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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Educational Investment for Future Marriage? Evidence of Missing Girls from China	78
Financial Structure, Technology, and Economic Growth: A Structural Matching Perspective	71
Human Capital Development and Its Influence on FDI Withdrawal: An Empirical Analysis	52
Tax Incentives and Maturity Mismatch between Investment and Financing: Evidence from China	38
Firms Quasi‐dynamics in Chinese Manufacturing Industry	36
Issue Information	28
Guest Editors' Introduction	28
A Structural Measurement of the Valuation Effect of China's External Assets: Method and Application	25
From Villages to Urban Neighborhoods: Urbanization and Health	24
Total Factor Productivity in China's Manufacturing Sector in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis	22
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Growth and Common Prosperity in China	20
Effects of the Resident Basic Medical Insurance Reform on Household Consumption in China	20
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Will the State‐owned Capital Transfer Policy Enhance the Sustainability of the Urban Employee Basic Pension Insurance Fund in China?	18
Does Chinese Environmental Policy Affect Income Inequality? Evidence from the Central Environmental Protection Inspection	18
Effects of Public Transfers on Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural China	18
Measures of Relative and Absolute Convergence and Pro‐poor Growth with an Illustration based on China (2010–2018)	15
Increasing Wages, Factor Substitution, and Cropping Pattern Changes in China	15
Does Fintech Narrow the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from China	15
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How Did China Maintain Macroeconomic Stability During 1978–2018?	13
Has the Belt and Road Initiative Improved the Quality of Food Imported by Chinese Enterprises?	13
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Higher Education Expansion in China, 1999–2003: Impact on Graduate Employability	12
From Price to Gain: The Evolution of Household Income Volatility and Consumption Insurance in Urban China	12
Housing Market Speculation and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China	10
Rural E‐commerce and County Economic Development in China	9
How Do China's Importing Firms Respond to Non‐tariff Measures?	9
Does College Location Affect the Location Choice of New College Graduates in China?	9
Exploring China's Potential Child Poverty	9
Cross‐border E‐commerce Reform and Entrepreneurial Activity in Urban Services – Evidence from Chinese Service Industry Enterprise Registration Data	9
Cross‐border E‐commerce and China's Exports during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	9
Changing Chinese Diets to Achieve a Win–Win Solution for Health and the Environment	9
International Transport Corridors and the Growth of China's Environmental Goods Exports: Evidence from the China–Europe Railway Express	8
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Climbing the Export Quality Ladder: Role of Human Capital	8
How Do Chinese Exporting Firms Respond to Environment‐related Notifications? A Green Innovation Perspective	8
Does the Belt and Road Initiative Increase the Carbon Emission Intensity of Participating Countries?	8
The Determinants of China's Minimum Wage Rates	8
Value‐added Tax and Leverage: Evidence from China's Value‐added Tax Rate Reform	8
Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Chinese Manufacturing Firms' Financialization and Servitization	8
Catalysts or Barriers? The Impacts of Natural Disasters on Internal Labor Migration in China	8
Capital Account Liberalization and International Corporate Bond Issuance: Transaction‐level Evidence from China	8
Housing Boom, Dutch Disease, and the Decline in China's Manufacturing Exports	8
The Potential of Industrial Agglomeration to Promote Pharmaceutical Innovation: Analysis of China's “Medicine Valley” Construction Upsurge	7
Does Bank Competition Promote Corporate Green Innovation? Evidence from the Location of Bank Branches	7
Officials' Foreign Experience and Firms' Exports: Evidence from China	7
State‐owned Enterprises in China as Macroeconomic Stabilizers: Their Special Function in Times of Economic Policy Uncertainty	7
Impact of Chinese Local Government‐led Construction Land Supply Strategies on Urban Innovation and its Spatiotemporal Differences	6
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Stock‐price Informativeness	6
The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Consumption of Food away from Home: Evidence from High‐frequency Restaurant Transaction Data	6
Intellectual Property Policy and County Economic Growth: A Quasi‐natural Experiment from the Intellectual Property Powering County Project	6
How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Impact a Country's Position in Global Value Chains?	6
Offshoring, Wages, and Skill Premiums: Firm‐level Evidence from China	6
The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in an International Context	6
Economic Development and Social Integration of Migrants in China	5
Diplomatic Relations and Investment Location of Chinese Multinationals: An International Political Economy Perspective	5
Learning from Neighbors and Differentiating Export Quality	5
Table of Contents Vol. 31, No. 1–6, 2023	5
Issue Information	5
Does City Shape Affect China's Economic Development?	5
Does Information Exchange Affect Cross‐border Tax Avoidance? Evidence from the Common Reporting Standard	5
Collateral Monetary Policy, Regional Financial Development, and Nonfinancial Firms' Shadow Banking Activities	5
Table of Contents Vol. 32, No. 1–6, 2024	4
Can the Environmental Credit Evaluation Policy Alleviate the Overcapacity of Heavily Polluting Enterprises?	4
Five Stylized Facts on Belt and Road Countries and Their Trade Patterns	4
Can a Teacher Salary Increase Promote Students' Educational Performance?	4
The Spillover Effects of International Co‐production in the Chinese Film Industry	4
A New Tri‐channel Decomposition of External Adjustment: Model and Application	4
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Quality of Life and Relative Household Energy Consumption in China	4
Does the Belt and Road Initiative Promote Bilateral Political Relations?	3

The Impacts of Trade Restrictions on World Agricultural Price Volatility during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	3
Exploring the Advantages and Disadvantages of the China–Pakistan Free Trade Agreement	3
Bilateral Relations and Exports: Evidence from Google Big Data	3
Structural Deleveraging: Evidence from China	3
Understanding China's Economic Growth from a Regional Policy Perspective	3
Issue Information	3
E‐commerce and Consumption Inequality in China	3
Can Digital Transformation Reduce the Zombification of Enterprises?	3
The Impact and Spillover Effects of Chinese Ports on Urban Service Industry under De‐maritimization: A Perspective for Port Economic Geography Analysis	3
Turnover of Local Government Officials and Local Air Quality	3
The Environmental Consequences of Place‐Based Policies in China: An Empirical Study Based on SO₂ Emission Data	3
The Post‐Bretton Woods System and US External Unsustainability	3
Education Universalization, Rural School Participation, and Population Density	3
Does the China Railway Express Promote Equitable Regional Development? Evidence from Manufacturing Relocation	3
Stock Market's Response to Real Output Shocks in China: A VARwAL Estimation	2
The Impacts of COVID‐19 on Migrants, Remittances, and Poverty in China: A Microsimulation Analysis	2
International Patent Cooperation, Patent Prosecution Highway Agreements, and Export Product Quality	2
Did the Labor Contract Law Affect the Capital Deepening and Efficiency of Chinese Private Firms?	2
The Causes and Consequences of China's Municipal Amalgamations: Evidence from Population Redistribution	2
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Premiums between Cross‐listed Shares: Determinants and Assessment of Financial Reform Policy Effectiveness	2
Guest Editors' Introduction	2
Long‐term Effect of Export Expansion on Human Capital	2
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The Life‐cycle Dynamics of Zombie Companies amongst Listed Firms in China	2
Decentralization, Supervision, and Chinese Local Government Debt	2
Impacts of Import Refusals on Agricultural Exports during Pandemics: Implications for China	1
It's not Overcapacity, but a Matter of Global Imbalances	1
Supply Chain Disruption and Import Strategy: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake	1
The Effects of E‐Commerce on Regional Poverty Reduction: Evidence from China's Rural E‐Commerce Demonstration County Program	1
The Spillover Effects of Environmental Regulations: A Perspective of Chinese Unregulated Firms' Tax Burden	1
Is Bilateral Value Added in Trade between China and EU Countries Efficient?	1
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The Geographical Rotation of Local Officials and Enterprise Cross‐city Mergers and Acquisitions in China	1
Digital Revolution and Job Quality of Lower Class Workers: Quasi‐experimental Evidence from the Broadband China Program	1
Tax–Debt Substitution? Local Government Debt Management and Corporate Tax Burden	1
Responsible Behavior of Irresponsible Companies: Air Pollution and Charitable Donations of Polluting Companies	1
Evaluating the Redistributive Effect of Social Security Programs in China over the Past 30 Years	1
Consumption and Income Poverty in Rural China: 1995–2018	1
What Drives Chinese Firms' Export Sophistication? A Perspective from the Rise of Minimum Wages	1
The Impact of the Pilot Free Trade Zone on Regional Financial Development	1
Local State Capacity and Uneven Taxation across Industrial Firms	1
The Role of Collateral in Sudden Stop Models	1
China in the Global Response to Climate Change	1
Renminbi Appreciation and China's Industrial Upgrading	1
Can Quality and Safety Demonstration Zone Policy Lower Nontariff Barriers? Evidence from Sino–US Food and Agricultural Trade	1
Why is China Promoting Economic Globalization? A Leadership Theory of Globalization	1
Inquiry Letters and Tax Aggressiveness	1
Anti‐dumping Policies and International Portfolio Allocation: The View from the Global Funds	1
Decomposition Analysis of Poverty Reduction in Rural China: 2007–2018	1
The Chinese Export Displacement Effect Revisited: The Case of the East African Community	1
Import Policy Uncertainty and Innovation	1
Urban Systems: Understanding and Predicting the Spatial Distribution of China's Population	1
Self‐employment in Rural China: Its Development, Chara cteristics, and Relation to Income	1