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81 gap statements mined from State Capitalism and Financial Governance papers in our 4.5M-paper local library, which holds 920 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • The research highlights the need for more effective diversification strategies for sovereign wealth funds.

    The Importance of Financial Analysis to Decision-Making for Financial Portfolio Diversification and Revenue Sustainability in Reducing Risk: The Case of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund · 2026 · DOI

  • The analysis is limited to Bulgaria's experience with the IMF. The paper does not provide a comprehensive analysis of the IMF's role in other countries.

    International Monetary Fund Role in the Bulgaria’s Economic Governance · 2026 · DOI

  • The analysis highlights the need for further research on the IMF's role in economic governance.

    International Monetary Fund Role in the Bulgaria’s Economic Governance · 2026 · DOI

  • It notes that the experience of countries that have acceded to the World Trade Organisation has not been fully explored in the literature.

    TRADE LIBERALISATION AND FISCAL RISKS: INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS AND LESSONS FOR UZBEKISTAN · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of discourse dominance and representation of developing countries in multilateral institutions. The concentration of resource allocation in developed countries. The insufficient adaptability between the global financial governance system and the supply of global financial public goods.

    The Predicament and Path of International Financial Governance Led by a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind from the Perspective of International Public Goods · 2026 · DOI

  • The current lack of impartiality in the supply of global public goods. The insufficient adaptability between the global financial governance system and the supply of global financial public goods. The diversification of value consensus among the supply subjects of international public goods.

    The Predicament and Path of International Financial Governance Led by a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind from the Perspective of International Public Goods · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies the lack of diversification of the economy of Kazakhstan as a major problem. The study identifies the dependence of the economy of Kazakhstan on oil revenues as a major challenge.

    Diversification of the economy of Kazakhstan: problems, opportunities and prospects · 2026 · DOI

  • This article focuses on three European supranational institutions – the European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) – a set of actors that have long been active in international capital markets, but whose agency in international financial governance has not been studied to date.

    Making markets: supranational public borrowers and the promotion of international financial market integration · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could examine the implications of China's rise for the global economy. Future studies could analyze the impact of China's strategy on the Liberal International Order. Future research could investigate the potential for competitive pluralism to shape the global order.

    China’s rise and the political economy of stability: challenging liberal assumptions in a multipolar era · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research could explore the effects of different degrees of risk aversion on the optimal combination of responsible reductions in consumption and investment. Research could also examine the impact of heterogeneous risk aversion on the marginal rate of technical substitution for an impact on the externality.

    Responsible Investment and Responsible Consumption · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of understanding of how responsible investment and consumption interact to mitigate externalities. The need for a model that accounts for endogenous market responses to responsible investment and consumption.

    Responsible Investment and Responsible Consumption · 2026 · DOI

  • Conversely, territories that in the period 2014–2020 lost the less developed status, previously obtained in the time frame 2007–2013, were not characterized by a significantly lower economic growth, providing some evidence of the effectiveness of the safety net.

    Premature exit from and delayed entrance into the less developed status: An empirical appraisal of the structural funds allocation criterion · 2023 · DOI

  • While financialisation as a concept gives meaning to the embrace of the shareholder value model to explain the convergence of sovereign funds with operational practices and guiding norms of conventional financial market actors, it is insufficient in explaining how and why state investment funds differ from conventional financial actors and the underlying political dynamics that drive their emergence and evolution.

    The Strategic Logics of State Investment Funds in Asia: Beyond Financialisation · 2020 · DOI

  • The proponents of stock market liberalization (SML) prescribes liberalization as a full-fledge solution to the problems of the EIC, whereas the limited number of studies illustrate mixed results.

    Stock Market Liberalization: Effects on Stock Market Development in the Emerging Islamic Countries · 2020 · DOI

  • The EIB Statutes can be boiled down to three overarching objectives that its lending would prioritize – development, integration and investment – but little is known about the extent to which EIB loans fulfil each objective in practice.

    The European Investment Bank: Development, Integration, Investment? · 2017 · DOI

  • Disagreeing with Åslund over the role of loose monetary policy in fostering the region's economic problems, he outlines a number of competitiveness problems that remain to be addressed in the 10 new EU member states of CEE, along with improvements in framework conditions supporting future macroeconomic growth.

    Exchange Rate Policy and Economic Growth after the Financial Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe · 2011 · DOI

  • Climate economics and circular economy policy are entirely absent from this set. No study examines how climate-related economic shocks or circular-economy transitions interact with geopolitical tensions, war economics, or international finance—a gap particularly acute given the researcher's interest in both climate and conflict economics.

    Phoenix Risen: The Resurrection of Global Finance · 1996 · DOI

  • Existing research remains inconclusive on whether overly positive tones further enhance fund inflows or lead to adverse outcomes in these contexts.

    Too Positive to Persuade? Inverted U-Shaped Effects of Fund Managers’ Tones on Fund Flows · 2026 · DOI

  • The study notes that existing research has focused on the destructive potential of China's rise, rather than its potential to reshape the global order.

    China’s rise and the political economy of stability: challenging liberal assumptions in a multipolar era · 2026 · DOI

  • The empirical analysis of the hypotheses developed from the theoretical framework presented indicates mixed findings: where no relationships of significance between the board member demographics variables and board effectiveness are identified while, some evidence in support of statistically significant associations between certain of the board practice and board structure variables were revealed.

    Public sector corporate governance revisited: the ROI's non-commercial semi-state sector · 2026 · DOI

  • Existing work examines either financial globalization's constraints on government autonomy or conflict's trade impacts in isolation, but not their dynamic interaction under different regime types or institutional contexts.

    Phoenix Risen: The Resurrection of Global Finance · 1996 · DOI

  • Sovereign funds face the challenge of preserving capital, generating current income, and accumulating wealth for future generations. The study highlights the challenge of reducing sovereign fiscal risk through portfolio diversification and non-oil revenue growth.

    The Importance of Financial Analysis to Decision-Making for Financial Portfolio Diversification and Revenue Sustainability in Reducing Risk: The Case of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund · 2026 · DOI

  • Through answering these questions, this research intends to contribute to filling an important gap in literature.

    IFRS convergence and international trade: evidence from comparison of Türkiye and European Union · 2025 · DOI

  • The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic provided a critical moment for examining shifts in the ideology and practices of the multilateral development banks (MDBs), including the understudied Asian Development Bank (ADB).

    Resisting the turn? The Asian Development Bank and the comeback of state capitalism · 2025 · DOI

  • The first part of this paper analyses the regulatory framework for international trade in financial services within the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO), with special attention paid to the open issues including the scope of prudential measures and capital mobility limitations.

    Financial services liberalization and international integration in South Eastern Europe · 2008 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) It notes that the experience of countries that have acceded to the World Trade Organisation has not been fully explored in the literature (“TRADE LIBERALISATION AND FISCAL RISKS: INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS AND…”, 2026); (2) The lack of discourse dominance and representation of developing countries in multilateral institutions (“The Predicament and Path of International Financial Governance Led by a…”, 2026); (3) The study identifies the lack of diversification of the economy of Kazakhstan as a major problem (“Diversification of the economy of Kazakhstan: problems, opportunities and…”, 2026); (4) Future research could examine the implications of China's rise for the global economy (“China’s rise and the political economy of stability: challenging liberal…”, 2026); (5) Further research could explore the effects of different degrees of risk aversion on the optimal combination of responsible reductions in consumption and investment (“Responsible Investment and Responsible Consumption”, 2026). 81 gap statements have been mined from State Capitalism and Financial Governance papers in our 4.5M-paper local library, which holds 920 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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