OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of China & World Economy is 2. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Its Impact on the Global Economy: What Does It Take to Turn Crisis into Opportunity?	117
Growth and Common Prosperity in China	43
Impacts of Market‐based Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Energy Efficiency in China	33
Why Do Chinese Private Enterprises Seek Outward Foreign Direct Investment?	29
Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Upgrading from the Perspective of Differences among Countries	27
Does Outward Foreign Direct Investment Facilitate China's Export Upgrading?	27
Mobile Payment and Informal Business: Evidence from China's Household Panel Data	25
Does the Belt and Road Initiative Increase the Carbon Emission Intensity of Participating Countries?	24
Has China's Housing Production Peaked?	24
Can Time–Space Compression Promote Urban Economic Growth? Evidence from China's High‐speed Rail Projects	22
Farmers' Exit from Land Operation in Rural China: Does the Price of Agricultural Mechanization Services Matter?	22
Smarter and Cleaner: The Digital Economy and Environmental Pollution	20
Does Bank Competition Promote Corporate Green Innovation? Evidence from the Location of Bank Branches	19
The Second Demographic Dividend as a Driver of China's Growth	18
Quality of Life and Relative Household Energy Consumption in China	16
Changing Chinese Diets to Achieve a Win–Win Solution for Health and the Environment	15
Seventy Years of Economic Development: A Review from the Angle of New Structural Economics	15
Does Land Rent between Acquaintances Deviate from the Reference Point? Evidence from Rural China	15
Does the Belt and Road Initiative Promote Bilateral Political Relations?	15
Does Fintech Narrow the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from China	14
How the Internet Promotes China's Exports: A Firm‐level Perspective	14
The Impacts of COVID‐19 on Migrants, Remittances, and Poverty in China: A Microsimulation Analysis	14
The Impacts of Trade Restrictions on World Agricultural Price Volatility during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	13
The Effect of Fast Internet on Employment: Evidence from a Large Broadband Expansion Program in China	12
The Effects of E‐Commerce on Regional Poverty Reduction: Evidence from China's Rural E‐Commerce Demonstration County Program	12

Urban Systems: Understanding and Predicting the Spatial Distribution of China's Population	11
Impacts of Two Tax Reforms on Inequality and Welfare in China	11
Can Trade Facilitation Prevent the Formation of Zombie Firms? Evidence from the China Railway Express	11
Human Capital Expansion and Global Value Chain Upgrading: Firm‐level Evidence from China	11
The Environmental Consequences of Place‐Based Policies in China: An Empirical Study Based on SO₂ Emission Data	11
Who Lost Most Wages and Household Income during the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Poor Rural China?	10
Have Industrial Robots Improved Pollution Reduction? A Theoretical Approach and Empirical Analysis	10
Dialect Diversity and Foreign Direct Investment in China	10
The Role of the Real Estate Sector in the Structural Dynamics of the Chinese Economy: An Input–Output Analysis	10
The Impact of the Pilot Free Trade Zone on Regional Financial Development	9
What Drove Housing Wealth Inequality in China?	8
Consumption and Income Poverty in Rural China: 1995–2018	8
Will Entrepreneurship Promote Productivity Growth in China?	8
Administrative Division Adjustment and Housing Price Comovement: Evidence from City‐County Mergers in China	8
Epidemics, Convergence, and Common Prosperity: Evidence from China	8
The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in an International Context	8
Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Chinese Manufacturing Firms' Financialization and Servitization	8
Reforming the World Trade Organization: Practitioner Perspectives from China, the EU, and the US	8
Self‐employment in Rural China: Its Development, Chara cteristics, and Relation to Income	8
Higher Education Expansion in China, 1999–2003: Impact on Graduate Employability	8
Tax Incentives and Maturity Mismatch between Investment and Financing: Evidence from China	7
Decomposition Analysis of Poverty Reduction in Rural China: 2007–2018	7
Regaining China's Resource Reallocative Efficiency to Boost Growth	6
The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Consumption of Food away from Home: Evidence from High‐frequency Restaurant Transaction Data	6
Productivity Gap and Inward FDI Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from China	6
Government Land Regulations and Housing Supply Elasticity in Urban China	6
The Stagnant Export Upgrading in Northeast China: Evidence from Value‐added Tax Reform	6
Has the Belt and Road Initiative Improved the Quality of Food Imported by Chinese Enterprises?	6
How Did China Maintain Macroeconomic Stability During 1978–2018?	6
Subways and the Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from China	6
Who Will Care for Middle Aged and Elderly Parents in Rural China?	6
Too Connected to Fail? Evidence from a Chinese Financial Risk Spillover Network	6
Structural Challenges to Sustained Economic Growth in China	6
Foreign Demand, Competition Strategy, and Export Markups: Evidence from Chinese Multi‐Product Exporters	5
Does Security of Land Operational Rights Matter for the Improvement of Agricultural Production Efficiency under the Collective Ownership in China?	5
Turnover of Local Government Officials and Local Air Quality	5
Exploring China's Potential Child Poverty	5
The Role of Institutions: A Cross‐country Analysis of Renminbi Trading in Foreign Exchange Markets	5
What Drives Chinese Firms' Export Sophistication? A Perspective from the Rise of Minimum Wages	5
Tail Causality between Crude Oil Price and RMB Exchange Rate	5
The Renminbi as a Trading Currency: Evidence from Selected Countries Participating in the Belt and Road Initiative	5
Financial Literacy: The Case of China	5
The Impact of COVID‐19 on the Dietary Diversity of Children and Adolescents: Evidence from a Rural/Urban Panel Study	5
The Spillover Effects of Environmental Regulations: A Perspective of Chinese Unregulated Firms' Tax Burden	5
Assessing Market Competition in the Chinese Banking Industry Based on a Conjectural Variation Model	5
Elderly Care Provision and the Impact on Caregiver Health in China	4
Foreign Divestment – Crisis or Chance for China's Innovation Edge?	4
Bilateral Relations and Exports: Evidence from Google Big Data	4
Understanding China's Economic Growth from a Regional Policy Perspective	4
Structural Changes in the Renminbi Exchange Rate Mechanism	4

What Factors Can Explain the Rising Spatial Disparity in Economic Activities in China?	4
International Patent Cooperation, Patent Prosecution Highway Agreements, and Export Product Quality	4
Education Universalization, Rural School Participation, and Population Density	4
Financial Structure, Technology, and Economic Growth: A Structural Matching Perspective	4
Effects of Imports and Exports on China's PM2.5 Pollution	4
High‐Speed Rail Service and the Issuance of Municipal Corporate Bonds	4
Did the Labor Contract Law Affect the Capital Deepening and Efficiency of Chinese Private Firms?	4
Five Stylized Facts on Belt and Road Countries and Their Trade Patterns	4
The Causes and Consequences of China's Municipal Amalgamations: Evidence from Population Redistribution	3
Exchange Rate Volatility, Heterogeneous Firms and Market Concentration	3
Self‐employment in Urban China: Entrepreneurship or Disguised Unemployment?	3
Can “Concerted” Macroprudential Policies Mitigate Cross‐border Contagion of Financial Risks? Evidence from China and Its Financially Connected Economies	3
Rural E‐commerce and County Economic Development in China	3
An Evaluation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: Market Access and Trading Rules	3
Public Health Insurance and Farm Labor Supply: Evidence from China's Rural Health Insurance Reform	3
The Life‐cycle Dynamics of Zombie Companies amongst Listed Firms in China	3
Does College Location Affect the Location Choice of New College Graduates in China?	3
Intra‐family Income Redistribution and Its Dynamic Changes among the Elderly in China: 2002–2018	3
Risks and Firms' Decision Making on Outward Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Analysis of China's State‐owned Enterprises	3
Evaluating the Redistributive Effect of Social Security Programs in China over the Past 30 Years	3
Unveiling the Relationship between Economic Growth and Equality for Developing Countries	2
The Threat of Financial Sanctions: What Safeguards Can Central Banks Build?	2
Exploring the Advantages and Disadvantages of the China–Pakistan Free Trade Agreement	2
Impacts of Import Refusals on Agricultural Exports during Pandemics: Implications for China	2
Impact of Chinese Local Government‐led Construction Land Supply Strategies on Urban Innovation and its Spatiotemporal Differences	2
How Do China's Importing Firms Respond to Non‐tariff Measures?	2
The Consumption‐Stimulating Effect of Public Rental Housing in China	2
Corporate Endowment Insurance Fee Reduction and Employee Wages: Evidence from China	2
Financial Factors, Openness and the Natural Interest Rate in China	2
Structural Deleveraging: Evidence from China	2
The US Unanticipated Costs of Decoupling from China	2
Capital Account Liberalization and International Corporate Bond Issuance: Transaction‐level Evidence from China	2
Why Has China's Current Account Balance Converged after the Global Financial Crisis?	2
China's Rural Industrialization and Agricultural Mechanization	2
More Rights but Less Gains: Relaxed Birth Control Policy and the Loss for Women	2
Is Bilateral Value Added in Trade between China and EU Countries Efficient?	2
China in the Global Response to Climate Change	2
The Impact and Spillover Effects of Chinese Ports on Urban Service Industry under De‐maritimization: A Perspective for Port Economic Geography Analysis	2
Housing Market Speculation and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China	2