OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Finance Journal is 12. 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.)

Article	Citations
Balancing the books: The role of energy-related uncertainty in corporate leverage	334
Editorial Board	201
The regulatory environment and financial constraints of private firms in the European Union	179
Liquidity spillovers in the global stock markets: Lessons for risk management	119
How does foreign economic policy uncertainty affect domestic analyst earnings forecasts?	116
Profitability and low-risk anomalies reexamined	102
Fiduciary or loyalty? Evidence from top management counsel and stock liquidity	83
The digital economy, market integration and environmental gains	73
Do Sukuk provide diversification benefits to conventional bond investors? Evidence from Turkey	70
Public sector unions and municipal debt	67
Under the microscope: Trade initiation activities around earnings and takeover announcements in a market with continuous disclosure	64
Foreword to 2021 New Zealand Finance Meeting	55
Culture and exit mechanisms: International evidence	53
Does social capital matter in underwriter's fees?	52
Deferring real options with solar renewable energy certificates	51
Supply chain contagion effects of negative CSR events: A stock market reaction perspective	51
Does bank capital reduce liquidity creation?	48
How do voting powers matter in equity finance? Evidence from chinese private placements	47
Does news related to digital economy and central bank digital currency affect digital economy ETFs? Evidence from TVP-VAR connectedness and wavelet local multiple correlation analyses	45
Asset securitizations and bank stability: Evidence from different banking systems	43
Data breaches (hacking) and trade credit	43
ESG activities and firm cash flow	43
The impact of reporting changes on hidden liquidity: Evidence from the Chicago stock exchange	43
Equity misvaluation and debt markets	42
The impact of capital on bank profitability during the COVID-19 pandemic	41

Money talks, green walks: Does financial inclusion promote green sustainability in Africa?	41
Greasing the wheels of irreversible investment: International evidence on the economic effects of corruption	39
Global perspectives on corporate social responsibility, political institutions, and the political economy	39
Tail risk transmission in technology-driven markets	38
Stabilizing global foreign exchange markets in the time of COVID-19: The role of vaccinations	38
Busy board and corporate debt maturity structure	37
Green property finance and CO2 emissions in the building industry	36
Do large-cap exchange-traded funds perform better than their small-cap counterparts in extreme market conditions?	36
Research on safe-haven currencies under global uncertainty —A new perception based on the East Asian market	34
Tokenization of sukuk: Ethereum case study	34
Price sensitivity of the consumer-investor: Evidence from energy prices and mutual fund fees	33
Impact of Fintech on labor allocation efficiency in firms: Empirical evidence from China	33
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles	30
Information content of the limit order book: A cross-sectional analysis in Borsa Istanbul	29
Equity market response to natural disasters: Does firm's corporate social responsibility make difference?	29
Does asset-based uncertainty drive asymmetric return connectedness across regional ESG markets?	27
Risk governance and financial stability: A comparative study of conventional and Islamic banks in the GCC	27
Dynamic spillover effects among green bond, renewable energy stocks and carbon markets during COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for hedging and investments strategies	26
Editorial Board	26
Editorial Board	26
Climate risk, ESG performance, and ESG sentiment in US commercial banks	26
The green transition and tech firms' financial performance: Insights from patent data	25
Informational linkage and price discovery between China's futures and spot markets: Evidence from the US–China trade dispute	24
Corporate social responsibility as a common risk factor	24
Corporate political risk and environmental performance	24
Resistance or motivation? Impact of climate risk on corporate greenwashing: An empirical study of Chinese enterprises	23
Firm valuations and board compensation: Evidence from alternative banking models	23
Climate transition risk in sovereign bond markets	23
Learning, foreign operations and operating performance	23
Editorial Board	23
FinTech entrepreneurial ecosystem in India: Role of incubators and accelerators	23
Clusters of social impact firms: A complex network approach	22
Measuring the risk appetite of bank-controlling shareholders: The Risk-Weighted Ownership index	21
Trend following or reversal: Does culture affect predictions and trading behavior?	21
The “night effect” of intraday trading: Evidence from Chinese gold and silver futures markets	21
Does the location of directors' additional positions matter? A new dimension of board structure	21
Credit market conditions, expected return proxies, and bank stock returns	20
Foreign institutional investors and share pledging: Evidence from China's stock market openness reform	20
CEO and CFO equity compensation and dividend payout over the firm lifecycle	20
Terror threat and investor sentiment: International evidence	19
Multinationals and stock return comovement	19
CSR in the bond market: Pricing stakeholders and the moderating role of the institutional context	19
FinTech development and commercial bank efficiency in China	19
Extreme weather, climate risk, and the lead–lag role of carbon	18
Financial turbulence, systemic risk and the predictability of stock market volatility	18
Do Muslim CEOs and Muslim stakeholders prefer Islamic debt financing?	18
Editorial Board	17
Exploring the drivers of investment in Fintech: Board composition and home bias in banking	17
Stock returns and income inequality: Asymmetric evidence from state level data in the U.S.	17
Editorial: Special issue on green finance and the post-COVID-19 world	17

Information asymmetry in non-US stocks: The compounding and mitigating effects of tax havens and corruption	16
Political legitimacy and CSR reporting: Evidence from non-SOEs in China	16
The impact of news on the volatility of ESG firms	16
Opportunistic earnings management or performance-related effects? Evidence from dividend-paying firms	16
Property crime and lottery-related anomalies	16
Deep reinforcement learning for portfolio selection	16
Cross-sector comovements and policy impact in the COVID-19 stock market: A dynamic factor approach	16
Limits of arbitrage and their impact on market efficiency: Evidence from China	16
ESG rating disagreement and the cost of equity capital	16
Spreading the fear: The central role of CBOE VIX in global stock market uncertainty	15
A time–frequency comovement and causality relationship between Bitcoin hashrate and energy commodity markets	15
Role of digital finance, investment, and trade in technological progress	15
Bridging the gap: Uncovering static and dynamic relationships between digital assets and BRICS equity markets	14
Risk implications of dependence in the commodities: A copula-based analysis	14
Internationalization and firm performance	14
Economic policy uncertainty and the inhibitory effect of firms' green technology innovation	14
Digital technology innovation and corporate resilience	14
Extreme connectedness of agri-commodities with stock markets and its determinants	14
Which market dominates the price discovery in currency futures? The case of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange	14
Monetary winds of change: Exploring the link between policy shifts and bank profitability in developed and emerging European markets	14
Bank scandal contagion: Evidence from the Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal	14
Unlocking the black box of sentiment and cryptocurrency: What, which, why, when and how?	14
State contingent banking and asset price bubbles: The case of Islamic banking industry	13
Real asset liquidity, cash holdings, and the cost of corporate debt	13
High-speed railway opening and urban green productivity in the post-COVID-19: Evidence from green finance	13
Corrigendum to “Private placement, share prices, volume and financial crisis: An emerging market study” [Global Finance Journal Volume 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 203–221]	13
Are hedge fund managers skilled?	13
Green bonds: Do investors benefit from third-party certification?	12
Trading behaviour and market sentiment: Firm-level evidence from an emerging Islamic market	12
Intraday impact of macroeconomic and COVID-19 news on Latin American stock indexes	12
Explaining differences in CEO gender diversity across industries: Do personality traits matter?	12
Technical efficiency of Islamic and conventional banks with undesirable output: Evidence from a stochastic meta-frontier directional distance function	12
Firm performance & effective mitigation of adverse business scenarios	12
Dynamics of mining markets: Equilibrium implications for professional and casual miners	12
In search of COVID-19 and stock market behavior	12
Comparing the impact of Chinese and U.S. economic policy uncertainty on the volatility of major global stock markets	12
Capital structure of Islamic banks: How different are they from conventional banks?	12
Managerial market timing: What is the pot size for long-term shareholders assuming firm management acts in their best interest and does have an informational advantage?	12