OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 55. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
ESG news and firm value: Evidence from China’s automation of pollution monitoring	402
Digital finance, institutional quality, and air pollution: Evidence from China	319
Editorial Board	175
Factorial asset pricing models using statistical anomalies	155
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	140
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	138
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	132
Are institutional investors effective monitors in a country where closely held firms predominate? Insights from agency problem-driven dividend payouts	128
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	121
Corrigendum to “Carbon pricing and sovereign credit risk: A threshold analysis of policy design and economic structure for climate-fiscal resilience” [Res. Int. Bus. Financ. 81 (2025) 103197]	111
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	111
Extreme return connectedness among renewable energy and rare earth markets: The role of global factors	109
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	108
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	105
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	101
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	99
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	95
The impact of insider-appointment on the fulfillment of M&A performance commitments: Based on the power-responsibility paradox	94
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	88
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	85
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	85
Family firms and the cost of borrowing: empirical evidence from East Asia	84
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	83
Traders’ motivation and hedging pressure in commodity futures markets	81
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	79

Corporate venture capital and firm productivity: Evidence from China	79
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	77
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	75
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	72
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	71
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	71
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	69
Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in the banking sector: A multi-stakeholder cognition-driven framework	69
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	67
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	66
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	66
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	65
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	63
Accounting for digital currencies	62
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	62
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	62
Editorial Board	61
Bank equity returns and oil prices: The story from U.S. regional banks during the “shale oil” revolution	60
Why do entrepreneurial firms switch lead venture capital? A double-sided matching perspective	60
Identifying the asymmetric price dynamics of Islamic equities: Implications for international investors	59
Predicting financial cycles with dynamic ensemble selection frameworks using leading, coincident and lagging indicators	59
Market competition and strategic interaction in the Spanish FinTech industry	58
Guarantee requirements by European central counterparties and international volatility spillovers	58
Trade credit financing, social trust, and financial distress: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	58
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	58
The takeover Tango: Unraveling the impact of state-owned enterprise acquisitions on American competitors	57
Revisiting asset co-movement: Does network topology really matter?	57
Influence of social sustainable development goals sentiment on listed companies	56
Volatility transmission in the property market during two inflationary periods: The 2008–2009 global financial crisis and the COVID-19 crisis	55
A sparsity algorithm for finding optimal counterfactual explanations: Application to corporate credit rating	55
Sports failures and stock returns between rationality and emotionality: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League	55