OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 52. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	320
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	255
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	202
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	145
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	143
Factorial asset pricing models using statistical anomalies	118
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	115
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	114
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	109
Extreme return connectedness among renewable energy and rare earth markets: The role of global factors	105
Are institutional investors effective monitors in a country where closely held firms predominate? Insights from agency problem-driven dividend payouts	100
Perceived vs actual financial crisis and bank credit standards: Is there any indication of self-fulfilling prophecy?	99
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	97
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	97
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	94
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	93
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	91
Vulnerability of financial markets in India: The contagious effect of COVID-19	87
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	86
ESG news and firm value: Evidence from China’s automation of pollution monitoring	85
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	85
Digital finance, institutional quality, and air pollution: Evidence from China	84
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	82
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	82
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	81

EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	80
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	76
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	75
Family firms and the cost of borrowing: empirical evidence from East Asia	74
Traders’ motivation and hedging pressure in commodity futures markets	73
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	72
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	71
Accounting for digital currencies	71
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	70
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	69
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	69
Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in the banking sector: A multi-stakeholder cognition-driven framework	69
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	68
Existence of long memory in crude oil and petroleum products: Generalised Hurst exponent approach	66
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	63
Editorial Board	60
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	60
Market competition and strategic interaction in the Spanish FinTech industry	59
Does common ownership affect stock price synchronicity?	59
Do investors listen? Exploring the effect of investor relationship management on firm-specific stock return variation	59
Can CFOs improve enterprise loan bargaining power? An empirical analysis based on CFO characteristics	59
How do Chinese urban investment bonds affect its economic resilience? Evidence from double machine learning	57
A sparsity algorithm for finding optimal counterfactual explanations: Application to corporate credit rating	57
Sports failures and stock returns between rationality and emotionality: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League	57
Guarantee requirements by European central counterparties and international volatility spillovers	55
Revisiting asset co-movement: Does network topology really matter?	54
Why do entrepreneurial firms switch lead venture capital? A double-sided matching perspective	53
Identifying the asymmetric price dynamics of Islamic equities: Implications for international investors	52
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