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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Growth and Common Prosperity in China	55
Impacts of Market‐based Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Energy Efficiency in China	42
Does the Belt and Road Initiative Increase the Carbon Emission Intensity of Participating Countries?	34
Why Do Chinese Private Enterprises Seek Outward Foreign Direct Investment?	34
Smarter and Cleaner: The Digital Economy and Environmental Pollution	29
Has China's Housing Production Peaked?	28
Farmers' Exit from Land Operation in Rural China: Does the Price of Agricultural Mechanization Services Matter?	27
Does Bank Competition Promote Corporate Green Innovation? Evidence from the Location of Bank Branches	22
Does the Belt and Road Initiative Promote Bilateral Political Relations?	20
The Effect of Fast Internet on Employment: Evidence from a Large Broadband Expansion Program in China	20
The Effects of E‐Commerce on Regional Poverty Reduction: Evidence from China's Rural E‐Commerce Demonstration County Program	19
Quality of Life and Relative Household Energy Consumption in China	19
Changing Chinese Diets to Achieve a Win–Win Solution for Health and the Environment	18
The Impacts of COVID‐19 on Migrants, Remittances, and Poverty in China: A Microsimulation Analysis	17
Does Fintech Narrow the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from China	17
What Drove Housing Wealth Inequality in China?	15
The Role of the Real Estate Sector in the Structural Dynamics of the Chinese Economy: An Input–Output Analysis	15
Have Industrial Robots Improved Pollution Reduction? A Theoretical Approach and Empirical Analysis	15
Human Capital Expansion and Global Value Chain Upgrading: Firm‐level Evidence from China	14
The Impacts of Trade Restrictions on World Agricultural Price Volatility during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	14
Tax Incentives and Maturity Mismatch between Investment and Financing: Evidence from China	14
Administrative Division Adjustment and Housing Price Comovement: Evidence from City‐County Mergers in China	13
Urban Systems: Understanding and Predicting the Spatial Distribution of China's Population	13
The Impact of the Pilot Free Trade Zone on Regional Financial Development	13
The Environmental Consequences of Place‐Based Policies in China: An Empirical Study Based on SO₂ Emission Data	13

Can Trade Facilitation Prevent the Formation of Zombie Firms? Evidence from the China Railway Express	13
Impacts of Two Tax Reforms on Inequality and Welfare in China	12
Dialect Diversity and Foreign Direct Investment in China	12
Who Lost Most Wages and Household Income during the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Poor Rural China?	11
The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in an International Context	10
Rural E‐commerce and County Economic Development in China	10
Higher Education Expansion in China, 1999–2003: Impact on Graduate Employability	9
Financial Literacy: The Case of China	9
Elderly Care Provision and the Impact on Caregiver Health in China	8
Regaining China's Resource Reallocative Efficiency to Boost Growth	8
Consumption and Income Poverty in Rural China: 1995–2018	8
Epidemics, Convergence, and Common Prosperity: Evidence from China	8
Self‐employment in Rural China: Its Development, Chara cteristics, and Relation to Income	8
Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Chinese Manufacturing Firms' Financialization and Servitization	8
Reforming the World Trade Organization: Practitioner Perspectives from China, the EU, and the US	8
Foreign Divestment – Crisis or Chance for China's Innovation Edge?	8
Decomposition Analysis of Poverty Reduction in Rural China: 2007–2018	8
Who Will Care for Middle Aged and Elderly Parents in Rural China?	7
Five Stylized Facts on Belt and Road Countries and Their Trade Patterns	7
Too Connected to Fail? Evidence from a Chinese Financial Risk Spillover Network	7
Subways and the Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from China	7
The Spillover Effects of Environmental Regulations: A Perspective of Chinese Unregulated Firms' Tax Burden	7
Assessing Market Competition in the Chinese Banking Industry Based on a Conjectural Variation Model	7
Productivity Gap and Inward FDI Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from China	7
The Impact of COVID‐19 on the Dietary Diversity of Children and Adolescents: Evidence from a Rural/Urban Panel Study	7
The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Consumption of Food away from Home: Evidence from High‐frequency Restaurant Transaction Data	7
Has the Belt and Road Initiative Improved the Quality of Food Imported by Chinese Enterprises?	7
Exploring China's Potential Child Poverty	6
The Role of Institutions: A Cross‐country Analysis of Renminbi Trading in Foreign Exchange Markets	6
International Patent Cooperation, Patent Prosecution Highway Agreements, and Export Product Quality	6
Turnover of Local Government Officials and Local Air Quality	6
An Evaluation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: Market Access and Trading Rules	6
Did the Labor Contract Law Affect the Capital Deepening and Efficiency of Chinese Private Firms?	6
How Did China Maintain Macroeconomic Stability During 1978–2018?	6
Structural Challenges to Sustained Economic Growth in China	6
Government Land Regulations and Housing Supply Elasticity in Urban China	6
E‐commerce and Consumption Inequality in China	6
Evaluating the Redistributive Effect of Social Security Programs in China over the Past 30 Years	5
Bilateral Relations and Exports: Evidence from Google Big Data	5
Does College Location Affect the Location Choice of New College Graduates in China?	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
Education Universalization, Rural School Participation, and Population Density	5
Financial Structure, Technology, and Economic Growth: A Structural Matching Perspective	5
Structural Changes in the Renminbi Exchange Rate Mechanism	5
What Drives Chinese Firms' Export Sophistication? A Perspective from the Rise of Minimum Wages	5
Understanding China's Economic Growth from a Regional Policy Perspective	5
Unveiling the Relationship between Economic Growth and Equality for Developing Countries	4
High‐Speed Rail Service and the Issuance of Municipal Corporate Bonds	4
Structural Deleveraging: Evidence from China	4

Self‐employment in Urban China: Entrepreneurship or Disguised Unemployment?	4
Risks and Firms' Decision Making on Outward Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Analysis of China's State‐owned Enterprises	4
China's Rural Industrialization and Agricultural Mechanization	4
Effects of Imports and Exports on China's PM2.5 Pollution	4
The Life‐cycle Dynamics of Zombie Companies amongst Listed Firms in China	4
Exploring the Advantages and Disadvantages of the China–Pakistan Free Trade Agreement	3
Effects of Public Transfers on Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural China	3
Intra‐family Income Redistribution and Its Dynamic Changes among the Elderly in China: 2002–2018	3
More Rights but Less Gains: Relaxed Birth Control Policy and the Loss for Women	3
China in the Global Response to Climate Change	3
The Causes and Consequences of China's Municipal Amalgamations: Evidence from Population Redistribution	3
Impact of Chinese Local Government‐led Construction Land Supply Strategies on Urban Innovation and its Spatiotemporal Differences	3
How Do China's Importing Firms Respond to Non‐tariff Measures?	3
The Consumption‐Stimulating Effect of Public Rental Housing in China	3
Sister‐city Ties and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment: A Spatial Econometric Analysis	3
Can “Concerted” Macroprudential Policies Mitigate Cross‐border Contagion of Financial Risks? Evidence from China and Its Financially Connected Economies	3
The Impact and Spillover Effects of Chinese Ports on Urban Service Industry under De‐maritimization: A Perspective for Port Economic Geography Analysis	3
Housing Market Speculation and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China	3
Can the Super‐deduction of R&D Expenses Boost R&D Investment?	3
Corporate Endowment Insurance Fee Reduction and Employee Wages: Evidence from China	3
Public Health Insurance and Farm Labor Supply: Evidence from China's Rural Health Insurance Reform	3
The US Unanticipated Costs of Decoupling from China	3
Inventory Management with Trade Policy Uncertainty	2
The Threat of Financial Sanctions: What Safeguards Can Central Banks Build?	2
Is Bilateral Value Added in Trade between China and EU Countries Efficient?	2
Capital Account Liberalization and International Corporate Bond Issuance: Transaction‐level Evidence from China	2
Total Factor Productivity in China's Manufacturing Sector in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis	2
How Does the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Affect the Restructuring of Global Value Chains?	2
Earnings Management of Chinese Listed Multinational Corporations	2
Impacts of Import Refusals on Agricultural Exports during Pandemics: Implications for China	2
Anti‐dumping Policies and International Portfolio Allocation: The View from the Global Funds	2
The Impacts of Highly Resourced Vocational Schools on Student Outcomes in China	2
Mixed Monetary–Fiscal Policies and Macroeconomic Fluctuations: An Analysis Based on the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model	2
Exports to China and Local Employment in South Korea	2
Responsible Behavior of Irresponsible Companies: Air Pollution and Charitable Donations of Polluting Companies	2
The Threshold Effect of Factor Price Distortion on Technological Content of Exports: Evidence from China	2
Why Has China's Current Account Balance Converged after the Global Financial Crisis?	2