OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of China & World Economy is 1. 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
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Has the Belt and Road Initiative Improved the Quality of Food Imported by Chinese Enterprises?	74
Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Chinese Manufacturing Firms' Financialization and Servitization	55
Guest Editors' Introduction	40
Educational Investment for Future Marriage? Evidence of Missing Girls from China	36
Cross‐border E‐commerce Reform and Entrepreneurial Activity in Urban Services – Evidence from Chinese Service Industry Enterprise Registration Data	31
Growth and Common Prosperity in China	28
International Transport Corridors and the Growth of China's Environmental Goods Exports: Evidence from the China–Europe Railway Express	28
Does the Belt and Road Initiative Increase the Carbon Emission Intensity of Participating Countries?	26
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Stock‐price Informativeness	25
Can a Teacher Salary Increase Promote Students' Educational Performance?	24
Can the Environmental Credit Evaluation Policy Alleviate the Overcapacity of Heavily Polluting Enterprises?	23
Diplomatic Relations and Investment Location of Chinese Multinationals: An International Political Economy Perspective	22
Climbing the Export Quality Ladder: Role of Human Capital	22
The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Consumption of Food away from Home: Evidence from High‐frequency Restaurant Transaction Data	21
A New Tri‐channel Decomposition of External Adjustment: Model and Application	20
Five Stylized Facts on Belt and Road Countries and Their Trade Patterns	19
The Causes and Consequences of China's Municipal Amalgamations: Evidence from Population Redistribution	18
Evaluating the Redistributive Effect of Social Security Programs in China over the Past 30 Years	17
Does the China Railway Express Promote Equitable Regional Development? Evidence from Manufacturing Relocation	17
Structural Deleveraging: Evidence from China	16
Urban Systems: Understanding and Predicting the Spatial Distribution of China's Population	16
Tax–Debt Substitution? Local Government Debt Management and Corporate Tax Burden	15
Why is China Promoting Economic Globalization? A Leadership Theory of Globalization	15
Can “Concerted” Macroprudential Policies Mitigate Cross‐border Contagion of Financial Risks? Evidence from China and Its Financially Connected Economies	13

Renminbi Appreciation and China's Industrial Upgrading	13
Neighborhood Awareness and Stock Return Synchronicity: Evidence from Satellite Nighttime Light Data	13
E‐commerce, Pandemic Shock, and the Survival of Small and Medium Enterprises	13
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Global Value Chain Participation and Firms' Responses to Exchange Rate Fluctuations	11
Impacts of Two Tax Reforms on Inequality and Welfare in China	10
Inventory Management with Trade Policy Uncertainty	10
School Boarding and Students’ Prosocial Behaviors: Evidence from Rural China	10
Sister‐city Ties and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment: A Spatial Econometric Analysis	10
Effects of the Resident Basic Medical Insurance Reform on Household Consumption in China	9
Table of Contents Vol. 30, No. 1–6, 2022	9
Subways and the Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from China	9
Table of Contents Vol. 29, No. 1‐6, 2021	9
Reforming the World Trade Organization: Practitioner Perspectives from China, the EU, and the US	9
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How Does the Belt and Road Initiative Improve China's Product Export Potential: A Global Value Chain Perspective	9
Does Bank Competition Promote Corporate Green Innovation? Evidence from the Location of Bank Branches	8
Premiums between Cross‐listed Shares: Determinants and Assessment of Financial Reform Policy Effectiveness	8
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The Determinants of China's Minimum Wage Rates	8
Supply Chain Disruption and Import Strategy: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake	8
Does Chinese Environmental Policy Affect Income Inequality? Evidence from the Central Environmental Protection Inspection	8
Intellectual Property Policy and County Economic Growth: A Quasi‐natural Experiment from the Intellectual Property Powering County Project	8
Quality of Life and Relative Household Energy Consumption in China	8
The Impacts of Trade Restrictions on World Agricultural Price Volatility during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	8
Does Fintech Narrow the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from China	8
The Impact of High‐standard Free Trade Areas on the Diversification of China's Export Products: Expanding Market or Intensifying Competition?	7
The Impacts of COVID‐19 on Migrants, Remittances, and Poverty in China: A Microsimulation Analysis	7
The Impact of a Public Health Emergency on the Demand for Life Insurance – An Empirical Analysis Based on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome	7
Exports to China and Local Employment in South Korea	7
Foreign Divestment – Crisis or Chance for China's Innovation Edge?	7
What Drives Chinese Firms' Export Sophistication? A Perspective from the Rise of Minimum Wages	7
Guest Editors' Words	6
Does Horizontal‐Paradigm Aid Weaken the Governance of Recipient Countries? Evidence from China	6
Risks and Firms' Decision Making on Outward Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Analysis of China's State‐owned Enterprises	6
Digital Industry Agglomeration and Export Product Diversification: Evidence from Chinese Firms	6
Unveiling the Relationship between Economic Growth and Equality for Developing Countries	5
Guest Editors' Words	5
The Frontiers in Manufacturing Technologies Initiative and University Innovation	5
Bureaucratic Culture and Innovation	5
Can the Super‐deduction of R&D Expenses Boost R&D Investment?	5
Quantifying Inter‐regional Trade Inequality of China's Cities Based on Environmental‐economic Benefits in Virtual Built‐up Land Flow	5
Elderly Care Provision and the Impact on Caregiver Health in China	5
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Exploring China's Potential Child Poverty	4
Can Digital Transformation Reduce the Zombification of Enterprises?	4
Issue Information	4
Economic Development and Social Integration of Migrants in China	4
Tax Incentives and Maturity Mismatch between Investment and Financing: Evidence from China	4
Smarter and Cleaner: The Digital Economy and Environmental Pollution	4

Changing Chinese Diets to Achieve a Win–Win Solution for Health and the Environment	4
How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Impact a Country's Position in Global Value Chains?	4
National Concentration of High‐tech Products: The Second Great Divergence?	3
The Chinese Export Displacement Effect Revisited: The Case of the East African Community	3
Turnover of Local Government Officials and Local Air Quality	3
The Impact and Spillover Effects of Chinese Ports on Urban Service Industry under De‐maritimization: A Perspective for Port Economic Geography Analysis	3
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Regaining China's Resource Reallocative Efficiency to Boost Growth	3
Can Quality and Safety Demonstration Zone Policy Lower Nontariff Barriers? Evidence from Sino–US Food and Agricultural Trade	3
The Spillover Effects of Environmental Regulations: A Perspective of Chinese Unregulated Firms' Tax Burden	3
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Local State Capacity and Uneven Taxation across Industrial Firms	3
Did the Labor Contract Law Affect the Capital Deepening and Efficiency of Chinese Private Firms?	3
Responsible Behavior of Irresponsible Companies: Air Pollution and Charitable Donations of Polluting Companies	3
Whose Aid is Beneficial to Firms' Exports? Evidence from a Post‐disaster Aid Experiment in China	3
State‐owned Enterprises in China as Macroeconomic Stabilizers: Their Special Function in Times of Economic Policy Uncertainty	3
The Life‐cycle Dynamics of Zombie Companies amongst Listed Firms in China	3
Consumption and Income Poverty in Rural China: 1995–2018	3
Decentralization, Supervision, and Chinese Local Government Debt	3
International Patent Cooperation, Patent Prosecution Highway Agreements, and Export Product Quality	3
Self‐employment in Urban China: Entrepreneurship or Disguised Unemployment?	2
Spatial Structure of Peer Networks and Academic Achievement Based on a Random Control Trial Experiment	2
Human Capital Expansion and Global Value Chain Upgrading: Firm‐level Evidence from China	2
Can Monetary Policy Undo Asset‐freezing Sanctions?	2
Corporate Endowment Insurance Fee Reduction and Employee Wages: Evidence from China	2
Do Institutional Investor Cliques Undermine Stock Price Efficiency?	2
Earnings Management of Chinese Listed Multinational Corporations	2
Issue Information	2
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Foreign Demand, Competition Strategy, and Export Markups: Evidence from Chinese Multi‐Product Exporters	1
Financial Literacy: The Case of China	1
The Role of Collateral in Sudden Stop Models	1
The Spillover Effects of International Co‐production in the Chinese Film Industry	1
Evolution of China's Role in the Structure of Global Carbon Emission Transfers: An Empirical Analysis Based on Network Governance	1
The Market Reaction to Cross‐border Listings: Evidence from AH Listed Firms	1
The Impact of COVID‐19 on the Dietary Diversity of Children and Adolescents: Evidence from a Rural/Urban Panel Study	1
Paving the Way towards Green Development: Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Electrification in Participating Countries	1
Exploring the Advantages and Disadvantages of the China–Pakistan Free Trade Agreement	1
Collateral Monetary Policy, Regional Financial Development, and Nonfinancial Firms' Shadow Banking Activities	1
Table of Contents Vol. 31, No. 1–6, 2023	1
How Did China Maintain Macroeconomic Stability During 1978–2018?	1
The Effect of Fast Internet on Employment: Evidence from a Large Broadband Expansion Program in China	1
Effects of Public Transfers on Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural China	1
Inquiry Letters and Tax Aggressiveness	1
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Long‐term Effect of Export Expansion on Human Capital	1
Education Universalization, Rural School Participation, and Population Density	1
Capital Account Liberalization and International Corporate Bond Issuance: Transaction‐level Evidence from China	1
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Impacts of Market‐based Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Energy Efficiency in China	1
Bringing Minds Together: High‐speed Railways, Team Building, and Innovation Collaboration	1
Guest Editors' Introduction	1
How Does the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Affect the Restructuring of Global Value Chains?	1
An Evaluation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: Market Access and Trading Rules	1
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Longevity, Fertility, and the Real Exchange Rate	1
Self‐employment in Rural China: Its Development, Chara cteristics, and Relation to Income	1
Does Information Exchange Affect Cross‐border Tax Avoidance? Evidence from the Common Reporting Standard	1
Learning from Neighbors and Differentiating Export Quality	1