International Review of Economics & Finance

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Volume 101, issue C, 2025

The monetary aspects of the Dutch disease

Collin Constantine and Tarron Khemraj

Equity pledge and controlling shareholders’ over-appointing of directors

Lei Zhou and Feng Wei

Insider trading and government intervention

Zhihua Li, Hong Liu and Qingshan Yang

Location strategy of emerging economy multinational enterprise

Lin Li and Le Du

From harm to Hope: How green innovation alleviates environmental injustice triggered by non-green innovation

Yali Fan, Xiuzhong Wang, Zhuoran Li and Wei Wu

How economic uncertainty affect enterprises' strategic orientation

Shiyu Tang and Xiaofang Cao

Can the participation of party organizations in corporate governance enhance the risk-bearing capacity of listed companies?

Zhichao Xu

CSR engagement and financial performance: The case of Italian unrated ESG small caps

Anna Maria D'Arcangelis, Giuseppe Galloppo, Roberto Guida and Viktoriia Paimanova

Executives’ overseas backgrounds, equity incentives, and corporate risk-taking

Zining Guo and Xingzhou Li

ESG and Manager integrity: Evidence from China

Wendai Lv, Qiuchi Meng, Zhixia Gan and Shilu Sun

The impact of calendar provisioning on bank strategies

Michele Moretto and Bruno M. Parigi

Integrating ESG into financial distress models: The role of financial report quality and innovation in the Chinese market

Fuyuan Zhou, Hanlong Chen, Shiyu Tang, Chuan Lee and Chin-Tsai Lin

The impact of artificial intelligence on the sustainability of international trade enterprises

Yuhui Chen, Longzheng Du, Biao Zhang, Lin Wang, Kejuan Wang, Xuebin Huang and Yujie Shi

Threshold effects of capital intensity on relationship between legal system and rural economy

Tao Liu, Han Wu and Yongqian Tu

Green loans and bank risk: Navigating the path to sustainable finance

Caterina Di Tommaso, Vincenzo Pacelli and Maria Melania Povia

Zodiac year fate eased by CSR: Fact or fiction?

Yuanyuan Hu, Jiali Fang and Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan

Empowering ESG: The pivotal influence of directors' and officers' liability insurance on corporate sustainability

Houjian Li, Quanfeixue Cheng, Mengying Su and Kuan Zhang

Trade credit, corporate business strategy and corporate life cycle

Ahmed Al-Hadi and Syed Mujahid Hussain

Internal audit independence, legal person governance structure, and financial reporting quality

Pengmian Wang and Shuguang Liang

The impact of OFDI on firms' supply chain diversification: A moderating role based on corporate R&D

Wenjia Wang, Ke Xu, Lei Liu and Xiaolin Wang

The impact of COVID-19 and digital transformation on stock price volatility from the perspective of cultural and tourism industries

Liyuan Liu, Di Wu and Nianjiao Peng

Intellectual property protection, new quality productivity, and economic growth: Empirical evidence from China

Rengui Guo, Yilong Ruanzhou and Hanmo Ruan

Digital rural construction, financial development and regional economic resilience: Mechanism analysis and empirical test

Yuran Sun and Canping Chen

How does a government-certificated green identity improve enterprises' market value?

Xiaodan Zhang and Juanjuan Qin

The impact of Party organizations' participation in corporate governance on the enhancement of corporate resilience

Yiran Zhang, Limiao He and Chen Yong

Business model innovation, dynamic capabilities, and enterprise development

Qin Xie and Shuo Li

The impact of carbon emissions trading on agricultural economic development: Evidence from China's carbon emissions trading pilot policies

Wen Zhao, Dongping Zhang and Yufei Zhao

The pricing ability of factor model based on machine learning: Evidence from high-frequency data in China

Ailian Zhang, Mengmeng Pan and Xuan Zhang

COVID-19 pension raids and sovereign risk

Jaime Bastías and José L. Ruiz

Did the integrity transition promote economic growth? Empirical research based on the perspective of anti-corruption approaches

Bo Liu and Jincheng Liu

The impact of carbon emission trading system on the implied cost of equity capital

Donghui Li, Zhanxiang Zhang and Xin Gao

Beyond the tipping point: The nonlinear impact of material sustainability on investment efficiency

Jamal A. Nazari and Ehsan Poursoleyman

Can the banking union work without common deposit Guarantees? The initial market assessment and policy implications☆

Giovanni Ferri and Valerio Pesic

Corrigendum to “A Latecomer's advantage: The attainments of older child immigrants” [International Review of Economics & Finance, 96, Part C (2024) 103632]

Jehu Mette, Guoyu Lin and Atika Benaddi

Impact of inclusive finance on private enterprise Lending: Evidence from China private enterprise survey

Gang Yang, Gongming Yuan, Junhao Kou and Shyhyan Jiau

Impact of regional digital economy on default recovery: Evidence from China

Muzi Chen, Geng Li, Nan Li, Xiaoguang Yang and William J. Trainor

Environmental regulation and firm exports: New evidence from the distance to local ecological environment bureau

Baoqing Tang, Danni Chen, Jing Ma and Siyuan Xuan

Shareholder perks and cash holdings: Board influence in firms with and without perks

Tahir Akhtar, Liqian Chen, Muhammad Abdullah, Md Saiful Islam and Mohammad Ali Tareq

Outward FDI and income inequality in the home country: The role of wage bargaining

Sajid Anwar and Sizhong Sun

Low-carbon transformation and risk Transferring: Evidence from subsidiaries of listed firms in China

Hongbin Deng and Xiaoran Ni

Does firm internationalization improve ESG performance? Evidence from China

Jing Zhou, Kaiwen Wu and Youwei Li

Environmental information disclosure and carbon emission efficiency: Evidence from China

Jing Lan, Tianchang Zhai, Xue Sun, Zhen Liu and Lu Lu

Forecasting realised volatility using regime-switching models

Yi Ding, Dimos Kambouroudis and David G. McMillan

The effects of FinTech development on corporate employment

Xin Shi and Yuwen Zhou

Capitalizing on sustainability: China's green finance strategy for achieving environmentally resilient wastewater treatment

Muhammad Saeed Meo, Younes Ben Zaied, Sahar Afshan and Alvena Anees

Media heterogeneity and corporate ESG performance: evidence from China

Zi Wang and Dechang Zheng

The effects of remittances on school enrollment rates: A global perspective

Horst Feldmann

The response of emerging financial markets to IMF news during COVID-19 pandemic11We are grateful for the comments and suggestions of Ali Kutan, Kate Phylaktis, Mahmoud Mohieldin and Galina Hale

Moustafa Abuelfadl and Ehab Yamani

Production choice and pricing strategies of automobile manufacturers under carbon policies

Donghua Xiao, Qing Zhang, Haoran Liu, Sheng Luo and Yi Zheng

Climate performance and debt structure: The case of European SMEs

Chia-ling Yao, Muhammad Umar, Nawazish Mirza and Meng Qin

Regional cooperation and corporate vertical disintegration: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Hongmei Wang, Zitian Hu, Xinyu Cui, Chun Yuan and Yang Zhao

Mitigating crisis impact: The influence of corporate social responsibility on non-financial firms’ financial performance

Diana Alhajjeah, Mustafa Besim and Heitham Al-Hajieh

Is corporate social responsibility a must or a plus? The role of national culture

Liu Wang and Shaomin Li

Corporate social responsibility and stock liquidity across the globe

Van Ha Nguyen and Tung Lam Dang

Rare disasters and multilayer spillovers between volatility and skewness in international stock markets over a century of data: The role of geopolitical risk

Matteo Foglia, Vasilios Plakandaras, Rangan Gupta and Elie Bouri

Can the degree of party membership among management enhance corporate innovation performance? The moderating role of technology finance

Ranran Yang, Yongqian Tu and Yunqiao Shen

Mean reversion of the soybean crush spread: A new model and trading strategies

Hussein Abdoh and Michael Chitavi

Monetary policy and corporate financialization drive sustainable technology

Lu Liu and Chuanjiang Wang

Do staggered boards benefit the environment? A plant-level analysis

Trung K. Do

Unveiling investor sentiment, attention, and speed of price adjustment in Indian market

Hajam Abid Bashir and Dilip Kumar

The effect of labor unions on capital markets: Evidence from seasoned equity offerings

Yen-Jung Tseng, Minzhi Wu, Zhi-Yuan Feng and Sung-Yun Tan

Heckman-type maximum likelihood estimators of the gravity equation: A Monte Carlo study

Ayman Mnasri and Salem Nechi

Non-executive employee stock ownership plan and auditor reporting conservatism: Evidence from China

Yadong Han and Ruixue Zhou

The impact of digital industrialization on the level of green development

Zirong Li, Linbing Wu, Jingbo Li and Yanxue Zhang

Corporate litigation and the level of business risk bearing: Mediating effect of refinancing and its dynamic relationship

Ni Zhang, Lixin Zhou and Grace Li Tian

Establishment of bankruptcy courts and corporate investment decisions

Ye Liu and Ziping Li

Corporate social responsibility, digital economy, and corporate energy utilization efficiency-based on moderating effect and heterogeneity analysis

Mengxi Cui, Xiangjian Zhang and Cen Cai

Supply chain decarbonisation effects of artificial Intelligence: Evidence from China

Baoping Ren, Zhaoxuan Qiu and Bei Liu

Population aging and corporate innovation Performance: evidence from China

Zhongying Jing, Zheng Li and Ping Zheng

Can institutional opening-up enhance enterprise innovation quality?

Chiyu Ma and Yijun Xiang

Market competitiveness and corporate ESG performance

Taotao Zhang, Chuan Qin and Zhaoying Lu

Research on the theoretical logic and mechanism of digital inclusive finance in promoting the high-quality development of small and medium-sized enterprises

Yingying Zhang, Xiaofeng Dong, Yifei Wang and Hongtao Li

The impact of consumer complaints on corporate digital transformation

Yingchao Lu, Hailing Chang and Yadan Zhou

Financial perceptions and AI infringement risks

Tian Wei, Han Wu, Michael Dowling and Aref Mahdavi Ardekani

SDG adoption and firm risk: The impact of ESG performance, investor confidence, and agency cost

Rajat Sharma, Sonia Chawla, Vishal Dagar, Muneza Kagzi and Amar Rao

What drives the ‘synchrony’ and ‘asynchrony’ between China's stock and bond markets? An adaptive Lasso-DCC-MIDAS model

Feipeng Zhang, Yilin Zhang and Yang Deng

News sentiment indicators and the cross-section of stock returns in the European stock market

Luca Gambarelli and Silvia Muzzioli

Rising temperatures, rising transparency: Revealing the financial benefits of climate change disclosure

Antonio Salvi, Vitiana L'Abate, Felice Petruzzella, Filippo Vitolla and Nicola Raimo

When will companies talk more about innovation? A natural experiment of intellectual property protection

Kun Huang, Rui Huang, Yuanyuan Liu and Zhe Zhang

Unveiling the effects of monetary surprises: Risk-taking and credit supply of U.S. banks

Melchisédek Joslem Ngambou Djatche

The impact of financial stress and equity market uncertainty on cryptocurrencies under structural breaks

Saswat Patra and Abhay Kumar Singh

Disappearing position-related consumption: Firm bribery and government-firm reciprocity

Zefeng Tong, Jia Liu, Dongmin Kong, Yu Qi and Fei Zhou

The biggest bank may not be the most interconnected: A refined entropy-based approach for indicating the direction of interbank flow

Tongyu Wang, Haijun Yang, Jiaxing Weng and Luqing Guo

Do fiscal and tax policies promote the performance of equipment manufacturing enterprises?

Yan Niu and Dan Du

Watchdog from academia: Do academic independent directors matter for financial statement fraud?

Shigang Wen, Jianping Li, Chuangxia Huang and Xiaoqian Zhu

Firm-level climate change exposure and firm efficiency

Khanh Hoang, Linh Pham, Oanh Kieu Ha and Hoa Xuan Nghiem

Does protection of trade secrets matter for firms’ access to external capital?

Mohamed Shaker Ahmed, Layal Isskandarani, Taimur Sharif and Mohammad Zoynul Abedin

Digital divide or dividend? Exploring the impact of digital economy on regional gaps of high-quality economic development in China using relational data model

Xiaoyan Fan, Guoxuan Ding, Shuting Long, Yiran Dong and Jiajun Yan

The impact of digital finance on firms' digital Transformation: Mechanism analysis based on enterprise financing

Shuang Li and Nan Xie

Spillover dynamics between green and non-green cryptocurrencies: Unrevealing the role of geopolitical risk

Sami Mejri, Francisco Jareño, Nasir Khan and Arturo Leccadito

The influence of institutional pressure on the target trade-off of state-owned enterprises: Evidence from China

Yingxuan Liu, Huan Dou and Yuanyuan Liu

Sowing Sustainability: How does fintech mitigate agricultural financial risk from climate change vulnerability

Ashraful Alam, Hasanul Banna, Naheed Nawazesh Roni and Mohammad Zoynul Abedin

Investor sentiment and optimizing traditional quantitative investments

Zheng Chen, Wenlin Li and Jia Huang

Urban-rural population mobility, government governance and regional coordinated development

Shuo Miao and ShaoNan Li

Financial innovation and agricultural Investment: Drivers of sustainable growth in China's rural economy with regional variations

Yingxu Yang, Zhiling Wang and Rong Luo

Exploring the transmission pathway of “Data-Finance” synergistic clustering on corporate economic adaptability: Evidence from quasi-experimental analysis in national Big Data Pilot Zones

Jing Xu and Wudi Xu

Human capital accumulation, technological progress, and corporate financialization

Zixuan Dong, Mohd Faiq Abd Aziz and Yan Wang

Supply chain sustainability and its impact on firm market competitiveness: A perspective based on ESG practices

Qiao Zhao, Wangqing Wang and Yingjia Tao

Government subsidies, environmental costs, and green innovation

Cuijun Ma and Donghui Peng

Technology empowerment, digital transformation, and enhancing corporate ESG performance

Yukun Zhao, Yi Zhou, Qingfu Yang and Yiyun Gong

Intelligence-driven Growth: Exploring the dynamic impact of digital transformation on China's high-quality economic development

Yu-Cheng Lin and Xuhong Xu

Pension system reform, financial security, and the well-being of the elderly population: An analysis based on CSS data

Chunlong Xia, Yujuan He, Yuanyuan Heng, Kabwon Kang, Huiya Shenchen, Yuesui Hao and Zhaojun Meng

How the introduction of the “Dual Carbon” targets drives ESG disclosure in manufacturing enterprises?

Lu Sun, Haizhen Zhou and Feng Huang

De-financialization and enterprise innovation: Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China's real estate regulation

Yuqing Wu and Wurui Huang

Tourism prosperity and high-quality economic development

Meiyi Li, Yanmei Fan, Cheng Guo and Xiaokun Li

Green finance reform and enterprise green technology innovation—based on the perspective of spatial spillover effect

Yuzhen Gao, Huiyu Gao, Yunjiang Yu, Xuefang Xu and Choon Kit Chan

Digitalization drives Sustainability: How digital trade enhances corporate ESG performance through innovation, internationalization and transparency

Puying Li, Xinna Li and Qiang Wu

How does the anti-monopoly policy affect firms' investment preference?

Wentao Hu, Rui Zou and Tie Liu

Climate-resilient cities for green innovation in enterprises: New perspective based on Fintech

Guzailinuer Maihaiti, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Samar S. Alharbi and Shikuan Zhao

Exploring the interplay between eurozone electricity sector stocks, real interest rates and inflation expectations

Carlos Esparcia, Francisco Jareño and Eliseo Navarro

Data-driven FinTech and agile supply chain systems: Mechanisms and impacts

Yixuan Guo and Wei Wang

Implementation of the Social Insurance Law, mismatch in investment and financing maturities, and corporate innovation

Kun Qian and Shiyu Xu

Examining the effects of corporate financialization and organizational redundancy on firm performance

Weixiang Sun, Yongzhong Guo and Yan Xie