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

Article	Citations
Institutions and R&D engagement of SMEs in Laos	38
The exodus of Western manufacturing corporations from Russia – an extension of observations	31
How does cultural diversity impact entrepreneurship? Evidence from dialect diversity in China	28
Impact of the environmental taxes on reduction of emission from transport in Latvia	25
Social trust and risky financial market participation: Evidence from China	20
The impact of fdi and regional factors on economic growth in Vietnamese provinces: A spatial econometric analysis	18
Is there an asymmetric effect of exchange rate volatility on exports and imports in the Central, East and Southeast European countries?	17
Time interval choices in forecasting stock market indices of CEE and SEE countries	17
Misuse of institutions and economic performance: some evidence from Serbia	16
The role of public grants in shaping business performance: evidence from Croatia’s rural development program	15
Territories of accelerated development: another case of policy failure in Russia?	15
Credit availability and corporate risk-taking: evidence from China’s green credit policy	13
Macroeconomic shock spillovers from Russia to Kazakhstan	13
Does the demographic dividend with human capital development yield an economic dividend? Evidence from Central Asia	12
Captured institutions and permeated business – the longevity of Hungarian autocracy	12
Impact of digitalization on corporate financial profitability: the case of Russia	10
Market segmentation, marketisation change speed and R&D investment of private firms	9
Language skills and unemployment: post-Soviet bilingualism in Latvia	9
An analysis of government expenditures on innovation and regional economic growth in China’s provinces using regime-switching modeling	9
Problems and prospects for organic agriculture in Russia	7
The peer effect on green innovation behaviour of Chinese manufacturing firms	7
Deindustrialisation and reindustrialisation patterns in V4 countries – industry 4.0 as a way forward?	7
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
Were Chinese style reforms a potential alternative for Russia? A reflection on state capitalism, democratic socialism, and transition	7

Correction	6
Russia’s support for authoritarian regimes through food trade	6
The exodus of Western manufacturing corporations from Russia–the beginning	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
Paradise lost: Russian multinationals under deglobalization, 2014–2021	5
Institutions, corruption and transparency in effective healthcare public procurement: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	4
The Impact of Recentralisation on FDI: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment	4
Social and economic development from an integrated sustainability perspective: analysing the interaction of social capital, income level, and income inequality in China	4
The performance of politically connected firms in South East Europe: state capture or business capture?	4
Serbia’s multi-vector foreign policy: the effects on trade with the European Union and Russia	4
A thickened demand for populism: comparison of voters’ attitudes in CEE and Western Europe	4
Beyond resource intensity: unveiling the determinants of Russian MNEs’ integration into global value chains	4
Strategies and challenges of sustainable development in Eurasia	4
Participation, transparency and trust in local governance in transitional countries: the case of Vietnam	3
Bribery by privately owned firms: an ownership origin perspective	3
Costs of economic growth: new insights on wealth and income inequalities in the post-communist countries	3
Disentangling the semi-periphery: evolutionary trajectories and perspectives of the Austrian and Hungarian automotive industries	3
Breakdown: what went wrong with deposit insurance in Russia	3
Taxation as a factor in investment attractiveness in the Visegrád countries	3
Innovations and their complementarities: which types of innovations drive export performance?	3
From wars to waves: geopolitical risks and environmental investment behaviour	3
Happiness in the steppe: exploring the connection between security and wellbeing in Kazakhstan	3
Sailing through the storm – performance of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Post-communist firms’ independent green R&D and productivity growth under globalisation	3
Religion, gender norms and fertility in Muslim post-communist economies	3
Financial constraints and firms’ innovation activities in post-communist economies	3
Does one good turn deserve another? Evidence from China’s trade and aid policy	3
An examination of the relationship between implicit taxes and market structure: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	2
Mechanisms of exchange rate determination in the soft and hard managed floating regime: the case of Serbia	2
Global environmental politics and international organizations: the Eurasian and European experience	2
Monetary policy in the service of financial nationalism. The case of post-2013 Hungary	2
Can foreign investors accurately operate and obtain excess returns? Evidence from China	2
Enlisting oil and gas companies for Russia’s Arctic development. Implementation in a rent-based political economy	2
Is post-communism still relevant today?	2
A new vision about the influence of major stock markets in CEEC indices: a bidirectional dynamic analysis using transfer entropy	2
Effects of public pensions on elderly poverty: insights from an ageing China	2
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	2
Firm-level additionality effects of investments and employment tax credits in Polish Special Economic Zones	2
Glass ceiling or glass cliff: an examination of the role of female board members on market performance in Poland	2
Cultivating green growth through innovative city pilot policies: Evidence from China	2
Foreign divestment and domestic investment in Eastern European countries	2
Estimation of a small open economy DSGE model for Kazakhstan	1
Financial investment under banking uncertainty: evidence from Vietnamese firms	1
Determinants of product sophistication in Vietnam: findings from the firm–multi-product level microdata approach	1
Janos Kornai and his memorable work	1
Leadership in high-level forums on energy governance: China and Russia compared	1
Migrants remittances and fertility in the Post-Soviet states	1
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
The reorientation of Russia’s trade corridors since the invasion of Ukraine	1

Can SEE economies grow stronger together? Empirical evidence from the CEFTA region	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 direct investment in Vietnam: how local institutions matter?	1
Green credit policy and corporate diversification: evidence from China	1
Authoritarian economic soft power: the case of Russian and Chinese investments in Central Europe	1
Property ownership and firm performance: firm-level analysis of post-communist economies	1
International labour migration and people’s views towards economic and political systems in transition countries	1
A stringent necessity: addressing fiscal bubbles with fiscal rules in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Investment dynamics in central and eastern Europe: a nonlinear approach	1
Post-accession backsliding and European Union environmental policies	1
Small business in Russia: institutions, market potential, taxes and digitalization	1
Thriving in uncertainty: comparative performance of women-owned and men-owned micro-enterprises in dynamic economic environments	1
The machine tool industry of Russia at a time of war and sanctions	1
Uncertainty in Central and Eastern European markets. Evidence from Twitter-based uncertainty measures	1