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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Balancing the books: The role of energy-related uncertainty in corporate leverage	316
Editorial Board	192
The regulatory environment and financial constraints of private firms in the European Union	171
Liquidity spillovers in the global stock markets: Lessons for risk management	117
Fiduciary or loyalty? Evidence from top management counsel and stock liquidity	113
Do Sukuk provide diversification benefits to conventional bond investors? Evidence from Turkey	96
How does foreign economic policy uncertainty affect domestic analyst earnings forecasts?	81
Profitability and low-risk anomalies reexamined	66
The digital economy, market integration and environmental gains	63
Does social capital matter in underwriter's fees?	61
Supply chain contagion effects of negative CSR events: A stock market reaction perspective	61
Public sector unions and municipal debt	52
Deferring real options with solar renewable energy certificates	52
Does bank capital reduce liquidity creation?	51
Foreword to 2021 New Zealand Finance Meeting	50
Under the microscope: Trade initiation activities around earnings and takeover announcements in a market with continuous disclosure	50
Culture and exit mechanisms: International evidence	46
Asset securitizations and bank stability: Evidence from different banking systems	42
The impact of reporting changes on hidden liquidity: Evidence from the Chicago stock exchange	42
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	42
Data breaches (hacking) and trade credit	42
Research on safe-haven currencies under global uncertainty —A new perception based on the East Asian market	40
ESG activities and firm cash flow	40
Equity misvaluation and debt markets	40
Money talks, green walks: Does financial inclusion promote green sustainability in Africa?	39

The impact of capital on bank profitability during the COVID-19 pandemic	37
Global perspectives on corporate social responsibility, political institutions, and the political economy	37
Green property finance and CO2 emissions in the building industry	35
Greasing the wheels of irreversible investment: International evidence on the economic effects of corruption	35
Tokenization of sukuk: Ethereum case study	35
Busy board and corporate debt maturity structure	34
Impact of Fintech on labor allocation efficiency in firms: Empirical evidence from China	33
Do large-cap exchange-traded funds perform better than their small-cap counterparts in extreme market conditions?	32
Stabilizing global foreign exchange markets in the time of COVID-19: The role of vaccinations	31
Tail risk transmission in technology-driven markets	31
Price sensitivity of the consumer-investor: Evidence from energy prices and mutual fund fees	30
Risk governance and financial stability: A comparative study of conventional and Islamic banks in the GCC	28
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles	28
Information content of the limit order book: A cross-sectional analysis in Borsa Istanbul	26
Does asset-based uncertainty drive asymmetric return connectedness across regional ESG markets?	25
Equity market response to natural disasters: Does firm's corporate social responsibility make difference?	24
Climate risk, ESG performance, and ESG sentiment in US commercial banks	24
Dynamic spillover effects among green bond, renewable energy stocks and carbon markets during COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for hedging and investments strategies	24
Editorial Board	24
Editorial Board	23
Corporate political risk and environmental performance	23
Firm valuations and board compensation: Evidence from alternative banking models	23
FinTech entrepreneurial ecosystem in India: Role of incubators and accelerators	22
The green transition and tech firms' financial performance: Insights from patent data	22
Resistance or motivation? Impact of climate risk on corporate greenwashing: An empirical study of Chinese enterprises	21
Climate transition risk in sovereign bond markets	21
Informational linkage and price discovery between China's futures and spot markets: Evidence from the US–China trade dispute	21
Editorial Board	21
Learning, foreign operations and operating performance	21
Corporate social responsibility as a common risk factor	21
Does the location of directors' additional positions matter? A new dimension of board structure	20
Clusters of social impact firms: A complex network approach	20
Measuring the risk appetite of bank-controlling shareholders: The Risk-Weighted Ownership index	20
Extreme weather, climate risk, and the lead–lag role of carbon	20
Credit market conditions, expected return proxies, and bank stock returns	19
CEO and CFO equity compensation and dividend payout over the firm lifecycle	19
The “night effect” of intraday trading: Evidence from Chinese gold and silver futures markets	19
Do Muslim CEOs and Muslim stakeholders prefer Islamic debt financing?	19
Trend following or reversal: Does culture affect predictions and trading behavior?	18
CSR in the bond market: Pricing stakeholders and the moderating role of the institutional context	18
Terror threat and investor sentiment: International evidence	17
Foreign institutional investors and share pledging: Evidence from China's stock market openness reform	17
Multinationals and stock return comovement	17
Exploring the drivers of investment in Fintech: Board composition and home bias in banking	17
Financial turbulence, systemic risk and the predictability of stock market volatility	17
Stock returns and income inequality: Asymmetric evidence from state level data in the U.S.	16
Editorial: Special issue on green finance and the post-COVID-19 world	16
Editorial Board	16
FinTech development and commercial bank efficiency in China	16
Limits of arbitrage and their impact on market efficiency: Evidence from China	15

Opportunistic earnings management or performance-related effects? Evidence from dividend-paying firms	15
Information asymmetry in non-US stocks: The compounding and mitigating effects of tax havens and corruption	15
Bridging the gap: Uncovering static and dynamic relationships between digital assets and BRICS equity markets	15
Deep reinforcement learning for portfolio selection	15
Property crime and lottery-related anomalies	15
A time–frequency comovement and causality relationship between Bitcoin hashrate and energy commodity markets	15
ESG rating disagreement and the cost of equity capital	15
Digital technology innovation and corporate resilience	14
Economic policy uncertainty and the inhibitory effect of firms' green technology innovation	14
Political legitimacy and CSR reporting: Evidence from non-SOEs in China	14
State contingent banking and asset price bubbles: The case of Islamic banking industry	13
Spreading the fear: The central role of CBOE VIX in global stock market uncertainty	13
The impact of news on the volatility of ESG firms	13
Cross-sector comovements and policy impact in the COVID-19 stock market: A dynamic factor approach	13
Role of digital finance, investment, and trade in technological progress	13
Which market dominates the price discovery in currency futures? The case of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange	12
Unlocking the black box of sentiment and cryptocurrency: What, which, why, when and how?	12
Risk implications of dependence in the commodities: A copula-based analysis	12
Are hedge fund managers skilled?	12
Green bonds: Do investors benefit from third-party certification?	12
High-speed railway opening and urban green productivity in the post-COVID-19: Evidence from green finance	12
Internationalization and firm performance	12
Intraday impact of macroeconomic and COVID-19 news on Latin American stock indexes	12
Trading behaviour and market sentiment: Firm-level evidence from an emerging Islamic market	12
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]	12
Bank scandal contagion: Evidence from the Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal	12
Monetary winds of change: Exploring the link between policy shifts and bank profitability in developed and emerging European markets	12
Extreme connectedness of agri-commodities with stock markets and its determinants	12
Real asset liquidity, cash holdings, and the cost of corporate debt	12
Firm performance & effective mitigation of adverse business scenarios	12