Journal of Economics and Business

1982 - 2025

Current editor(s): Emanuele Bajo and Moritz Ritter

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

External cost of leverage adjustment: Evidence from defined benefit pension plans pp. 1-14: Tae-Nyun Kim and Kihun Kim
Banking competition, banking stability, and economic growth: Are feedback effects at work? pp. 15-41: Manju Jayakumar, Rudra P. Pradhan, Saurav Dash, Rana P. Maradana and Kunal Gaurav
Institutions: Key variable for economic development in Latin America pp. 42-58: Andre Vianna and Andre Mollick
Financial development, remittances, and poverty reduction: Empirical evidence from a macroeconomic viewpoint pp. 59-68: Takeshi Inoue
The impact of the Volcker rule on targeted banks, systemic risk, liquidity, and financial reporting quality pp. 69-89: Fayez A. Elayan, Rafet Aktas, Kareen Brown and Parunchana Pacharn

Cross-border vs. domestic acquisitions: Evidence from India pp. 3-25: N.K. Chidambaran, Dipali Krishnakumar and Madhvi Sethi
Basel III: Effects of capital and liquidity regulations on European bank lending pp. 26-46: Caroline Roulet
Informed and uninformed investors in Iran: Evidence from the Tehran Stock Exchange pp. 47-58: Abolhassan Jalilvand, Mojtaba Rostami Noroozabad and Jeannette Switzer
The impact of M&A strategies on the operating performance and investments of European IPO firms pp. 59-74: Giancarlo Giudici and Matteo Bonaventura
The effect of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive on affiliated analysts’ earnings forecast optimism pp. 75-86: Jörg Prokop and Benno Kammann
Cross-border arbitrage and acquirers’ returns in the Eurozone crisis pp. 87-102: Julie Ayton and Rekha Rao-Nicholson
The impact of accounting laws and standards on bank risks: Evidence from transition countries pp. 103-118: Yiwei Fang, James Fornaro, Lingxiang Li and Yun Zhu
Incentive compensation, accounting discretion and bank capital pp. 119-140: Timothy W. Koch, Daniel Waggoner and Larry Wall
Does it pay to get connected? An examination of bank alliance network and bond spread pp. 141-163: Iftekhar Hasan, Céline Meslier, Amine Tarazi and Mingming Zhou

Debt spikes and stock flow adjustments: Emerging economies in perspective pp. 1-14: Laura Jaramillo, Carlos Mulas-Granados and Elijah Kimani
Telecommunications deregulation and the motives for mergers pp. 15-31: Kevin I. Okoeguale and Robert Loveland
Industry herd behaviour in financing decision making pp. 32-42: Omar Camara
The efficiency of Japanese financial cooperatives: An application of parametric distance functions pp. 43-53: Nobuyoshi Yamori, Kozo Harimaya and Kei Tomimura
Director and CEO pay reciprocity and CEO board membership pp. 54-65: Michelle Li and Helen Roberts

Lean against the wind: The moderation effect of foreign investments during the economic recession in Russia pp. 1-14: Anna Bykova and Carlos Jardon
The impact of oil shocks on the housing market: Evidence from Canada and U.S pp. 15-28: Robert N. Killins, Peter V. Egly and Diego Escobari
Sector-specific analysis of non-performing loans in the US banking system and their macroeconomic impact pp. 29-45: Amit Ghosh
Disagreement in expectations about public debt, monetary policy credibility and inflation risk premium pp. 46-61: Gabriel Montes and Alexandre Curi
Product recalls and security prices: New evidence from the US market pp. 62-79: Omer Unsal, M. Kabir Hassan and Duygu Zirek

The value of credit rating changes across economic cycles pp. 1-9: Patricia A. Ryan, Sriram V. Villupuram and Jeffrey G. Zygo
Impact of Market Timing on the Capital Structure of Russian Companies pp. 10-28: Marina Zavertiaeva and Iuliia Nechaeva
Regionally integrated asset pricing on the African stock markets: Evidence from the Fama French and Carhart models pp. 29-44: Nicholas Addai Boamah, Edward Watts and Geoffrey Loudon
Inflation targeting and inflation persistence: New evidence from fractional integration and cointegration pp. 45-62: Giorgio Canarella and Stephen Miller
Director connectedness and firm value in S&P 500 Index reconstitutions pp. 63-79: Lindsay Baran

Interest on reserves, regime shifts, and bank behavior pp. 1-15: Donald Dutkowsky and David VanHoose
Asymmetric incidence of sales taxes: A short-run investigation of gasoline prices pp. 16-23: Hakan Yilmazkuday
Assessing the effects of adding timberland and farmland into resource-based Sovereign Wealth Fund portfolios pp. 24-40: Raul Martinez-Oviedo and Francesca Medda
The volatility of exchange rates and the non-normality of stock returns pp. 41-52: Benjamin Blau

Do bank failures still matter in affecting regional economic activity? pp. 1-16: Amit Ghosh
The impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate innovation pp. 17-30: Yuqi Gu and Ling Zhang
Capital investment and internationalization pp. 31-48: Chaiporn Vithessonthi
Transmission of financial stress in Europe: The pivotal role of Italy and Spain, but not Greece pp. 49-64: Brenda González-Hermosillo and Christian Johnson
That is what friends do: employee friendliness and innovation pp. 65-76: Hari P. Adhikari, Wonseok Choi and Nilesh B. Sah

Market adaptation to Regulation Fair Disclosure: The use of industry information to enhance the informational environment pp. 1-12: Susana Yu and Gwendolyn Webb
The Bad, the boom and the bust: Profit warnings over the business cycle pp. 13-19: Raymond Cox, Ajit Dayanandan, Han Donker and John Nofsinger
Stock returns and interest rates around the World: A panel data approach pp. 20-35: Tibebe A. Assefa, Omar Esqueda and Andre Mollick
Rationality and honesty of consumers in insurance decisions pp. 36-46: Ignacio Moreno, Francisco J. Vázquez and Richard Watt
Comparing Federal Reserve, Blue Chip, and time series forecasts of US output growth pp. 47-56: Hamid Baghestani and Bassam M. AbuAl-Foul

“Open for Business?” —Transparent government and business regulation pp. 1-21: Carolin Geginat and Valentina Saltane
Testing for the presence of skill in Swedish mutual fund performance: Evidence from a bootstrap analysis pp. 22-35: Maher Asal
No free shop: Why target companies sometimes choose not to buy ‘go-shop’ options pp. 36-64: Adonis Antoniades, Charles W. Calomiris and Donna M. Hitscherich
All in the family: The effect of family ownership on acquisition performance pp. 65-78: Hari P. Adhikari and Ninon K. Sutton

Information production within the venture capital market: Implications for economic growth and development pp. 1-17: Oghenovo A. Obrimah
Managerial investment in mutual funds: Determinants and performance implications pp. 18-34: Abigail Hornstein and James Hounsell
The economic impact of phasing out energy consumption subsidies in GCC countries pp. 35-49: Mahmoud A. Al Iriani and Mohamed Trabelsi
Reactions of equity markets to recent financial reforms pp. 50-69: Nonna Sorokina and John Thornton
Testing the effectiveness of ERM: Evidence from operational losses pp. 70-82: Khalid Al-Amri and Yevgeniy Davydov