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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Choice and expenditure: A double hurdle model of private tutoring in Qatar	302
Modern health pandemic crises and stock price crash risk	190
Inflation and wealth inequality	176
The economic implications of population aging on current account balance	175
Increasing the use of public bicycles: Efficiency and demand	175
How does bank equity affect credit creation? Multiplier effects under Basel III regulations	163
Linking Spanish wine farmers to international markets: Is direct export better than indirect export in improving farm performance?	161
Impact of China’s National Sword Policy on waste import:A difference-in-differences approach	156
A comprehensive analysis of the correlation between foreign aid and energy security in emerging countries: Does institutional quality matter?	153
Does COVID-19 make the firms’ performance worse? Evidence from the Chinese listed companies	129
Climate finance for energy security: An empirical analysis from a global perspective	129
The low-carbon effect of pursuing the honor of civilization? A quasi-experiment in Chinese cities	128
Impact of devolved forest tenure reform on formal credit access for households: Evidence from Fujian, China	125
China’s trade in services and asymmetric J-curve	119
Risk contribution to deposit insurance: Evidence from commercial and cooperative banks in the Eurozone	109
The effect of a change to the income support policy for the elderly on labor supply in South Korea	105
Do hospital reform and ownership matter to Shenzhen hospitals in China? A productivity analysis	104
Does the structure of credit markets affect agricultural development in West African countries?	97
Does green manufacturing technology innovation decrease energy intensity for sustainable development?	95
The impact of fiscal squeeze on corporate tax avoidance behaviors: Evidence from the agricultural tax reform	95
Compromise or struggle: Extreme temperatures and environmental corporate social responsibility in China	95
How do low-carbon city pilots affect carbon emissions? Staggered difference in difference evidence from Chinese firms	93
Quantifying the risk of renewable energy droughts in Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) using MERRA-2 weather data	93
Does crop insurance increase farmers’ income? Evidence from the pilot program of agricultural catastrophe insurance in China	91
One Country – Two Monetary Policies: Evidence from a new indicator of the PBoC’s monetary policy support for poor regions	88

The Impact of green finance reform on firms' patent quality: An empirical study from Chinese listed manufacturing firms	84
The effect of the environmental protection tax on corporate labor demand: Evidence from China	81
Linking farmers to markets: Does cooperative membership facilitate e-commerce adoption and income growth in rural China?	80
Unleashing the digital dividend: Exploring how the digital economy promotes the construction of new urbanization in China’s 284 prefecture-level cities?	80
Does technology innovation help to achieve carbon neutrality?	79
Can the joint regional air pollution control policy achieve a win-win outcome for the environment and economy? Evidence from China	78
The role of global agricultural market integration in multiregional economic modeling: Using hindcast experiments to validate an Armington model	78
Return and volatility connectedness between gold and energy markets: Evidence from the pre- and post-COVID vaccination phases	78
ESG Rating Events, Financial Investment Behavior and Corporate Innovation	77
How antitrust enforcement affects corporate ESG performance? Evidence from merger review cases in China	76
How does manufacturing agglomeration affect high-quality economic development in China?	76
The carbon tax as an automatic stabilizer in a commodity-producing Small Open Economy	75
The Effects of Rural E-Commerce on Income Inequality: Evidence from the National Rural E-Commerce Comprehensive Demonstration Policy in China	73
Convergent movement of COVID-19 outbreak in Japan based on SIR model	72
The lending implication of a funding for lending scheme policy during COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Indonesia Banks	72
Stochastic copula-DEA model based on the dependence structure of stochastic variables: An application to twenty bank branches	71
Does COVID-19 play any role in the asymmetric relationship between oil prices and exchange rates? Evidence from South Korea	69
Do VAT cuts help stabilize employment? Evidence from China’s VAT rate reform	69
Air quality, COVID-19, and the oil market: Evidence from China’s provinces	68
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	68
Progressive wealth tax: An inquiry into Biden’s tax policy	66
Increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RESs) in the specific portfolio by using the taxation mechanism: Study at the level of EU states	65
Assessing geopolitical risk: Sovereign CDS insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War	64
Does development zones improve the capacity utilization of firms? Based on the dual perspectives of firms inside and outside the zone	64
Does the child support grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?	62
Digital industry agglomeration and urban innovation: Evidence from China	61
Employee allocation efficiency in the context of the digital economy: Evidence from “Broadband China” demonstration cities	59
Creativity as the hidden development factor for organizations and employees	59
The housing status and two-child fertility willingness of floating population: Evidence from the Chinese General Social Survey	58
Blessing or curse? The effect of broadband Internet on China’s inter-city income inequality	58
Is geopolitical oil price uncertainty forcing the world to use energy more efficiently? Evidence from advanced statistical methods	57
A connectedness analysis among BRICS’s geopolitical risks and the US macroeconomy	56