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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Guest Editors' Introduction	62
Educational Investment for Future Marriage? Evidence of Missing Girls from China	46
Cross‐border E‐commerce Reform and Entrepreneurial Activity in Urban Services – Evidence from Chinese Service Industry Enterprise Registration Data	37
Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Chinese Manufacturing Firms' Financialization and Servitization	36
International Transport Corridors and the Growth of China's Environmental Goods Exports: Evidence from the China–Europe Railway Express	31
Has the Belt and Road Initiative Improved the Quality of Food Imported by Chinese Enterprises?	30
Impact of National Technology Transfer Markets on Entrepreneurship in China	28
Growth and Common Prosperity in China	27
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Stock‐price Informativeness	26
The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Consumption of Food away from Home: Evidence from High‐frequency Restaurant Transaction Data	25
Can the Environmental Credit Evaluation Policy Alleviate the Overcapacity of Heavily Polluting Enterprises?	24
Climbing the Export Quality Ladder: Role of Human Capital	23
Diplomatic Relations and Investment Location of Chinese Multinationals: An International Political Economy Perspective	22
Can a Teacher Salary Increase Promote Students' Educational Performance?	20
A New Tri‐channel Decomposition of External Adjustment: Model and Application	20
Five Stylized Facts on Belt and Road Countries and Their Trade Patterns	19
Does the China Railway Express Promote Equitable Regional Development? Evidence from Manufacturing Relocation	18
The Causes and Consequences of China's Municipal Amalgamations: Evidence from Population Redistribution	18
Evaluating the Redistributive Effect of Social Security Programs in China over the Past 30 Years	17
Structural Deleveraging: Evidence from China	16
Tax–Debt Substitution? Local Government Debt Management and Corporate Tax Burden	14
Neighborhood Awareness and Stock Return Synchronicity: Evidence from Satellite Nighttime Light Data	14
Why is China Promoting Economic Globalization? A Leadership Theory of Globalization	14
Renminbi Appreciation and China's Industrial Upgrading	13

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