OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Post-Communist Economies is 1. 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
Institutions and R&D engagement of SMEs in Laos	39
The exodus of Western manufacturing corporations from Russia – an extension of observations	28
How does cultural diversity impact entrepreneurship? Evidence from dialect diversity in China	26
Impact of the environmental taxes on reduction of emission from transport in Latvia	18
Misuse of institutions and economic performance: some evidence from Serbia	17
The impact of fdi and regional factors on economic growth in Vietnamese provinces: A spatial econometric analysis	17
Time interval choices in forecasting stock market indices of CEE and SEE countries	15
Social trust and risky financial market participation: Evidence from China	15
Impact of energy consumption on income inequality in CEE countries	13
Is there an asymmetric effect of exchange rate volatility on exports and imports in the Central, East and Southeast European countries?	13
Territories of accelerated development: another case of policy failure in Russia?	13
The role of public grants in shaping business performance: evidence from Croatia’s rural development program	12
Macroeconomic shock spillovers from Russia to Kazakhstan	10
Impact of digitalization on corporate financial profitability: the case of Russia	9
Does the demographic dividend with human capital development yield an economic dividend? Evidence from Central Asia	9
Captured institutions and permeated business – the longevity of Hungarian autocracy	9
Problems and prospects for organic agriculture in Russia	8
Credit availability and corporate risk-taking: evidence from China’s green credit policy	8
An analysis of government expenditures on innovation and regional economic growth in China’s provinces using regime-switching modeling	8
Language skills and unemployment: post-Soviet bilingualism in Latvia	8
Anti-corruption and firm innovation: political path dependence perspective	7
Drivers of household saving in East Central European countries. A push and pull model perspective	7
The exodus of Western manufacturing corporations from Russia–the beginning	7
Were Chinese style reforms a potential alternative for Russia? A reflection on state capitalism, democratic socialism, and transition	6
Deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation patterns in V4 countries – industry 4.0 as a way forward?	6

Market segmentation, marketisation change speed and R&D investment of private firms	6
The peer effect on green innovation behaviour of Chinese manufacturing firms	6
Russia’s support for authoritarian regimes through food trade	6
Export, economic complexity and growth in the integrated periphery of the European automotive industry	5
Technology startups in Central and Eastern Europe: are they CEE-specific?	5
Correction	5
Paradise lost: Russian multinationals under deglobalization, 2014–2021	5
The performance of politically connected firms in South East Europe: state capture or business capture?	4
The impact of the Russia–Ukraine conflict on the behaviour of individual investors	4
The Impact of Recentralisation on FDI: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment	4
Institutions, corruption and transparency in effective healthcare public procurement: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	4
A thickened demand for populism: comparison of voters’ attitudes in CEE and Western Europe	4
Social and economic development from an integrated sustainability perspective: analysing the interaction of social capital, income level, and income inequality in China	4
Strategies and challenges of sustainable development in Eurasia	4
Bribery by privately owned firms: an ownership origin perspective	3
China’s economic strategy in post-communist nations: trade, FDI, and infrastructure investments under the Belt and Road Initiative	3
From wars to waves: geopolitical risks and environmental investment behaviour	3
Post-communist firms’ independent green R&D and productivity growth under globalisation	3
Sailing through the storm – performance of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Participation, transparency and trust in local governance in transitional countries: the case of Vietnam	3
Costs of economic growth: new insights on wealth and income inequalities in the post-communist countries	3
Innovations and their complementarities: which types of innovations drive export performance?	3
Beyond resource intensity: unveiling the determinants of Russian MNEs’ integration into global value chains	3
Taxation as a factor in investment attractiveness in the Visegrád countries	3
Religion, gender norms and fertility in Muslim post-communist economies	3
Breakdown: what went wrong with deposit insurance in Russia	3
Serbia’s multi-vector foreign policy: the effects on trade with the European Union and Russia	3
Disentangling the semi-periphery: evolutionary trajectories and perspectives of the Austrian and Hungarian automotive industries	2
Glass ceiling or glass cliff: an examination of the role of female board members on market performance in Poland	2
Financial development and firm growth: the role of proactivity of provincial leadership	2
Cultivating green growth through innovative city pilot policies: Evidence from China	2
Mechanisms of exchange rate determination in the soft and hard managed floating regime: the case of Serbia	2
Happiness in the steppe: exploring the connection between security and wellbeing in Kazakhstan	2
Is post-communism still relevant today?	2
Global environmental politics and international organizations: the Eurasian and European experience	2
Enlisting oil and gas companies for Russia’s Arctic development. Implementation in a rent-based political economy	2
Financial constraints and firms’ innovation activities in post-communist economies	2
Does one good turn deserve another? Evidence from China’s trade and aid policy	2
A new vision about the influence of major stock markets in CEEC indices: a bidirectional dynamic analysis using transfer entropy	2
Monetary policy in the service of financial nationalism. The case of post-2013 Hungary	2
Double-edged sword effect of digital economy on FDI: evidence from Chinese cities	2
Direct search or remote search? Export market expansion path for firms in underdeveloped areas - evidence from the five cities of the Hexi Corridor, China	1
Leadership in high-level forums on energy governance: China and Russia compared	1
The reorientation of Russia’s trade corridors since the invasion of Ukraine	1
Post-accession backsliding and European Union environmental policies	1
Uncertainty in Central and Eastern European markets. Evidence from Twitter-based uncertainty measures	1
Investment dynamics in central and eastern Europe: a nonlinear approach	1
Estimation of a small open economy DSGE model for Kazakhstan	1
Effects of public pensions on elderly poverty: insights from an ageing China	1
Knowledge base, innovation network, and innovation in different types of high-tech industries - a comparative study of STI (science-technology-innovation) and DUI (learning by doing, using and interac	1

Capability morphology and firm growth in middle-income economies: evidence from Kosovo’s manufacturing sector	1
Inequality in pre-industrial Bohemia: The city of Budweis	1
Property ownership and firm performance: firm-level analysis of post-communist economies	1
Thriving in uncertainty: comparative performance of women-owned and men-owned micro-enterprises in dynamic economic environments	1
Determinants of product sophistication in Vietnam: findings from the firm–multi-product level microdata approach	1
Can foreign investors accurately operate and obtain excess returns? Evidence from China	1
Financial investment under banking uncertainty: evidence from Vietnamese firms	1
Can SEE economies grow stronger together? Empirical evidence from the CEFTA region	1
International labour migration and people’s views towards economic and political systems in transition countries	1
Migrants remittances and fertility in the Post-Soviet states	1
Foreign direct investment in Vietnam: how local institutions matter?	1
Janos Kornai and his memorable work	1
The machine tool industry of Russia at a time of war and sanctions	1
Economic drivers of tax revenue: insights from European economies	1
Entrepreneurship and local development in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe – new challenges are ahead: editorial	1
Foreign divestment and domestic investment in Eastern European countries	1
A stringent necessity: addressing fiscal bubbles with fiscal rules in Central and Eastern Europe	1
An examination of the relationship between implicit taxes and market structure: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	1