International Review of Economics & Finance

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Volume 110, issue C, 2026

Digital service trade connectedness and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China

Hongyu Cheng and Jun Xue

Global common factors and the cross-country heterogeneity of inflation

Bingxin Ann Xing, Bruno Feunou and Roméo Tédongap

The mediating role of institutional quality in the relationship between digital infrastructure and exchange rate management efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wogene Markos Dumo

Pollutant discharge permit regulation and firms' environmental investment responses: Firm-level evidence from China

Wannan Zhao, Chang'an Wang, Xiaoqian Liu and Guoxiang Li

Equity home bias when firms are indebted

Andrés Mesa-Toro, Antonio Moreno, María Julieta Sammartino and Tommaso Trani

When sentiment meets structure: The dual institutional drivers of export performance

Guanzhe Han and Xiuli Yu

Female political empowerment and FinTech development

Sami Al-Kharusi, Hamdi Bennasr and Bedri Kamil Onur Tas

Nudging the Kingdom's Kilowatts: Evidence from Saudi households

Abdulelah Darandary

Green finance, fiscal expenditure efficiency, and employment quality

Yadong Chai, Ruizhi Dong and Senran Zhou

Is more always better? Effect of industrial robots on ESG performance

Chutong Li and Fang Yang

Exchange rate stability and monetary policy in Canada: A Markov-switching DSGE approach

Joonyoung Hur and Kyunghun Kim

Linking ecological rights trading to ecological product value: A 280-city panel study in China

Chuang Li, Chunping Xie, Yunlong Wang and Liping Wang

Basel III finalization reforms and financial stability: A PRISMA-based systematic review of cross-jurisdictional capital regulation

Chih-Chen Hsu, Kai-Chieh Chia and Chun-Yen Chang

Business environment ecology and the economic value of technological R&D: The mediating role of real enterprise financialization

Wenjing Lu and Hongmei Ma

The interplay between crypto market conditions and phishing crimes: Ethereum under the microscope

Yuanyuan Zhang, Nicholas Lord, Stephen Chan, Jeffrey Chu and Durga Chandrashekhar

Climate risks and the labor income share

Bingqi Shan, Hangwen Liu, Haiting Fu and Yang Liu

Health uncertainty, production technology, and retirement policy

Zhenhua Feng, Jaimie W. Lien, Haochen Xie and Jie Zheng

Synergizing pollution reduction and carbon mitigation: Evidence from China's national AI innovation pilot zones

Lulu Zhao and Jingjing Ye

Can environmental courts inhibit corporate greenwash? Evidence from heterogeneous LLMs

Zhixuan Ke, Da Gao, Xinyi Zhong and Xinyuan Wang

Environmental protection fee-to-tax, green innovation, and corporate green investment efficiency

Shanshan Zhao and Wen Liu

Governance effectiveness of equity checks and balances on corporate over-guarantee behaviors

Cai Ke and JiaHao Du

Too Fast to Transition? Decarbonization Speed, Profitability, and Corporate Default Risk—Evidence from China

Qing Wang, Shuyang Wen and Manlu Yang

The influence of investor attention on stock price variations

Luiz Felipe Leal Barbedo, Eduardo Camilo da Silva, Ariel Levy, Leonardo Mello Camilo da Silva and Claudio Henrique da Silveira Barbedo

Can artificial intelligence improve energy-environmental performance in traditional manufacturing: The roles of innovation-driven and supply chain coordination

Lelai Shi and Qiuhang Chen

Impact of government environmental attention on urban green economy efficiency: Evidence from text analysis and a three-stage network SBM model

Zhishuo Zhang, Hu Liu, Yunpeng Gong and Huayong Niu

The digitalization–circular economy nexus: Lessons from panel evidence in GCC and MENA regions

Mohamed A.M. Sallam and Tarek Sadraoui

ESG disclosure uncertainty, “Pseudo patient capital”, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China's heavily polluting industries

Shun Li, Wei Liang and Chen Chen

The impact of digital inclusive finance on urban green innovation resilience

Binyan Rao and Lei Wang

Impact of green finance on carbon emission efficiency in Chinese manufacturing: Evidence from a spatial econometric analysis

Chenglong Sun, Jia Li and Chuang Shen

Geopolitical risk and defense-sector stocks: A wavelet coherence analysis

Fariha Jahan and Doojin Ryu

Nonlinear effect of financialization on firm productivity

Jiatian Zhu, Lu Yang, Haoxu Hu and Yuxiang Jiang

ESG rating divergence and corporate environmental information disclosure quality: Do investors matter?

Yi Liu and Wenli Xia

Does supply chain digital intelligence improve corporate energy efficiency? Empirical evidence from machine learning

Junxian Liu and Zixuan Yang

From groups to individuals: A study on the peer effect in ESG decoupling within China's manufacturing industry

Xiaoyi Zhan, Yong Zhan and Guangjin Li

Technical and fundamental approaches to evaluate performance: Market behaviors with hidden markov models in the French market

Wael Dammak and Ali Trabelsi Karoui

Determinants of high economic growth – Empirical evidence from Germany between 1860 and 1913

André Dragosch and Richard A. Werner

Can overseas R&D promote digital innovation? The mechanism of dual innovation networks

Yunshi Cao, Zhichen Yang and Qingwen Li

Digital finance: The financial driving force of green technology R&D in enhancing corporate sustainable performance

Chunmei Zhang and Lihua Yi

Business environment optimization, credit availability, and firm investment

Shuqin Yang and Muxiu Zhu

Research on the impact of platform economy development on the upgrading of employment skills structure: the mediating role of industrial agglomeration

Yahui Chen, Xuelin Deng and Bingteng Sun

Financial stress in emerging markets: The tail-risk trade-offs between growth and financial stability policies

David de Villiers, Hylton Hollander and Dawie van Lill

Exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on carbon emission efficiency: Green innovation and nonlinear mechanism

Xiaofan Zhang and Kai Cheng

Do the markets care about the 2025 U.S. government shutdown?

Seyed Mehdian, Ştefan Cristian Gherghina and Ovidiu Stoica

The non-linear impact of policy uncertainty on green transformation: Does digital technology matter?

Chenying Zhang, Yiwen Li and Bing Zhang

Which investor sentiment drives the ESG–return link? A multi-dimensional sentiment perspective on ESG changes

Ngoc Phu Tran, Ariful Hoque and Thi Le

Institutionalization without integration: Bitcoin after the spot ETF

Hojun Kang and Sang-Gun Lee

Bayesian stochastic-volatility structural VAR analysis of cross-market dynamic volatility spillovers among oil, gold, and agricultural commodities

Xinyan Deng, Kentaka Aruga and Chaofeng Tang

Shell value dilution, valuation calibration, and the integration effect of registration-based IPO reform on the industrial space of corporate M&As

Yuling Wei and Ye Sun

Public data transparency and capital market stability: How open government data platforms mitigate stock price crash risk in emerging markets

Qian Liu, Liyuan Wang and Dai Lil

Digital-intelligent transformation as a catalyst for debt cost reduction: Evidence from organizational resilience enhancement

Minglin Wang, Guiyun Zha and Zhengxia He

Does green finance foster common prosperity? A study based on China's provincial panel data

Ling Tong, Jian Wang and Shengchun Ma

Composite cross hedging for truckload spot freight rates using commodity futures

Yuhong Liu and M.I.M. Wahab

ESG portfolio performance across risk tiers and market conditions: New evidence from China

Zhenzhen Zhu, Yun Liu, Ya Li and Kam C. Chan

Prioritizing green FinTech-Based ESG investment strategies in emerging markets: A multi-criteria fuzzy decision framework

Hasan Dinçer and Serhat Yüksel

How does urban cluster population agglomeration enhance new quality productive forces? Empirical evidence from 19 urban clusters in China

Songlin Zhang, Jia Ding, Chunli Ji and Weige Xiao

How supply chain finance policy reduces labor income share of core enterprises? Evidence from China

Guoguang Liu, Jing Gao and Hanyu Liu

Does climate change exposure affect green innovation?

Imed Chkir, Imen Khanchel and Cyrine Khiari

Research on the impact of green finance and enterprise green transformation--evidence from China

Quan'an Fu, Shanshan Ding, Xiaonan Wu and Jiaqi Lu

Monetary policy communication and RMB exchange rates: Text-based evidence from PBoC meeting minutes

Shiwei Su, Songbo Jia and Linyuan Wang

European option pricing under a MSBfBM-Vasicek model: Empirical analysis from the SSE 300ETF and 50ETF of China

Yanni Zhang, Guitian He, Yinyan Gan and Juncong Lai

Cross-border benefits of renewable energy: Economic growth and spillovers in Africa

Paravee Maneejuk, Nuttaphong Kaewtathip and Woraphon Yamaka

How does local fiscal pressure undermine corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China

Hong Zang, Zhuoya Liu and Chao Feng

Second chance capex: Investment efficiency following credit forbearance

Patrick Gosselin

Can patient capital enhance corporate resilience? Evidence from China

Fang Zhang

Microeconomic losses of energy misallocation in Chinese biopharmaceutical enterprises under the Dual-carbon goal — transmission mechanism and threshold effect of misallocation

Zimin Cao, Xiaojun Sun, Yalin Lei, Jun Zhao and Li Li

The impact of ride-hailing platforms’ entry on urban leisure consumption: A study based on bank card payment big data

Yonghong Xu, Jingyi Zhao, Haiqiang Chen and Yaxing Ji

Off-farm employment, informal insurance, and agricultural labor hiring in incomplete markets

Fushun Zhang, Hao Huang, Heyun Li and Steven Dellaportas

MD&A disclosure similarity and stock price crash risk: Evidence from embedding model

Guangyao Wang and Weiqi Liu

Development zone environmental policy and green innovation: Evidence from China’s industrial sector

Haicheng Rao, Gaurav Khemka and Lingbing Feng

Information or noise? Executive social media engagement and capital market pricing efficiency

Tong Sun, Wanyi Chen, Simiao Song and Mengmeng Zhang

Public data openness, business environment improvement and foreign direct investment inflow into China

Jun Shao and Yacang Wang

Supply chain innovation pilot policy and firms' new quality productive forces: Empirical evidence from double machine learning

Dazhi Yue, Kai Zhao and Guozhang Qiu

A micro-level analysis of the impact of fiscal and tax policy incentives on the development of the digital industry

Mo Li, Linmu Li and Yan Zhao

FinTech lending and corporate innovation: Evidence from a supply chain perspective

Kelin Li, Wanshan Guo and Qingquan Yang

When expertise meets networks: A machine learning approach to auditor attributes and audit quality

Yanfang Niu, Baichuan Xu, Manru Gao, Limeng Ying and Jie Yang

Is there an index effect in frontier markets?

Ernest N. Biktimirov and Pyemo N. Afego

The impact of different types of borrowing constraints in a heterogeneous firm model

Joon Choi

Digital financial inclusion and monetary policy effectiveness in Tanzania

Mussa S. Miano, Michael R. Baha and Haika Mgonja

Going green or green-washing: The impact of CBAM on Chinese firms’ strategic environmental behaviors

Quan Yuan, Tiao Li, Tale Mi and Yipeng Jin

Panel regression for the GDP of the Central and Eastern European countries using time-varying coefficients

Vygintas Gontis and Lesya Kolinets

Impact of digital health literacy on health equity among older adults in urban and rural China under the digital divide perspective - based on three years of CGSS data

Zhifei He and Zihang Zhang

The impact of green technology innovation on corporate export resilience: Empirical evidence from listed companies in China

Qingli Tan, Jiaxin Fang, Xinyue Lu, Xiaoyun Wang, Boying Li, Zhenglong Chen and Jialin Huang

Rethinking the net operating working capital (NWC)-profitability relationship: Insights from industry-specific practices in olive oil -producing industry

Sara Fernández-López, María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías, David Rodeiro-Pazos and Lucía Rey-Ares

Bank risk clustering and early warning supervision

Nguyen Hoang Chung and Vo Trung Hung

Trade policy uncertainty and digital transformation: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

Wei Wang and Zhongbo Song

National green data center pilots and digital regional innovation ecosystem effectiveness: Evidence from China

Yu Shang, Shikang Kang and Zhiming Zhao

Geopolitical risk, US–China tensions, and systemic risk in cryptocurrency markets: A regime-dependent analysis

Chi Keung Marco Lau, Michal Wojewodzki, Giray Gozgor and Wui Wing Andy Cheng

Effects of renewable energy policies on green jobs: Evidence from China's listed photovoltaic companies

Liyuan Deng, Daisheng Tang, Zhen Zhang, Xinyuan Wang, Tao Bu, Yahong Liu, Shenying Wang and Lanling Peng

Climate risks and forecastability of US inflation: Evidence from dynamic quantile model averaging

Jiawen Luo, Shengjie Fu, Oguzhan Cepni and Rangan Gupta

Measuring macroeconomic surprise magnitude with prediction markets: Market-implied dispersion from Kalshi

Aditya Goel

Cluster-conditioned decomposition of Leontief shock responses and the routing importance of industrial clusters

Yanqiao Zheng, Yanjun Sun and Xiaoqi Zhang

Government R&D subsidies and technological collaborations: Distinguishing the effects of central and local programs in China

Xiulan Meng, Tong Jin, Xiaohua Yu and Xingqi Huang

ESG rating disagreement and provision of trade credit: Evidence from China

Liyue Wang and Liuyong Yang

Green transformation: How LCCP policy shapes the high-quality sports product exports

Xiaorui Wang, Zhihui Li, Miaomiao Wen and Sen Chen

Pension income and the allocation of household risky financial assets

Shijie Wan, Bing Feng, Yufeng Zhu and Xuan Pei

How local governments covertly transfer fiscal burdens: Tax reduction policies and excess employment in Chinese state-owned enterprises

Shuo Sun, Shichao Wan, Xiaoping Kuang and Siyuan Liang

How artificial intelligence enhances financial efficiency: A multidimensional analysis of spatiality and asymmetry

Songlin Zhang, Jia Ding, Chunli Ji and Haoqing Zheng

The African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA)'s impact on economic growth in Lesotho

Puruweti Siyakiya and Lungile Ntsalaze

Structural determinants of working capital management in fintech firms: Evidence from a fixed-effects panel analysis

Sergio Rios-Vazquez and Marta Portela-Maseda

Regulatory border effects in digital trade: Estimating the GDPR’s asymmetric impact on EU enterprises’ cross-border e-commerce through a triple difference-in-differences design

Juliano Heinen

Pandemic bonds and regional economic development: Evidence from China

Ruoming Yang

Does the delayed retirement policy affect personal pension participation? Evidence from PLS-SEM and artificial neural networks

Minghao Chen, Arpah Abu Bakar and Amar Yasier Razli

Financial market architecture and long-run equity market co-movement: Structural evidence from the G20

Sama Haddad, Rakesh Gupta, E.A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan and Tarlok Singh

Common international disturbances and the illusion of domestic control: Reassessing the determinants of current account imbalances

Mile Bošnjak

The role of transition finance in promoting synergistic transformation of digital and green: A CRL-based analysis

Chen Bian, Yingying Ding, Bing Liu, Pengduo Cui and Wenbo Lu

Forward premium anomaly explained

Nilanjana Chakraborty, Mohammed M. Elgammal and David G. McMillan

Value-added tax rate reduction and enterprise ESG performance: An empirical study based on China's tax system reform

Yongjiu Liu, Qinqin Liu and Peiling Dong

The influence of digital transformation on organizational resilience in cultural and tourism enterprises: A mechanism study based on the perspective of dynamic capabilities

Wei Zhang and Hao Ran

The impact of FOMC announcements on dollar pegged countries: Evidence from GCC

Saud Asaad Althaqeb, Khaled Alsabah and Mohammad Alhashel

FinTech and productivity gains in Saudi Arabia: A multilevel analysis highlighting the state of AI preparedness

Idris A. Adediran and Zainab O. Abdulkareem

Does free education improve early-adulthood subjective well-being? Evidence from rural China

Chao Yang, Linlin Wu and Ruofei Xu

How does green credit policy impact stock price crash risk? Evidence from Vietnamese listed firms

Thi Ngoc Anh Nguyen and Hail Jung

Revisiting the fiscal decentralization-income inequality nexus: Fourier cointegration and causality evidence from high- and low-decentralized OECD countries

Mehmet Avcı, Arınç Boz and Gökhan Ünalan

Double-edged sword: Rural income-increasing effect and distributional challenges of public data openness

Jin Liu and Weilong Gao

The investigation of the asymmetric influence of Bitcoin and energy prices on sustainable cryptocurrency valuation

Jalal Qanas, Noureddine Benlagha and Nur Ain Shahrier

Learning from climate risk: Supplier shocks and the adjustment toward firms’ optimal capital structure

Xiaoqi Sheng and Jun Shao

When silence informs: Quiet giving, strategic non-disclosure, and stock price synchronicity

Lei Quan, Xiaoxing Liu and Longmiao Qiu

The causal impact of primary education on structural transformation: Evidence from Vietnam's 1991 universal primary education reform

Khoa Nguyễn Hồ Anh, Quý Võ Dương, Khôi Phan Đình and Tâm Lê Ngọc Thanh

Smart governance as a driver of institutional efficiency: Evidence from urban business environment performance in China

Sishu Zhou, Zhihao He and Lu Song

Big data zones and urban inclusive green growth: Evidence from China's national pilot policy

Haili Xia and Meng Qian

Annual report textual complexity and ESG rating disagreement

Dongliang Yuan, Jiexiang Shen and Yan Li

Micro-level effects of digital economy governance: The implementation of the Data Security Law and corporate digital procurement behavior

Guanchen Lv, Pan Gu, Weidong Li and Guo Liu

The impact mechanism of industrial spatial agglomeration on carbon emission intensity in Chinese urban agglomerations

Qingxi Shen, Zerui Han, Yifan Deng, Yi Liu, Yukun Yang, Yangyang Yu and Yingqi Xia

An experimental analysis of the IPO pricing mechanism: The case of Book-building

Jingru Wang, Yukihiko Funaki, Ryuichiro Ishikawa and Yoshiaki Ogura

Can the circular economy reduce the extraction of exhaustible resources? Evidence from provincial-level data in China

Hongyan Zhu and Yong Yu

Climate-linked pay and climate resilience: International evidence

Adja Hamida and Mohamed Firas Thraya

How does CSR influence short-term debt for long-term investment of Chinese firms?

Yun Zhan, Wenping Zhai and Jia Liao

Commodity futures markets under global supply chain stress

Rashed Jahangir, Hakan Tunahan and Busra Garip

The impact of supply chain finance on the green transformation of enterprises

Ronghao Deng, Can Liu, Chaobo Zhou and Yanran Yu

How does attracting talent strengthen firms? Local talent policies, human resource allocation, and total factor productivity

Haozhe Deng, Chao Wang and Xi Zhou

Supply chain data sharing in the era of trusted data spaces: A four-party evolutionary game analysis

Yongpeng Liu, Xinlan Wang and Andi Xu

Stablecoin reserve risk under the GENIUS Act: Evidence from the Silicon Valley Bank shock

Hongzhe Wen, Songbai Li, R.S.M. Lau and Jamie Zhang

Research on the coupling mechanism and risk early warning of rare earth-energy industry chain resilience under the interweaving of digital transformation and geopolitical conflicts

Lei Zhang

How does digitalization of producer services impact manufacturing green productivity? Evidence from China

Tonglian Ren, Suping Cui and Pei Liu

Bridging the energy divide: The impact of digital inclusive finance on urban-rural electricity consumption inequality

Lei Zhang and Kaixin Sheng

Modeling EUA price dynamics: A multistage PDE framework with Market Stability Reserve mechanisms

Ting-Fu Chen, Hsin-Yu Chiu and Chieh Shen

How do suppliers perceive the carbon disclosure quality in China? Examine the double-edged effect of corporate carbon assurance

Haodong Chang, Xuehui Zhang and Kun-Shan Wu

Network spillover effect of heterogeneous knowledge

Yang Li, Yufeng Zhang and Xiaojie Shi

Busy outside directors and CEO–employee pay gap

Hong Kee Sul, Chune Young Chung, Thang Tat Vo and Huy Pham

How environmental policy instruments shape the deviant behavior of corporate green governance: Evidence from China

Yunbo Yang, Shuxia Zhang, Mengxuan Jin and Xian Xie

Can ESG finance contribute to decontamination and decarbonization through the industrial upgrading?

Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Ghalieb Mutig Idroes, Irsan Hardi and Xuan-Hoa Nghiem

Complementarity or conflict? Impact of environmental policy mixes on corporate greenwashing: An empirical study of Chinese enterprises

Tianyi Hao, Ruoxi Zhong, Qiurui Jiang and Yanbin Qi

ESG firms and stock price crash risk in times of policy uncertainty: Evidence from key Asian economies

Woraphon Wattanatorn and Chaiyuth Padungsaksawasdi

Measuring tax avoidance: A stochastic frontier perspective on affiliated firms

Eduard Baumöhl, Tomáš Bačo and Peter Nemec

Enterprises’ innovation quality in the era of big data: Data & intelligence element, technical talent and open innovation

Lian Zhou, Sen Chen and Zhiliang Guo

Does “doing good” facilitate “going global”? — ESG performance, corporate reputation, and corporate internationalization

Huijuan Sun, Yibo Wang and Mengting Guo

Corrigendum to “Bayesian stochastic-volatility structural VAR analysis of cross-market dynamic volatility spillovers among oil, gold, and agricultural commodities” [International Review of Economics & Finance 110 (2026) 105532]

Xinyan Deng, Kentaka Aruga and Chaofeng Tang

Would international economic cooperation promote sustainable economic development in ocean rim regions? Evidence from the Indian Ocean

Shan Feng, Shuguang Liu and Yutong Zhang

ESG performance, corporate risk-taking, and investment levels: Dynamic evidence from Chinese listed firms

Junjing Zhong and Yang Liu

Exploring the nexus of intellectual capital and human development for sustainable competitiveness in Southeast Asia

Bima Cinintya Pratama, Maulida Nurul Innayah and Shukriah Saad

Government power in the market: market-oriented climate policy and labor demand

Wenjian He, Xiaodong Wang, Xueyao Li, Xiaoyang Chen and Miao Miao

The changing role of preplanned insider trades: Evidence from the SEC rule 10b5-1 amendments

Yun Ma

Dynamics of returns to post-school education in Australia, 2001-2024

Tinh Doan, Hien Nguyen, Van Ha, Trinh Nguyen and Hanh Le