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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Guest Editors' Introduction	98
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Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Chinese Manufacturing Firms' Financialization and Servitization	48
Educational Investment for Future Marriage? Evidence of Missing Girls from China	43
Cross‐border E‐commerce Reform and Entrepreneurial Activity in Urban Services – Evidence from Chinese Service Industry Enterprise Registration Data	41
International Transport Corridors and the Growth of China's Environmental Goods Exports: Evidence from the China–Europe Railway Express	39
Dynamic Efficiency Redux: Evidence from China	37
Balancing China's Demand and Supply for Sustainable Growth: The Roles of Household Consumption	30
Critical Illness Insurance and Consumption Inequality: Evidence from Rural China	29
Impact of National Technology Transfer Markets on Entrepreneurship in China	28
Growth and Common Prosperity in China	25
Has the Belt and Road Initiative Improved the Quality of Food Imported by Chinese Enterprises?	25
A New Tri‐channel Decomposition of External Adjustment: Model and Application	24
Can a Teacher Salary Increase Promote Students' Educational Performance?	21
Can the Environmental Credit Evaluation Policy Alleviate the Overcapacity of Heavily Polluting Enterprises?	21
Diplomatic Relations and Investment Location of Chinese Multinationals: An International Political Economy Perspective	20
Five Stylized Facts on Belt and Road Countries and Their Trade Patterns	19
Climbing the Export Quality Ladder: Role of Human Capital	19
The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Consumption of Food away from Home: Evidence from High‐frequency Restaurant Transaction Data	15
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Stock‐price Informativeness	15
Does the China Railway Express Promote Equitable Regional Development? Evidence from Manufacturing Relocation	14
Evaluating the Redistributive Effect of Social Security Programs in China over the Past 30 Years	14
Structural Deleveraging: Evidence from China	13
The Causes and Consequences of China's Municipal Amalgamations: Evidence from Population Redistribution	13
Why is China Promoting Economic Globalization? A Leadership Theory of Globalization	13

Tax–Debt Substitution? Local Government Debt Management and Corporate Tax Burden	13
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Renminbi Appreciation and China's Industrial Upgrading	12
Can Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance Promote the Participation of Emerging Economies in Multinational Supply Chains?	12
E‐commerce, Pandemic Shock, and the Survival of Small and Medium Enterprises	11
Global Value Chain Participation and Firms' Responses to Exchange Rate Fluctuations	11
Neighborhood Awareness and Stock Return Synchronicity: Evidence from Satellite Nighttime Light Data	10
Subways and the Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from China	10
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Does Chinese Environmental Policy Affect Income Inequality? Evidence from the Central Environmental Protection Inspection	10
Table of Contents Vol. 29, No. 1‐6, 2021	10
School Boarding and Students’ Prosocial Behaviors: Evidence from Rural China	10
Inventory Management with Trade Policy Uncertainty	10
A Decade of Evolving Sentiment on the Belt and Road Initiative in Elite Magazines	10
Effects of the Resident Basic Medical Insurance Reform on Household Consumption in China	10
How Does the Belt and Road Initiative Improve China's Product Export Potential: A Global Value Chain Perspective	10
Sister‐city Ties and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment: A Spatial Econometric Analysis	10
Table of Contents Vol. 30, No. 1–6, 2022	10
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Does Bank Competition Promote Corporate Green Innovation? Evidence from the Location of Bank Branches	9
De‐financialization and the Increase in Corporate Research and Development Intensity: The Effects of China's 2018 New Asset Management Rules	9
Intellectual Property Policy and County Economic Growth: A Quasi‐natural Experiment from the Intellectual Property Powering County Project	9
The Determinants of China's Minimum Wage Rates	9
The Impacts of Trade Restrictions on World Agricultural Price Volatility during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	8
Supply Chain Disruption and Import Strategy: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake	8
Premiums between Cross‐listed Shares: Determinants and Assessment of Financial Reform Policy Effectiveness	8
Exports to China and Local Employment in South Korea	7
Foreign Divestment – Crisis or Chance for China's Innovation Edge?	7
The Impacts of COVID‐19 on Migrants, Remittances, and Poverty in China: A Microsimulation Analysis	7
The Impact of High‐standard Free Trade Areas on the Diversification of China's Export Products: Expanding Market or Intensifying Competition?	7
What Drives Chinese Firms' Export Sophistication? A Perspective from the Rise of Minimum Wages	7
Temperature and Real Exchange Rates	7
The Impact of a Public Health Emergency on the Demand for Life Insurance – An Empirical Analysis Based on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome	6
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Does Horizontal‐Paradigm Aid Weaken the Governance of Recipient Countries? Evidence from China	6
Does Parental Migration Alleviate Multidimensional Poverty among Left‐behind Children in Rural Areas?	6
Guest Editors' Words	6
Issue Information	6
Bureaucratic Culture and Innovation	5
Guest Editors' Words	5
Digital Industry Agglomeration and Export Product Diversification: Evidence from Chinese Firms	5
Smarter and Cleaner: The Digital Economy and Environmental Pollution	5
Issue Information	5
Elderly Care Provision and the Impact on Caregiver Health in China	5
Digital Inputs, Information Transparency, and Global Supply‐Chain Security	5
Quantifying Inter‐regional Trade Inequality of China's Cities Based on Environmental‐economic Benefits in Virtual Built‐up Land Flow	5
Can the Super‐deduction of R&D Expenses Boost R&D Investment?	5
Risks and Firms' Decision Making on Outward Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Analysis of China's State‐owned Enterprises	5
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The Frontiers in Manufacturing Technologies Initiative and University Innovation	5

Unveiling the Relationship between Economic Growth and Equality for Developing Countries	5
Can Digital Transformation Reduce the Zombification of Enterprises?	4
Historical Clans and Contemporary Human Capital	4
Exploring China's Potential Child Poverty	4
Economic Development and Social Integration of Migrants in China	4
Tax Incentives and Maturity Mismatch between Investment and Financing: Evidence from China	4
State‐owned Enterprises in China as Macroeconomic Stabilizers: Their Special Function in Times of Economic Policy Uncertainty	4
Changing Chinese Diets to Achieve a Win–Win Solution for Health and the Environment	4
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Issue Information	4
Turnover of Local Government Officials and Local Air Quality	3
Can Quality and Safety Demonstration Zone Policy Lower Nontariff Barriers? Evidence from Sino–US Food and Agricultural Trade	3
International Patent Cooperation, Patent Prosecution Highway Agreements, and Export Product Quality	3
Decentralization, Supervision, and Chinese Local Government Debt	3
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How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Impact a Country's Position in Global Value Chains?	3
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The Chinese Export Displacement Effect Revisited: The Case of the East African Community	3
The Spillover Effects of Environmental Regulations: A Perspective of Chinese Unregulated Firms' Tax Burden	3
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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
Responsible Behavior of Irresponsible Companies: Air Pollution and Charitable Donations of Polluting Companies	3
Regaining China's Resource Reallocative Efficiency to Boost Growth	2
The Life‐cycle Dynamics of Zombie Companies amongst Listed Firms in China	2
Effects of Public Transfers on Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural China	2
Equity–Efficiency Trade‐offs in Healthcare System Reform: The Perspective of Tiered Diagnosis and Treatment in China	2
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Impacts of Market‐based Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Energy Efficiency in China	2
Foreign Demand, Competition Strategy, and Export Markups: Evidence from Chinese Multi‐Product Exporters	2
Self‐employment in Urban China: Entrepreneurship or Disguised Unemployment?	2
Do Institutional Investor Cliques Undermine Stock Price Efficiency?	2
Whose Aid is Beneficial to Firms' Exports? Evidence from a Post‐disaster Aid Experiment in China	2
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Bringing Minds Together: High‐speed Railways, Team Building, and Innovation Collaboration	2
The Spillover Effects of International Co‐production in the Chinese Film Industry	2
Table of Contents Vol. 31, No. 1–6, 2023	2
Financial Literacy: The Case of China	2
Earnings Management of Chinese Listed Multinational Corporations	2
Spatial Structure of Peer Networks and Academic Achievement Based on a Random Control Trial Experiment	2
Issue Information	2
National Concentration of High‐tech Products: The Second Great Divergence?	2
Issue Information	2
Capital Account Liberalization and International Corporate Bond Issuance: Transaction‐level Evidence from China	2
Learning from Neighbors and Differentiating Export Quality	2
The Impact of Social Health Insurance on Sex Selection	2
The Effect of Fast Internet on Employment: Evidence from a Large Broadband Expansion Program in China	2
Corporate Endowment Insurance Fee Reduction and Employee Wages: Evidence from China	2
Can Monetary Policy Undo Asset‐freezing Sanctions?	2