OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Finance Research Letters is 85. 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
Unconventional, conventional monetary policies, and optimal energy supply structure in China	369
Why Was There More Household Stock Market Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?	367
Political appointees and firms’ long-term capital market performance: Evidence from Central European countries	323
Price discovery share: An order invariant measure of price discovery	295
How do Equity Investors Assess the Efficiency of Global Financial Institutions?	283
Exploring the effect of VAT carryforward and refund policy on enhancing innovation efficiency among China's A-share listed firms	265
Can old sin make new shame? Stock market reactions to the release of movies re-exposing past corporate scandals	227
Global value chain participation and income inequality within enterprises: An empirical study based on Chinese-listed companies	226
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on IPO underpricing: Evidence from China	223
Unveiling the Yin and Yang of expansionary monetary policy: Differential impact on inequality in China based on a national-level survey	220
Does customer concentration affect corporate risk-taking? Evidence from China	218
Learning about unprecedented events: Agent-based modelling and the stock market impact of COVID-19	212
Editorial Board	212
Repo haircuts: Market practices and the impact of minimum requirements on leverage	208
The impact of North Korean nuclear threat on stock market linkages in Northeast Asia: The case of South Korea, China, and Japan	207
Cross-country spillover effects of interest rate and credit constraint policies	203
International tax incentives, cross-border research and development, and corporate innovation performance	198
Community activism, Social ties and ESG campaign success	182
Crises and changes: The impacts of CSR expenditure on loan and subsidy allocation in China's Pre- and Post-Pandemic periods	175
Green gains: The impact of REITs' environmental performance on sustainability-linked loan interest rates	170
Assessing the volatility of green firms	163
Historical Determinants of Fintech Development: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings	163
The effect of COVID-19 vaccine on the international financial markets	159
Editorial Board	157
Does smart transformation in manufacturing promote enterprise value chain upgrades?	153

Do investors herd under global crises? A comparative study between Chinese and the United States stock markets	144
A complementary valuation model and exit multiples	143
Limit Order Book dynamics and order size modelling using Compound Hawkes Process	143
Fintech, financial regulation and corporate financialization: Evidence from China	142
Interconnected dynamics of sustainable cryptocurrencies: Insights from transfer entropy analysis	140
Credit availability, overinvestment, and corporate innovation capability	131
Social governance, financial regulation, and corporate investment efficiency	130
Manual task intensity and male-female wage gap: Evidence from China	129
Financial market reaction to the end of the right-wing populist government: The case of Poland	128
Detecting exuberance phenomena in thematic investing	127
Does gambling culture affect firms’ investment efficiency?	126
Brand equity and the Covid-19 stock market crash: Evidence from U.S. listed firms	124
Belt and Road Initiative: Driving innovation in tech enterprises through global value chains	124
Firm financialization: The role of policy inconsistency	123
Can prospect theory explain anomalies in the Chinese stock market?	122
The Trilogy of Ownership, Income Diversification, and Performance Nexus: Empirical Evidence from Tunisian Banks	120
Invest in depth or breadth? The influence of multidisciplinary practices on the valuation and legitimation of living artists	119
Does corporate social responsibility affect the performance of cross-border M&A of emerging market multinationals?	118
Demographic change and natural interest rate of China	118
The closed-form approximation to price basket options under stochastic interest rate	117
Correlation impulse response functions	117
Corporate credit risk and bond yield spreads: Market reactions to the spreads	117
Digital transformation and labour investment efficiency: Heterogeneity across the enterprise life cycle	116
Community resilience and house prices: A machine learning approach	115
Green bond and corporate environmental investment: The moderating effect of environmental concern	113
Institutional investor networks and crash risk: Evidence from China	112
Human capital and corporate social investment: The effect of public policy	111
How green screening influences risk transmission among stock-bond indices: Insight into the dependence structure	110
Is it a matter of governance or judicial favoritism? Legal expertise at an executive level and its use in cases of corporate financial fraud	110
How Russian-Ukrainian geopolitical risks affect Chinese commodity and financial markets?	110
Regional social capital and stock price crash risk: Evidence from the US	109
Impacts of gender inequality on international trade and innovation	109
Does peer-to-peer crowdfunding boost refugee entrepreneurs?	106
Legal background of corporate management and corporate audit quality	105
Does war spread the herding effect in stock markets? Evidence from emerging and developed markets during the Russia-Ukraine war	105
Environmental policies on the systematic risk of critical metals companies	103
The equity market response to climate change litigation	103
Does the introduction of CSR criteria into CEO incentive pay reduce their earnings management? The case of companies listed in the SBF 120	102
Effects of China’s capital controls on individual asset categories	101
Rescue one and sacrifice others? Corporate tunneling phenomenon under China's new delisting regulations	98
Small price bias in the cryptocurrency market. A cognitive bias revealed by emotions on social networks	98
Stepping forward with ease: Government debt governance as a catalyst for entrepreneurship	98
Foreign equity lookback options with guarantees	98
The role of gender in sales behaviour: Evidence from institutional financial brokerage	97
Management buyouts in times of economic policy uncertainty	97
Does individual SREP results reveal real news?	96
Risk disclosure and stock price crash risk: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	95
An economic definition of ‘Fear of Missing Out’ (FOMO)	94
Peer digitalization and corporate investment decision	93
Remarks on the behaviour of financial market efficiency during the COVID-19 pandemic. The case of VIX	91

Value creation or political trick? An event study on anti-ESG regulations	90
Are gross financial inflows expansionary or contractionary? Evidence from emerging economies	89
Modelling taxpayers’ behaviour based on prediction of trust using sentiment analysis	89
Market reactions to layoff announcements during crises: Examining impacts and conditioners	86
Is it all about noise? Investor sentiment and risk nexus: evidence from China	86
Using machine learning Meta-Classifiers to detect financial frauds	85
The impact of corporate ESG performance on buyers’ bargaining power in the industrial chain: Evidence from China	85
Futures, provisional sales, and earnings management in the global gold mining industry	85
Management equity incentives, market dynamics, and corporate R&D investment	85
Infection, invasion, and inflation: Recent lessons	85