OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Finance Research Letters is 81. 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
Central bank gold reserves and sovereign credit risk	355
How to attract professional investors in developing countries? An evidence-based structure for development impact bonds	331
Do hedge and merger arbitrage funds actually hedge? A time-varying volatility spillover approach	296
Extrapolative beliefs about Bitcoin returns	282
Monetary policy uncertainty and financial risk: The mediating role of corporate investment	273
The impact of corporate R&D on the transformation of intellectual property into intangible assets	264
The American Inventors Protection Act and the staggered market reaction to patent grants	237
Financial measures and banking crisis: New evidence	215
Prototyping to address cognitive gaps in Distributed Ledger investments	206
Co-jumps in the Chinese stock market before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: A network perspective	205
How the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) impacts FinTech: The implication of P2P lending markets	203
Environmental courts, financing constraints, and corporate green innovation	199
SWF investments and debt maturity of target firms: An international evidence	198
An empirical investigation into the driving effects of green transformation policies and media governance on high-quality development in tourism enterprises	195
Open government and corporate misconduct: Evidence from China	192
Corporations’ digital attitude and digital technology innovation: Are the heart and mouth in agreement or not?	190
Correlation among climate risk, climate policy uncertainty, and carbon-intensive stock markets in China	190
Modeling GDP with a continuous-time finance approach	186
An economic definition of ‘Fear of Missing Out’ (FOMO)	172
Financial institution agglomeration and corporate labor allocation efficiency—Based on the context of government debt expansion	168
Firm-specific investor sentiment and stock price informativeness	160
The impact of North Korean nuclear threat on stock market linkages in Northeast Asia: The case of South Korea, China, and Japan	151
Mutual fund liquidity management and family affiliation	150
Payday alternative loans: PAL or Foe?	148
Disclosure of internal control evaluation reports of Chinese enterprises: History, problems and strategies	147

International tax incentives, cross-border research and development, and corporate innovation performance	142
Peer effect and funding success: Analyzing friendship networks in online credit markets	140
Cross-country spillover effects of interest rate and credit constraint policies	138
The influence of shareholder ESG performance on corporate sustainability: Exploring the role of ownership structure	136
Bond liquidity, debt maturity and bond risk premium	134
Testing static and dynamic leverage models: A standardized leverage measure approach	127
Analyzing market efficiency: The role of business cycles, risk aversion, and Occam’s razor in the Adaptive Market Hypothesis	125
Green credit guidelines and corporate financialization: Evidence from heavily polluting enterprises in China	124
Navigating crowdfunding for sustainability: Practical implications mapped	123
Does financial openness mitigate carbon emissions? Evidence from a cross-country study	122
Can reverse mixed reform promote green innovation in Chinese private enterprises?	118
Digital transformation and customer enterprise innovation - From the perspective of supply chain spillover effects	118
Improvement of transportation infrastructure, payment digitalization, and tourism consumption expenditure: Analysis based on CHFS data	117
Credit availability, overinvestment, and corporate innovation capability	117
Corporate social anti-activism and firm stock price: Evidence from DEI program elimination	115
Financial market reaction to the end of the right-wing populist government: The case of Poland	115
ESG transition incentives with loan guarantees	115
Management equity incentives, market dynamics, and corporate R&D investment	113
Impact mechanism of digital transformation on supply chain resilience	111
Can biodiversity risk improve firm ESG performance? Empirical evidence from China	111
The impact of institutional investors’ ESG concerns on corporate ESG disclosure: Evidence from site visits	111
Pledge of controlling shareholder's equity, digital transformation, and green innovation	110
Manual task intensity and male-female wage gap: Evidence from China	108
Cost uniqueness and corporate credit rating	107
Financial flexibility, organizational resilience and corporate green innovation	106
Interconnected dynamics of sustainable cryptocurrencies: Insights from transfer entropy analysis	106
Correlation impulse response functions	104
Brexit's ripple: Probing the impact on stock market liquidity	102
Managerial ability, managerial risk taking and innovation performance	102
The impact of corporate ESG performance on buyers’ bargaining power in the industrial chain: Evidence from China	102
Integration of two industries, risk-taking and manufacturing enterprise value: An empirical investigation based on Chinese listed companies	101
Did the COVID-19 pandemic (really) positively impact the IPO Market? An Analysis of information uncertainty	100
The relative performance of green REITs: Evidence from financial analysts’ forecasts and abnormal returns	99
External shocks, global value chain transmission and China's export fluctuation	98
The green reputation: Corporate culture and environmental reputation risk	97
Does corporate social responsibility affect stock liquidity? Evidence from China	96
COVID-19 and Stock Market Volatility: A Clustering Approach for S&P 500 Industry Indices	95
How do stock prices respond to the leading economic indicators? Analysis of large and small shocks	95
Financial innovation, government auditing and corporate high-quality development: Evidence from China	94
Stock market reactions and optimism bias in analysts’ earnings forecasts: An analysis of China's stock markets	94
CDS, CEO compensation, and firm value	93
The asymmetric response of dividends to earnings news	92
Historical Determinants of Fintech Development: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings	92
Financial shocks, investor sentiment, and heterogeneous firms’ output volatility: Evidence from credit asset securitization markets	91
The Ulysses option: Smoking and delegation in individual investor decisions	90
Optimal lifetime income annuity without bequest: Single and annual premiums	89
Realized semibetas and international stock return predictability	89
The disappearing of firm investment efficiency: From the perspective of the discrepancy between production and consumption prices	87
Threats to central bank independence and exchange rate volatility: High-frequency identification with Trump’s Fed tweets	87
Modelling taxpayers’ behaviour based on prediction of trust using sentiment analysis	85

Management buyouts in times of economic policy uncertainty	85
Bitcoin and integration patterns in the forex market	84
The COVID-19 risk in the cross-section of equity options	83
Editorial Board	83
Did the 'Early harvest list' of commodity trade under ECFA promote the development of manufacturing industry in Taiwan Province? An empirical analysis based on staggered DID model	82
The Relation between the High-Yield Bond Spread and the Unemployment Rate in the Euro Area	81