OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Economic Analysis and Policy is 61. 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
The economic implications of population aging on current account balance	227
The effect of a change to the income support policy for the elderly on labor supply in South Korea	210
A comprehensive analysis of the correlation between foreign aid and energy security in emerging countries: Does institutional quality matter?	205
The effect of the environmental protection tax on corporate labor demand: Evidence from China	197
Do carbon markets induce suppliers’ green innovation through backward linkages?	186
Does the Inclusive Finance Index really represent the level of inclusive finance? – Evidence from P2P lending market	184
Market-based emissions regulation and capacity governance in China’s high-carbon firms: Theoretical investigation and empirical evidence	181
The carbon tax as an automatic stabilizer in a commodity-producing Small Open Economy	163
How does bank equity affect credit creation? Multiplier effects under Basel III regulations	154
The role of EU structural and investment funds in the green transition: A stochastic ray frontier analysis	136
Social credit system and the alleviation of investment–financing maturity mismatch in China	125
Climate finance for energy security: An empirical analysis from a global perspective	121
One Country – Two Monetary Policies: Evidence from a new indicator of the PBoC’s monetary policy support for poor regions	119
Compromise or struggle: Extreme temperatures and environmental corporate social responsibility in China	114
Increasing the use of public bicycles: Efficiency and demand	112
Risk contribution to deposit insurance: Evidence from commercial and cooperative banks in the Eurozone	110
Inflation and wealth inequality	108
China’s trade in services and asymmetric J-curve	106
Return and volatility connectedness between gold and energy markets: Evidence from the pre- and post-COVID vaccination phases	104
Unleashing the digital dividend: Exploring how the digital economy promotes the construction of new urbanization in China’s 284 prefecture-level cities?	102
Quantifying the risk of renewable energy droughts in Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) using MERRA-2 weather data	101
Multidimensional risk connectedness among global systemically important financial institutions: A multilayer spillover network analysis	101
The Impact of green finance reform on firms' patent quality: An empirical study from Chinese listed manufacturing firms	101
Does technology innovation help to achieve carbon neutrality?	100
How antitrust enforcement affects corporate ESG performance? Evidence from merger review cases in China	100

How does manufacturing agglomeration affect high-quality economic development in China?	99
Linking Spanish wine farmers to international markets: Is direct export better than indirect export in improving farm performance?	98
Jump further or climb higher? Impact of different export upgrading strategies on exporter survival	95
Can the joint regional air pollution control policy achieve a win-win outcome for the environment and economy? Evidence from China	93
Impact of China’s National Sword Policy on waste import:A difference-in-differences approach	92
The low-carbon effect of pursuing the honor of civilization? A quasi-experiment in Chinese cities	92
Does the structure of credit markets affect agricultural development in West African countries?	91
Integrating dimensionality reduction and clustering for measuring profit efficiency: A stochastic meta-frontier approach in Korean manufacturing sector	90
ESG Rating Events, Financial Investment Behavior and Corporate Innovation	84
Modern health pandemic crises and stock price crash risk	84
Linking farmers to markets: Does cooperative membership facilitate e-commerce adoption and income growth in rural China?	82
Does COVID-19 make the firms’ performance worse? Evidence from the Chinese listed companies	82
Does green manufacturing technology innovation decrease energy intensity for sustainable development?	77
The effects of rural e-commerce on income inequality: evidence from the National Rural E-Commerce Comprehensive Demonstration policy in China	76
Digital financial innovation, productivity and modernization of industry chain and supply chain	74
Does crop insurance increase farmers’ income? Evidence from the pilot program of agricultural catastrophe insurance in China	72
The impact of fiscal squeeze on corporate tax avoidance behaviors: Evidence from the agricultural tax reform	72
How do low-carbon city pilots affect carbon emissions? Staggered difference in difference evidence from Chinese firms	71
Are greenhouse gas emissions converging in Latin America? Implications for environmental policies	70
Increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RESs) in the specific portfolio by using the taxation mechanism: Study at the level of EU states	70
Does the child support grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?	69
Assessing geopolitical risk: Sovereign CDS insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War	67
Impact of developmental social policy on household welfare: Evidence from China’s comprehensive demonstration policy for e-commerce in rural areas	67
Unveiling the power of state activism in times of distress	66
The lending implication of a funding for lending scheme policy during COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Indonesia Banks	66
Does development zones improve the capacity utilization of firms? Based on the dual perspectives of firms inside and outside the zone	65
The effects of mixed ownership reforms on Chinese firms’ emissions	64
Does COVID-19 play any role in the asymmetric relationship between oil prices and exchange rates? Evidence from South Korea	63
The impacts of household splitting on migrants' subjective well-being: Evidence from China	63
The impact of bank interest rate deregulations on firm exports: Evidence from China	63
Regional economic impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns and mitigation effects of stimulus checks and unemployment insurance	62
Firm-level perception of uncertainty and corporate default risk: Evidence from China’s listed firms	62
Technical progress, technical efficiency, and environmental change: New insights into Vietnam’s productivity growth	62
Employee allocation efficiency in the context of the digital economy: Evidence from “Broadband China” demonstration cities	61
The housing status and two-child fertility willingness of floating population: Evidence from the Chinese General Social Survey	61
Environmental and economy-wide impacts of green fiscal policies on digital economy development: A CGE-based analysis	61