International Review of Economics & Finance

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Volume 98, issue C, 2025

Empirical analysis of the impact of financial technology on the profitability of listed banks

Xiao Tong and Wang Yang

Easing credit for small firms amidst expansionary policy shifts: Iran 2005–2013

Amirhossein Amini and Hadi Salehi Esfahani

Unravelling the impact of clean energy on the tourism sector of the stock market: Evidence from quantile granger causality and wavelet coherence analysis

Yiwei Wang, Zhaoyang Sun, Chao Feng, Ran Wu and Jiale Yan

Foreign residency rights and firm internationalization

Yinying Chen and Hui Jiang

Vertical fiscal imbalance and inclusive green total factor productivity

Lina Zhang and Xiangwei Lyu

Fiscal & tax incentives, ESG responsibility fulfillments, and corporate green innovation performance

Hong Yin, Lu Zhang, Chuangneng Cai, Zenglian Zhang and Qihong Zhu

Markov switching volatility connectedness across international CDS markets

Walid Mensi, Eray Gemici, Müslüm Polat and Sang Hoon Kang

Analyzing and forecasting P/E ratios using investor sentiment in panel data regression and LSTM models

Aishat Dolaeva, Uliana Beliaeva, Dmitry Grigoriev, Alexander Semenov and Maciej Rysz

Economic growth target fluctuation and bond issuance by LGFVs

Shulin Liu, Xianbin Wang and Liangxiong Huang

Market accessibility, agglomeration, and spatial location of digital enterprises

Yuxin Wang, Junting Zhou and Rui Zhang

Liquidity spillover and investment strategy construction among Chinese green financial markets

Yang Gao, Yueyi Zhou and Wandi Zhao

Acquiring divestors

Vinh Vo, Giang Nguyen and Hung Pham

ESG rating adjustment and capital market pricing efficiency: Evidence from China

Lei Ruan, Jianing Li and Siqi Huang

Impacts of climate change on inflation: An analysis based on long and short term effects and pass-through mechanisms

Chaoping Qi, Yu Ma, Meng Du, Xiaoxian Ma, Yuan Xu and Xiangjun Zhou

Earnings informativeness, debt financing, and managerial characteristics

Li-Yu Chen, Jing-Chi Chen and Chun-Ming Li

Sailing towards sustainability: Connectedness between ESG stocks and green cryptocurrencies

Samar S. Alharbi, Muhammad Naveed, Shoaib Ali and Faten Moussa

The effect of digital technology adoption on managerial myopia: An empirical discovery based on machine Learning

Jie Gao, Xingye Jin, Tao Li and Thithuha Nguyen

Exit disruption and matching in venture capital markets: Evidence based on IPO suspensions in China

Hui Fu, Qianqian Liu, Yunbi An, Jun Yang and Heng Xiong

The impact of write-down equity on bank stability under ambiguity aversion

Zhiming Zhao, Lingyan Qiu and Jianping Shu

Revisiting the currency-commodity nexus: New insights into the R2 decomposed connectedness and the role of global shocks

Jionghao Huang, Hongqiao Li, Baifan Chen, Mengai Liu, Chaofan An and Xiaohua Xia

Kill two birds with one stone: How to strengthen digital new infrastructure's impacts on urban green innovation – The channel of factor allocation

Nian Wang, Yue Huang and Ruiwen Liao

Digital infrastructure and economic growth: Evidence from corporate investment efficiency

Ziqi Wang, Dan Peng, Qunxi Kong and Feifei Tan

Strategic alliances and corporate ESG performance

Huiting Lin, Jiayu Wen, Wei Li and Yurun He

Does the tail of finance wag the dog of the real economy? Dynamic connectedness of the stock market and business confidence

Anthanasius Fomum Tita, Joseph J. French, Constantin Gurdgiev and Adefemi Obalade

How do carbon markets interact with energy-intensive sectors? Evidence from price connectedness

Yingying Xu and Donald Lien

Strategic emerging industries and innovation: Evidence from China

Xiaoming Zhang, Weijie Luo and Di Xiang

The impact of share repurchases on bank operating performance after the global financial crisis: A comparison between the U.S. and Europe

Juan Corbalán and Román Ferrer

Rivalry signal transmission, technology spillover and corporate environmental performance

Zhuangxiong Yu, Jiajia Cheng, Xunpeng Shi and Yang Yang

Digital transactions and financial development: The moderating role of global integration across income levels

Saif Ullah, Chee Yoong Liew and Haitham Nobanee

Spatial spillover effects of environmental regulation on ecological industrialization: Evidence from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River

Wangying Xie, Yun Qing, Lixia Tao, Wenyu Li and Chuanhao Wen

How do firms respond to climate change? Evidence based on ESG performance

Mengzhe Xue, Mengyuan Lu, Anna Min Du and Bowen Zheng

Analyzing financial market reactions to the Palestine-Israel conflict: An event study perspective

Muhammad Shahzad Ijaz, Shoaib Ali, Anna Min Du and Mahrukh Khurram

Green mergers and acquisitions in corporate low-carbon transition: A driving mechanism based on dual external pressures

Yuzhang Wang, Shuo Wang and Xinjie Wang

Renaissance of climate policy uncertainty: The effects of U.S. presidential election on energy markets volatility

Shusheng Ding, Anqi Wang, Tianxiang Cui and Anna Min Du

Exploring the effects of board governance and information disclosure on stock price stability

Yuanyuan Liu and Qianqian Liu

Cross-country panel analysis justifying tighter control over short-term interest rates

Batkhurel Serdavaa

Female socialization and the gender of new corporate directors

Steven Schmeiser

Navigating China's OFDI: Financial development and policy shifts in the EU

Jingxia Zhang, Zejiang Zhou and Yuan, Guodong (Gordon)

How returning home for entrepreneurship affects rural common prosperity

Ming Yang, HuaTao Peng and Shunli Yue

Music stocks and music tokens: Extreme connectedness and portfolio applications

Buse Ustaoglu and Erkan Ustaoglu

Disappearing bank Branches: Evidence from China household finance survey

Qi Wang, Ming Liu and Kai Xie

The components of tracking error, interim trading and mutual fund performance

Juan Carlos Matallín-Sáez and Diego Víctor de Mingo-López

Construction of smart city and enhancement of urban convenience: A quasi-natural experiment based on a smart city pilot

Xue Chen, Qiao Wang and Junting Zhou

China's energy system building toward an era of resilience: How green fintech can empower?

Yarong Shi and Bo Yang

Decoding the nexus: How fintech and AI stocks drive the future of sustainable finance

Chao-Qun Ma, Xukang Liu, Tony Klein and Yi-Shuai Ren

Balancing finance and sustainability: The impact of financial access on carbon emissions through innovation and entrepreneurship in a global study

Eric B. Yiadom, Paapa N. Indome, John K.M. Mawutor and George Domfe

Feed-back effect or crowding-out effect: The influence of financialization on the main business performance of real enterprises

Di Zheng, Guang Yang, Lei Lei and Pinghua Li

Environmental regulation and firm R&D manipulation behaviour: Evidence from the low-carbon city pilot program in China

Zhennan Sun and Qunyang Du

Have female executives made a difference?—The impact of female executives on cross-border mergers and acquisitions in listed companies

Shouwu Jing, Chaohao Hu, Zejia Zhou, Haixia Guo and Li Li

Market-oriented–debt-to-equity swap, corporate social responsibility and earnings management

Binfeng Ma, Qing Di and Maozheng Fu

Idiosyncratic volatility and the cross-section of abnormal returns in Pakistan: Evidence from a country with religious bans on lotteries and substantive institutional investor participation

Muhammad Usman Khurram, Fahad Ali and Numan Ülkü

Exploring the multifaceted dynamics of Chinese economy: Insights from the eighth international conference on the Chinese economy: Past, present and future

Taoxiong Liu, Ruofei Li and Simin Yuan

Does centrality within trade agreements network matter to economic complexity? The conditioning effects of network structure

Zhaobin Fan, Rui Long, Sajid Anwar and Jinrui Wang

Diversified firms and corporate labor policy: The role of managerial equity incentives

Aysha Akter, Mariem Khalifa and Mohammed Aminu Sualihu

Does online payment promote the purchase of commercial insurance? Evidence from China

Lifei Gao, Dongni Wang, Guojun Wang and Hao Shi

Wine market efficiency: Is glass half full or half empty?

Andrei Shynkevich

Subordinate executives’ confidence and labor investment efficiency

Joye Khoo and Cheung, Adrian (Wai Kong)

Impact of economic policy uncertainty on corporate investment efficiency: Moderating roles of financing constraints and financialisation

Jianghang Wang and Shan Zhu

Business innovation in digital startups: A case study of an AI startup

Xinhui Tang, Shujun Du and Wenwen Deng

Subjective probabilities under behavioral heuristics

Oriana Rahman and Andrei Semenov

Competition and tax avoidance: Evidence from quasi natural experiment of the implementation of Anti-Trust Law

Yuan Gao, Jianjun Li and Yaping Wu

Can green investors improve the quality of corporate environmental information disclosure?

Huifang Cheng, An Cao, Chenxiang Hong, Dengao Liu and Mengying Wang

Online external attention vicariously monitors real earnings management along interlocking directors

Jing Zhang, Yuan Feng and Zhongwei Xia

Can upgrading development zones enhance regional entrepreneurial activity? Evidence from Chinese enterprise registration data

Xin Liu, Zhao Xu, Kailai Zhang, Zhiyong Kang and Xinyue Xie

Assessing the impact of the Central Line Project of South-to-North Water Diversion on urban economic resilience: Evidence from prefecture-level cities in Henan and Hebei provinces

Xin Guo

An efficient allocation or financial distortion: Can employee stock ownership promote common prosperity within enterprises?

Xuezeng Li, Haoyuan Zheng and Yuanyuan Jiang

Manufacturing enterprise digital transformation, manager cognition, and strategic Risk-Taking—Evidence from China

Zhongsheng Zhou, Jingyao Zhang and Chao He

Carbon emission disclosure and carbon premium ——evidence from the Chinese bond market

Xiaohan Si and Shuai Zhang

The impact of economic openness on common prosperity: Insights from provincial panel data

Yanyan Deng, Chenyu Li, Shuo Wang and Ruoyuan Tang

ESG performance and corporate labor investment efficiency: Evidence from China

Xiangyang Yang, Cong Wang and Bei Liu

The disciplinary role of options trading: Evidence from earnings manipulation

Mengshu Hao and Jieying Hong

ESG performance and stability of New Quality Productivity Forces: From perspective of China's modernization construction

Runhua Xue and Jiebin Chen

Digital credit and insurance: Improving economic well-being for rural households

Jinhua Zhang, Shuangyu Chen, John W. Goodell and Anna Min Du

Tourism and economic growth: The role of institutional quality

Zhaoyang Sun, Ling Liu, Runquan Pan, Yiwei Wang and Bingbing Zhang

The evolution of “Acquaintance Society” in urban China

Guangyu Chen and Qin Xu

Hybrid ML models for volatility prediction in financial risk management

Satish Kumar, Amar Rao and Monika Dhochak

The new environmental protection law, ESG investment, and corporate innovation performance

Lufeng Lin, Yinglong Zheng and Yongqian Tu

The influence of ESG responsibility performance on enterprises’ export performance

Tiantian Cai and Jia Hao

Compliance to the mandatory CSR regulation and leverage adjustment: A quasi-natural experiment

Satish Kumar and Rajesh Pathak

Green supply chains and high-quality development of enterprises under tax reduction and fee decrease

Liuhui Yang and Jianguo Di

Green credit policy, media pressure, and corporate green innovation

Nan Qiao and Bohan Xu

Digital economy, financial literacy, and financial risk-taking in rural households

Siyang Hu and Dongyang Liu

Artificial intelligence and innovation capability: A dynamic capabilities perspective

Yang Gao, Siqiang Liu and Lu Yang

Sustainability strategy and financial performance in the insurance company

Stefania Sylos Labini, Pasquale di Biase and Elisabetta D'Apolito

An enquiry into the monetary policy and stock market shocks in the US

Taimur Sharif, Ahmed Bouteska, Mohammad Zoynul Abedin and Saulo Cotturone

Social identity or social capital: Local CEOs and corporate ESG performance

Shoufu Yang, Dongmin Kong and Jiaqiong He

U.S. Presidential news coverage: Risk, uncertainty and stocks

Kam Fong Chan and Lee Smales

Can accounts receivable factoring restrain corporate financialization? Evidence from China

Lirong Chen, Yuxuan Long, Xuemei Tang and Jiani Wang

Green finance and corporate environmental performance

Yingxue Tan, Bo Lin and Leyi Wang

Policy-driven employment structure transformation: The role of innovation and education investment

Jianan Wu, Cheng Guo, Xiaojing Liu and Jiapeng Dai

Debt's shadow: How leverage weighs down investment

Siraz Zubair and Xiaohong Huang

Institutional blockholder, exit threats, and firms CSR performance

Xingzi Ren, Zelin Xu and Chengyao Lei

The dark side of digital transformation: Digital washing and accounting conservatism

Cui Wei, Hang Zhou, Xinrui Zhang and Shuang Ouyang

In the heat of the moment, secrets will out: Oil price uncertainty and firm green innovation disclosure

Kai Huang, Jing Chi, Jing Liao and Mui Kuen Yuen

US sanctions and corporate innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms

Xiaowei Lin, Pengdong Zhang, Zhihao Yang and Sicen Chen

Extreme dependence, connectedness, and causality between US sector stocks and oil shocks

Walid Mensi, Remzi Gök, Eray Gemici, Xuan Vinh Vo and Sang Hoon Kang

How do online media affect cash dividends? Evidence from China∗

Pengfei Ma and Siying Dong

Market efficiency and its determinants: Macro-level dynamics and micro-level characteristics of cryptocurrencies

Ahmed Bouteska, Taimur Sharif, Layal Isskandarani and Mohammad Zoynul Abedin

Spillover effects between China's new energy and carbon markets and international crude oil market: A look at the impact of extreme events

Yong Zhang, GuangYuan Tang and Rong Li

Cryptocurrency research: Bibliometric review and content analysis

Manish Kumar Atree and Naliniprava Tripathy

The green development mechanism of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy in China: Novel evidence of green finance

Baolin Ma, Yongxin Li, Bo Zhou, Yaode Jian, Cheng Zhang and Jin An

Technological sanctions, research capacity, and unintended consequences

Chu-Ping Lo

The impact of different recommendation algorithms on consumer search behavior and merchants competition

Weiyi Zhang and Yong Wang

Leadership characteristics and digital transformation in an emerging market: The moderating effect of compliance pressure

Bui Quang Tuyen, Do Vu Phuong Anh, Ta Huy Hung and Mai Thanh Lan

New venture team faultlines and corporate innovation from the perspective of structuration theory

Yu Deng, Zhongwei Xia and Wei Han

Extreme temperature shocks and firms’ financial distress

Xinheng Liu, Shumei Lv, Xin Yang, Jie Cao and Chuangxia Huang

Climate risk and corporate charitable donations –evidence from China

Yan Mo, Huifeng Jiang and Cong Chong

Digital transformation, management efficiency and intra-firm common prosperity

ChengZhi Qiao and Shan Chen

Is new technology always good? Artificial intelligence and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from China

Guimin Qu and Hao Jing

Can migrant workers return home to start businesses enhance the vitality of county economy?

Shiping Shao and Caisheng Dong

Tailored microprudential recommendations for bank profit retention using a risk tolerance framework

Petr Jakubík and Bogdan-Gabriel Moinescu

Research on the configuration path of manufacturing enterprises' digital servitization transformation

Tao Meng, Qi Li, Chang He and Zheng Dong

Government adoption of generative artificial intelligence and ambidextrous innovation

Zhikai Zhou, Dewen Liu, Zhongjie Chen and Martin Pancho

Capital account liberalization and sudden stops in global capital flows

Jia Hao and Weining Wang

How do economic growth and unemployment affect green development in Latin America nations?

Bo Lan, Nan Li and Tong Liu

How risk spillover network structure affects VaR: A study using complex networks and quantile regression

Xian Xi, Xiangyun Gao and Weiqiong Zhong

Childhood socioeconomic status of Chinese entrepreneurs and company risk-taking

Ciji Song, Abraham Y. Nahm and Zengji Song

Discouraged borrowers and the importance of countries’ lending infrastructure for SMEs

Andrea Mc Namara, Pierluigi Murro and O’Donohoe, Sheila

Does having an official internet platform improve firms’ investment efficiency: Evidence from China

Yulan Wang, Jinglin Li, Bing Zhou and Jiayi Wang

Does the participation of non-state shareholders matter for state-owned enterprises’ resilience?

Chenxi Wang, Deli Wang, Xincai Deng and Shangrui Wu

Is ranking position equal to pricing power?—Evidence from Chinese e-commerce platforms

Chuang Qu, Hanzhen Liu and Sai Wang

Can national sentiment promote green innovation in Chinese firms?

Haiyin Wang, Xinyuan Wei, Shenglin Ma, Yuan Li and Yanzhe Yuan

Ethical leadership, organizational learning, and corporate ESG performance: A moderated mediation model

Jin Zhu, Wenyuan Zhi and Yuanhan Fang

Analysis of the synergistic effect of digital financial inclusion and social security on crime governance based on regional differences

Dongming Liu, Yongqian Tu, Zhangzhang Chen and Yinglong Zheng

Multi - Objective optimization of the global tungsten trade network for supply risk reduction and economic benefit improvement

Nanfei Jia, Zhengrong Pi, Min Zuo, Yuhang Shi and Xin Xu

Fund social network and abnormal positive tone in MD&A disclosures

Yiyun Ge and Hanbin Zhu

The effect of government official's visit on corporate charitable donation: Evidence from China

Qun Hong and Huazhi Shi

Digital inclusive finance and digital innovation in private enterprises

Xue Wang, Hui Wang, Lulu Song and Feiteng Zhang

High-dimensional multi-period portfolio allocation using deep reinforcement learning

Yifu Jiang, Jose Olmo and Majed Atwi

Tax administration informatization, financial tightened regulation, and firm productivity: A quasi-natural experiment based on the "Golden Tax Phase III project"

Hongyan Wang, Jiandong Cheng and Hang Zhou

From uncertainty to sustainability: How climate policy uncertainty shapes corporate ESG?

HuaHua Ge and XiaoXi Zhang