OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 51. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	298
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	228
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	197
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	142
Perceived vs actual financial crisis and bank credit standards: Is there any indication of self-fulfilling prophecy?	135
Factorial asset pricing models using statistical anomalies	110
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	107
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	107
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	98
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	96
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	94
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	93
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	93
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	92
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	89
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	88
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	87
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	85
Accounting for digital currencies	81
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	78
Existence of long memory in crude oil and petroleum products: Generalised Hurst exponent approach	77
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	75
Vulnerability of financial markets in India: The contagious effect of COVID-19	75
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	74
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	74

Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	73
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	73
Family firms and the cost of borrowing: empirical evidence from East Asia	71
Extreme return connectedness among renewable energy and rare earth markets: The role of global factors	71
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	70
Are institutional investors effective monitors in a country where closely held firms predominate? Insights from agency problem-driven dividend payouts	68
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	67
Traders’ motivation and hedging pressure in commodity futures markets	67
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	67
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	65
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	63
Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in the banking sector: A multi-stakeholder cognition-driven framework	62
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	61
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	61
Editorial Board	60
Sports failures and stock returns between rationality and emotionality: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League	58
Guarantee requirements by European central counterparties and international volatility spillovers	56
Market competition and strategic interaction in the Spanish FinTech industry	56
Market response to environmental social and governance performance: A global analysis	56
Revisiting asset co-movement: Does network topology really matter?	55
Why do entrepreneurial firms switch lead venture capital? A double-sided matching perspective	55
The effect of the 2008–09 short selling sales ban on UK security equities in relation to market metrics of volatility, liquidity, and price discovery	54
The takeover Tango: Unraveling the impact of state-owned enterprise acquisitions on American competitors	52
Bank equity returns and oil prices: The story from U.S. regional banks during the “shale oil” revolution	52
Global Stock Markets during Covid-19: Did Rationality Prevail?	52
Identifying the asymmetric price dynamics of Islamic equities: Implications for international investors	52