OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Economic Analysis and Policy is 66. 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
How antitrust enforcement affects corporate ESG performance? Evidence from merger review cases in China	263
Linking Spanish wine farmers to international markets: Is direct export better than indirect export in improving farm performance?	232
Unleashing the digital dividend: Exploring how the digital economy promotes the construction of new urbanization in China’s 284 prefecture-level cities?	228
The carbon tax as an automatic stabilizer in a commodity-producing Small Open Economy	208
Market-based emissions regulation and capacity governance in China’s high-carbon firms: Theoretical investigation and empirical evidence	207
How does bank equity affect credit creation? Multiplier effects under Basel III regulations	207
How do low-carbon city pilots affect carbon emissions? Staggered difference in difference evidence from Chinese firms	201
Linking farmers to markets: Does cooperative membership facilitate e-commerce adoption and income growth in rural China?	183
ESG Rating Events, Financial Investment Behavior and Corporate Innovation	182
The impact of fiscal squeeze on corporate tax avoidance behaviors: Evidence from the agricultural tax reform	144
Quantifying the risk of renewable energy droughts in Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) using MERRA-2 weather data	140
Social credit system and the alleviation of investment–financing maturity mismatch in China	138
The economic implications of population aging on current account balance	126
Does technology innovation help to achieve carbon neutrality?	123
Do carbon markets induce suppliers’ green innovation through backward linkages?	119
Inflation and wealth inequality	117
Digital financial innovation, productivity and modernization of industry chain and supply chain	117
China’s trade in services and asymmetric J-curve	114
The role of EU structural and investment funds in the green transition: A stochastic ray frontier analysis	114
One Country – Two Monetary Policies: Evidence from a new indicator of the PBoC’s monetary policy support for poor regions	111
Return and volatility connectedness between gold and energy markets: Evidence from the pre- and post-COVID vaccination phases	111
Compromise or struggle: Extreme temperatures and environmental corporate social responsibility in China	110
The effect of the environmental protection tax on corporate labor demand: Evidence from China	110
Jump further or climb higher? Impact of different export upgrading strategies on exporter survival	106
Multidimensional risk connectedness among global systemically important financial institutions: A multilayer spillover network analysis	104

Modern health pandemic crises and stock price crash risk	104
Increasing the use of public bicycles: Efficiency and demand	103
Risk contribution to deposit insurance: Evidence from commercial and cooperative banks in the Eurozone	102
Does green manufacturing technology innovation decrease energy intensity for sustainable development?	99
Does COVID-19 make the firms’ performance worse? Evidence from the Chinese listed companies	98
Climate finance for energy security: An empirical analysis from a global perspective	98
The effect of a change to the income support policy for the elderly on labor supply in South Korea	95
Impact of China’s National Sword Policy on waste import:A difference-in-differences approach	94
Does crop insurance increase farmers’ income? Evidence from the pilot program of agricultural catastrophe insurance in China	88
Carbon markets, industrial robots, and the labour skill premium	86
The low-carbon effect of pursuing the honor of civilization? A quasi-experiment in Chinese cities	86
Integrating dimensionality reduction and clustering for measuring profit efficiency: A stochastic meta-frontier approach in Korean manufacturing sector	86
A comprehensive analysis of the correlation between foreign aid and energy security in emerging countries: Does institutional quality matter?	83
Does the Inclusive Finance Index really represent the level of inclusive finance? – Evidence from P2P lending market	81
Corrigendum to “Jump further or climb higher? Impact of different export upgrading strategies on exporter survival” [Economic Analysis and Policy, Volume 88, December 2025, Pages 2098-2115]	80
How does manufacturing agglomeration affect high-quality economic development in China?	79
Can the joint regional air pollution control policy achieve a win-win outcome for the environment and economy? Evidence from China	78
The Impact of green finance reform on firms' patent quality: An empirical study from Chinese listed manufacturing firms	78
Bank discretionary provisioning and systemic risk under impairment accounting standard reforms	76
The effects of rural e-commerce on income inequality: evidence from the National Rural E-Commerce Comprehensive Demonstration policy in China	75
Does COVID-19 play any role in the asymmetric relationship between oil prices and exchange rates? Evidence from South Korea	75
The impact of digital government on cross-regional investment: Evidence from Chinese cities	74
Firm-level perception of uncertainty and corporate default risk: Evidence from China’s listed firms	74
Digital industry agglomeration and urban innovation: Evidence from China	73
Do VAT cuts help stabilize employment? Evidence from China’s VAT rate reform	73
Has China’s Free Trade Zone policy promoted the upgrading of service industry structure?	72
Impact of early-life exposure of children to expanded road infrastructure on long-term educational attainment: New evidence from China	72
Assessing geopolitical risk: Sovereign CDS insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War	72
Environmental regulation and rural migrant workers’ job quality: Evidence from China migrants dynamic surveys	71
The impact of bank interest rate deregulations on firm exports: Evidence from China	70
Mixed-ownership reform of SOEs and ESG performance: Evidence from China	70
Artificial intelligence and firm green innovation: empirical evidence from the application of robots in China	70
Does development zones improve the capacity utilization of firms? Based on the dual perspectives of firms inside and outside the zone	70
The effects of mixed ownership reforms on Chinese firms’ emissions	69
Are greenhouse gas emissions converging in Latin America? Implications for environmental policies	69
Unveiling the power of state activism in times of distress	68
The effect of cigarette prices on insurance premiums: Evidence from cigarette tax increase in South Korea	67
Government procurement digitalization and corporate digital transformation: Evidence from China’s government procurement cloud platforms	67
Global estimates of informal economies and new insights for 152 countries (1997-2022): Using an enhanced modelling approach	67
A bootstrap dynamic multivariate panel Granger causality analysis to examine the relationship between the COVID-19, Delta and Omicron pandemic era and the maritime shipping freight industry	67
Technical progress, technical efficiency, and environmental change: New insights into Vietnam’s productivity growth	66