Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

1993 - 2026

Current editor(s): K. Chan and S. Ghon Rhee

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Volume 98, issue C, 2026

Bank digital transformation and risk-taking: Evidence from China

Ke Song, Xingzi Ren, Lanyu Li and Zhen Xu

Digital finance and the effects of boundary effects on market integration: A pre-registered report

Ying Tan, Xinran Zhang and Xun Zhang

Cross-border financial risk transmission under China's bond market opening

Yongshan Du, Shuodi Zhang, Xiaoyijing Chen and Jiaxiang Chen

The stabilizing effect of FinTech in real economy investment: Evidence from China

Ke Zhang, Ting Li, Jenny Jing Wang and XiaoLin Ding

Digital finance and corporate digital innovation: The roles of traditional financial institutions: A pre-registered report

Jialin Liu, Xuetong Bao, Xianda Wang, Xuanli Xie and Jianguo Xu

Long-term comparative performance of Australian asset classes

Isaac Tonkin, Christopher Bilson, Timothy Brailsford and David R. Gallagher

Does environmental regulation inhibit rent-seeking by heavy-polluting firms? Evidence from China's new environmental protection law

Yuming Xiong, Tianlong Liao, Jianhua Liu and Guo Chen

Measuring geopolitical risk in China

Xinyan Shen, Daoping Wang and Chen Wu

Government debt accountability supervision and corporate stock price volatility

Guangqiang Liu, Lingyao Kong and Jingjing Du

Costs of bank loans and industrial robot adoption: Cross-country evidence

Chien-Chiang Lee, Chih-Wei Wang, Yu-Chi Wei, Weizheng Lin and Ai Ngoc Nhan Le

Net arbitrage trading by foreign investors and short sellers and stock returns: Evidence from the Korean stock market

Jaeyoung Jeong, Jiwon Eo and Jangkoo Kang

Retraction notice to ‘Mapping fear in financial markets: Insights from dynamic networks and centrality measures [PACFIN, Volume 85C, 2024, 102368]’

MuhammadAbubakr Naeem, Arunachalam Senthilkumar, Nadia Arfaoui and Rajesh Mohnot

Personal information protection, digital technology innovation, and corporate financial dynamics

Jun Yang, Zheyi Zhao, Mingyue Xiao and Yuting Ma

The impact of large banks' downward expansion into the inclusive small and micro credit market on small and medium-sized banks: Evidence from operating performance and risk-taking perspectives

Xiao Cao, Zihan Chen, Xiyu Guo, Pengyu Liu and Changxin Yu

Sustainability or performance? Ratings and fund managers' incentives in China

Aoran Liang, Jing Qiu, Chao Yi and Xin Zhang

Does innovative disruption impact credit markets? Evidence from China

Weiwei Yang, Zhiyong Li and Lisha Li

Co-opted boards and directors' and officers' liability insurance

Vivian W. Tai, Yi-Hsun Lai and Wen-Feng Chang

Individual defense and joint defense: A new defensive portfolio selection method based on stock network structure

Shi Chen, Xinyi Wu, Haohua Li and Xindan Li

Stock liquidity resilience and firm breakthrough innovation

Mingnian Liu, Lin Huang and Yu Shen

YouTube sentiment and the redistribution of market power among investors: Evidence from the Korean equity market

Daesan Oh, Taehwan Kim, Junkyu Jang and Sung-Hyuk Park

A study of the peer effect of firms' data asset disclosure

Deliang Zhou and Mingxia Yang

Forecasting realized volatility of Shanghai oil futures with mix-frequency uncertainty factors

Bo Yu, Weijia Peng, Chun Yao and Wei Lan

How does digital transformation affect bank diversification? Empirical evidence from text mining of Chinese banks

Chuang Shen, Rong Cui, Xi Zhang and Qian Chen

Will the appearance of fund managers play a role in investors' decisions?11The authors acknowledge and appreciate the supports from the Digital Economy Open Research Platform (www.deor.org.cn). All data is sampled, desensitized, and stored on the Ant Open Research Laboratory in an Ant Group Environment which is only remotely accessible for empirical analysis

Yuxia Ke, Kaixing Cai, Fanjia Shao and Bin Yu

Expected skewness, forecast combination, and commodity futures returns

Huan Yang, Jun Cai, Bart Frijns and Robert I. Webb

The innovative incentive effect of local government debt management: Evidence from China

Yucheng Sun, Yifan Liu, Meizhen Luo and Xiaoxiong Chen

Can digital finance reshape the geographical distribution of supply chains: A pre-registered report

Deli Wang, Qianni Liu, Shiyang Hu and Wenqi Han

Tail-risk spillovers from local government bonds to financial sectors in China

Yanhong Guo and Jinbo Huang

A sustainable approach to portfolio allocation: Incorporating market-based climate transition risk exposure

Kai Gan, Xingyi Li, Zhongfei Li and Shikun Wang

Does MFIs reduce poverty through entrepreneurship? Evidence from the Microfinance poverty alleviation policy in China: A pre-registered report

Yinglin Liu and Yuning Zhang

Creditor-in-control reform and firms' import of capital goods: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Aaraadhya Srivastava and P Jithin

Minimum wage policy uncertainty and bond credit spreads: Evidence from China

Zhennan Gao, Shoulin Pang, Hanyang Wang and Yuanyuan Zhou

Scaled factor portfolio

Fuwei Jiang, Kunpeng Li, Wei Ning and Hao Xue

Macro-driven ultimate forward rates and long-term interest rates

Hangsuck Lee, Minha Lee, Sunae Kim and Hongjun Ha

“Limited learning”: The effect of price limits on managerial learning

Lun Li and Zhenyang Shi

Investor behaviors and heuristics based on lunar superstition beliefs: A pre-registered report

Li Zhuohan and Qiao Minjian

Self-media information disclosure and closing price manipulation: Evidence from high-frequency data

Yongjian Huang, Zhitong Wan, Yi Zhang and Weiyan Gao

Perceived problems, causes, and solutions of finance research reproducibility and replicability: A pre-registered study

Tim Hasso, Mark Brosnan, Searat Ali and Daniel Chai

Gradualistic succession in Chinese family firms and industrial layout adjustment

Yuejiao Duan, Lanbiao Liu and Xiaomeng Wang

Do the pros of succession outweigh the cons? Evidence from the fraud of Chinese family-listed firms

Baihe Chen, Chao Lu, Ziyi Wu, Yajie Zheng and Ziying Zhao

Metric-based technical indicators for yield forecasting

Insu Choi, Soyeong Lim, Seoyeon Kim, Yeona Choi, Subin Han and Woo Chang Kim

Perception of economic policy uncertainty and peer effects in capital structure

Li Li, Changchun Pan and Mingrui Zhang

Comparing financial returns: National development banks vs commercial banks

Yang Zou, Jiajun Xu and Ugo Panizza

Dynamic multi-level graph enhanced contrastive learning for financial fraud detection

Wayne Lin, Ya Shi and Zhuang Liu

Financial digitalization and financial stability: Evidence from Chinese cities

Jie Zhou, Lei Wang, Bochen Li and Zidan Luo

FinTech and bank systemic risk: Evidence from China and the role of macro-prudential policy

Qingbo Zhao, Lingling Zhao, Yun Shen and Xiaoguang Yao

Does family engagement influence loan diversification and tax behavior in banks? Evidence from the Taiwanese market

Min-Hung Tsay, Li-Han Chang, Hsuan-Ling Chang and Tzu-Hao Hsu

Latent cultural forces: Communist heritage and stock price crash risk in China

Youliang Yan, Qingyi Feng, Lin Hu and Ying Jin

For better and for worse: The dual effect of marital ownership on firm value

Guowei Lai, Qixing Huang and Baozeng Ren

Government arrears repayment and access to trade credit: Evidence from China

Shouyu Yao, Qi Wang, Jia Li and Qiuzuo Hu

Effectiveness of board gender diversity rules when the glass ceiling is a constraint

Jeong-Taek Kim, Woo-Jong Lee, Hee-Yeon Sunwoo and Seunghee Yang

Does financial infrastructure upgrading improve firm product market performance? Evidence from the construction of China's unified commercial paper market

Lu Li, Xuena Liu and Dongdong Li

Managerial academic experience and institutional investors' bidding behavior in IPO pricing

Huiqiang Wang, Qiankun Gu, Xiaohui Zhao and Xinjian Shao

Geopolitical risk and global capital flows: Evidence from developed and emerging markets

Hao-Chang Yang, Gen-Fu Feng and Xia Chen

The unintended consequence of local government debt: Evidence from auditors' risk perception

Shuaidi Chen, Qiang Liu, Hongling Han and Ying Jin

Wealth transfers and propping behavior in Chinese rights issues

Zhenglong Li and Chin-Chong Lee

Bankruptcy court reform and spillover effects on trade credit provision: evidence from China

Huixian Zhao, Shasha Liu and Lan Yi

Liquidity creation and cost efficiency of banks in emerging markets under Basel III regime: Evidence of bidirectionality

Geetanjali Verma and Smita Kashiramka

From Information to Liquidity: How Industry-Level Transparency Shapes Corporate Cash Holdings

Gao, Ru (Tina), Jixin Huang, Chaochun Huang and Xi Rao

Non-largest shareholders acting in concert and stock price synchronicity

Miao Li, Xiaoqing Yan, Jin Tian and Nongwen Li

Unlocking AI growth in emerging economies: The role of cross-border venture capital

Hua-Tang Yin and Kai Tang

Disclosure similarity and bond comovement

Fengyu Li, Zicheng Zhao and Hang Cheng

High-speed railway connection and the inter-regional investment of listed companies

Yanbing Wen, An Hu and Yueji Xin

Patent pledgeability and cross-region capital flows: Evidence from firms' trans-regional Investment in China

Kai Wang, Yixuan Wei and Shuwan Zeng

Does patient capital suppress corporate financial asset allocation? A pre-registered report

Lei Liu, Junqing Chen, Yuxiao Hu and Zhiqiang Bian

Systematic literature review of household finance research in China: A pre-registered report

Jiamei Wang, Tian Yue and Zheyao Pan