Process	89
Does smart transformation in manufacturing promote enterprise value chain upgrades?	87
Interconnected dynamics of sustainable cryptocurrencies: Insights from transfer entropy analysis	87
Corporate social anti-activism and firm stock price: Evidence from DEI program elimination	86
The impact of digital transformation on firm productivity: From the perspective of sustainable development	86
Credit availability, overinvestment, and corporate innovation capability	85
Development of corporate artificial intelligence and the quality of export products	85
Transmission effects of real estate risk on municipal bond spreads	84