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Volume 104, issue C, 2025

Cyclical pattern in international financial flows to the semi-periphery

Benjamin Peeters

Cross-firm information in analyst reports

Kotaro Miwa

Transportation infrastructure development and trade credit financing: Evidence from China

Weijie Luo and Xiaoming Zhang

Artificial intelligence applications and corporate ESG performance

Yangyan Liu, Jia Song, Bingjun Zhou and Jiangui Liu

Impact of government public data openness on agricultural total factor productivity

Jianqin Li and Yi Yu

Digital financial inclusion and urban-rural disparities

Zhenzhen Huang, Junyi Han, Zhaoyi Xu and Rui Dai

Measuring tone shifts in media coverage: An empirical application to bank financing conditions in Italy

Nicola Branzoli, Sabina Marchetti and Emilio Tarducci

The digital divide and household risky financial investments in China

BenSu Guo and JinDong Guo

The geographic distance of underwriter and bond financing costs: Evidence from China

Xiaojie Qu and Huaping Sun

Monetary policy responses to Tariff shocks: Lending facilities as a complementary tool

Yuxin Wang, Kun Yang and Yuxuan Yang

Identifying optimistic stocks with K-means clustering algorithm

Bilal Aslam

Social performance management in mixed oligopolies with pollutions: New policy mixes for public firms

Huncheol Jeon and Hyunwoo Hong

Climate policy uncertainty and corporate supply chain stability

Haibo Sun, Di Cao and Zhonglu Liu

How to achieve clean energy transition through developing green finance? Evidence from China

Yuee Tang, Lei Qian, Meiqiao Sun and Junbing Huang

The resilience revolution: Will new securities laws Be corporate China's pressure test?

Zheng Cheng and Zhiwei Pan

Analyzing and visualizing knowledge structures of insider trading: A bibliometric and topic analysis

H. Kent Baker, Jing Duo, Shantanu Dutta and Chen Li

From "demographic dividend" to "digital Dividend": An exploration of the path of industrial structure upgrading in the context of aging

Yanyan Li and Xinyu Dong

Illiquidity-driven bond return synchronicity and information environment

Zhirui Song, Zehua Zhang and Ran Zhao

Is rural pension insurance the effective way to reduce rural relative poverty

Yan Zhou and Yang Li

Rooted or expansive? The impact of digital-physical technological integration on corporate knowledge breadth

Li Li, Qingzhao Meng, Si-E Li and Zhenlin Chen

Digital transformation, dynamic capabilities, and aggressive corporate strategy

Jie Zhou and Min Kuang

The constraining effect of environmental protection supervision on managerial myopia: a local government pressure-based perspective

Yang Jiao and Yongqian Tu

Does confucian culture restrain ESG decoupling? Evidence from China

Peng Wan, Yu Yang and Xiangyu Chen

Business process digitalization and efficiency of corporate working capital management

Disheng Wang and Han Nie

Carbon price dynamics and firm productivity: The role of green innovation and institutional environment in China's emission trading scheme

Junjiao Gong, Xuan Qiu and Jiaqi Fang

Extreme downside shocks in international financial markets: transmission boundaries and typical events

Lu Deng, Xinzhu Liu and Xinhong Chen

Heterogeneous effects of artificial intelligence orientation and application on enterprise green emission reduction performance

Shengxuan Li

Reconfiguring capital structures through digital R&D: Mechanisms and empirical insights

Jie Wu, Kun Yang and Fei Song

Geopolitical risks and resilience strategies in driving investment in clean energy infrastructure along the Belt and Road Initiative

Xiaomei Su, Shangmei Zhao, Wei Li and Wei Fan

How to shape corporate green behavior? — The green governance effect of executive incentive strategies

Ningning Zhang and Yawen Wang

Trading pattern synchronization in multi-asset market

Chanho Yee

One's name represents oneself: Auditor's given names and audit quality

Pu Zhao, Yongtao Liu and Jing Shi

Can digital financial awareness enhance enterprises' business credit?

Bo Wu and Suhong Liao

Exploring the impact of multidimensional factors of childhood socioeconomic status on residents' successful aging

Tianlun Yu

Revaluating safe havens: The effectiveness of traditional assets during extreme crises?

Xiaoyan Chen and Di Mo

Green bonds and corporate environmental performance: The role of third-party certification

Yiqun Sun and Yu Hao

Rural revitalization and farm household employment decisions: Micro evidence from China

Hongchuan Wang

Are political connections valuable during a health pandemic crisis?

Wai-Yan Wong, Chwee-Ming Tee and Chee-Wooi Hooy

Corporate biodiversity risk exposure and performance aspiration deficit

Jing Liu, Peigong Li and Umeair Shahzad

How does female executives optimize enterprises' green governance performance?

Liying Lei and Yongchun Huang

Digital transformation, supply chain collaboration, and corporate innovation boundaries

Xuesong Li, Tingfa Zhou and Shanshan Cao

How does digital economy influence urban common prosperity? Evidence from China's demonstration area for common prosperity

Shengyang Zhong, Xin Zhang, Leibao Zhang and Chen Zhao

Artificial intelligence policy uncertainty and corporate Greenwashing: Evidence from China

Yufei Gan and Luxueting Pi

Employee emotions, employee resilience, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions performance

Zhongwei Luan, Siyu Huang and Jiayao Wen

Can supply chain concentration drive an increase in a company's market share?

Xueli Zhong

CEO tenure: Evidence from U.S. public firms

Henry Jarva

Can the digitalization of tax administration promote corporate digital transformation?—— empirical evidence from China

Weiqun Xi and Xing Ling

Cryptocurrency price-based comovement

Lai T. Hoang

Strategic or substantive: The role of green finance in shaping enterprise green innovation

Qi Qin, Da Gao and Linfang Tan

The effect of CFO's accounting firm experience on debt concentration

Xiaohui Zhao, Yumiao Yu and Zilong Song

The macroeconomic effects of money demand and capital liquidity: A financial accelerator perspective

Yongwu Li, Zhongfei Li and Baoling Wang

Staying or switching: How companies react to audit firm penalties

Kexin Zhang, Danglun Luo and Pengfei Gao

Economic policy uncertainty and dividends: New evidence on moderating effects from Japan

Hong Vo, Christian Haddad and Quoc Dat Trinh

When insiders trade less: density and return predictability

Congcong Wang, Zhenxiao Wang, Mardy Chiah and Yang Bai

Dual-model synergy for audit opinion prediction: A collaborative LLM agent framework approach

Yi Lu, Jinxing Hao and Xuesong Tang

Capital market signals and corporate advertising strategies: An empirical analysis based on the synergistic relationship between stock price volatility and marketing capability

Shanshan Luo and Qianyu Zhu

To give is to take: The effects of government deposits on bank risks

Xuanxuan Zhang, Jiefei Yang, Zhenzhen Li and Zili Zhang

Corruption and firm value: Additional evidence from foreign corrupt practices act enforcements

Brian Sukhai, Robert Houmes, Thanh Ngo and Daphne Wang

G7 investors prefer cryptocurrencies, gold or digital gold to hedge their risk? Insights from quantile time frequency connectedness

Ahlem Lamine

Does climate policy uncertainty affect a firm's lease versus buy decision? Evidence from the US

Fahim Sultanbawa, Hasibul Chowdhury, Ihtisham Malik and Anamul Haque

The role of tax incentives in the alleviation of corporate over-financialization: Evidence from China

Chaohui Xu and Xiangrui Chao

Driving corporate innovation through digital transformation: Evidence from China

Jian Zhang, Jinsong Zhao, Chin-Hsien Yu and Chi-Chuan Lee

Is green contagious? -Local peer effects of corporate green investment

Xiang Luo, JingJing Xiao and Jianan Zhou

Inflation bites: The dynamic interdependence between financial market volatility and energy consumption during pandemic

Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Muhammad Azam, Nirosha Hewa Wellalage and Tapas Mishra

The impact of national modern agriculture demonstration zones on rural household development resilience

Zhongwen Chen, Zeyu Ding and Qingcai Meng

Independent directors’ political connections and CEO compensation: Evidence from China

Yaohua Qin, He Xiao, Jinwen Lin and Luning Song

Can ESG rating help shape enterprises' new-quality productivity? Evidence from China

Yi Guo, Jinsong Hu, Yue Dou and Shuyi Lin

The role of revised securities law on ESG rating divergence: Through the perspective of disclosure quality and internal control

Zhenyun Chen and Cuidan Wu

The impact of tax business environment on regional innovation: Evidence from China

Hanfang Chen, Pei Song, He Ren, Ruicheng Zhu and Cuihua Zhu

How do enterprises deal with environmental protection “fee-to-tax” reform? Evidence from ESG information greenwashing in China

Feng Niu, Zhichao Luo and Yanfen Mu

Fintech innovation in green finance: A disruptive force or a complementary tool?

Fengsheng Chien, Yunqian Zhang and Muhammad Sadiq

AI adoption and ESG performance: Evidence from China

Ge Yang and Xudan Yang

Does supply chain network position facilitate firm M&A? Evidence from China

Linqing Liu, Weiran Wang, Lisi Yang and Shi Hu

Artificial intelligence and enterprise total factor productivity: A human capital requirement perspective

Chen Fan, Xuehui Liao and Xin Yang

Assessing asymmetry risk premium in U.S. stock markets

Yan Chen, Yakun Liu and Lei Zhang

Precision poverty alleviation policies and macroeconomic fluctuations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in the establishment of national-level poverty-stricken counties

Chenzhi Zhu and Di Zhu

Corrigendum to “Climate policy uncertainty, supply chain resilience and enterprises'green total factor productivity: Evidence from China” [International Review of Economics & Finance 103 (2025) 104555]

Lixia Zhang, Jiancheng Bai, Huaping Sun, Feng Deng and Ying Qian

Nonlinear home market effects in mega-markets: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing exports

ZhiYao Deng, Qin Xie and Mingru Peng

Corporate digital transformation and major shareholder equity pledges: An analysis of incentive and constraint effects

Lianjun Yao and Danqi Liu

Economic Policy Uncertainty and the stock market anomalies: Evidence from Australia

Anthea Faferko, Bin Liu, Sandy Suardi and Dong Ding

Uncertainty, government bailouts and the macro economy

Shen Guo and Alice Y. Ouyang

Crime and credit: Analyzing the impact of organized crime perceptions on loan restrictions

Antonio Fabio Forgione, Carlo Migliardo and Marco Spadaro

Cooperative equity financing and cooperative R&D between competitors

Fuhai Nie

Factors related to digital literacy in people with disabilities: Focus on self-efficacy and attitude toward digital devices and technology

Eun-Young Park

Countries don’t trade, firms do: A firm-level assessment of CETA

Lucian Cernat, Carmen Díaz-Mora, Salvador Gil-Pareja and Silvio Esteve

Big data in tax enforcement and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from China

Gaoya Song and Yu Wang

Employee incentive and stock liquidity: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Xiang Zhang, Jiarong Wu, Jiayu Yao and Chenyang Yu

From fossil fuels to renewables: Analyzing network effects and market responses during China's energy transition

Yan Chen, Qiong Luo and Elie Bouri

Can an executive's environmental background be a catalyst for corporate green and low-carbon transformation? - Evidence from 103 energy companies in China

Fu Chen, Huiyuan Yu, Shuting Zheng, Xiran Cao and Peiqi Wu

Benefits and risks of corporate investment under the constraints of transnational investment laws

Xiaoke Luo

The impact of basic public service provision on urban economic resilience: Evidence from 281 cities in China

Xinshuai Guan and Huiru Ma

Media sentiment, financial services, and corporate investment levels

Lisha Qu and Rui Yang

The impact of the equity ratio on membership in cooperative banks during the financial crisis

Matthias Wrede

Legal protection of trade secrets and corporate investment efficiency

Haiyan Jiang, Jing Jia and Carl Hsin-han Shen

Does firm-level environmental policy uncertainty affect cost stickiness?

Kyeongheum Ra

Impact of elections on the cannabis market: An event study for the 2024 U.S. presidential election

António Miguel Martins, Bruno Albuquerque, Luís Sardinha and Nuno Moutinho

When Chinese firm's ESG governance encounters US climate policy uncertainty: Challenges or opportunities?

Yi-Shuai Ren and Yong Jiang

Share repurchase and trade credit: evidence from China

Yingxin Wen, Tao Zeng and Xinjian Huang

Behavioral mechanisms of consumption stimulation: A MOA framework analysis of national subsidies usage

Hanrui Wu, Fuyuan Luo, Dewen Liu and Yuxuan Zhong

Riding the asset wave: The stock and house price relationship in the G7

Quanda Zhang, Kris Ivanovski, Kwabena Mintah and Sefa Awaworyi Churchill

Bridging finance and the real economy: Dynamic volatility transmission between leading cryptocurrencies and Chinese firms

Ifran Khan, Huangbao Gui, Chin Man Chui, Mrs Faryal, Cody Yu-Ling Hsiao and Ziqi Chen

Turbulent tides: When green energy ambitions collide with brown resilience in the storm of uncertainty

Zhengzheng Li, Min Geng, Chi-Wei Su and Meng Qin

Cashing in on others' misfortune: Institutional investments in China's commercial property market in times of flooding crisis

Shuai Shi, Ziwei Lin, Yue Zhang and Kathy Pain

M&A and resources allocation in high-tech industries: Technology diffusion or market power effect

Jingjing Wei, Aixia Wang and Xiqi Ma

Supply chain spillover, media attention, and breakthrough innovation

Jinwei Xu and Yi Wan

Can green infrastructure investment accelerate low-carbon urbanization? Evidence from China

Gong Zihao, Yang Feihu, Huang Xing and Li Yating

How does regional financial development affect the investment and financing behaviors of low-altitude economy enterprises? An empirical study based on the expansion of city commercial banks

Yuge Hu, Ning Zhao, Xufeng Shangguan, Zi Zhu, Jun Gou, Pradeep Paraman and Yifei Dong

The impact of digital infrastructure development on the green transformation of cities: Considering the moderating effect of human capital level

Runlin Tian, Hongchang Li, Han Jia and Runde Gu

Economic gains with social pains: Migration patterns and their consequences among internal migrants in China

Bowen Wang, Zhongshan Yue and Jian Yao

Strengthening financial regulation and total factor productivity in China

Weiguo Liu, Zhouye Wu and Xuyin Wang

Unleashing the effect of data asset information disclosure on corporate investment efficiency: Fresh evidence from double-debiased machine learning

Huiyi Shi, Yufei Xia, Zihan Cheng, Xinyu Zhang and Shutong Liu

Access to finance: How does state share participation reduce management costs in private firms?

Chen Chen

Safe asset issuance with an information-acquiring demand side

Rongyu Wang

Navigating global financial turbulence: The evergrande collapse and its contagion effect

U. Shahzad, Marco Tedeschi, Ummara Razi and Dariusz Cichoń

Modelling systematic risk in the European football sector: Evidence from listed clubs and market indices

Mohamed Amine Nabli, Haykel Hamdi and Ikrame Ben Slimane

Global patterns in consumer confidence and stock returns

Raquel M. Gaspar and Xu Jiaming

Quantile time–frequency connectedness between green finance and shipping markets: The role of climate transition and physical risks

Ailing Feng and Yanhui Chen

From Official Guidelines to Practice: Decoding Europe’s Countercyclical Capital Buffer Decisions

Zsofia Döme and Michael Sigmund

Geographic diversification and bank efficiency: Evidence from China's commercial banks

Zhiwei Zhang, Ziyi Gang and Fei Su

Can digital transformation reduce bank violations? Evidence from China

Wei Wang, Jie Wen, Mengjie Liu and Manyu Du

On the stressful interaction of monetary and fiscal targets

Sebastian Ille, Dat Thanh Nguyen and Edgar J. Sanchez Carrera

New Firm entry and ESG performance: An inverted-U curve from spillovers to involution

Conghao Zhu and Tingting Wang

Evaluating climate risk in banking: A bibliometric analysis

Violeta Bringas-Fernández, Begoña Torre-Olmo and María Cantero-Saiz

The role of environmental governance policies on resource adaptation and digital economy resilience in G7 countries

Huan Song, Fang Wang, Ruilian Zhang and Muhammad Tahir

Wealth expropriation by noncontrolling block shareholders in Chinese listed firms: Insights from the role of appointed executive directors

Baohua Liu and Wan Huang

Artificial intelligence and corporate investment efficiency

Zhukun Lou, Can Li and Chengsheng Tong

Regional agglomeration, regulation, and agricultural sustainability: Evidence from China

Minmin Huang, Jin Hu, Kaiya Wu, Mingjun Hu and Yanhu Bai

Fintech and Green Investor Entry

Yong Jiang, Tony Klein, Olaf Weber and Yi-Shuai Ren

Development banks: Distinctiveness and heterogeneity of financial performance

Jan Porenta and Vasja Rant

An evolutionary game-Theoretic model and stability analysis of influencer compliance behavior from a perception-driven perspective

Yujing Si, Wei Cao and Yi Yang

Climate policy shocks and market dynamics: Analysis of green and brown equities in China's energy sector using Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness framework

Abbas Khan, Li Shuangjie, Abdulrahman Alomair and Abdulaziz S. Al Naim

Deep learning for financial forecasting: A review of recent trends

Sofia Giantsidi and Claudia Tarantola

Ecotourism and economic sustainable development of local communities from the lens of technological innovation: the synergistic role of green industry and social capital

Luqing Yan, Leong-Mow Gooi, Wenyan Huang and Xiaoqing Wang

Can outward direct investment and openness to the outside world reduce regional labor misallocation?

Jiwei Lu and Genhong Zhao

The impact of green technical barriers to trade on green innovation strategies of Chinese exporting companies

Muxia Li

Widening income inequality and the decline in fertility intentions: Micro evidence from Chinese households

Shushen Lin and Nengsheng Luo

Attention to scientific and technological talents and corporate business model innovation – Causal inference based on double machine learning

Jingni Chen, Huiqi Deng, Chunmian Ge and Junyu Li

Fewer cards, less credit: The role of student loans in credit access, generally and among racial and ethnic groups

Jane Yoo and Troy Felver

Domestic and international determinants of optimal inflation measure selection for rule-based monetary policy during an energy price shock

Adam Czelleng

Time-varying bidirectional causality between climate policy uncertainty and renewable energy investments

Samuel Asante Gyamerah, Kenneth Sena Blekor and Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana

The impact of long-term care insurance on the developmental resilience of families

Zumei Huang and Huarong Zhang

The dark side of mandatory CSR disclosure: Evidence from expropriation in China

Kaijuan Gao, Xiuran Qiao and Shangkun Liang

The contagion effects and network analysis of climate-related risk events: Global and regional evidence

Cody Yu-Ling Hsiao, Rui Yang, Yi-Bin Chiu and Chin Man Chui

Navigating ESG complexity: Impact of information sources on analyst forecast accuracy

Yongsi He, Albert Tsang and Shuo Yan

Information rigidity: Comparing average and individual forecasts of analysts of Chinese A-Share listed companies

Lin Li and Guoping Li

The pass-through of energy commodity price volatility along the pricing chain in the euro area: A disaggregate approach

César Castro and Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez

The power of prestige: How CEO prestige shapes corporate cash strategies

Mohamed Shaker Ahmed, Marwa Elnahass, Harald Kinateder and Khaled Guesmi

Does the dual-pilot policy of low-carbon city and sci-tech finance improve urban green total factor productivity?

Runda Xu and Jianping Zhang

Antitrust deregulation and long-term performance of acquiring firms

Jaeyoon Lee, Chune Young Chung and Huy Pham

Internal whistleblowing and cost of debt: Do managerial ability and ownership concentration matter?

Muhammad Ayaz, Xu Xiaoyang, Abdullah, and Destan Kirimhan

Does chairman education matter to accounting quality?

Umar Kayani, Khanh Hoang, Huy Viet Hoang and Riadh Manita

Cities, climate & growth: Evidence from Athens, Greece

Tryfonas Christou, Stephane Goutte, Konstantinos N. Konstantakis, Panayotis G. Michaelides and Maria Psyllou

Pilot policies for climate-adaptive urban development and corporate greenwashing behavior

Yan Zhu, Shengnan Li, Jianbo Niu and Yiqun Wang

Can government data openness promote firms’ inter-regional investment?

Weijie Jiang and Chenyang Qi

Financial technology and firm operational resilience: The roles of supply chain resilience and marketing capability

YanChun Lou, QianYu Zhu and CuiJing Liang

How do ESG ratings promote the acceleration of enterprise internationalization? — Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Hualyushu Zhong, Yanting Zhou and Jinmei Wang

Educational spillovers from overseas economic parks: Financial and trade mediation effects

Hang Lin and Wenli Wu

The impact of weakening implicit local government guarantees on corporate effective tax burden: Evidence from China

Jun Li, Yu Mu and Yan Wang

Can public opinion manipulation disrupt markets?— A study on the impact of internet water army on corporate demand uncertainty

Le Xin, Yijiang Liu and Ruige Zhang

From financing relief to governance empowerment: How do government-guided funds activate labor investment efficiency?

Yinxia Li and Jing Guo

Media tone disagreement and the cross-section of stock returns: Evidence from China

Xiaohui Wang, Wenwen Ye and Guanglong Xu

The double-edged sword of political power in Chinese merger and acquisitions: CEOs, boards, and market reactions

Yuqi Song and Qingfeng Wang

How does language diversity influence AI development? Evidence from China

Qing Xia and Shuai Zhang

Asset pricing dynamics in economies with limited market participation: A continuous-time approach

Amir Mohsen Moradi, Mohsen Mehrara and Mahdieh Tahmasebi

From artificial intelligence adoption to enterprise green development: Does dual environmental turbulence matter?

Miao Wang, Qing Xia and Shouxun Wen

Stimulating economic growth in Palestine through conventional and FinTech banking: A time-series and stylized simulation approach

Ibrahim M. Awad, Rana A. Hamad and Bashar Abdallah

Quasi-experimental evidence on Spanish VAT cuts during economic shocks

Javier Baquero-Pérez, Daniel Fernández Romero, Ernesto Rodríguez-Crespo and Julimar Da Silva-Bichara

Does ESG performance influence corporate share repurchases? Evidence from China

Haiyan Yang, Ziman Zhu, Yuyu Zhang and Yingdan Jia

How does creditor protection improve access to corporate credit?

Tuo Ji and Dong Cai

Bank efficiency and monetary policy transmission

Md Asad Iqbal Chowdhury, Md Harun Ur Rashid and Mohammad Shamsu Uddin

Financial environment, dry powder, and the dynamics of private equity valuations

Prodosh Eugene Simlai

Connectedness among green, brown, technology, and carbon markets: Insights from time-varying models

Simran Agarwal and Puja Padhi

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C: Conditioning effects of financial flows and regulatory quality on green technological innovation-emission nexus

Mohammed Musah, Isaac Adjei Mensah, Thomas Appiah, Joseph Akwasi Nkyi and Michael Owusu-Akomeah

The value of being green: Assessing the impact of green bond issuance on stock prices of European listed companies

Radosław Pietrzyk, Sylwia Frydrych, Paweł Węgrzyn and Krzysztof Biegun

Does energy transition improve ESG performance? Evidence from China's new energy demonstration city pilot

Jie Mao, Liang Zhang and Naihao Li

The critical role of digital infrastructure in inequality: New evidence from urban-rural consumption in China

Nanxu Chen and Yuling Hu

Beyond Green Signaling: Are Institutional Investors Decarbonizing Their Portfolios?

Mohammad R. Allahdadi

Tail-event driven network dependence in the Belt and Road: Effects of crises and initiative implementation

Tingting Cheng, Yiming Liu, Shuyi Ge and Yanlin Shi

Do ESG-superstar firms inhibit the ESG performance of their industry peers?

Wu Deng, Hui Gao and Zhongliang Nie

How does land finance affect carbon emissions? Evidence from 270 Chinese cities

Linfeng Cai, Yixuan Liao and Huanchen Tang

The impact of the “Granularity” of ecological compensation policies on industrial structure upgrading in Yellow River Basin cities

Jin An, Lin Wang and Chao He

Evolutionary game analysis of collaborative strategies in fresh e-commerce and cold chain logistics: The role of incentive mechanisms and supervision policies

Yan Huang

How does money matter most? Examining the association between financial pension security and life satisfaction

Yu Lu and Run-quan Wang

Re-thinking diversification: Harnessing the diversification potential of AI stocks and cryptocurrencies using portfolio optimization

Audil Rashid Khaki, Walid Bakry, Neha Deo and Somar Al-Mohamad

Time-consistent multi-period investment strategy for a DC pension plan with inflation risk, salary risk and a return of premiums clause

Lihua Bian, Huiling Wu and Zhongfei Li

Forecasting downside betas with multi-period components

Yunting Liu and Jiawen Luo

The effect of income smoothing on crash risk: A cross-country analysis

Wei Wu, Zhongyi Xiao, Guangneng Zhang and Yuxiang Zhong

How does ESG administrative embedding affect corporate green total factor productivity? Evidence from China

Yanfen Zou and Zhiwen Xiao

Do ESG activities reduce agency costs?

Richard Paul Gregory

Investor attention, ESG strength, and green innovation efficiency: A two-stage network DEA approach for Chinese listed manufacturers

Zongke Bao, Weiwei Ji, Samira Abdullayeva, Vusala Teymurova and Safdar Ali

Impact of green factory certification on firms’ green innovation: Evidence from China

Ziyan Hua and Haoqiang Yuan

Beyond the digital divide: Unlocking urban economic resilience through integrated digital infrastructure and finance

Yu Cheng, Wenjian He and Mingda Yang

Do peer narrative disclosures support or disrupt efficient investment?

Renhui Fu, Fang Gao and Chen Ma

Were MENA commercial banks resilient amidst COVID-19 shock? A multi-perspective efficiency analysis

Manal El Kassimi, Khalid El Badraoui and Jamal Ouenniche

The determinants of green investments by institutional investors: The role of government carbon mitigation strategies and policies

Chee Yoong Liew, Geeta Duppati and Marcia Edna Santhana Rajan

Return extrapolation and U-shaped volatility asymmetry: Evidence from the Chinese stock market

Yihan Li and Yiqing Sun

Impact of urban economic resilience on crime rate: Empirical evidence from China judgments online data

Yan Zhang and Cheng-To Lin

Digital literacy and female family care: An empirical study based on CFPS

Junpeng Di and Zhouzhou Liu

ESG performance and climate transition risk spillover of bank system

Aifan Ling, Wei Peng and Ling, Boya (Vivye)

Policy-driven assessment and dynamic optimization of the resilience of returns in the green R&D industry: Empirical study from China

Cairong Wu, Jiaxin Zhuang, Yinglin Wang and Shengxu Shi

Does supply chain network location drive enterprise innovation input?—A dual perspective based on relational embeddedness and structural embeddedness

Yaohao Lu

The dark side of digital financial inclusion: Uncovering threshold-driven risk contagion in China

Junming Xie, Wenyi Zhou, Jiale Chen, Cheng Guo and Jiapeng Dai