OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 58. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	457
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	347
Extreme return connectedness among renewable energy and rare earth markets: The role of global factors	189
Editorial Board	188
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	160
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	158
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	149
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	143
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	134
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	133
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	128
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	126
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	113
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	113
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]	108
Digital finance, institutional quality, and air pollution: Evidence from China	107
ESG news and firm value: Evidence from China’s automation of pollution monitoring	106
U.S.–China relations and cross-border capital flows: Is digital technology a “Buffer” or a “Booster”?	105
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	98
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	94
Corporate venture capital and firm productivity: Evidence from China	90
Does fintech drive sustainability? Insights from clean energy and global partnerships	87
Carbon emissions and discontinued operations	86
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	85
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	83

The impact of insider-appointment on the fulfillment of M&A performance commitments: Based on the power-responsibility paradox	82
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	80
Are institutional investors effective monitors in a country where closely held firms predominate? Insights from agency problem-driven dividend payouts	78
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	75
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	74
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	72
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	71
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	71
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	70
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	70
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	69
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	69
Accounting for digital currencies	69
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	69
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	69
Editorial Board	68
The takeover Tango: Unraveling the impact of state-owned enterprise acquisitions on American competitors	67
FinTech and unemployment: New evidence on the role of labor market regulation	66
Are stock markets efficient with respect to the Google search volume index? A robustness check of the literature studies	66
Nurturing finance and harvesting intelligence: The green growth of urban industrial intelligence fueled by green finance	64
Dynamic risk and hedging strategies in post-COVID digital asset sectors	63
Why do entrepreneurial firms switch lead venture capital? A double-sided matching perspective	63
A sparsity algorithm for finding optimal counterfactual explanations: Application to corporate credit rating	63
Trade credit financing, social trust, and financial distress: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	63
Market response to environmental social and governance performance: A global analysis	62
Market competition and strategic interaction in the Spanish FinTech industry	61
Institutional investors, heterogeneity, and capital structure decisions: Evidence from an emerging market	61
The effects of regulatory mechanism on enterprise carbon reduction policies	60
How do Chinese urban investment bonds affect its economic resilience? Evidence from double machine learning	60
How does climate risk affect corporate financialization?	60
Revisiting asset co-movement: Does network topology really matter?	59
Influence of social sustainable development goals sentiment on 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
Guarantee requirements by European central counterparties and international volatility spillovers	58