OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied Economics is 30. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Should the strongest serve first? Strategic ordering of servers in doubles tennis	130
Can governments sleep more soundly when holding international reserves? A banking and financial vulnerabilities perspective*	124
The impact of digital transformation on financial reporting clarity in the Chinese capital market	105
Social cost of carbon and the potential for forest carbon credits	98
Extending policies to control groups or past periods in nonlinear difference in differences	96
The effect of Financial Development on Pro-Poor Growth: evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries	92
Family care, rural labour migration and land lease: A case study of Jiangxi Province, China	77
How do analyst recommendations on banks respond to monetary policy news? An application to the Eurozone	72
Can environmental protection interview policy reduce air pollution? -A spatial difference-in-differences approach	66
Foreign investors, rebalancing trades, and increases in U.S.-Japan stock market correlations	62
Better city, better life: smart city policy and corporate ESG performance	60
Forecasting cryptocurrencies log-returns: a LASSO-VAR and sentiment approach	59
Effect of religious attendance on the middle-aged worker’s wage in the United States: a possible causal connection	56
Female CEOs and employee gender diversity: evidence from Korea	50
Planning for potential increases in disbursements and risk of managed funds conditional on desired short-term performance levels	48
Investor sentiment and skewness risk premium	45
Are there any safe haven assets against oil price falls?	41
Like a multicolored puzzle: decomposing temporary–permanent wage gap in Vietnam	38
IMAX vs IVOL in China’s A-share market: predicting stock returns on a level playing field	38
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization: evidence from medical claims data in South Korea	37
Choose the school, choose the performance: new evidence on determinants of students’ performance in eight European countries	36
Period products during the pandemic: The impact of lockdown on period products usage	36
Paid family leave and occupational mobility	34
What can we learn from industry-level (aggregate) production functions?	32
The return of university reputation in job applications: evidence from a field experiment in China	32

Benefits of having alumnus: executive alumni networks and firm resilience	32
Fiscal policy and long-run inflation dynamics: evidence from a major emerging market economy*	31
Household income and tourism expenditure: an unconditional quantile regression approach	31
How does financial literacy affect farmers’ agricultural investments? A study from the perspectives of risk preferences and time preferences	31
Powering profits: second-degree price discrimination for time-sensitive electricity consumers	30
Personal bankruptcy pilot and small business investment: evidence from China	30
Can online learning alter labor force attachment? Evidence from U.S. labor markets	30
Water rights and firm productivity: evidence from the water rights trading policy in China	30
The nexus between livelihood goals and livelihood strategy selection: Evidence from rural China	30