OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of World Economics 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of digital finance on FDI inflow: facilitator or inhibitor?	33
Do special economic zones help the export diversification of African economies?	22
On the path to sustainable development: insurance, a crutch for the economies of sub-Saharan Africa?	20
Can fiscal rules decrease the probability of a sudden stop crisis?	18
How does consumer quality misperception change European Union antidumping actions?	18
Trade bloc enlargement when many countries join at once	17
Containing Chinese state-owned enterprises? The role of deep trade agreements	12
Intrafirm trade, input–output linkage, and contractual frictions: evidence from Japanese affiliate-level data	11
The remittance-led Dutch disease: an analysis from a two-agent, two-sector DSGE model	11
The impact of industrial spatial agglomeration on the quality of export products under trade facilitation reform: evidence from China	11
Monetary policy frameworks since Bretton Woods, across the world and its regions	10
Spillovers from foreign business conditions	9
Cross-border real estate investment: a different animal? Comparative evidence from bilateral flow data	9
Remittance flows and US monetary policy	8
Internationalisation as a boost for many firms: evidence from Germany	8
How sustainable finance creates impact: transmission mechanisms to the real economy	7
Inequality and the structure of countries’ external liabilities	7
Why does the WTO treat export subsidies and import tariffs differently?	6
Do Geopolitical Risks Fuel Energy Innovation?	6
Do countervailing duties on environmental goods under the WTO rules improve the environment?	6
Growth effects of budgetary fiscal variables in a panel of middle-income countries	6
Tariff evasion, the trade gap, and structural trade	6
Central bank transparency and monetary policy credibility: international evidence considering different aspects of transparency	6
Multi-mode trade policy retaliation	6
Multinational firms’ responses to a host country financial crisis: the case of Korea	4

“When you need it quick, let us ship it right”: on the importance of port efficiency and service quality to comply with food trade standards in Ghana	4
Is trade openness a barrier to industrialization? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	4
Domestic vs foreign superstars: comparative advantage and productivity spillovers	4
Immigrant employment and the contract enforcement costs of offshoring	4
Time stationarity, shape and ordinal ranking bias of RCA indexes: a new set of measures	4
Export quality and wage premium	4
Price efficiency in emerging equity markets during recent crises periods: empirical evidence from equity markets in BRICS countries	4
The impact of natural disasters on US business credit markets: a comparative analysis of short-term and long-duration events	4
Do investors reward sovereign catastrophe bond issuance? Evidence from a panel of 26 disaster-prone countries	4
The increasing share of low-value transactions in international trade	4
Eurasian economic integration: impact evaluation using the gravity model and the synthetic control methods	4
Do developing countries gain by participating in global value chains? Evidence from India	4
The impact of oil supply surprises on maritime transport: a temporal and sectoral analysis	3
International immigration and final consumption expenditure composition	3
What ‘special purposes’ explain cross-border debt funding by banks? Evidence from Ireland	3
Does uncertainty matter for private credit convergence?	3
Managers’ country-specific experience and outward foreign direct investment: China and cross-countries’ evidence	3
How relevant are capital flows for house prices in emerging economies?	3
Greenfield FDI and job creation in Africa	3
Did tax treaties restrain the profit shifting of Chinese multinationals?	3
The economic costs of bribes and road harassment by officials in ECOWAS	3
Patterns of global and regional integration in the East African Community	3
The complex regional effects of macro-institutional change: evidence from EU enlargement over three decades	3
WTO accession, input trade liberalization and employment adjustment in Chinese manufacturing	3
Does import competition drive productivity growth? Evidence from Hungary’s pre-accession import tariffs	3
Global value chains and aggregate productivity growth in developing countries: the role of intra-sectoral allocation and structural change	3
Exchange rate volatility and business cycle fluctuations	3
Structural dependencies in African economies: business cycle synchronization and spillover effects	3
Higher frequency activity indicators and global bond portfolio adjustments	3
International trade and face-to-face diplomacy	3
Social ties and home bias in mergers and acquisitions	3
Composite global indicators from survey data: the Global Economic Barometers	2
Technical barriers to trade, product quality and trade margins: firm-level evidence	2
Tariff diversity and FTA network	2
Do former employees of foreign MNEs boost incumbent workers’ wages in domestic firms?	2
Product differentiation, interdependence, and the formation of PTAs	2
How does country-specific macro uncertainty affect international debt securities denominated in local currency?	2
Special economic zones and local economic activities in Ethiopia	2
Immigration and Offshoring: two forces of globalisation and their impact on employment and the bargaining power of occupational groups	2
Fiscal performance under inflation and inflation surprises: evidence from fiscal reaction functions for the euro area	2
Trade policy and global value chains: tariffs versus non-tariff measures	2
Do deep regional trade agreements facilitate regional production networks in Latin American and Caribbean countries?	2
Regulatory harmonization with the European Union: opportunity or threat to Moroccan firms?	2
The impact of FOMC announcements on cryptocurrency risk spillover across different market conditions	2
Monetary policy in an oil-dependent economy in the presence of multiple shocks	2
Agricultural fluctuations and global economic conditions	2
Can multinational subsidiaries withstand growing trade barriers?	2
Global spillovers of US monetary policy: new insights from the remittance channel	2
Time changing effects of external shocks on macroeconomic fluctuations in Peru: empirical application using regime-switching VAR models with stochastic volatility	2
Trade and welfare effects of a potential free trade agreement between Japan and the United States	2

Environmental regulation, pollution emissions and the current account	2
FDI on the move: cross-border M&A and migrant networks	2
Why origin matters in trade data	2
Export upgrading and FDI: new evidence from Brazil	2
The importance of deep integration in preferential trade agreements: the case of a successfully implemented Ukraine–Turkey free trade agreement	1
International firms and COVID-19: evidence from a global survey	1
Combining the pieces: identifying key determinants of export diversification in Africa amidst model uncertainty	1
Will you take my (s)crap? Waste havens in the global plastic waste trade	1
Face-to-face communication and production networks: evidence from first trans-Siberian flights	1
Total trade, cereals trade and undernourishment: new empirical evidence for developing countries	1
The effect of IMF communication on government bond markets: insights from sentiment analysis	1
The global impact of the US–China trade war: firm-level evidence	1
Africa’s regional and global integration: introduction to the special issue	1
Aid modality and growth under post-conflict conditions	1
International shipping costs pass through to inflation; evidence using census import data	1
Assessing climate-related disclosures of European banks through text mining	1
New perspectives on the rise and fall of global imbalances: evidence from large emerging market economies	1
Chinese infrastructure lending in Africa and participation in global value chains	1
Foreign direct investment and labor demand by skill in Indonesian manufacturing firms	1
A sectoral analysis of institutional quality and foreign direct investment in Mena countries: does sector type matter?	1
Supply chain disruptions: firm-level evidence from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake	1
Environmental migration? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature	1
Editorial: advances in green finance research	1
The wage effects of offshoring to the East and West: evidence from the German labor market	1
The market for carbon offsets: insights from US stock exchanges	1
Multiple preference regimes and rules of origin	1
From boycott to buycott: is activism from the North good for the South?	1
The labour share along global value chains: perspectives and evidence from sectoral interdependence	1
Unravelling the nexus between exchange rate undervaluation and global value chains participation	1
Globalization and cultural spillover in trade: evidence from the Japanese food culture	1
Sectoral credit sensitivity to carbon price with value chain effects	1
On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership	1
Exchange-rate pass-through and the currency of denomination of workers’ remittances	1
A firm-level analysis of global value chain participation effects	1
Foreign direct investment, structural transformation and employment: evidence from Ghana	1