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

Article	Citations
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Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Chinese Manufacturing Firms' Financialization and Servitization	72
International Transport Corridors and the Growth of China's Environmental Goods Exports: Evidence from the China–Europe Railway Express	49
Dynamic Efficiency Redux: Evidence from China	46
Balancing China's Demand and Supply for Sustainable Growth: The Roles of Household Consumption	41
Critical Illness Insurance and Consumption Inequality: Evidence from Rural China	41
Impact of National Technology Transfer Markets on Entrepreneurship in China	40
Has the Belt and Road Initiative Improved the Quality of Food Imported by Chinese Enterprises?	33
Educational Investment for Future Marriage? Evidence of Missing Girls from China	29
Cross‐border E‐commerce Reform and Entrepreneurial Activity in Urban Services – Evidence from Chinese Service Industry Enterprise Registration Data	26
Growth and Common Prosperity in China	25
A New Tri‐channel Decomposition of External Adjustment: Model and Application	23
Five Stylized Facts on Belt and Road Countries and Their Trade Patterns	22
Diplomatic Relations and Investment Location of Chinese Multinationals: An International Political Economy Perspective	21
Climbing the Export Quality Ladder: Role of Human Capital	19
Can the Environmental Credit Evaluation Policy Alleviate the Overcapacity of Heavily Polluting Enterprises?	16
Can a Teacher Salary Increase Promote Students' Educational Performance?	16
Does the China Railway Express Promote Equitable Regional Development? Evidence from Manufacturing Relocation	14
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Stock‐price Informativeness	14
The Causes and Consequences of China's Municipal Amalgamations: Evidence from Population Redistribution	13
Tax–Debt Substitution? Local Government Debt Management and Corporate Tax Burden	13
Evaluating the Redistributive Effect of Social Security Programs in China over the Past 30 Years	13
Why is China Promoting Economic Globalization? A Leadership Theory of Globalization	13
Structural Deleveraging: Evidence from China	13
Renminbi Appreciation and China's Industrial Upgrading	12

Neighborhood Awareness and Stock Return Synchronicity: Evidence from Satellite Nighttime Light Data	12
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Global Value Chain Participation and Firms' Responses to Exchange Rate Fluctuations	12
Can Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance Promote the Participation of Emerging Economies in Multinational Supply Chains?	12
How Does the Belt and Road Initiative Improve China's Product Export Potential: A Global Value Chain Perspective	11
Subways and the Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from China	11
School Boarding and Students’ Prosocial Behaviors: Evidence from Rural China	11
Inventory Management with Trade Policy Uncertainty	11
E‐commerce, Pandemic Shock, and the Survival of Small and Medium Enterprises	11
A Decade of Evolving Sentiment on the Belt and Road Initiative in Elite Magazines	10
Sister‐city Ties and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment: A Spatial Econometric Analysis	10
Direct Flights and Cross‐city Tourism Expenditure	10
Table of Contents Vol. 29, No. 1‐6, 2021	10
Table of Contents Vol. 30, No. 1–6, 2022	10
Effects of the Resident Basic Medical Insurance Reform on Household Consumption in China	10
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Does Chinese Environmental Policy Affect Income Inequality? Evidence from the Central Environmental Protection Inspection	10
De‐financialization and the Increase in Corporate Research and Development Intensity: The Effects of China's 2018 New Asset Management Rules	9
The Determinants of China's Minimum Wage Rates	9
Does Bank Competition Promote Corporate Green Innovation? Evidence from the Location of Bank Branches	8
Intellectual Property Policy and County Economic Growth: A Quasi‐natural Experiment from the Intellectual Property Powering County Project	8
What Drives Chinese Firms' Export Sophistication? A Perspective from the Rise of Minimum Wages	7
Premiums between Cross‐listed Shares: Determinants and Assessment of Financial Reform Policy Effectiveness	7
Supply Chain Disruption and Import Strategy: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake	7
Temperature and Real Exchange Rates	7
Exports to China and Local Employment in South Korea	7
The Impact of High‐standard Free Trade Areas on the Diversification of China's Export Products: Expanding Market or Intensifying Competition?	7
Foreign Divestment – Crisis or Chance for China's Innovation Edge?	6
Bureaucratic Culture and Innovation	6
Does Parental Migration Alleviate Multidimensional Poverty among Left‐behind Children in Rural Areas?	6
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Does Horizontal‐Paradigm Aid Weaken the Governance of Recipient Countries? Evidence from China	6
Issue Information	6
The Impact of a Public Health Emergency on the Demand for Life Insurance – An Empirical Analysis Based on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome	6
Guest Editors' Words	6
Quantifying Inter‐regional Trade Inequality of China's Cities Based on Environmental‐economic Benefits in Virtual Built‐up Land Flow	5
Unveiling the Relationship between Economic Growth and Equality for Developing Countries	5
Issue Information	5
Digital Industry Agglomeration and Export Product Diversification: Evidence from Chinese Firms	5
Digital Inputs, Information Transparency, and Global Supply‐Chain Security	5
The Frontiers in Manufacturing Technologies Initiative and University Innovation	5
Smarter and Cleaner: The Digital Economy and Environmental Pollution	5
Risks and Firms' Decision Making on Outward Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Analysis of China's State‐owned Enterprises	5
Judicial System Reform and Corporate Employment in China: Evidence from the Establishment of Circuit Courts	5
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Can the Super‐deduction of R&D Expenses Boost R&D Investment?	5
Tax Incentives and Maturity Mismatch between Investment and Financing: Evidence from China	5
Elderly Care Provision and the Impact on Caregiver Health in China	5
Guest Editors' Words	5
Issue Information	4

Exploring China's Potential Child Poverty	4
Local State Capacity and Uneven Taxation across Industrial Firms	4
Can Quality and Safety Demonstration Zone Policy Lower Nontariff Barriers? Evidence from Sino–US Food and Agricultural Trade	4
Economic Development and Social Integration of Migrants in China	4
Historical Clans and Contemporary Human Capital	4
Can Digital Transformation Reduce the Zombification of Enterprises?	4
Turnover of Local Government Officials and Local Air Quality	4
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How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Impact a Country's Position in Global Value Chains?	4
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State‐owned Enterprises in China as Macroeconomic Stabilizers: Their Special Function in Times of Economic Policy Uncertainty	4
The Chinese Export Displacement Effect Revisited: The Case of the East African Community	4
Responsible Behavior of Irresponsible Companies: Air Pollution and Charitable Donations of Polluting Companies	3
Decentralization, Supervision, and Chinese Local Government Debt	3
National Concentration of High‐tech Products: The Second Great Divergence?	3
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Corporate Endowment Insurance Fee Reduction and Employee Wages: Evidence from China	3
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The Life‐cycle Dynamics of Zombie Companies amongst Listed Firms in China	3
The Impact and Spillover Effects of Chinese Ports on Urban Service Industry under De‐maritimization: A Perspective for Port Economic Geography Analysis	3
Earnings Management of Chinese Listed Multinational Corporations	3
Whose Aid is Beneficial to Firms' Exports? Evidence from a Post‐disaster Aid Experiment in China	3
International Patent Cooperation, Patent Prosecution Highway Agreements, and Export Product Quality	3
The Spillover Effects of Environmental Regulations: A Perspective of Chinese Unregulated Firms' Tax Burden	3
Regaining China's Resource Reallocative Efficiency to Boost Growth	3
Can Monetary Policy Undo Asset‐freezing Sanctions?	3
Self‐employment in Urban China: Entrepreneurship or Disguised Unemployment?	2
The Impact of Social Health Insurance on Sex Selection	2
Guest Editors' Introduction	2
Does Information Exchange Affect Cross‐border Tax Avoidance? Evidence from the Common Reporting Standard	2
Table of Contents Vol. 31, No. 1–6, 2023	2
The Effect of Fast Internet on Employment: Evidence from a Large Broadband Expansion Program in China	2
Foreign Demand, Competition Strategy, and Export Markups: Evidence from Chinese Multi‐Product Exporters	2
Issue Information	2
Effects of Public Transfers on Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural China	2
Equity–Efficiency Trade‐offs in Healthcare System Reform: The Perspective of Tiered Diagnosis and Treatment in China	2
The Role of Collateral in Sudden Stop Models	2
Capital Account Liberalization and International Corporate Bond Issuance: Transaction‐level Evidence from China	2
The Spillover Effects of International Co‐production in the Chinese Film Industry	2
Impacts of Market‐based Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Energy Efficiency in China	2
Bringing Minds Together: High‐speed Railways, Team Building, and Innovation Collaboration	2
Spatial Structure of Peer Networks and Academic Achievement Based on a Random Control Trial Experiment	2
Issue Information	2
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Collateral Monetary Policy, Regional Financial Development, and Nonfinancial Firms' Shadow Banking Activities	2
China's Low Interest Rate Environment and Corporate Default Risk	2
Learning from Neighbors and Differentiating Export Quality	2
Financial Literacy: The Case of China	2
Do Institutional Investor Cliques Undermine Stock Price Efficiency?	2