OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of China & World Economy 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
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Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Chinese Manufacturing Firms' Financialization and Servitization	56
Guest Editors' Introduction	44
Educational Investment for Future Marriage? Evidence of Missing Girls from China	36
Cross‐border E‐commerce Reform and Entrepreneurial Activity in Urban Services – Evidence from Chinese Service Industry Enterprise Registration Data	33
International Transport Corridors and the Growth of China's Environmental Goods Exports: Evidence from the China–Europe Railway Express	30
Has the Belt and Road Initiative Improved the Quality of Food Imported by Chinese Enterprises?	28
Impact of National Technology Transfer Markets on Entrepreneurship in China	26
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Stock‐price Informativeness	26
Growth and Common Prosperity in China	26
Five Stylized Facts on Belt and Road Countries and Their Trade Patterns	25
Can the Environmental Credit Evaluation Policy Alleviate the Overcapacity of Heavily Polluting Enterprises?	24
Climbing the Export Quality Ladder: Role of Human Capital	22
Diplomatic Relations and Investment Location of Chinese Multinationals: An International Political Economy Perspective	22
The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Consumption of Food away from Home: Evidence from High‐frequency Restaurant Transaction Data	21
Can a Teacher Salary Increase Promote Students' Educational Performance?	19
A New Tri‐channel Decomposition of External Adjustment: Model and Application	19
The Causes and Consequences of China's Municipal Amalgamations: Evidence from Population Redistribution	18
Does the China Railway Express Promote Equitable Regional Development? Evidence from Manufacturing Relocation	17
Tax–Debt Substitution? Local Government Debt Management and Corporate Tax Burden	16
Structural Deleveraging: Evidence from China	16
Evaluating the Redistributive Effect of Social Security Programs in China over the Past 30 Years	16
Why is China Promoting Economic Globalization? A Leadership Theory of Globalization	15
Urban Systems: Understanding and Predicting the Spatial Distribution of China's Population	14
Neighborhood Awareness and Stock Return Synchronicity: Evidence from Satellite Nighttime Light Data	13

E‐commerce, Pandemic Shock, and the Survival of Small and Medium Enterprises	13
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Renminbi Appreciation and China's Industrial Upgrading	12
Global Value Chain Participation and Firms' Responses to Exchange Rate Fluctuations	11
Sister‐city Ties and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment: A Spatial Econometric Analysis	10
Subways and the Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from China	10
Table of Contents Vol. 30, No. 1–6, 2022	10
School Boarding and Students’ Prosocial Behaviors: Evidence from Rural China	10
Can Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance Promote the Participation of Emerging Economies in Multinational Supply Chains?	10
How Does the Belt and Road Initiative Improve China's Product Export Potential: A Global Value Chain Perspective	10
Inventory Management with Trade Policy Uncertainty	10
Reforming the World Trade Organization: Practitioner Perspectives from China, the EU, and the US	10
Does Chinese Environmental Policy Affect Income Inequality? Evidence from the Central Environmental Protection Inspection	9
Does Fintech Narrow the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from China	9
Table of Contents Vol. 29, No. 1‐6, 2021	9
Effects of the Resident Basic Medical Insurance Reform on Household Consumption in China	9
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Does Bank Competition Promote Corporate Green Innovation? Evidence from the Location of Bank Branches	8
The Determinants of China's Minimum Wage Rates	8
De‐financialization and the Increase in Corporate Research and Development Intensity: The Effects of China's 2018 New Asset Management Rules	8
Supply Chain Disruption and Import Strategy: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake	8
Intellectual Property Policy and County Economic Growth: A Quasi‐natural Experiment from the Intellectual Property Powering County Project	8
The Impacts of Trade Restrictions on World Agricultural Price Volatility during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	8
The Impacts of COVID‐19 on Migrants, Remittances, and Poverty in China: A Microsimulation Analysis	8
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Quality of Life and Relative Household Energy Consumption in China	8
Premiums between Cross‐listed Shares: Determinants and Assessment of Financial Reform Policy Effectiveness	8
The Impact of High‐standard Free Trade Areas on the Diversification of China's Export Products: Expanding Market or Intensifying Competition?	7
Exports to China and Local Employment in South Korea	7
What Drives Chinese Firms' Export Sophistication? A Perspective from the Rise of Minimum Wages	7
Foreign Divestment – Crisis or Chance for China's Innovation Edge?	7
The Impact of a Public Health Emergency on the Demand for Life Insurance – An Empirical Analysis Based on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome	6
Digital Industry Agglomeration and Export Product Diversification: Evidence from Chinese Firms	6
Risks and Firms' Decision Making on Outward Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Analysis of China's State‐owned Enterprises	6
Guest Editors' Words	6
Elderly Care Provision and the Impact on Caregiver Health in China	6
Does Horizontal‐Paradigm Aid Weaken the Governance of Recipient Countries? Evidence from China	6
Bureaucratic Culture and Innovation	6
Unveiling the Relationship between Economic Growth and Equality for Developing Countries	5
The Frontiers in Manufacturing Technologies Initiative and University Innovation	5
Quantifying Inter‐regional Trade Inequality of China's Cities Based on Environmental‐economic Benefits in Virtual Built‐up Land Flow	5
Digital Inputs, Information Transparency, and Global Supply‐Chain Security	5
Guest Editors' Words	5
Tax Incentives and Maturity Mismatch between Investment and Financing: Evidence from China	4
Exploring China's Potential Child Poverty	4
Changing Chinese Diets to Achieve a Win–Win Solution for Health and the Environment	4
Smarter and Cleaner: The Digital Economy and Environmental Pollution	4
Historical Clans and Contemporary Human Capital	4
Economic Development and Social Integration of Migrants in China	4
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Issue Information	4
How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Impact a Country's Position in Global Value Chains?	4
Can the Super‐deduction of R&D Expenses Boost R&D Investment?	4
State‐owned Enterprises in China as Macroeconomic Stabilizers: Their Special Function in Times of Economic Policy Uncertainty	3
Turnover of Local Government Officials and Local Air Quality	3
Local State Capacity and Uneven Taxation across Industrial Firms	3
The Impact and Spillover Effects of Chinese Ports on Urban Service Industry under De‐maritimization: A Perspective for Port Economic Geography Analysis	3
Did the Labor Contract Law Affect the Capital Deepening and Efficiency of Chinese Private Firms?	3
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The Chinese Export Displacement Effect Revisited: The Case of the East African Community	3
Decentralization, Supervision, and Chinese Local Government Debt	3
Can Quality and Safety Demonstration Zone Policy Lower Nontariff Barriers? Evidence from Sino–US Food and Agricultural Trade	3
Consumption and Income Poverty in Rural China: 1995–2018	3
The Life‐cycle Dynamics of Zombie Companies amongst Listed Firms in China	3
Can Digital Transformation Reduce the Zombification of Enterprises?	3
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The Spillover Effects of Environmental Regulations: A Perspective of Chinese Unregulated Firms' Tax Burden	3
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Responsible Behavior of Irresponsible Companies: Air Pollution and Charitable Donations of Polluting Companies	2
National Concentration of High‐tech Products: The Second Great Divergence?	2
Spatial Structure of Peer Networks and Academic Achievement Based on a Random Control Trial Experiment	2
Do Institutional Investor Cliques Undermine Stock Price Efficiency?	2
Human Capital Expansion and Global Value Chain Upgrading: Firm‐level Evidence from China	2
Regaining China's Resource Reallocative Efficiency to Boost Growth	2
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Self‐employment in Urban China: Entrepreneurship or Disguised Unemployment?	2
Can Monetary Policy Undo Asset‐freezing Sanctions?	2
International Patent Cooperation, Patent Prosecution Highway Agreements, and Export Product Quality	2
Whose Aid is Beneficial to Firms' Exports? Evidence from a Post‐disaster Aid Experiment in China	2
Corporate Endowment Insurance Fee Reduction and Employee Wages: Evidence from China	2
Earnings Management of Chinese Listed Multinational Corporations	2
Longevity, Fertility, and the Real Exchange Rate	1
Capital Account Liberalization and International Corporate Bond Issuance: Transaction‐level Evidence from China	1
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Financial Literacy: The Case of China	1
Bringing Minds Together: High‐speed Railways, Team Building, and Innovation Collaboration	1
The Effect of Fast Internet on Employment: Evidence from a Large Broadband Expansion Program in China	1
Guest Editors' Introduction	1
The Market Reaction to Cross‐border Listings: Evidence from AH Listed Firms	1
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The Role of Collateral in Sudden Stop Models	1
Inquiry Letters and Tax Aggressiveness	1
Does Information Exchange Affect Cross‐border Tax Avoidance? Evidence from the Common Reporting Standard	1
Learning from Neighbors and Differentiating Export Quality	1
Effects of Public Transfers on Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural China	1
Foreign Demand, Competition Strategy, and Export Markups: Evidence from Chinese Multi‐Product Exporters	1
Issue Information	1
Long‐term Effect of Export Expansion on Human Capital	1
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The Impact of COVID‐19 on the Dietary Diversity of Children and Adolescents: Evidence from a Rural/Urban Panel Study	1
Self‐employment in Rural China: Its Development, Chara cteristics, and Relation to Income	1
Paving the Way towards Green Development: Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Electrification in Participating Countries	1
Education Universalization, Rural School Participation, and Population Density	1
Equity–Efficiency Trade‐offs in Healthcare System Reform: The Perspective of Tiered Diagnosis and Treatment in China	1
Table of Contents Vol. 31, No. 1–6, 2023	1
Impacts of Market‐based Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Energy Efficiency in China	1
Issue Information	1
Collateral Monetary Policy, Regional Financial Development, and Nonfinancial Firms' Shadow Banking Activities	1
The Spillover Effects of International Co‐production in the Chinese Film Industry	1
An Evaluation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: Market Access and Trading Rules	1
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