OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Finance is 4. 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
Exchange rate forecasting using economic models and technical trading rules	164
How do institutional investors dictate corporate cash holdings in a financially constrained environment?	78
Do risk disclosures enhance the efficacy of regulatory and supervisory frameworks in restricting banks’ risk-taking?	65
The risk sensitivity of Basel risk weights and loan loss provisions: evidence from European banks	51
Organizational culture, competition and bank loan loss provisioning	43
The effects of bundling strategy on bank interest margins: theoretical and empirical evidence	37
Cash shortfall, SEO offer size, and SEO announcement returns	36
Unravelling the volume-volatility nexus in cryptos under structural breaks using fat-tailed distributions: mixture of distribution hypothesis and implications for market efficiency	26
A note on the relationship between digital assets and the energy markets: new evidence from the most prominent crypto heists	23
Linguistic errors and investment decisions: the case of ICO white papers	22
Testing the accruals anomaly based on the speed of price adjustment	20
Brand capital and credit ratings	19
Things often get worse before they get better: using contest theory to explain the effect of informational risk around inclusion in S&P 500 on cost of capital	19
Portfolio management using time-varying vine copula: an application on the G7 equity market indices	19
Pricing credit-risky bonds using recovery rate uncertainty and macro-regime switching	16
Multiple owners and productivity: evidence from family firms	16
Analysing emerging market returns with high-frequency data during the global financial crisis of 2007–2009	16
Risk in the cryptocurrency markets: the role of structural breaks and fat-tailed distributions in estimating value-at-risk and expected shortfall	16
Does FinTech credit affect firms’ cost of capital and capital structure?	16
Bankruptcy risk contagion: considering systemically important FinTech firms	15
The effect of climate risk on firm cash holdings: evidence from the euro area	13
Polynomial adjusted Student-t densities for modeling asset returns	12
New measures for a new normal in finance and risk management	12
Generative AI for European asset pricing: alleviating the momentum anomaly	11
In search of pairs using firm fundamentals: is pairs trading profitable?	11

CEO overconfidence and the speed of adjustment of cash holdings	10
Female venture capitalists on boards and firm innovation in China	10
Financial ratios and stock returns reappraised through a topological data analysis lens	10
The spirit of capitalism, investment, and consumption smoothing	10
Determinants of the use of European Structural and Investment Funds	10
Regional GDP Distortion and Analyst Forecast Accuracy: Evidence from China	10
Shadow leverage risk and corporate bond pricing: evidence from China	10
Can social capital and reputation mitigate political and market competition risk?	10
Do CSR ethics dominate weak shareholder protection? The case of corporate insider trading in Europe	9
Corruption-related disclosure in the banking industry: evidence from GIPSI countries	9
The influence of cultural norms on international equity allocation	9
Negative rates and bank profit and cost efficiency: evidence for Eurozone	9
The new challenges of global banking and finance	9
On hedge fund inceptions in a competitive market	9
Of votes and viruses: the UK economy and economic policy uncertainty	8
The unintended consequence of social media criticisms: an earnings management perspective	8
People and investor attention to climate change	8
Interaction between investor sentiment, limits to arbitrage and the returns of stock market anomalies: evidence from the UK stock market	7
Cryptocurrency jump contagion with market sentiment events: a study of high frequency cross effect	7
The combined effects of economic policy uncertainty and environmental, social, and governance ratings on leverage	7
Revealing the risk perception of investors using machine learning	7
The effects of top management team strategic cognition on corporate financial health and value: an interactive multi-dimensional approach	7
The impact of uncertainty on money demand in the UK, US and Euro area	7
Corporate disclosure, compliance and consequences: evidence from Russia	7
Distributional properties of the book to market ratio and their implications for empirical analysis	7
Portfolio choice with narrow framing and loss aversion: a simplified approach	6
Financial stability: a ‘vaccine’ for tail risk of the global banking sector in the shadow of the pandemic	6
The quantity theory of stock prices	6
The design of first-price debt auction when the winning bidder can install capacity that can be expanded or contracted later	6
Trump’s fake news and stock market returns	6
Finally, it seems to be working – the evolving valuation effect of the European Union’s emissions trading system	6
The stress contagion among financial markets and its determinants	6
EU Regulation and open market share repurchases: new evidence	6
Industrial policy and non-financial corporations’ financialization: evidence from China	6
Tail risks and forecastability of stock returns of advanced economies: evidence from centuries of data*	5
Predicting Chinese bond risk premium with machine learning	5
Noise trading and market stability	5
The cost of fragmentation: lessons from initial public offerings	5
Corporate tax-shields and capital structure: leveling the playing field in debt vs equity finance	5
Mapping the slippery slope: the growth of predatory financial services markets across the UK	5
Natural disasters and corporate innovation	5
Discontinuous movements and asymmetries in cryptocurrency markets	5
Is the investor's reliance on cognition and emotional regulation predict preference for selecting value versus growth stocks?	5
On the ranking consistency of systemic risk measures: empirical evidence*	5
Individualism and stock market participation	5
Is business formation driven by sentiment or fundamentals?	5
From text to treasure: the predictive superiority of a FinTech index in stock market returns	5
Where the money is: branch network structure and bank profitability in Switzerland	5
ESG complementarities in the US economy	5
Does equity mutual fund factor-risk-shifting pay off? Evidence from the US	5

Uncertainty and loan pricing for public and private firms: evidence from the Brexit referendum	5
The impact of efficiency on asset quality in banking	5
Bank market power and interest rate setting: why consolidated banking data matter	5
Tax uncertainty and corporate innovation output: evidence from China	4
Good volatility, bad volatility, and time series return predictability	4
Culture and integration of Eurozone life insurance markets	4
Bank liquidity and capital shocks in unconventional times	4
Analyzing spillover effects from data breaches to the US (cyber) insurance industry	4
A primer on Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings: why the genders of the CEO and judge (may) matter	4
The effects of negative interest rates: a literature review and additional evidence on the performance of the European banking sector	4
Keeping it in the family: financial constraints and the succession intention of micro and small enterprises in China	4
Strategic complementarities, geographical agglomeration, and firm investment	4
Indigenous corporate responsibility and financial performance	4
Capturing the ‘true’ information content of supervisory announcements in Europe	4
The impact of corruption on investment and financing in the European Union: new insights	4
Kindness or hypocrisy: political mindset and corporate social responsibility decoupling in Chinese firms	4
Digital transformation and innovation activities: evidence from publicly-listed firms in China	4
Corporate sexual orientation equality and dividend payout	4
The diffusion of fintech, financial inclusion and income per capita	4
Designing a public-private co-investment mechanism to foster venture capital	4
Investor sentiment and stock market returns: a story of night and day	4
More money, more honey? An examination of additionality of China’s government R&D subsidies	4