OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Review of Economics & Finance is 63. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A comprehensive analysis of the decline in the market-to-book ratio of European banks	499
Impacts of population aging on bank loan portfolios: Evidence from China	314
Climate change exposure in uncertain times: A text-based approach	294
Impact of low-carbon energy structure transition on rural revitalization	273
Regional economic policy uncertainty, implicit government guarantees and bank's risk-taking	230
Do financing constraints affect the financial integrity of firms?	211
Exploring the dynamic links, implications for hedging and investment strategies between Sukuk and commodity market volatility: Evidence from country level analysis	181
Corporate ESG performance and trade credit financing – Evidence from China	163
Digital finance, capital misallocation and corporate innovation	154
Does heterogeneous media sentiment matter the ‘green premium’? An empirical evidence from the Chinese bond market	154
Only strong short-term contrarian effect exists in Chinese stock market: The role of the T+1 trading mechanism	137
CEO career experience and insurance innovation in China	133
(Im)perfect Substitutes: Business angels and crowd sourced start-up funding	122
The nonlinear impact of trade policy uncertainty on corporate ESG performance	120
Can the development of agricultural insurance promote the resilience of agricultural economy? The dynamic mechanisms of the digital economy development	113
The synergistic effects of financial development and industrial structure on urban decarbonization	110
Non-linear nexus between economic policy uncertainty and bank lending	107
Automotive industry development versus environment and policy:An integration of system dynamics and life cycle assessment	107
Forecasting stock volatility using pseudo-out-of-sample information	105
Deliberate premarket underpricing: New evidence on IPO pricing using machine learning	99
Does intergenerational mobility affect corporate innovation? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises	96
Exploring the dynamic linkages between carbon trading market and smart technology indices: A multi-dimensional analysis of China's case	89
Behavioral aspects of household portfolio choice: Effects of loss aversion on life insurance uptake and savings	89
Scale of cities and social trust: Evidence from China	87
Financial crises, bank efficiency and survival: Theory, literature and emerging market evidence	86

Variation in the competition − Efficiency nexus: Evidence from emerging markets	86
An indicator of monetary bias for emerging and partially dollarized economies: The case of Uruguay	85
Debt finance and economic activity in the euro-area: evidence on asymmetric and maturity effects	80
Why have UK universities become more indebted over time?	80
Crowding out or crowding in? Reevaluating the effect of government spending on private economic activities	79
Effects of shareholder proposals on the market value of Japanese firms	79
Board gender diversity and cost of equity: Evidence from mandatory female board representation	79
The peer effects of PIPEs	78
Can the degree of party membership among management enhance corporate innovation performance? The moderating role of technology finance	77
Determinants of the price of bitcoin: An analysis with machine learning and interpretability techniques	76
Capital structure and corporate litigation	76
ESG performance and audit committee expertise: advancing sustainable development goals in leading nations	75
Cybersecurity policy, ESG and operational risk: A Virtuous relationship to improve banks’ performance	75
Quantile time-frequency spillovers among climate policy uncertainty, energy markets, and stock markets	73
Measuring the productivity of urban commercial banks in China	73
Does environmental regulation affect labor investment Efficiency?Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	72
Dynamic spillover between green cryptocurrencies and stocks: A portfolio implication	72
Do China and USA differ in the interrelationship between green bond and ESG markets?	71
Do the dynamics of macroeconomic attention drive the yen/dollar exchange market volatility?	71
COVID-19 exposure, financial flexibility, and corporate leverage adjustment	71
Policy-driven employment structure transformation: The role of innovation and education investment	70
Risk-premium shocks and the prudent exchange rate policy	70
Renaissance of climate policy uncertainty: The effects of U.S. presidential election on energy markets volatility	70
Active or passive portfolio: A tracking error analysis under uncertainty theory	70
Dig the treasure nearby: The impact of local supplier preference on trade credit financing	70
Debt's shadow: How leverage weighs down investment	70
Controlling shareholder expropriation and labor investment efficiency	69
The impact of different recommendation algorithms on consumer search behavior and merchants competition	69
Market-timing performance of mutual fund investors in Emerging Markets	69
How does corporate diversification affect earnings management? A path analysis approach	68
Extreme dynamic connectedness and hedging strategy across commodity, bond, currency, and stock markets: Evidence from Asian Pacific, Canada, Mexico, and US countries	67
Measuring Chinese climate uncertainty	66
Can green credit policy increase corporate pollution abatement efforts? Evidence from China	66
Local CEOs and environmentally-friendly enterprise behaviour	66
Global uncertainty and the spillover of tail risk between green and Islamic markets: A time-frequency domain approach with portfolio implications	66
Can rural health insurance coverage improve educational attainment? Evidence from new cooperative medical scheme in China	65
Impact of the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem on startup performance: An empirical study from China	64
Why risk attitude differs between macro and micro level? A decoherence perspective	63