OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Asian Economics 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fertility and female mental health	80
Health spending efficiency in developing Asia	56
Enterprise digital transformation and investment efficiency: Empirical evidence from listed enterprises in China	54
How artificial intelligence applications affect the total factor productivity of the service industry: Firm-level evidence from China	50
Exploring the influence of extreme heat on corporate energy efficiency	49
Self-employment of Chinese rural labor force: Subsistence or opportunity?—An empirical study based on nationally representative micro-survey data	44
Individual preferences toward inward foreign direct investment: A survey experiment	42
How does flexible tax enforcement affect TFP? China’s exceptional approach	38
Understanding BOXPI — Industry portfolio perspectives	33
International spillovers of U.S. monetary uncertainty and equity market volatility to China’s stock markets	33
Editorial Board	32
Editorial Board	31
Trust and contracting with foreign banks: Evidence from China	30
Tracing the regional dual value chains: Measurement on the production position and evidence from China	29
Editorial Board	29
Editorial Board	29
The aging tax on potential growth in Asia	28
Inequality of opportunity in earnings in rural China	27
A real options study on cook stove CDM project under emission allowance price uncertainty	24
Assortative matching and commercial insurance participation: Evidence from the China Household Finance Survey	24
Loan-to-value policy in a bubble-creation economy	24
The pricing of China stock index options based on monetary policy uncertainty	24
Early-life exposure to earthquakes and its long-term effects on human capital outcomes: The case of Myanmar	23
OFDI and stock returns: Evidence from manufacturing firms listed on the Chinese A-shares market	23
Graduating to a gender wage gap in South Korea	23

The effect of family planning exposure on fertility choices and reproductive health care in rural Pakistan	23
Is the COVID-19 pandemic more contagious for the Asian stock markets? A comparison with the Asian financial, the US subprime and the Eurozone debt crisis	22
Impact of risk-taking on enterprise value under extreme temperature: From the perspectives of external and internal governance	22
Physical activity, leisure-time, cognition and academic grades: Connections and causal effects in Chinese students	21
Can export trade drive green transformation development of Chinese enterprises? based on the dual perspectives of export density and export domestic value-added rate	21
Tax incentive and corporate financial performance: Evidence from income tax revenue sharing reform in China	20
Competition, asset build up and export incentives: The role of imperfect credit market	20
The asymmetric effects of oil price changes on China’s exports: New evidence from a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model	19
Estimating the effects of regional value chains of the RCEP in a GVC-CGE model	19
How can quality regional spending reduce poverty and improve human development index?	19
Regulatory stringency and behavior in a common pool resource game: Lab and field experiments	19
Impact of regulating political connections on employee welfare attitude: Evidence from China	19
Forecasts for international financial series with VMD algorithms	18
IPO relative difficulty, M&A option and size effect	18
Rules of origin and exports in developing economies: The case of garment products	18
Can anti-corruption help realize the “strong” Porter Hypothesis in China? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises	17
Beyond the modern productivity paradox: The effect of robotics technology on firm-level total factor productivity in China	17
The impact of the innovation city project on the local economy: Evidence from Korean Innovation City Project from 2012 to 2014	17
The social scar of the pandemic: Impacts of COVID-19 exposure on interpersonal trust	16
Job insecurity and fertility: Evidence from massive lay-offs in urban China	16
The impact of monetary and fiscal stimulus on stock returns during the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
The effect of monetary, macroprudential policy, and their interaction on bank risk-taking in Indonesia	15
Shadow banking, macroprudential policy, and bank stability: Evidence from China’s wealth management product market	15
Nexus between export, productivity, and competitiveness in the Indian manufacturing sector	15
Executives’ institutional reform experience, IP protection and R&D investment: Evidence from China's reform and opening up	14
Outward FDI, industrial structure upgrading and domestic employment: empirical evidence from the Chinese economy and the belt and road initiative	14
Inflation comovement in emerging economies: The facts and impact of global prices	14
Export spillover from foreign direct investment in China during pre- and post-WTO accession	14
Determinants and impacts of rural crime victimization: Evidence from a case study in Southeast Asia	14
Does cross-border M&A improve merging firms’ domestic performances?	13
Internationalization speed and subsidiary survival of EMNCs: The moderating roles of CEO international experience and state ownership	13
Spread of E-commerce, prices and inflation dynamics: Evidence from online price big data in Korea	13
Local government consumption and firm performance: Evidence from the "TPCs" in China	13
Can foreign direct investment promote BIT signing?	13
An intraday-return-based Value-at-Risk model driven by dynamic conditional score with censored generalized Pareto distribution	13
Knowing when to splurge: Precautionary saving and Chinese-Canadians	13
Gender imbalance, wife’s bargain power and shrinking household size in Rural China	12
Does religion belief matter to self-employment of rural elderly? Evidence from China	12
The informational content of implied volatility: Application to the USD/JPY exchange rates	12
Does it pay to be green? The impact of emissions reduction on corporate tax burden	12
The polarization and constraints of scale farming in China under the impact of rising wages	12
Shadow banking activities of non-financial companies and the information content of stock prices	12
Determinants of technical efficiency and farmers’ crop choice rationality: A case study of rural Gansu, China	12
Do the types of agricultural socialized services and their diverse suppliers matter to farmland renting in rural China?	11
Inflation targeting and monetary policy response in India	11
Does productive microcredit improve rural children's education? Evidence from rural Vietnam	11
Temperature exposure and health inequality	11
Food inflation and monetary policy in emerging economies	11
Human capital of grassroots leaders and vulnerability to poverty: Evidence from rural China	11
Reining in the riskiest? Evidence of non-linear impacts of macroprudential regulations on bank systemic risk in China	11

The impact of China’s outward foreign direct investment on domestic innovation	11
Trade liberalization induced profitability enhancement? The impact of intermediate input imports on firm profitability	11
Time use among urban women in China at different income levels	10
The impact of artificial intelligence on labor market: A study based on bibliometric analysis	10
Carbon capture and storage investment strategy towards the dual carbon goals	10
Does bank competition affect the transmission mechanism of monetary policy through bank lending channel? Evidence from India	10
Dynamic impact of shadow economy and corruption on environmental sustainability: What role renewable energy consumption play in case of South Asian Economies	10
The income distribution effects of environmental regulation in China: The case of binding SO2 reduction targets	10
Will monetary policy affect energy security? Evidence from Asian countries	10
Impact of the Internet on the exports in ocean-based manufacturing: Firm-level evidence from China	10
Peer effects of local students on the human capital of migrant children in middle schools: Evidence from China	9
Mechanism and simulation of intensive use of urban inefficient land based on evolutionary game theory	9
Editorial Board	9
Equity market responses to surprise Covid-19 lockdowns: The role of pandemic-driven uncertainty	9
The COVID-19 pandemic and the world trade network	9
COVID-19 and the intentions to migrate from developing countries: Evidence from online search activities in Southeast Asia	9
Returning the favor: Official consumption and government–company reciprocity	8
Non-traded goods, firm dynamics and wages in a service economy	8
Formation of symmetric free-trade blocs, optimal tariff structure, and world welfare	8
Trade and employment in the formal and informal sectors: A natural experiment from Cambodia	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
The effect of paternal parenting behaviors on children development in western rural China	8
Preventing a new baby: Impact of air pollution on fertility intention	8
Editorial Board	8
Overflowing waters, diluted investments: The enduring impact of historical Yellow River floods on enterprise fixed assets investments	8
Impact of uncertainty and exchange rate shocks: Theory and global empirics	8
Reference-dependent preferences and probability judgments	8
Editorial Board	7
Impacts of an international bridge on households: Evidence from Thailand	7
Does economic uncertainty affect the soundness of banks? Evidence from emerging Asian economies	7
Economic and environmental outcomes of economic transition: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China	7
Behind the heterogeneous trade effects of standards: Multi-sector evidence from China	7
Foreign trade and innovation sustainability: Evidence from China	7
Parenthood penalty and gender wage gap: Recent evidence from Thailand	7
Testing for the uncovered interest parity condition in a small open economy: A state space modelling approach	7
Professor Ronald W. Jones and his influence on Asia Pacific economics	7
Job reallocation in Korean manufacturing: 1984–2014	7
The impact of highways on commodity prices: The price of butter in Japan	6
Sleeplessness in COVID-19 pandemic: Lockdown and anxiety	6
The gender wage gap in Myanmar: Adding insult to injury?	6
How to explain the inverted U-shaped curve of tax centralization in China?	6
Do house prices play a role in unconventional monetary policy transmission in Japan?	6
The haze reduction effect in china under the digital economy	6
Parental non-cognitive abilities and child mental health	6
Dynamic price discovery in Chinese agricultural futures markets	6
The information externality of public firms’ employment in the municipal corporate bond market in China	6
Reducing farmland abandonment by raising women’s education levels: Evidence from China	6
Government relocation and air pollution: Evidence from China	6
Welfare and productivity of the Chinese regional economy under forced technology transfer in the post-intervention period of the Green Credit Policy	6