OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Trade & Economic Development is 6. 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 China trade shock and the European Union's employment	55
Acquiring innovation – Do Chinese acquisitions in developed countries spur innovation at home?	37
Welfare effects of introducing quality certification system for developing countries: Evidence from the Chinese experience*	33
The causality relationship between income inequality, debt, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries ¹	32
Firm-level capabilities and response to a negative export shock: 2014 Russian embargo on the West	31
Does trade openness affect migrants' marriage? Evidence from China	29
What robustly determines FDI in emerging markets and developing countries? A sensitivity analysis	21
Home country institutional restraint and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from Chinese heterogeneity enterprises	20
Does financial development foster economic globalization in emerging economies? Time series evidence from China and India	19
Wage effects of global value chains participation and position: An industry-level analysis¹	19
Local demand and firms’ upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from China	19
Uncovering the dynamic relationship between oil prices and external trade in OECD countries	17
Does economic complexity influence the efficacy of foreign direct investment? An empirical inquiry	17
Terrorist attacks, security concerns, and GVC positions – an empirical cross-country study based on industry heterogeneity	16
Have the PFTZs narrowed the regional economic gap? – Verification based on difference in differences method	15
Best paper 2021	14
The impact of special economic zones on structural change	14
Energy imports as inhibitor of economic growth: The role of impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption	14
The effect of cultural exports on inbound tourism: An empirical analysis of Türkiye	14
Impact of trade on industry-level output	14
Heterogeneous Impacts of COVID-19 on trade: Evidence from China’s province-level data	13
The relationship between FDI, political risk and institutional quality in sub-Saharan Africa	11
Exchange rate volatility and Turkey-Germany bilateral trade: An asymmetry analysis	11
The impact of population aging on economic growth in Korea: Revisiting the export-led growth hypothesis framework	11
Exports of intermediate goods and innovation: Evidence from China’s firms	10

Assessing the impact of free trade agreement (FTA) signing on China’s outbound labor services	10
China trade shock: Is there a reversal of Dutch disease for exporters of primary commodities?	10
Import competition and pollution abatement: Firm-level evidence from China	9
Examining the effect of insurance development on economic complexity: Evidence from Africa	9
Bilateral foreign direct investments: differential effects of tariffs in source and destination countries	9
Exchange rate movements and trade balance in developing economies: Evidence of symmetry and country-specific asymmetries	9
Low-wage competition: pains from trade for medium-wage countries	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	8
Executive compensation and worker wages during the global trade collapse: Evidence from Japanese firms	8
The effects of FDI on economic growth in Africa	8
The alternative version of J-curve hypothesis testing: Evidence between the USA and Canada	8
Asymmetric trade uncertainty-environmental quality nexus: evidence from quantile estimation	8
How significant is trade, macroeconomic management, and economic integration for foreign indebtedness in West African countries?	8
International trade and institutional quality in West African Economic and Monetary Union countries: A causality analysis	8
Do remittances have an asymmetrical effect on financial development? Empirical evidence from Turkey	8
Responsiveness of United States – China bilateral commodity trade to real exchange rate misalignment: Does the complexity of traded products matter?	8
The asymmetric effect of financial development on human capital: Evidence from a nonlinear ARDL approach	8
International remittances and trade in sub-Saharan Africa: Does size matter? Evidence from endogenous dynamic panel threshold model	7
The effect of trade on market power — evidence from developing economies	7
Can the coordinated development of two-way FDI promote carbon emission reduction? Evidence from industrial sectors in China	7
Uniform versus discriminatory tariffs in increasing marginal costs and endogenous competition	7
An empirical investigation of capital flight and economic growth nexus in Africa	7
The effects of R&D subsidies for joint R&D in a vertically related industry	7
Export tax rebates and enterprise export resilience in China	7
Asymmetric effects of exchange rate on bilateral tourism trade balance: evidence from Turkey	7
Gravity channels in trade	7
Emigration and tax revenue	7
Agglomeration and its mechanisms on exporting directly	7
Can data flow provisions facilitate trade in goods and services? —Analysis based on the TAPED database	7
The impact of financial crises on the relationship between imports, exports, and consumption-based CO2 emissions: Do country income levels matter?	7
Testing the export-led growth hypothesis in Turkey: New evidence from time and frequency domain causality approaches	7
Adjustments in markups after a Free Trade Agreement: An analysis of Pakistani firms gaining increased access to China	6
The inefficiency of exporting SMEs: Evidence from manufacturing industry	6
Does merchant guild culture boost corporate outward foreign direct investment? An institutional support perspective	6
Investment treaty reforms to prevent developing country regulatory chill from causing global warming	6
The influence of key economic globalization factors on economic growth and environmental quality: An empirical study in Southeast Asian countries	6
The innovation and exports interplay across Africa: Does business environment matter?	6
Aid for trade and export performance of recipient countries: The moderating role of institutions	6
Artificial intelligence and export green sophistication	6
Impacts of deep trade agreements on trade and welfare – An application to China joining the RCEP and CPTPP	6
Price discrimination in the transport industry and the gains from trade	6
How the African Continental Free Trade Area impacts firms’ export survival: Some lessons from Kenya	6
Factors driving current account performance of South Asian economies: A comparative empirical analysis	6
Country-of-origin effects on technology transfer in foreign direct investment	6