OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of China & World Economy 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Its Impact on the Global Economy: What Does It Take to Turn Crisis into Opportunity?	115
Growth and Common Prosperity in China	35
Impacts of Market‐based Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Energy Efficiency in China	28
Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Upgrading from the Perspective of Differences among Countries	27
Does Outward Foreign Direct Investment Facilitate China's Export Upgrading?	26
Why Do Chinese Private Enterprises Seek Outward Foreign Direct Investment?	25
Mobile Payment and Informal Business: Evidence from China's Household Panel Data	24
Does the Belt and Road Initiative Increase the Carbon Emission Intensity of Participating Countries?	21
Can Time–Space Compression Promote Urban Economic Growth? Evidence from China's High‐speed Rail Projects	21
Has China's Housing Production Peaked?	19
The Second Demographic Dividend as a Driver of China's Growth	18
Farmers' Exit from Land Operation in Rural China: Does the Price of Agricultural Mechanization Services Matter?	18
Smarter and Cleaner: The Digital Economy and Environmental Pollution	16
Quality of Life and Relative Household Energy Consumption in China	14
Does Land Rent between Acquaintances Deviate from the Reference Point? Evidence from Rural China	14
Does Bank Competition Promote Corporate Green Innovation? Evidence from the Location of Bank Branches	14
Changing Chinese Diets to Achieve a Win–Win Solution for Health and the Environment	14
How the Internet Promotes China's Exports: A Firm‐level Perspective	13
The Impacts of COVID‐19 on Migrants, Remittances, and Poverty in China: A Microsimulation Analysis	13
The Impacts of Trade Restrictions on World Agricultural Price Volatility during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	13
Seventy Years of Economic Development: A Review from the Angle of New Structural Economics	12
Does the Belt and Road Initiative Promote Bilateral Political Relations?	12
Does Fintech Narrow the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from China	12
The Environmental Consequences of Place‐Based Policies in China: An Empirical Study Based on SO₂ Emission Data	11
The Effect of Fast Internet on Employment: Evidence from a Large Broadband Expansion Program in China	11

China, Like the US, Faces Challenges in Achieving Inclusive Growth through Manufacturing	11
Urban Systems: Understanding and Predicting the Spatial Distribution of China's Population	11
Dialect Diversity and Foreign Direct Investment in China	10
Can Trade Facilitation Prevent the Formation of Zombie Firms? Evidence from the China Railway Express	10
European versus American Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative	10
The Role of the Real Estate Sector in the Structural Dynamics of the Chinese Economy: An Input–Output Analysis	10
Impacts of Two Tax Reforms on Inequality and Welfare in China	10
The Effects of E‐Commerce on Regional Poverty Reduction: Evidence from China's Rural E‐Commerce Demonstration County Program	10
Who Lost Most Wages and Household Income during the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Poor Rural China?	9
Reforming the World Trade Organization: Practitioner Perspectives from China, the EU, and the US	8
The Impact of the Pilot Free Trade Zone on Regional Financial Development	8
Human Capital Expansion and Global Value Chain Upgrading: Firm‐level Evidence from China	8
Chinese Investment in the US and the EU is Declining –for Similar Reasons	8
Administrative Division Adjustment and Housing Price Comovement: Evidence from City‐County Mergers in China	8
Self‐employment in Rural China: Its Development, Chara cteristics, and Relation to Income	8
Will Entrepreneurship Promote Productivity Growth in China?	8
Epidemics, Convergence, and Common Prosperity: Evidence from China	7
Consumption and Income Poverty in Rural China: 1995–2018	7
Should China Join the New Trans‐Pacific Partnership?	7
Higher Education Expansion in China, 1999–2003: Impact on Graduate Employability	7
What Drove Housing Wealth Inequality in China?	7
Who Will Care for Middle Aged and Elderly Parents in Rural China?	6
Productivity Gap and Inward FDI Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from China	6
Structural Challenges to Sustained Economic Growth in China	6
Decomposition Analysis of Poverty Reduction in Rural China: 2007–2018	6
Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Chinese Manufacturing Firms' Financialization and Servitization	6
Subways and the Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from China	6
The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in an International Context	6
How Did China Maintain Macroeconomic Stability During 1978–2018?	6
Too Connected to Fail? Evidence from a Chinese Financial Risk Spillover Network	5
Foreign Demand, Competition Strategy, and Export Markups: Evidence from Chinese Multi‐Product Exporters	5
Does Security of Land Operational Rights Matter for the Improvement of Agricultural Production Efficiency under the Collective Ownership in China?	5
The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Consumption of Food away from Home: Evidence from High‐frequency Restaurant Transaction Data	5
Assessing Market Competition in the Chinese Banking Industry Based on a Conjectural Variation Model	5
Financial Literacy: The Case of China	5
The Stagnant Export Upgrading in Northeast China: Evidence from Value‐added Tax Reform	5
Turnover of Local Government Officials and Local Air Quality	5
Exploring China's Potential Child Poverty	5
The Role of Institutions: A Cross‐country Analysis of Renminbi Trading in Foreign Exchange Markets	5
What Drives Chinese Firms' Export Sophistication? A Perspective from the Rise of Minimum Wages	5
Has the Belt and Road Initiative Improved the Quality of Food Imported by Chinese Enterprises?	5
The Impact of COVID‐19 on the Dietary Diversity of Children and Adolescents: Evidence from a Rural/Urban Panel Study	4
High‐Speed Rail Service and the Issuance of Municipal Corporate Bonds	4
Have Industrial Robots Improved Pollution Reduction? A Theoretical Approach and Empirical Analysis	4
Education Universalization, Rural School Participation, and Population Density	4
The Renminbi as a Trading Currency: Evidence from Selected Countries Participating in the Belt and Road Initiative	4
What Factors Can Explain the Rising Spatial Disparity in Economic Activities in China?	4
Structural Changes in the Renminbi Exchange Rate Mechanism	4
The Spillover Effects of Environmental Regulations: A Perspective of Chinese Unregulated Firms' Tax Burden	4
Five Stylized Facts on Belt and Road Countries and Their Trade Patterns	4

Financial Structure, Technology, and Economic Growth: A Structural Matching Perspective	4
Government Land Regulations and Housing Supply Elasticity in Urban China	4
Regaining China's Resource Reallocative Efficiency to Boost Growth	4
Did the Labor Contract Law Affect the Capital Deepening and Efficiency of Chinese Private Firms?	4
Understanding China's Economic Growth from a Regional Policy Perspective	4
Tail Causality between Crude Oil Price and RMB Exchange Rate	4
International Patent Cooperation, Patent Prosecution Highway Agreements, and Export Product Quality	3
Tax Incentives and Maturity Mismatch between Investment and Financing: Evidence from China	3
An Evaluation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: Market Access and Trading Rules	3
Foreign Divestment – Crisis or Chance for China's Innovation Edge?	3
Why Does the US Face Greater Disadvantages in the Trade War with China?	3
Evaluating the Redistributive Effect of Social Security Programs in China over the Past 30 Years	3
Does College Location Affect the Location Choice of New College Graduates in China?	3
Intra‐family Income Redistribution and Its Dynamic Changes among the Elderly in China: 2002–2018	3
Risks and Firms' Decision Making on Outward Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Analysis of China's State‐owned Enterprises	3
Can “Concerted” Macroprudential Policies Mitigate Cross‐border Contagion of Financial Risks? Evidence from China and Its Financially Connected Economies	3
Bilateral Relations and Exports: Evidence from Google Big Data	3
How Will the Implementation of Zero Tariffs Affect Employment in China?	3
Exchange Rate Volatility, Heterogeneous Firms and Market Concentration	3
Self‐employment in Urban China: Entrepreneurship or Disguised Unemployment?	3
Effects of Imports and Exports on China's PM2.5 Pollution	3
Public Health Insurance and Farm Labor Supply: Evidence from China's Rural Health Insurance Reform	3
Unveiling the Relationship between Economic Growth and Equality for Developing Countries	2
Elderly Care Provision and the Impact on Caregiver Health in China	2
Financial Factors, Openness and the Natural Interest Rate in China	2
China in the Global Response to Climate Change	2
The Causes and Consequences of China's Municipal Amalgamations: Evidence from Population Redistribution	2
How Do China's Importing Firms Respond to Non‐tariff Measures?	2
China's Rural Industrialization and Agricultural Mechanization	2
Are Chinese Acquirers Discriminated against in Cross‐border Mergers and Acquisitions? An Analysis Based on Covered Transactions Filed with CFIUS	2
Structural Deleveraging: Evidence from China	2
Impacts of Import Refusals on Agricultural Exports during Pandemics: Implications for China	2
The US Unanticipated Costs of Decoupling from China	2
Corporate Endowment Insurance Fee Reduction and Employee Wages: Evidence from China	2
The Threat of Financial Sanctions: What Safeguards Can Central Banks Build?	2
The Life‐cycle Dynamics of Zombie Companies amongst Listed Firms in China	2
The Impact and Spillover Effects of Chinese Ports on Urban Service Industry under De‐maritimization: A Perspective for Port Economic Geography Analysis	2
Capital Account Liberalization and International Corporate Bond Issuance: Transaction‐level Evidence from China	2