OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Economic Analysis and Policy is 56. 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
Inflation and wealth inequality	187
Increasing the use of public bicycles: Efficiency and demand	183
The economic implications of population aging on current account balance	171
China’s trade in services and asymmetric J-curve	168
Linking Spanish wine farmers to international markets: Is direct export better than indirect export in improving farm performance?	163
Return and volatility connectedness between gold and energy markets: Evidence from the pre- and post-COVID vaccination phases	161
The low-carbon effect of pursuing the honor of civilization? A quasi-experiment in Chinese cities	146
Does green manufacturing technology innovation decrease energy intensity for sustainable development?	145
Impact of China’s National Sword Policy on waste import:A difference-in-differences approach	135
Social Credit System and the Alleviation of Investment–Financing Maturity Mismatch in China	134
Does the structure of credit markets affect agricultural development in West African countries?	123
Compromise or struggle: Extreme temperatures and environmental corporate social responsibility in China	114
The impact of fiscal squeeze on corporate tax avoidance behaviors: Evidence from the agricultural tax reform	105
How does manufacturing agglomeration affect high-quality economic development in China?	104
Modern health pandemic crises and stock price crash risk	103
How does bank equity affect credit creation? Multiplier effects under Basel III regulations	102
The Impact of green finance reform on firms' patent quality: An empirical study from Chinese listed manufacturing firms	98
The effect of the environmental protection tax on corporate labor demand: Evidence from China	98
One Country – Two Monetary Policies: Evidence from a new indicator of the PBoC’s monetary policy support for poor regions	98
Does crop insurance increase farmers’ income? Evidence from the pilot program of agricultural catastrophe insurance in China	97
Quantifying the risk of renewable energy droughts in Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) using MERRA-2 weather data	93
Impact of devolved forest tenure reform on formal credit access for households: Evidence from Fujian, China	90
Risk contribution to deposit insurance: Evidence from commercial and cooperative banks in the Eurozone	89
The effect of a change to the income support policy for the elderly on labor supply in South Korea	88
Do hospital reform and ownership matter to Shenzhen hospitals in China? A productivity analysis	87

The role of global agricultural market integration in multiregional economic modeling: Using hindcast experiments to validate an Armington model	86
The carbon tax as an automatic stabilizer in a commodity-producing Small Open Economy	84
Can the joint regional air pollution control policy achieve a win-win outcome for the environment and economy? Evidence from China	82
Climate finance for energy security: An empirical analysis from a global perspective	82
Choice and expenditure: A double hurdle model of private tutoring in Qatar	82
How do low-carbon city pilots affect carbon emissions? Staggered difference in difference evidence from Chinese firms	81
How antitrust enforcement affects corporate ESG performance? Evidence from merger review cases in China	81
Unleashing the digital dividend: Exploring how the digital economy promotes the construction of new urbanization in China’s 284 prefecture-level cities?	80
Does COVID-19 make the firms’ performance worse? Evidence from the Chinese listed companies	79
A comprehensive analysis of the correlation between foreign aid and energy security in emerging countries: Does institutional quality matter?	77
ESG Rating Events, Financial Investment Behavior and Corporate Innovation	76
The lending implication of a funding for lending scheme policy during COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Indonesia Banks	74
Linking farmers to markets: Does cooperative membership facilitate e-commerce adoption and income growth in rural China?	74
Does technology innovation help to achieve carbon neutrality?	74
Do VAT cuts help stabilize employment? Evidence from China’s VAT rate reform	70
Air quality, COVID-19, and the oil market: Evidence from China’s provinces	69
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
Stochastic copula-DEA model based on the dependence structure of stochastic variables: An application to twenty bank branches	66
Employee allocation efficiency in the context of the digital economy: Evidence from “Broadband China” demonstration cities	65
Does COVID-19 play any role in the asymmetric relationship between oil prices and exchange rates? Evidence from South Korea	65
Blessing or curse? The effect of broadband Internet on China’s inter-city income inequality	65
Progressive wealth tax: An inquiry into Biden’s tax policy	63
Does development zones improve the capacity utilization of firms? Based on the dual perspectives of firms inside and outside the zone	61
Increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RESs) in the specific portfolio by using the taxation mechanism: Study at the level of EU states	61
The impact of bank interest rate deregulations on firm exports: Evidence from China	60
Unveiling the power of state activism in times of distress	60
Impact of developmental social policy on household welfare: Evidence from China’s comprehensive demonstration policy for e-commerce in rural areas	60
Are greenhouse gas emissions converging in Latin America? Implications for environmental policies	58
The effects of mixed ownership reforms on Chinese firms’ emissions	58
The housing status and two-child fertility willingness of floating population: Evidence from the Chinese General Social Survey	56
Does the child support grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?	56