OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of International Trade & Economic Development is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The China trade shock and the European Union's employment	65
Acquiring innovation – Do Chinese acquisitions in developed countries spur innovation at home?	40
Welfare effects of introducing quality certification system for developing countries: Evidence from the Chinese experience*	36
Does trade openness affect migrants' marriage? Evidence from China	32
The causality relationship between income inequality, debt, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries ¹	27
What robustly determines FDI in emerging markets and developing countries? A sensitivity analysis	21
Local demand and firms’ upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from China	20
Home country institutional restraint and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese heterogeneity enterprises	19
Does financial development foster economic globalization in emerging economies? Time series evidence from China and India	18
Firm-level capabilities and response to a negative export shock: 2014 Russian embargo on the West	18
The impact of informality on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of institutional quality	15
Terrorist attacks, security concerns, and GVC positions – an empirical cross-country study based on industry heterogeneity	15
Energy imports as inhibitor of economic growth: The role of impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption	15
Uncovering the dynamic relationship between oil prices and external trade in OECD countries	15
Have the PFTZs narrowed the regional economic gap? – Verification based on difference in differences method	15
Impact of trade on industry-level output	14
The effect of cultural exports on inbound tourism: An empirical analysis of Türkiye	13
Impact of cross-border data restrictions on the quality of exports: Evidence from China	13
The relationship between FDI, political risk and institutional quality in sub-Saharan Africa	12
China trade shock: Is there a reversal of Dutch disease for exporters of primary commodities?	12
The impact of special economic zones on structural change	12
Assessing the impact of free trade agreement (FTA) signing on China’s outbound labor services	11
The impact of population aging on economic growth in Korea: Revisiting the export-led growth hypothesis framework	11
FDI spillovers and female employment: A developing country perspective	10
Exchange rate movements and trade balance in developing economies: Evidence of symmetry and country-specific asymmetries	10

Bilateral foreign direct investments: differential effects of tariffs in source and destination countries	10
Import competition and pollution abatement: Firm-level evidence from China	10
Exports of intermediate goods and innovation: Evidence from China’s firms	10
Gravity channels in trade	9
Executive compensation and worker wages during the global trade collapse: Evidence from Japanese firms	9
How significant is trade, macroeconomic management, and economic integration for foreign indebtedness in West African countries?	9
Asymmetric effects of exchange rate on bilateral tourism trade balance: evidence from Turkey	9
Do remittances have an asymmetrical effect on financial development? Empirical evidence from Turkey	9
Uniform versus discriminatory tariffs in increasing marginal costs and endogenous competition	9
The impact of financial crises on the relationship between imports, exports, and consumption-based CO2 emissions: Do country income levels matter?	9
The alternative version of J-curve hypothesis testing: Evidence between the USA and Canada	9
Unveiling the impact of geopolitical conflict on digital trade: An empirical study based on the Russia–Ukraine war and China's cross-border e-commerce	9
International trade and institutional quality in West African Economic and Monetary Union countries: A causality analysis	9
Responsiveness of United States – China bilateral commodity trade to real exchange rate misalignment: Does the complexity of traded products matter?	9
Asymmetric trade uncertainty-environmental quality nexus: evidence from quantile estimation	9
Examining the effect of insurance development on economic complexity: Evidence from Africa	9
The effects of FDI on economic growth in Africa	9
An empirical investigation of capital flight and economic growth nexus in Africa	8
Can the coordinated development of two-way FDI promote carbon emission reduction? Evidence from industrial sectors in China	8
Does inward foreign direct investment deregulation enhance innovation quality in domestic firms? Evidence from China	8
Emigration and tax revenue	8
International remittances and trade in sub-Saharan Africa: Does size matter? Evidence from endogenous dynamic panel threshold model	8
Testing the export-led growth hypothesis in Turkey: New evidence from time and frequency domain causality approaches	8
Agglomeration and its mechanisms on exporting directly	7
Export tax rebates and enterprise export resilience in China	7
Price discrimination in the transport industry and the gains from trade	7
The effects of R&D subsidies for joint R&D in a vertically related industry	7
Adjustments in markups after a Free Trade Agreement: An analysis of Pakistani firms gaining increased access to China	7
How the African Continental Free Trade Area impacts firms’ export survival: Some lessons from Kenya	7
Factors driving current account performance of South Asian economies: A comparative empirical analysis	7
Can data flow provisions facilitate trade in goods and services? —Analysis based on the TAPED database	7
Investment treaty reforms to prevent developing country regulatory chill from causing global warming	7
The inefficiency of exporting SMEs: Evidence from manufacturing industry	7
Country-of-origin effects on technology transfer in foreign direct investment	6
Does GVC participation help industrial upgrading in developing countries? New evidence from panel data analysis	6
Export servitization of Chinese cities and individuals’ marriage and childbearing performance	6
Does merchant guild culture boost corporate outward foreign direct investment? An institutional support perspective	6
Impacts of deep trade agreements on trade and welfare – An application to China joining the RCEP and CPTPP	6
Influence of overseas ethnic Chinese networks on China’s outward foreign direct investment	6
Job prospects and labour mobility in China	6
Artificial intelligence and export green sophistication	6
The influence of key economic globalization factors on economic growth and environmental quality: An empirical study in Southeast Asian countries	6
Cleaner production regulation and firms’ ratio of domestic value added in exports: evidence from China’s cleaner production standards	6
Do international tourism arrivals, infrastructural development, and trade openness promote economic complexity in Africa?	6
Aid for trade and export performance of recipient countries: The moderating role of institutions	6
Best paper 2023	5
Does financial development and economic growth matter for services export? Cross-country evidence from OECD countries	5
An analysis on the relationship between ICT, financial development and economic growth: Evidence from Asian developing countries	5
Trade openness and green technology: The extent of trade openness and environmental policy matter	5
The impact of FTAs on export duration: Evidence from China’s agricultural firms	5

Storm survivors: Evidence from firms in times of pandemic	5
Does Sino-US trade friction hurt corporate resilience? Evidence from Chinese enterprises	5
The choice of technology and international trade	5
The short-run and long-run impacts of foreign aid and remittances on economic growth: Evidence from African countries	5
Structural change and export diversification: A comparison of CARICOM’s position	5
The role of external shocks in driving macroeconomic fluctuations of emerging economies	5
Asymmetric impact of multifarious exchange rate shocks on stock prices: Fresh insights from multiple thresholds nonlinear autoregressive distributed-lag approach	5
Determinants of service trade: How information and communication technology-based services are different?	5
Dynamic linkages between trade, growth, inequality, and poverty in emerging countries: An application of panel ARDL approach	5
Economic sanctions and global banking flows: The moderating roles of financial market properties and institutional quality	5
The potential of China's tea trade and how it affects China's economic growth	5
Globalization, government regulation, and country risk: International evidence	5
Policy-induced distortion, market-oriented correction, and R&D spatial spillover – Empirical evidence from Chinese industry	5
How far India has succeeded in harnessing its export potential in rice? Evidence Using Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model	5
Do countries’ interdependence, asymmetry, and policy variances matter in the remittance-poverty causal nexus?	5
Effects of capital flow restrictions: Evidence of welfare improvement	5
The threshold effect of public debt on the twin imbalances: Evidence from MENA countries	5
Inter-and intra-Asian regional value chains: Identifying country characteristics	5
How does quality of institutions affect the impact of technology adoption on export performance in Africa?	5
Heterogeneous effects of inward investment, trade and funds transfer on improved misery index in EAC-6	5
Financial inclusion, household consumption instability and democracy in developing countries: A finite mixture of regressions approach	5
Foreign direct investment, human capital and export diversification in Africa: A panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) model analysis	4
Impact of logistics performance on international trade - a test based on meta-analysis	4
Tariff discrimination for co-existence of domestic and foreign firms with increasing marginal costs	4
Estimating the elasticity of substitution: An index-number approach	4
Effects of export diversification on economic vulnerability: the case of WAEMU countries	4
The impact of information and communication technologies on export diversification: Evidence from developing countries	4
Import quality upgrading and skill premium: Evidence from China	4
The impact of China’s AI exports on human development across global emerging economies	4
Frequency-domain and time-varying asymmetric Granger causality between real effective exchange rates and remittances in Mexico	4
The asymmetric effects of exchange rate volatility on UK–Pakistan trade flows: New evidence from nonlinear ARDL approach	4
Official visits and foreign direct investment	4
Antecedents of skilled international immigrants to Vietnam: The importance of global network and institutional quality	4
Do export responses to exchange rate movements differ in micro export flows?	4
Global value chains and product sophistication in developing countries; the case of Indian manufacturing	4
Asymmetric role of human capital and trade liberalization in the economic growth of Pakistan: Fresh evidence from the nonlinear analysis	4
Judicial independence and foreign direct investment: Evidence from China	4
Corporate financialization and export product quality: evidence from China	4
Can intellectual property protection promote domestic value added in exports? Evidence from mainland China	4
Bilateral value chain reshaping through regional trade agreements deepening: Evidence from belt and road countries	4
How does business credit environment affect exports performance of small and medium-sized enterprises: Evidence in China	4
Product quality and export probability: Evidence from a large developing country	4
Effects of FDI on trade among countries along the Belt and Road: A network perspective	4
Diversifying the export basket of creative products and accelerating economic growth	4
Revisiting the twin deficits hypothesis in the United States: Further evidence based on system-equation ADL test for threshold cointegration	4
Belt and road initiative and export sophistication: The role of China’s outward foreign direct investment	4
Intertemporal and cross-sectional contrasts in effects of trade: Significance of the technology content of exports	3
Understanding the nexus between energy sources and export performance: Evidence from emerging economies	3
Murky trade waters: Regional tariff commitments and non-tariff measures in Africa	3
International linkages and female share of employment: Plant-level evidence from a developing country	3
Impact of trade openness on agricultural income inequality in Korea: Income differences according to farmers' age	3
Product regulation or protectionism?	3
Does cross-border e-commerce improve China’s imported product quality? – A quasi-natural experiment based on the establishment of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones	3
Asymmetric effect of consumption expenditure on import function in Saudi Arabia	3
Untapping the role of trade facilitation indicators, logistics and information technology in export expansion and diversification	3
Tariff rates in gravity	3
Financial development and global trade: Insights from G20 economies	3
How transport infrastructures enhance trade between Africa and the EU: Evidence of the Spanish-Moroccan case	3
Import of technologically complex products by Chinese high-tech enterprises and outward foreign direct investment under strategic political game conflicts between major powers	3
Has trade liberalization played a helpful, benign, or malign role on economic growth within the ECOWAS trading bloc?	3
Political competition, optimal upstream managerial delegation for an SOE, and optimal downstream industrial policy	3
Exports and innovation under trade conflicts: A dynamic and heterogeneous perspective	3
The contingent effects of economic growth and institutions on income inequality: An empirical study	3
Mapping the dynamics of FDI in China: Convergence, divergence, and policy insights within free trade zones and beyond	3
The impact of trade on schooling over the last five decades in developing countries	3
International trade policy uncertainty spillover on stock market: Evidence from fragile five economies	3
Best paper 2024	3