OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Emerging Markets Review is 10. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Building financial resilience through financial and digital literacy in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa	87
Environmental regulations and innovation for sustainability? Moderating effect of political connections	70
Innovation quantity or quality? The role of political connections	69
Does corporate social responsibility influence corporate innovation? International evidence	67
Friend or foe: The divergent effects of FinTech on financial stability	64
Executive compensation incentives, risk level and corporate innovation	59
Enhancing CSR disclosure through foreign ownership, foreign board members, and cross-listing: Does it work in Russian context?	51
Diversification and financialization of non-financial corporations: Evidence from China	51
Corporate social responsibility in emerging market economies: Determinants, consequences, and future research directions	45
Gender attitudes and the effect of board gender diversity on corporate environmental responsibility	44
Female directors, board committees, and firm performance: Time-series evidence from Turkey	43
Fintech development and savings, borrowing, and remittances: A comparative study of emerging economies	43
How does the turnover of local officials make firms more charitable? A comprehensive analysis of corporate philanthropy in China	42
Women on board and performance of family firms: Evidence from India	41
IFRS, FDI, economic growth and human development: The experience of Anglophone and Francophone African countries	41
Corporate governance in emerging markets: A selective review and an agenda for future research	38
How does financial inclusion affect bank stability in emerging economies?	38
Does corporate internationalization affect corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China	37
How does CSR disclosure affect dividend payments in emerging markets?	35
The effect of voluntary and mandatory corporate social responsibility on earnings management: Evidence from India and the 2% rule	34
Spillovers and connectedness among BRICS stock markets, cryptocurrencies, and uncertainty: Evidence from the quantile vector autoregression network	33
Board of director attributes and CSR engagement in emerging economy firms: Evidence from across Asia	33
The institutional analysis of CSR: Learnings from an emerging country	32
Retail attention, retail trades, and stock price crash risk	31
Systemic risk, Islamic banks, and the COVID-19 pandemic: An empirical investigation	30

Corporate social responsibility, investor protection, and the cost of equity: Evidence from East Asia	29
Dependence dynamics of stock markets during COVID-19	29
Customer concentration and corporate social responsibility performance: Evidence from China	28
The dark side of Bitcoin: Do Emerging Asian Islamic markets help subdue the ethical risk?	28
Regulation, ownership and bank performance in the MENA region: Evidence for Islamic and conventional banks	28
How does stock market liberalization influence corporate innovation? Evidence from Stock Connect scheme in China	28
The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance: Evidence from Russia	27
Digital start-up access to venture capital financing: What signals quality?	27
Political embeddedness, media positioning and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from China	27
The impact of trade and financial openness on bank loan pricing: Evidence from emerging economies	26
Who benefits from mandatory CSR? Evidence from the Indian Companies Act 2013	25
Diversification, efficiency and risk of banks: Evidence from emerging economies	25
CEO facial masculinity, fraud, and ESG: Evidence from South Korea	23
FinTech and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from electronic payment systems	23
Tail-event driven NETwork dependence in emerging markets	22
Does the green loan policy boost greener production? – Evidence from Chinese firms	22
Air pollution, political costs, and earnings management	22
Enforcement actions and systemic risk	21
Corporate digital transformation and idiosyncratic risk: Based on corporate governance perspective	20
Government subsidies and firm performance: Evidence from high-tech start-ups in China	20
Anti-corruption campaign and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from China	20
Political uncertainty and city bank lending in China: Evidence from city government official changes	20
Machine learning and the cross-section of emerging market stock returns	19
Credit risk in Islamic microfinance institutions: The role of women, groups, and rural borrowers	18
Time and frequency connectedness of uncertainties in cryptocurrency, stock, currency, energy, and precious metals markets	18
How fiscal rules can reduce sovereign debt default risk	18
Female leadership and bank performance in Latin America	17
Macroprudential policies, economic growth and banking crises	17
Systemic risk spillovers and the determinants in the stock markets of the Belt and Road countries	17
Identifying systemically important financial institutions in complex network: A case study of Chinese stock market	16
On the prediction of financial distress in emerging markets: What matters more? Empirical evidence from Arab spring countries	16
CEO given names and corporate green investment	16
The value of independent directors: Evidence from China	16
Conditional dependence structure and risk spillovers between Bitcoin and fiat currencies	15
Spillovers of U.S. monetary policy uncertainty on inflation targeting emerging economies	15
The process of female borrower discouragement	15
Earnings management and firms' investment behavior: The threshold effect of ROE	15
New and future research in corporate finance and governance in China and emerging markets	15
The gambling preference and stock price: Evidence from China's stock market	14
Effect of climate-related risk on the costs of bank loans: Evidence from syndicated loan markets in emerging economies	14
Does political turnover affect corporate investment? Evidence from China	14
Dynamic interdependence of ASEAN5 with G5 stock markets	14
Economic policy uncertainty, non-financial enterprises' shadow banking activities and stock price crash risk	13
Global commodity and equity markets spillovers to Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Greenium in the Chinese corporate bond market	13
How does economic policy uncertainty affect cross-border M&A: Evidence from Chinese firms	13
Are green bonds priced lower than their conventional peers?	13
The effect of corporate philanthropy on corporate performance of Chinese family firms: The moderating role of religious atmosphere	13
Institutional conditions, economic policy uncertainty and foreign institutional investment in China	13
Interconnectedness between convertible bonds and underlying stocks in the Chinese capital market: A multilayer network perspective	12

Corporate governance and investment sensitivity to policy uncertainty in Brazil	11
Price limits, investor sentiment, and initial public offering underpricing: A quasi-natural experiment based on ChiNext	11
Military executives and corporate outcomes: Evidence from China	11
Does air pollution influence investor trading behavior? Evidence from China	11
Public participation, investment networks, and China's outward FDI: Evidence from 58 countries along the belt and road	11
The intention to use cryptocurrency: A meta-analysis of what we know	11
Corporate fraud under pyramidal ownership structure: Evidence from a regulatory reform	10
Political connections, political cycles and stock returns: Evidence from Iran	10
Does empathy matter in corporate social responsibility? Evidence from emerging markets	10
Capacity utilization shifting or resource-seeking? Benefits for Chinese enterprises participating in the belt and road initiative	10
Digital transformation and corporate labor investment efficiency	10