OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of World Economy is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Taxation of MNE profits in an R&D driven economy: Beneficial tax havens and minimum taxes	71
The Impact of International Students on UK Trade of Cultural Goods	65
Multinational Enterprises and Between‐Firm Wage Inequality Across European Regions	61
Information asymmetry and dynamic sourcing: Evidence from Chinese firms	56
The effect of obtaining EU citizenship in former transition economies on remittance flows	54
Nowcasting services trade for the G7 economies	53
The impact of internet platform usage on firms' exports: New evidence for Turkish firms	49
Navigating Bilateral Digital Trade Flows: The Role of Digital Intellectual Property Agreement Networks	45
Industrial Chain Risk Exposure and Economic Volatility: A Framework Incorporating Foreign‐Invested Enterprises	45
The least developed countries' Services Waiver, Aid for Trade for services and services exports	44
Intangible trade: Understanding the relationship between trade barriers and mode of supply in services sectors	43
Exploring the Role of Aid for Trade in Promoting Digital Services Trade	38
Using synthetic control method to estimate the growth effects of economic liberalisation: Evidence from transition economies	38
U.S. Competitiveness and External Debt: Some Overlooked Aspects of the Crisis in the ‘American Order’	35
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Covid‐19 in America: Global supply chain reconsidered	32
FDI and product and process innovation of SMEs in Vietnam: The role of institutions	29
Culture, Institutions and Economic Growth	28
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Need of External Finance and Financial Development: Evidence From Tariff Shocks of Chinese Cities	25
The nonlinear relationship between poverty and financial globalisation: A panel quantile regression approach	25
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Does antidumping drive exporters out of the market? Some evidence from Brazil	23
Determinants of intangible capital investment in Vietnam: A firm‐level analysis	22
Military alliance and international trade: Evidence from NATO enlargement	21
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Global Value Chain Disruptions During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Korean Firm‐Level Evidence	20
The Quality and Price of Africa's Imports of Digital Goods	20
Global Governance, Economic Sanctions and Agricultural Trade in a Fragmenting World Economy	19
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Intra‐African trade and corruption: Evidence from sub‐Saharan African countries	17
African economic integration and trade	17
Diversification in Trade and Foreign Investment and Resilience to the COVID ‐19 Shock: Firm‐Level Evidence Using Japanese Customs Data	17
Do international investment agreements attract foreign direct investment in knowledge intensive industries?	17
Infrastructure and intra‐regional trade in Africa	17
Going out by doing good: The effect of mandatory CSR disclosure on outward FDI of Chinese firms	17
Trade policy review of Singapore	16
The spillover effect of global uncertainty through input–output linkage	16
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Globalisation and carbon dioxide emissions inequality in OECD countries	16
The trade effect of regional trade agreements in the presence of duty drawbacks	16
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Comparing alternative China and the US arrangements with CPTPP	15
Firm‐Level Concentration of Chinese Exports in Individual Markets	15
A positive effect of uncertainty shocks on the economy: Is the chase over?	15
How Does Regional Trade Policy Uncertainty Affect the Quality of Imported Products?—An Analysis Using CAFTA	15
How do export credit services shape firm growth?	15
Features and evolution of the ‘Belt and Road’ regional value chain: Complex network analysis	14
Cultural Ties, FDI and Firm Performance: Evidence From Investment in China Originating in Hong Kong and Macau	14
Digital‐Real Integration and Trade Network Centrality: Evidence From China	14
Optimum financial areas: Retooling the governance of global finance	13
Enabling Effects of Digital Technology on Enterprise Export Product Quality: Evidence From China	13
Assessing the effect of the Round Table on Responsible Soy certification on soybean exports	13
Digitalisation of International Trade in Intellectual Properties: An Approach Based on the Utility Theory of Technology Value	13
Digital Services Trade Barriers and the Resilience of Global Value Chains	13
The delayed impact of containers on U.S. international trade growth	12
Regional inequalities in the age of nearshoring	12
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Cross‐country linkages between ASEAN and non‐ASEAN‐RCEP member states: A global VAR analysis	12
Regional integration and non‐tariff barriers to Intra‐Sub‐Saharan Africa trade	12
Does offshoring raise female employment in a developing country? Evidence from Indonesian manufacturing plants	11
Do Digital Trade Rules Within the RTAs Promote Trade and Welfare Growth?	11
How Pandemics Affect International Investment: Evidence From M&As During SARS ‐ CoV ‐1 in Chin	11
Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement: Potential Gains	11
U.S.‐South America trade and the J‐Curve: An asymmetric analysis	11
Pre‐Crisis Conditions and Financial Crisis Duration	11
On the economic and political determinants of trade in natural gas	11
Does Digitalisation Promote the Servicification of Manufacturing? Firm‐Level Evidence From China	11
Heterogeneous impacts of regional trade liberalisation on export entry and training: A multi‐destination perspective	11
Estimating the landlocked penalty for international trade	11
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Firm innovation under import competition from low‐wage countries	10

Institution‐Driven Comparative Advantage and Digital Trade: Evidence From Digital Legal Framework	10
Does it matter where you invest? The impact of foreign direct investments on domestic job creation and destruction	10
‘From aspirations for climate action to the reality of climate disasters’: Can remittances play key role in disaster response?	10
The Rising Labour Costs and the Servitisation of Manufacturing Enterprises: An Empirical Investigation of Chinese Enterprises	9
U.S.–China trade war and corporate reallocation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	9
Trade policy in a ‘double‐landlocked’ transition economy: Kyrgyzstan	9
The EMU Effect on Trade: A Re‐Assessment Accounting for Staggered Treatment Adoption	9
The heterogeneous effects of trade policy on trade resilience during the 2020 trade downturn	9
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Similarity of NTMs and Its Impact on Import Unit Values	9
Expropriation Without Compensation: Copper in Chile, 1970–1973	9
Rethinking regional integration in Africa for inclusive and sustainable development: Introduction to the special issue	9
Capturing Value at Home? Special Economic Zones and Domestic Value Added	8
Labour‐saving automation: A direct measure of occupational exposure	8
How Does Trade Policy Respond to the Polycrisis: Analysis of the Argentinean Case	8
Foreign influence: The international transmission of gender equality	8
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Robots in action	8
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Who are pure exporters?	8
Impact of International Investment Agreements on Japanese FDI: A firm‐level analysis^†	8
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The effects of digital trade policies on digital trade	8
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Cutting Russia's fossil fuel exports: Short‐term economic pain for long‐term environmental gain	7
The economic growth–travel frequency nexus in China: Importance of the transport Kuznets curve	7
Air pollution and firms' export product quality: Evidence from China	7
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Export controls and innovation performance: Unravelling the complex relationship between blacklisted Chinese firms and U.S. suppliers	7
Trade misreporting: Evidence from Pakistani importers	7
The Heterogeneous Effects of Uncertainty on Trade	7
Alternative measures of price inflation and the perception of real income in Germany	7
The Impact of the US ‐China Trade War on Vietnam's US Exports	7
Can Innovation Policies Enhance Export Sophistication? Evidence From China	7
Trade policy uncertainty and capacity utilisation rate: Firm‐level evidence from China's WTO accession	7
COVID‐19, Import Relationships and New Formation: Evidence From Colombian Importers	7
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Improving Exports: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange	7
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Correction to “Bank wholesale funding in an era of rising geopolitical risk”	7
How exporters neutralised an increase in tariffs	7
The mystery of misreported trade: A novel method to identify distorted trade figures	7
What drives most jumps in global crude oil prices? Fundamental shortage conditions, cartel, geopolitics or the behaviour of financial market participants	7
Is price undertaking a more friendly protection policy than an anti‐dumping duty?¹	7
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Foreign Affiliates' Position in Global Value Chains and Local Sourcing in Chile: Evidence From Plant‐Level Panel Data	7
Services trade policy and industry performance in African economies	7
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Intellectual Property Institutions, Comparative Advantage and Technology Transfer	6
Impacts of globalisation on the adoption of remote work: Evidence from a survey in Japan during the COVID ‐19 pandemic	6
EU agriculture under an import stop for food and feed	6
Bank‐intermediated trade finance and the intensive margin of African trade	6
Internet penetration and multi‐product exporters: Firm‐level evidence from China	6
The landscape of CO₂ emissions across Africa: A comparative perspective	6
The Impact of China–Africa Bilateral Tax Treaties on Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Africa	6
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Globalisation and national commodity cycles: The case of wine in Australia	6
Trade‐induced reduction in unemployment of a high‐wage economy	6
Geopolitical competition, globalisation and WTO reform	6
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The effects of foreign direct investment on human capital accumulation—Evidence from China	5
How Industrial Robots Are Reshaping the Division of Labour in Global Value Chains—On the Basis of the Production Length Perspective	5
Minimising COVID‐19 transmission cases: Do policies and institutions matter?	5
The effect of soaring housing prices on the quality of export products: Evidence from China	5
Have Robots Grounded the Flying Geese? Evidence From Greenfield FDI Announcements	5
FDI, financial constraint and partial ownership	5
International trademark protection strength: 1990–2020	5
Special Economic Zone and Local Economic Performance in China: Evidence From Tianjin	5
Economic costs of friendshoring	5
The European Union and within‐country income inequalities. The case of the new member states	5
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Digital intensity, trade costs and exports' quality upgrading	5
How bilateral foreign direct investment influences environmental convergence	5
The pro‐competitive effects of indirect export exposures: Evidence from China	5
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Does South–South Cooperation Deliver? The Economic Impacts of BRICS Plus Platform	4
The nexus between natural disasters, supply chains and trade—Revisiting the role of preferential trade agreements in disaster risk reduction	4
Linking Southern Africa to South Africa's exports: New opportunities for regional value chains	4
Offshoring and the dynamics of employment, production, and imports: Evidence from the German International Sourcing Survey	4

Do imports of intermediate inputs generate higher productivity? Evidence from Ecuadorian manufacturing firms	4
Are software automation and teleworker substitutes? Preliminary evidence from Japan	4
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Social Awareness, Corporate Environmental Investment and Export: Evidence From China	4
FDI , production networks and firm behaviour: Evidence from the South African automotive industry	4
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The Corden Prize	4
Oman's trade achievements with Singapore given the Gulf–Singapore Free Trade Agreement	4
The evolving international effects of China's government spending	4
Ripple effects in regional value chains: Evidence from an episode of the US–China trade war	4
Internet linkage and international trade: From the perspective of risk alleviation	4
The effect of inequality of opportunity on entrepreneurship: Evidence from China	4
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Digital connectedness and exports upgrading: Is sub‐Saharan Africa catching up?	4
Digital Imports and Firm‐Level Employment: Evidence From China	4
Not‐So‐Innocent Bystanders: Trade With Neighbours of Sanctioned Countries	4
Multinationals and domestic total factor productivity: Competition effects, knowledge spillovers and foreign ownership	4
From Trade to Tensions: How Economic Interdependence Shapes Diplomatic Hospitality, 1989–2019	4
Foreign Direct Investment Attractiveness in Africa: The Role of Special Economic Zones	4
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Monetary union in Southeast Asia: An assessment of the optimum currency area theory*	3
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Labour market flexibility and domestic value‐added trade: Evidence from the hukou reform in China	3
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Matrix completion of world trade: An analysis of interpretability through Shapley values	3
Trade Effects of the US –China Trade War on a Third Country: Preventing Trade Rerouting From China	3
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An analysis of value chain trade in Africa	3
Trade and value chain participation: Domestic firms and FDI spillovers in Africa	3
Foreign Direct Investment and Quality‐Upgrading Spillovers in Indonesia	3
Quantifying the costs of utilising regional trade agreements	3
Industrial Robot Imports and Firm Innovation: A Large Language Model	3
The international service trade effects of bilateral investment treaties	3
GVC Participation and Labour Market Disparities: Exploring the Effects on Employment and Wage Inequality	3
Let us misinvoice more? The effect ofde jurecapital controls on trade misinvoicing	3
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Economic ideas and Taiwan's shift to export promotion in the 1950s	3
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Exchange rate undervaluation and African surges: What do we learn from exported products?	3
Turning green through within‐firm adjustment: Evidence from environmental court in China	3
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Supply Chain Tectonics: Empirics on How the EU Is Plotting Its Path Through Global Trade Fragmentation	3
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Revisiting the nexus between globalisation and the shadow economy: Untying the influences of de jure versus de facto globalisation	3
Dynamic impacts of intermittent trade conflicts	3
Global value chains and the CPTPP	3
Exploring the Role of Energy Consumption and Labour Productivity in Understanding the Effects of Climate Change on International Trade	3
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Gender Differences in Enterprise Export Performance: Some International Evidence	3
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Global shocks and the dynamics of EU countries' specialisation	3
Land regulations, innovation and productivity: Firm‐level evidence from China	3
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Trade Policy Review of Turkey	3
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Detecting learning from importing: The effect of importing behaviour on R&D expenditures of Chinese firms	3
Remittance flows and informal economies in post‐Soviet transition countries	3
Exposure to trade disruptions in case of the Russia–Ukraine conflict: A product network approach	3
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Remittances and inequality: A meta‐analytic investigation	3
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Exposure to FDI and attitudes towards multinational enterprises: Do M&A matter?	3
Do deep regional trade agreements strengthen anti‐corruption? A social network analysis	3
Trade development and agricultural productivity change: Evidence from China	3
Services' trade in Africa: Structure and growth	3
Covid‐19 pandemic and its impact on capital and output distortions: Evidence from China	3
Real exchange rate shocks and new product margins in the export market	3
Extra‐EU immigrants and labour productivity: New evidence from Italian firms	3
The Interest Rate Effects of Government Debt Maturity: Solving the Bond Conundrum	3
Market Presence and Sanction Responses: US Companies Navigating Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine	3
Fiscal federalism and foreign direct investment – An empirical analysis	3
Digital Inclusion and Export Performance: Gendered Impacts of E‐Commerce Adoption in Chinese MSEs	2
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The impact of climate change on international trade: A gravity model estimation	2
Does Global Value Chain Participation Matter for Economic Upgrading? A Nonlinear Insight	2
Epidemic outbreak and foreign direct investment fluctuation	2
The impact of industrial robots on export stability	2
Emission reduction and value‐added export nexus at firm level	2
Tariff Troubles: Repercussions of Protectionist Policies on US Agriculture and the Trade Deficit	2
FDI and Firm Innovation in the Digital Economy: Evidence From China	2
Indian buyers in global markets: Quality, prices and productivity	2
African continental free trade area and greenfield investment: Likely effect and transmission channels	2
The impact ofCOVID‐19 on international tourism flows to Italy: Evidence from mobile phone data	2
How do we make trade policy in Britain? How should we?	2
Not All Service Imports Are Created Equal. The Role of Imported Services in Promoting Goods' Export Growth	2
How taste proximity affects consumer quality valuation of imported varieties: Evidence from the French food sector	2
The trade‐GDP ratio as a measure of openness	2
Constraints on currency market movements – Implications for the RMB exchange rate regime	2
Service offshoring and its impacts on wages: An occupation‐oriented analysis of Germany	2
The effectiveness of embargoes: Evidence from Russia	2
Revisiting Trade and Income in the New Era of Globalisation—Distance, Big Boats and Natural Barriers to Trade	2
Global Production Automation and China's Export Adjustment—Theoretical and Empirical Evidence	2
Brexsea Trade and Uncertainty: Impact of Brexit on Seafood Exports	2
Fiscal and current account imbalances: The cases of Germany and Portugal	2