OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Applied Economics 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The roles of export diversification and composite country risks in carbon emissions abatement: evidence from the signatories of the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement	114
Short term response of Chinese stock markets to the outbreak of COVID-19	84
How renewable energy reduces CO₂ emissions? Decoupling and decomposition analysis for 25 countries along the Belt and Road	72
Innovation agglomeration and urban hierarchy: evidence from Chinese cities	72
Digital economy value chain: concept, model structure, and mechanism	64
The relationship between the Covid-19 media coverage and the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: a time-frequency wavelet analysis	59
The effectiveness of social distancing in containing Covid-19	52
The nexus between policy uncertainty, sustainability disclosure and firm performance	49
COVID-19 and cryptocurrency market: Evidence from quantile connectedness	46
Land transfer in rural China: incentives, influencing factors and income effects	46
Empirical research on the blockchain adoption – based on TAM	46
The heterogeneous effects of adoption of climate-smart agriculture on household welfare in Pakistan	40
Dynamic return and volatility connectedness for dominant agricultural commodity markets during the COVID-19 pandemic era	40
Information spillover and market connectedness: multi-scale quantile-on-quantile analysis of the crude oil and carbon markets	39
The impact of tourism on carbon dioxide emissions: insights from 95 countries	39
The asymmetric impacts of oil price and shocks on inflation in BRICS: a multiple threshold nonlinear ARDL model	35
The risk transmission of COVID-19 in the US stock market	34
Do small farms prefer agricultural mechanization services? Evidence from wheat production in China	34
Click it and buy happiness: does online shopping improve subjective well-being of rural residents in China?	34
High-frequency return and volatility spillovers among cryptocurrencies	32
Personal consumption in the United States during the COVID-19 crisis	31
FINANCIAL RESILIENCE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE ROLE OF BANKING MARKET STRUCTURE	30
Can informal environmental regulation promote industrial structure upgrading? Evidence from China	30
Fossil energy and clean energy stock markets under COVID-19 pandemic	29
Remittance inflows and financial development: evidence from the top recipient countries in Sub-Saharan Africa	29

COVID-19 pandemic and global financial market interlinkages: a dynamic temporal network analysis	29
Examining the differences in the impact of Fintech on the economic capital of commercial banks’ market risk: evidence from a panel system GMM analysis	29
A machine learning-based early warning system for systemic banking crises	28
Does a green tax impact a heavy-polluting firm’s green investments?	28
Quantifying international oil price shocks on renewable energy development in China	28
Is small beautiful? Links between agricultural mechanization services and the productivity of different-sized farms	27
Rare earth and allied sectors in stock markets: extreme dependence of return and volatility	27
Off-farm work decisions of farm couples and land transfer choices in rural China	27
Time-frequency dynamics of return spillover from crude oil to agricultural commodities	26
Does increasing environmental policy stringency lead to accelerated environmental innovation? A research note	25
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on abnormal returns of insurance firms: a cross-country evidence	25
Financial inclusion and poverty: evidence from Turkish household survey data	25
Valuing the greenhouse effect of political risks: the global case	24
Impacts of environmental regulation on firm productivity: evidence from China’s Top 1000 Energy-Consuming Enterprises Program	24
Announcement effects in the cryptocurrency market	23
Predicting cryptocurrency defaults	23
Crypto asset ownership, financial literacy, and investment experience	23
Institutional ownership and corporate risk-taking in Japanese listed firms	23
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of investment or innovation? Different effects in advanced and emerging economies	23
Early estimates of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on GDP: a case study of Saudi Arabia	22
Regional digital finance and corporate investment efficiency in China	22
The influence of foreign direct investment and trade opening on green total factor productivity in the equipment manufacturing industry	22
Renting-in cropland, machinery use intensity, and land productivity in rural China	22
Can government low-carbon regulation stimulate urban green innovation? Quasi-experimental evidence from China’s low-carbon city pilot policy	21
Can FDI and ODI two-way flows improve the quality of economic growth? Empirical Evidence from China	21
The effect of institutional ownership on listed companies’ tax avoidance strategies	21
Does higher education development facilitate carbon emissions reduction in China	21
Financial contagion among COVID-19 concept-related stocks in China	21
Would carbon tax be an effective policy tool to reduce carbon emission in China? Policies simulation analysis based on a CGE model	21
Astonishing insights: emerging market debt spreads throughout the pandemic	20
Revisiting resource curse puzzle: new evidence from heterogeneous panel analysis	20
Predicting French SME failures: new evidence from machine learning techniques	19
Spillover and risk transmission in the components of the term structure of eurozone yield curve	19
Financial infrastructure—total factor productivity (TFP) nexus within the purview of FDI outflow, trade openness, innovation, human capital and institutional quality: Evidence from BRICS economies	19
Do stringent environmental regulations help improve the total factor carbon productivity? Empirical evidence from China’s industrial sectors	19
Measuring the Inclusive growth of rural areas in China	19
Tail risk dependence, co-movement and predictability between green bond and green stocks	19
Financial leverage and firm efficiency: the mediating role of cash holding	19
Does land renting-out increase farmers’ subjective well-being? Evidence from rural China	19
Corporate social responsibility and firm-value: the role of sensitive industries and CEOs power in China	19
Infrastructure investment and economic growth quality: empirical analysis of China’s regional development	18
Do financial inclusion and R&D matter? Exploring the effect of uncertainty on economic performance	18
The contribution of digital financial services to financial inclusion in Mozambique: an ARDL model approach	18
Do global value chains enhance or slog economic growth?	18
On the relationships between CO2 emissions and their determinants in Romania and Bulgaria. An ARDL approach	18
Environmental innovation in European transition countries	18
Long memory and efficiency of Bitcoin under heavy tails	18
Impact of urban density on carbon emissions in China	17
Economic development, technological progress, and provincial carbon emissions intensity: empirical research based on the threshold panel model	17
Relationship of service quality dimensions, customer satisfaction and loyalty in e-commerce: a case study of the Shopee App	17

The skewness index: uncovering the relationship with volatility and market returns	17
The impact of microfinance on energy access: a case study from peripheral districts of Lomé, Togo	17
Financial inclusion and energy efficiency: role of green innovation and human capital for Malaysia	17
Impact assessment of agriculture, energy and water on CO₂ emissions in China: untangling the differences between major and non-major grain-producing areas	17
The effects of geopolitical risk and economic policy uncertainty on dry bulk shipping freight rates	17
Nexus between rural nonfarm income and agricultural production in Bangladesh	17
Urban-rural health insurance integration in china: impact on health care utilization, financial risk protection, and health status	17
The impact of a tournament approach on environmental performance: the case of air quality disclosure in China	16
COVID-19 restrictions in the US: wage vulnerability by education, race and gender	16
COVID-19 outbreak, government capital injections, and shadow banking efficiency	16
A multi-dimensional approach to happiness and innovation	16
Does board independence affect environmental disclosures by multinational corporations? Moderating effects of national culture	16
The effects of state ownership on innovation: evidence from the state-owned enterprises reform in China	16
The impact of digital inclusive finance on the spatial convergence of the green total factor productivity in the Chinese cities	16
The role of peer effects on farmers’ decision to adopt unmanned aerial vehicles: evidence from Missouri	16
Speculation and food-grain prices	16
Economic policy uncertainty and corporate digital transformation: evidence from China	15
Waste disclosure and corporate cash holdings	15
Robust and fragile determinants of the infection and case fatality rates of Covid-19: international cross-sectional evidence	15
Can ESG Performance Mitigate Information Asymmetry? Moderating Effect of Assurance Services	15
Does digitalization improve government effectiveness? Evidence from developing and developed countries	15
China’s geopolitical risk and international financial markets: evidence from Canada	15
The role of high-frequency data in volatility forecasting: evidence from the China stock market	15
The Bitcoin options market: A first look at pricing and risk	15
Spillovers to sectoral equity returns: do liquidity and financial positions matter?	15
The impact of COVID-19 on economic growth: evidence from a Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressive (BPVAR) model	15
Board diversity and corporate social responsibility disclosure of multinational corporations	15
The effects of tax and fee reduction policy on mitigating shock of the COVID-19 epidemic in China	14
ESG and systemic risk	14
Is COVID-19 Related Anxiety an Accelerator for Responsible and Sustainable Investing ? A Sentiment Analysis	14
On the public debt and growth threshold: one size does not necessarily fit all	14
Working capital management, the market environment and corporate performance: evidence from China	14
European banks and tax havens: evidence from country-by-country reporting	14
Do political and social factors affect carbon emissions? Evidence from international data	14
Electricity consumption in Australia: the role of clean energy in reducing CO₂ emissions	14
Does policy uncertainty affect economic globalization? An empirical investigation	13
Minimum-variance hedging of Bitcoin inverse futures	13
CEO’s educational background, economic policy uncertainty and investment-cash flow sensitivity: evidence from India	13
Do merger policies increase universities’ efficiency? Evidence from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design	13
The impact of COVID-19 on gold seasonality	13
What contributes to the growth of China’s embodied CO₂ emissions? Incorporating the global value chains concept	13
ASEAN-5 forex rates and crude oil: Markov regime-switching analysis	13
Effect of Qatar diplomatic and economic isolation on Qatar stock market volatility: an event study approach	13
Herding behaviour in Korea’s cryptocurrency market	13
Do pollutant discharge fees affect labor demand? evidence from china’s industrial enterprises	13
Uncertainty and energy extraction	13
Corporate social responsibility and financial performance: a case study based in Taiwan	12
Snow tourism and economic sustainability: the financial situation of ski resorts in Spain	12
Financial leverage and performance: the case of financial technology firms	12
Air pollution, human capital and corporate social responsibility performance: evidence from China	12
National fiscal rules and fiscal discipline in the European Union	12
Financial Structure and Capital Allocation Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of China from 2005–2018	12
Main bank relationships and risk taking in Japanese listed firms	12
Effectiveness of fertilizer policy reforms to enhance food security in Kenya: a macro–micro simulation analysis	12
Accelerating the impact of financial literacy training programmes on household consumption by empowering women	12
Manufacturing R&D investment efficiency and financing constraints: evidence from China	12
Hedge and safe-haven attributes of faith-based stocks vis-à-vis cryptocurrency environmental attention: a multi-scale quantile regression analysis	12
The life cycle environmental rebound effect of battery electric vehicles in China: a provincial level analysis	12
The role of green technology on carbon emissions: does it differ across countries’ income levels?	11
Spillovers and portfolio optimization of agricultural commodity and global equity markets	11
New evidence on the convergence and regional clusters in China: a weighted continuous distribution dynamics approach	11
Late-stage venture capital and firm performance: evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises in China	11
The peer effects of preschool: evidence from China’s middle school	11
Impact of ESG score on financial performance of Indian firms: static and dynamic panel regression analyses	11
How does the informed trading impact Bitcoin returns and volatility?	11
The economic dependency of bitcoin security	11
Are oil and gas futures markets efficient? A multifractal analysis	11
Air pollution and initial public offering underpricing	11
The ICT, financial development, energy consumption and economic growth nexus in MENA countries: dynamic panel CS-ARDL evidence	11
Transient and persistent technical efficiency and its determinants: the case of crop farms in Austria	11
Unemployment, global economic crises and suicides: evidence from 21 OECD countries	11
Do news headlines matter in the cryptocurrency market?	11
Correlation between Shanghai crude oil futures, stock, foreign exchange, and gold markets: a GARCH-vine-copula method	11
Comparison of optimization algorithms for selecting the fractional frequency in Fourier form unit root tests	11
Global value chains and service liberalization: do they matter for skill-upgrading?	11
Private and Social Returns to Investment in Education: the Case of Turkey with Alternative Methods	11
Comparative analysis, cash transfers, household investment and inequality reduction in Togo	10
Assessing the impact of media sentiment on the returns of sukuks during the Covid-19 crisis	10
Measuring efficiency in the Chilean wine industry: a robust DEA approach	10
Long memory and efficiency of Bitcoin during COVID-19	10

Conditional transmission of global shocks to emerging stock markets: evidence from the quantile connectedness network analysis	10
The informalization of the Egyptian economy (1998–2012): a driver of growing wage inequality	10
Financial statement comparability and stock liquidity: evidence from China	10
Are financial inclusion and bank stability friends or enemies? Evidence from MENA banks	10
Total factor productivity of Chinese industrial firms: evidence from 2007 to 2017	10
Does bank concentration stem from financial inclusion in Africa?	10
Balancing energy security priorities: portfolio optimization approach to oil imports	10
The impact of fiscal policy on non-oil GDP in Saudi Arabia	10
Innovative performance effects of institutional quality: an empirical investigation from the Triad	10
China’s Technology Spillover Effects in the Countries along the Belt and Road — Evidence from 49 BRI Countries	10
Bookmakers’ mispricing of the disappeared home advantage in the German Bundesliga after the COVID-19 break	10
Media spotlight, corporate sustainability and the cost of debt	10
Institutional investor attention and stock market volatility and liquidity: international evidence	10
Pregnancy or motherhood cost? A comparison of the child penalty for adopting and biological parents	10
The nexus between debt structure, firm performance, and the financial crisis: non-linear panel data evidence from Japan	10
The FDI-spawned technological spillover effects on innovation quality of local enterprises: evidence from industrial firms and the patents in China	9
Does global value chain participation induce economic growth? Evidence from panel threshold regression	9
JGBs’ chronically low nominal yields: a VEC approach	9
The impact of electricity prices on European manufacturing jobs	9
High-technology zones, misallocation of resources among cities and aggregate productivity: evidence from China	9
Can blockchain innovation promote total factor productivity? Evidence from Chinese-listed firms	9
Boosting the choice of energy-efficient home appliances: the effectiveness of two types of decision support	9
Bitcoin price evolution versus energy consumption; trend analysis	9
Government subsidies, ownership structure and operating performance of state-owned enterprises: evidence from China	9
Pricing the Groove: hedonic equation estimates for rare vinyl records	9
Understanding country risk assessment: a historical review	9
Can financial inclusion improve children’s learning outcomes and late school enrolment in a developing country?	9
The relationship between trade credit and bank loans under economic fluctuations - based on the perspective of the supply chain	9
How do governments actually use environmental taxes?	9
The non-linear relationship between financial access and domestic savings: the case of emerging markets	9
Is the decline in labour’s share in the US driven by changes in technology and/or market power? An empirical analysis	9
Quantile dependence of Bitcoin with clean and renewable energy stocks: new global evidence	9
Social Media Sentiments and Firm Value	9
Sectoral employment analysis for Saudi Arabia	9
Can corporate digital transformation alleviate financing constraints?	9
Crude oil prices and macroeconomic activities: a structural VAR approach to Indonesia	9
Data assets, information uses, and operational efficiency	9
Effectiveness of industrial policy in supporting innovation: the role of internal and external corporate governance mechanism	9
Modelling technical efficiency and technology gap in smallholder maize sector in Ethiopia: accounting for farm heterogeneity	9
The oil price crisis and contagion effects on the Canadian economy	9
The risks of cryptocurrencies with long memory in volatility, non-normality and behavioural insights	9
Does improved transportation promote innovation? evidence from China’s cities	9
The drivers of export value-added in China’s provinces: a multi-regional input–output model	9
The impact of financial flexibility and directors’ academic experience on corporate R&D investments: a quantile regression approach	9
Over-education among immigrants: the role of demographics, time, and firm characteristics	9
COVID-19 pandemic and volatility interdependence between gold and financial assets	9
Bribe or die: gender differences in entrepreneurship in emerging markets	8
Risk contagions between global oil markets and China’s agricultural commodity markets under structural breaks	8
Auditor gender and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	8
University rankings as information source: do they play a different role for domestic and international students?	8
China’s functional upgrading in global value chains and its drivers: a multi-country chaining structural decomposition analysis	8
Analysing the effect of commuting time on earnings among young adults	8
Borrowers’ credit risk factors, perception towards repayment interventions and moral hazard in loan delinquency: an investigation of Indian microfinance institutions	8
Does media-based health risk communication affect commercial health insurance demand? Evidence from China	8
Social capital during the coronavirus pandemic: the value of corporate benevolence	8
How does the internet economy affect CO₂ emissions? Evidence from China	8
Spillovers on sectoral sukuk returns: evidence from country level analysis	8
Connectedness and directional spillovers in energy sectors: international evidence	8
Impact of Digital Financial Inclusion on Optimization of Employment Structure: Evidence from China	8
Recalculating ... : How Uncertainty in Local Labour Market Definitions Affects Empirical Findings	8
Negative performance feedback and corporate venture capital: The moderating effect of CEO overconfidence	8
Energy consumption, agriculture, forestation and CO₂ emission nexus: an application to OECD countries	8
In search of effective altruists	8
Does value-added tax reform in services accelerate enterprise upgrading? Micro evidence from China	8
Life expectancy in nursing homes	8
Effects of audit frequency, audit quality, and facility age on environmental compliance	8
Can public medical insurance promote rural entrepreneurship? Evidence from China	8
Foreign direct investment and institutional environment: the impact of bilateral investment treaties	8
The Impacts of Education on Domestic Violence: Evidence from China	8
Openness to trade, foreign direct investment, and economic growth in Vietnam	8
Nexus between remittance outflows and economic growth in GCC countries: the mediating role of financial development	8
Distributional impact of COVID-19: regional inequalities in cases and deaths in Spain during the first wave	8
Impact of gender on access to finance in developing countries	8
Digital finance and corporate innovation: evidence from China	8
Evaluating the South Korean public perceptions and acceptance of offshore wind farming: evidence from a choice experiment study	8
COVID-19 pandemic, stock returns, and volatility: the role of the vaccination program in Canada	8
Does more maths and natural sciences in high school increase the share of female STEM workers? Evidence from a curriculum reform	8
Robust structural determinants of public deficits in developing countries	8
Financial instability and environmental degradation: a panel data investigation	8
COVID-19 pandemic and the dependence structure of global stock markets	8
Cyclical behaviour of systemic risk in the banking sector	8
Digital financial inclusion and illegal fundraising in China	8
Does listed real estate behave like direct real estate? Updated and broader evidence	8
Opposite effects of returnee and non-local independent directors on firm’s environmental disclosure and performance	8
Evolutionary game analysis of green industry development in the age of sharing economy	8
Technological innovation on economic growth from the perspective of investment-oriented environmental regulations: considering the threshold effect of China human capital	8
External profit pressure and operating efficiency: evidence from Chinese listed companies	7
Toward an empirical investigation of the long-term debt and financing deficit nexus: evidence from Chinese-listed firms	7
Forecasts of growth in US residential investment: accuracy gains from consumer home-buying attitudes and expectations	7
A finite sample correction for the panel Durbin–Watson test	7
Wage discrimination based on the country of birth: do tenure and product market competition matter?	7
Patterns of unconventional monetary policy spillovers during a systemic crisis	7
Not all in this together? Early estimates of the unequal labour market effects of Covid-19	7
Predicting season ticket holder no-show behaviour: more nuanced evidence from Switzerland	7
International student-migrant flows and growth in low- and middle-income countries: brain gain or brain drain?	7