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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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Taxation of MNE profits in an R&D driven economy: Beneficial tax havens and minimum taxes	55
COVID‐19, trade and trade policy	52
Using synthetic control method to estimate the growth effects of economic liberalisation: Evidence from transition economies	51
Industrial Chain Risk Exposure and Economic Volatility: A Framework Incorporating Foreign‐Invested Enterprises	46
Information asymmetry and dynamic sourcing: Evidence from Chinese firms	44
The effect of obtaining EU citizenship in former transition economies on remittance flows	40
Nowcasting services trade for the G7 economies	34
The impact of internet platform usage on firms' exports: New evidence for Turkish firms	34
The least developed countries' Services Waiver, Aid for Trade for services and services exports	34
The Impact of International Students on UK Trade of Cultural Goods	29
Navigating Bilateral Digital Trade Flows: The Role of Digital Intellectual Property Agreement Networks	28
Intangible trade: Understanding the relationship between trade barriers and mode of supply in services sectors	28
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International trade and labour market integration of immigrants	24
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Global Value Chain Disruptions During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Korean Firm‐Level Evidence	23
Intra‐African trade and corruption: Evidence from sub‐Saharan African countries	22
Global Governance, Economic Sanctions and Agricultural Trade in a Fragmenting World Economy	21
Determinants of intangible capital investment in Vietnam: A firm‐level analysis	21

FDI and product and process innovation of SMEs in Vietnam: The role of institutions	21
Military alliance and international trade: Evidence from NATO enlargement	20
African economic integration and trade	18
Going out by doing good: The effect of mandatory CSR disclosure on outward FDI of Chinese firms	18
The nonlinear relationship between poverty and financial globalisation: A panel quantile regression approach	18
Infrastructure and intra‐regional trade in Africa	17
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Culture, Institutions and Economic Growth	16
The Quality and Price of Africa's Imports of Digital Goods	16
Covid‐19 in America: Global supply chain reconsidered	15
How COVID‐19 vaccine supply chains emerged in the midst of a pandemic	15
Does antidumping drive exporters out of the market? Some evidence from Brazil	15
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The trade effect of regional trade agreements in the presence of duty drawbacks	14
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Firm‐Level Concentration of Chinese Exports in Individual Markets	14
Regional integration and non‐tariff barriers to Intra‐Sub‐Saharan Africa trade	13
The delayed impact of containers on U.S. international trade growth	13
The spillover effect of global uncertainty through input–output linkage	13
Regional inequalities in the age of nearshoring	13
How do export credit services shape firm growth?	12
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Optimum financial areas: Retooling the governance of global finance	12
Comparing alternative China and the US arrangements with CPTPP	12
Do international investment agreements attract foreign direct investment in knowledge intensive industries?	12
A positive effect of uncertainty shocks on the economy: Is the chase over?	12
Trade policy review of Singapore	11
Globalisation and carbon dioxide emissions inequality in OECD countries	11
Assessing the effect of the Round Table on Responsible Soy certification on soybean exports	11
Cross‐country linkages between ASEAN and non‐ASEAN‐RCEP member states: A global VAR analysis	11
Features and evolution of the ‘Belt and Road’ regional value chain: Complex network analysis	11
Cultural Ties, FDI and Firm Performance: Evidence From Investment in China Originating in Hong Kong and Macau	11
How Does Regional Trade Policy Uncertainty Affect the Quality of Imported Products?—An Analysis Using CAFTA	10
Pre‐Crisis Conditions and Financial Crisis Duration	10
‘From aspirations for climate action to the reality of climate disasters’: Can remittances play key role in disaster response?	10
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The trade impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
Trade liberalisation and the extensive margin of differentiated goods: Evidence from China*	10
Estimating the landlocked penalty for international trade	10
Expropriation Without Compensation: Copper in Chile, 1970–1973	10
Institutional similarity, firm heterogeneity and export sophistication	10
U.S.–China trade war and corporate reallocation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	9
Does offshoring raise female employment in a developing country? Evidence from Indonesian manufacturing plants	9
Does it matter where you invest? The impact of foreign direct investments on domestic job creation and destruction	9
U.S.‐South America trade and the J‐Curve: An asymmetric analysis	9
Development aid and illicit capital flight: Evidence from Nepal	9
The effects of digital trade policies on digital trade	8
Similarity of NTMs and Its Impact on Import Unit Values	8
The effects of restrictive measures on cross‐border investment: Evidence from OECD and emerging countries	8
Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons: Are embargoes effective?	8

Heterogeneous impacts of regional trade liberalisation on export entry and training: A multi‐destination perspective	8
On the economic and political determinants of trade in natural gas	8
Trade policy in a ‘double‐landlocked’ transition economy: Kyrgyzstan	8
Labour‐saving automation: A direct measure of occupational exposure	8
Robots in action	8
The heterogeneous effects of trade policy on trade resilience during the 2020 trade downturn	8
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Impact of International Investment Agreements on Japanese FDI: A firm‐level analysis^†	8
Rethinking regional integration in Africa for inclusive and sustainable development: Introduction to the special issue	8
Quality of imported intermediates, innovation behaviour and markups: Firm‐level evidence from China	8
Firm innovation under import competition from low‐wage countries	8
Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement: Potential Gains	8
The internationalisation of Chinese firms: Impact of FDI experience on export performance	7
To default or not? The aftermath of sovereign defaults and IMF programs in economic crises	7
Export controls and innovation performance: Unravelling the complex relationship between blacklisted Chinese firms and U.S. suppliers	7
Complexity, tacit knowledge and the scope for technological catch‐up	7
Revisiting economic effectiveness of foreign aid: The case of Japanese aid to China	7
Trade misreporting: Evidence from Pakistani importers	7
Improving Exports: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange	7
Long‐run effects of trade liberalisation on local labour markets: Evidence from South Africa	7
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Can money buy friendship?—Evidence from the US and China’s competition for influence through foreign aid	7
Foreign influence: The international transmission of gender equality	7
Who are pure exporters?	7
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The role of human capital in structural change and growth in an open economy: Innovative and absorptive capacity effects	6
How Does Trade Policy Respond to the Polycrisis: Analysis of the Argentinean Case	6
Trade policy uncertainty and capacity utilisation rate: Firm‐level evidence from China's WTO accession	6
Correction to “Bank wholesale funding in an era of rising geopolitical risk”	6
The pro‐competitive effects of foreign firm entry: Evidence from the Korean retail sector	6
How exporters neutralised an increase in tariffs	6
Globalisation, economic uncertainty and labour market regulations: Implications for the COVID‐19 crisis	6
Foreign Affiliates' Position in Global Value Chains and Local Sourcing in Chile: Evidence From Plant‐Level Panel Data	6
What drives updates of inflation expectations? A Bayesian VAR analysis for the G‐7 countries	6
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The mystery of misreported trade: A novel method to identify distorted trade figures	6
Is price undertaking a more friendly protection policy than an anti‐dumping duty?¹	6
The economic growth–travel frequency nexus in China: Importance of the transport Kuznets curve	6
The Heterogeneous Effects of Uncertainty on Trade	6
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Services trade policy and industry performance in African economies	6
Alternative measures of price inflation and the perception of real income in Germany	6
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Internet penetration and multi‐product exporters: Firm‐level evidence from China	5
Globalisation and national commodity cycles: The case of wine in Australia	5
Environmental benefit gain from exporting: Evidence from Vietnam	5
Producer service foreign direct investment and pollution in China	5
Mini‐symposium: Institutions, policies and performance	5
Bank‐intermediated trade finance and the intensive margin of African trade	5
The landscape of CO₂ emissions across Africa: A comparative perspective	5
Determinants of regional trade agreement utilisation: Evidence from multiple import countries in Asia	5
Trade‐induced reduction in unemployment of a high‐wage economy	5
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Cutting Russia's fossil fuel exports: Short‐term economic pain for long‐term environmental gain	5
What drives most jumps in global crude oil prices? Fundamental shortage conditions, cartel, geopolitics or the behaviour of financial market participants	5
Air pollution and firms' export product quality: Evidence from China	5
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Geopolitical competition, globalisation and WTO reform	5
EU agriculture under an import stop for food and feed	5
Network‐adjusted market share and the currency denomination of trade	5
Who sends me face masks? Evidence for the impacts of COVID‐19 on international trade in medical goods	5
COVID‐19, Import Relationships and New Formation: Evidence From Colombian Importers	5
When does foreign direct investment lead to inclusive growth?	5
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Economic costs of friendshoring	4
FDI, financial constraint and partial ownership	4
International trademark protection strength: 1990–2020	4
The effect of inequality of opportunity on entrepreneurship: Evidence from China	4
Do imports of intermediate inputs generate higher productivity? Evidence from Ecuadorian manufacturing firms	4
How bilateral foreign direct investment influences environmental convergence	4
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Have Robots Grounded the Flying Geese? Evidence From Greenfield FDI Announcements	4
The effect of soaring housing prices on the quality of export products: Evidence from China	4
Intellectual Property Institutions, Comparative Advantage and Technology Transfer	4
Minimising COVID‐19 transmission cases: Do policies and institutions matter?	4
The European Union and within‐country income inequalities. The case of the new member states	4
Exploring the driving mechanism and the evolution of the low‐carbon economy transition: Lessons from OECD developed countries	4

Ripple effects in regional value chains: Evidence from an episode of the US–China trade war	4
The Corden Prize	4
Digital intensity, trade costs and exports' quality upgrading	4
The exports of higher education services from OECD countries to Asian countries: A gravity approach	4
The effects of foreign direct investment on human capital accumulation—Evidence from China	4
Modelling global value chains: From trade costs to policy impacts	4
Trade agreements and participation in global value chains: Empirical evidence from Latin America	4
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Digital connectedness and exports upgrading: Is sub‐Saharan Africa catching up?	4
Global value chain participation and its impact on industrial upgrading	4
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Linking Southern Africa to South Africa's exports: New opportunities for regional value chains	4
Special Economic Zone and Local Economic Performance in China: Evidence From Tianjin	4
The pro‐competitive effects of indirect export exposures: Evidence from China	4
Impacts of globalisation on the adoption of remote work: Evidence from a survey in Japan during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Trade Effects of the US–China Trade War on a Third Country: Preventing Trade Rerouting From China	3
Industrial Robot Imports and Firm Innovation: A Large Language Model	3
Revisiting the nexus between globalisation and the shadow economy: Untying the influences of de jure versus de facto globalisation	3
On COVID‐19 pandemic and China’s foreign trade	3
Reduced ‘Border effects’, Free Trade Agreements and international trade	3
Labour market flexibility and domestic value‐added trade: Evidence from the hukou reform in China	3
China's anti‐corruption campaign and outward foreign direct investment by state‐owned enterprises	3
The evolving international effects of China's government spending	3
FDI, production networks and firm behaviour: Evidence from the South African automotive industry	3
Detecting learning from importing: The effect of importing behaviour on R&D expenditures of Chinese firms	3
Internationalisation of education and its effect on economic growth and development	3
Global value chains, trade shocks and jobs: An application to Brexit	3
Trade Policy Review of Turkey	3
A multi‐country analysis of austerity policies in the European Union	3
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Financial structure and earnings manipulation activities in China	3
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Land regulations, innovation and productivity: Firm‐level evidence from China	3
Exposure to FDI and attitudes towards multinational enterprises: Do M&A matter?	3
Endogenous transport price, R&D spillovers, and trade	3
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Foreign Direct Investment and Quality‐Upgrading Spillovers in Indonesia	3
The nexus between natural disasters, supply chains and trade—Revisiting the role of preferential trade agreements in disaster risk reduction	3
Exchange rate undervaluation and African surges: What do we learn from exported products?	3
Oman's trade achievements with Singapore given the Gulf–Singapore Free Trade Agreement	3
Global value chains and the CPTPP	3
The West’s Teeth: IMF conditionality during the Cold War	3
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Exposure to trade disruptions in case of the Russia–Ukraine conflict: A product network approach	3
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An analysis of value chain trade in Africa	3
Remittance flows and informal economies in post‐Soviet transition countries	3
Dynamic impacts of intermittent trade conflicts	3
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Offshoring and the dynamics of employment, production, and imports: Evidence from the German International Sourcing Survey	3
Covid‐19 pandemic and its impact on capital and output distortions: Evidence from China	3
Speculative attacks and investor attention	3
Internet linkage and international trade: From the perspective of risk alleviation	3
Trade development and agricultural productivity change: Evidence from China	3
Are software automation and teleworker substitutes? Preliminary evidence from Japan	3
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Multinationals and domestic total factor productivity: Competition effects, knowledge spillovers and foreign ownership	3
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Services' trade in Africa: Structure and growth	3
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Extra‐EU immigrants and labour productivity: New evidence from Italian firms	3
The international service trade effects of bilateral investment treaties	2
Social Clauses in Free Trade Agreements: An Efficient Tool to Improve Labour Standards?	2
How Does Climate Risk Affect Corporate Investment Efficiency? Evidence From China	2
Indirect channel of trade agreements in deepening global value chains	2
Prudential regulation and bank solvency based on flexible distributions: An example for evaluating the impact of monetary policy	2
Epidemic outbreak and foreign direct investment fluctuation	2
Export competition between China and Latin America and the Caribbean in the United States market	2
Public health emergencies and international trade in the context of global value chains: Evidence from COVID‐19 in China	2
The impact of industrial robots on export stability	2
The multilateral trade policy of the Arab league countries: An empirical investigation	2
Productivity effects of corporate income tax: Evidence from China	2
Global shocks and the dynamics of EU countries' specialisation	2
The effectiveness of embargoes: Evidence from Russia	2
Bilateral servicification in global value chains and deep trade agreements	2
An analysis of the trade policy review of the European Union	2
The impact ofCOVID‐19 on international tourism flows to Italy: Evidence from mobile phone data	2
Free trade agreements partnership and value chain linkages: Evidence from China	2
How do we make trade policy in Britain? How should we?	2
Cheaper and faster: The role of air services agreements on transportation	2
Takeoffs and Trade: A Sorted Effects Approach	2
Economic ideas and Taiwan's shift to export promotion in the 1950s	2
Trade and value chain participation: Domestic firms and FDI spillovers in Africa	2
Industrial Policy and Domestic Value‐Added in Production and Exports: The Chinese Experience	2
The impact of climate change on international trade: A gravity model estimation	2
The European Union's withdrawal of trade preferences for Cambodia	2
Effects of exchange rates and invoiced currencies on trade: Evidence from South Korea	2
Productivity and wage effects of firm‐level upstreamness: Evidence from Belgian linked panel data	2
COVID‐19 test‐kit trade and trade policy: Implications for developing countries	2
When market leads innovation: The interplay of internationalisation, innovation and productivity among Swedish wood manufacturing SMEs	2
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