International Review of Economics & Finance

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Volume 111, issue C, 2026

Analysis and research on the evaluation of the implementation effect of science and technology innovation policies in Fujian Province

Yihua Zhang, Qingying Xie and Yuan Wang

Secrecy vs. transparency: How investors priced China’s 2025 Disclosure Exemption Rule

Wenting Zhang and Zengfu Li

Chinese activity and the US and German yield curves: Evidence from an affine term structure model

Matjaz Maletic

What drives sustainable urban growth in China? Unlocking the spatial dynamics of new quality productivity

Chen Chen, Hongling Xie and Si-E Li

Timing commodity sales under tail-risk control: State-dependent rules and global price signals in rubber markets

Montchai Pinitjitsamut

Beyond green: Can financial reform for ecology curb corporate tax avoidance?

Zhen Cheng and Chante Jian Ding

Do large language models displace or complement investment advisors? Evidence from Chinese wealth management firms

Lina Song and Huaili Lyu

Does the new energy vehicles policy promote urban carbon unlocking? The case of China

Chaolun Wang, Wei Wang and Jiaqi Zhou

Consumer bias, provider visibility, and ranking algorithms on online platforms

Yutong Chen and Wei Jiang

Monetary policy uncertainty, systemic risk, and European sustainable markets

Ismail O. Fasanya, Oluwatomisin J. Oyewole, Ololade Periola and Sulaimon O. Adebiyi

Global buyers, local sustainability: How major Foreign customers shape Chinese firms’ ESG performance

Liangyan Cao, Wee-Yeap Lau and Shahrin Saaid Shaharuddin

Central bank communication, policy action, and spillover: Evidence from Indian financial market

Hitesh Kamboj, N.V. Muralidhar Rao and Manan Agrawal

Digital transformation and tourism industry efficiency: Mechanisms, evidence, and implications from provincial panel data in China

Junpei Lu, Rong Zhang and Yuntao Zou

The impact of “Made in China 2025” on ESG performance: Evidence from manufacturing listed firms

Wei Liu

Does financial stability matter in reducing the shadow economy? Perspectives from emergent and non-emerging economies

Cristian Barra and Nazzareno Ruggiero

From isolation to integration: Assessing the roles of ICT, growth, and human capital in Ethiopia’s global standing

Yohannes Girma, Abera Ayalew and Abera Abebe

Leveraging data assets to promote enterprise green innovation: A dual perspective of dynamic capabilities and information asymmetry

Heng Tao, Yu Jia, Xuewen Bao, Nianxin Wang, Meishu Zhang and Shilun Ge

Political risk, outward investment diversification and corporate resilience

Yujie Song

Corrigendum to “Can the circular economy reduce the extraction of exhaustible resources? Evidence from provincial-level data in China” [International Review of Economics and Finance 110 (2026) 105613]

Hongyan Zhu and Yong Yu

AI's impact on energy efficiency and electricity consumption: Evidence from AI green computing power in China's National Green Data Centers

Ming Su, Siqi Wang and Xiao Yu

Has carbon finance helped regional energy structure transformation? Evidence from 30 Chinese provinces

Jun Xu and Lingyue Zeng

What is the role of multilateral development banks in sustainability: Empirical evidence from climate finance at the Asian Development Bank

Thuy Duong Le, Ariful Hoque and Thi Le

Tilting bank credit toward green firms: Dynamic selection and multi-stage transition

Dian Hong

The effects of STAR Market reform on debt maturity mismatches of Main Board high-tech firms: Unpacking cross-board spillover effects

Yu Gao, Yannan Sun and Yangzi Li

From contagion to stabilization: Spot Bitcoin ETFs and the regime shift in crypto-equity integration

Abdullah Mohammad Ghazi Al khatib and Bayan Mohamad Alshaib

Stablecoins: Fundamentals, emerging issues, and open challenges

Ahmed Mahrous, Maurantonio Caprolu and Roberto Di Pietro

The firm level real effects of a State-guaranteed credit program

Nikita Céspedes-Reynaga and Lesly Gonzales-Berrocal

From industrial upgrading to smart emissions efficiency: Industry 4.0 determinants of carbon intensity in the U.S

Mohammad Saiyedul Islam, Gong Zheng, Mohammad Fakhrul Islam, Faqeer Muhammad and Sadia Rahman

When heat and instability collide: Climate change, conflict, and the erosion of aggregate saving in Somalia

Abdikadir Ahmed Mohamed, Nasteha Ahmed Afrah and Deqa Abdullahi Moalim

Carbon markets and regional energy transitions: Based on the energy trilemma perspective

Tong Zou, Xuan Mu, Fanrong Li and Pibin Guo

Unequal burdens: Food price convergence, divergence, and inequality in the European Union

Ilaria Benedetti

When distance hurts but digital heals: Innovation paths under regional integration

Jing Li, Dan Sun and Huilin Mao

ESG as a bridge between board composition and firm value: The moderating role of family firms

Veerma Puri and Saroj S. Prasad

Drivers or Barriers? A dynamic mutual analysis for Artificial intelligence technology and green finance market in China

Kai-Hua Wang, Han-Dong Zhou, Xiao-Qing Wang and Muhammad Umar

Time-varying shock transmission to industrial production in the EU27: The role of geopolitical risk, energy prices, supply chain pressures, and business confidence

Kyriakos Emmanouilidis, Petros Golitsis and Sotirios Bellos

Research on the risk contagion effect between climate policy uncertainty and industry climate transition risks

Xiao-Li Gong, Xiang-Zhen Zhou, Xue-Ting Wang and Xiong Xiong

Synergistic pathways to green TFP: A hybrid approach using XGBoost-SHAP and dynamic QCA

Manli Cheng and Yanfen Feng

County-level innovation policy and corporate patent quality—evidence from the county pilot program in China

Xingxing Chen, Yupeng Yang and Na Li

Stocks’ macro announcement incremental information and intraday momentum

Ke Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Zhiyuan Pan and Yulu Li

Can green finance promote the development of the hydrogen energy industry? An empirical analysis from 30 provinces in China

Yangyang Luo, Jie Wang, Nian Liu and Chuanbo Xu

Publishing media stock prediction based on TransXFormer

Qin Xu, Miao Huan, Ting Gao, Jinsheng Wang, Liangquan Jia and Dexiang Qi

Examining the role of dialect diversity in collaborative innovation: Evidence from Chinese Dialects

Xi Tan and Chunmei Yang

When credit expansion backfires: The unequal impact of loan cap relaxation on Kuwait’s housing market

Khaled Alsabah, Shamlan Waleed Albahar and Sulaiman Albader

Time–frequency and asymmetric spillovers of climate risks on the Chinese agricultural commodity markets

Jia Wang, Yifan Wang, Xiong Xiong and Chuyao Li

Transmission mechanisms in behavioral macroeconomic models

Xin Xu

From discrimination to preference: How does the intensive cultivation strategy reverse SMEs debt financing disadvantages

Bingbing Shui, Haijun Yang and Panpan Feng

Determinants of household crypto asset market participation: Evidence from the United States

Clement A. Asaana and Vikas Kakkar

Can AAII beat the market? A long-horizon backtest of sentiment-driven strategies in E-mini S&P 500

Raúl Gómez-Martínez, María Luisa Medrano-García, Aref Mahdavi Ardekani and Damien Dupré

All sizzle and no steak: The predicament of enterprise AI strategies under central bank digital currency policies

Jinlei Yu, Rui Chen and Haotian Luo

Policy uncertainty beyond market volatility: Evidence from the cross-section of U.S. stock returns

Mohamad Husam Helmi and Mohammad Aljaid

Breaking the deadlock in a monopoly trend: How can data element utilization weaken corporate market power?

Zhian Yang and Chenming Yu

How does venture capital transform intellectual property protection into a driver of corporate innovation?

Xiaoxu Chu and Dongye Zhang

When does employee welfare pay off? Incentive–cost trade-offs and the U-shaped productivity effect

Chao Wang, Shuangshuang Hou and Hongfeng Han

Artificial intelligence, financial investment, and corporate mergers and acquisitions

Shaobo Chen and Siyuan Shen

Value investing or quantitative finance: portfolio decisions based on a new efficient frontier concept

Alexandre Silva de Oliveira, Paulo Sergio Ceretta and Peter Albrecht

Effects of green innovation on corporate cash holdings: The role of board gender diversity and financial constraints

Abdulateif A. Almulhim

The impact of the ESG performance expectation gap on corporate financial misconduct: Evidence from China

Xinyi Yun, Yong Xue, Zemeng Wang and Ziyu Li

The synergistic stabilization effect of green bonds: An industry spillover perspective on stock price crash risk

Rongnan Li, Yulu Zheng, Kai Gan and Mingxin Li

The decarbonization dividend of regional economic integration: policy effects and spatial convergence in China

Ziyan Zheng, Yingming Zhu and Fangdao Qiu

Can policy coordination empower heavily polluting enterprises to achieve a green transition? Evidence from the low-carbon city and smart-city pilot programs in China

Shuang Liu and Jie Tian

Climate risk, supply chain stability, and firm value

Xiaobei Huang, Na Wang and Maosheng Ye

The finance researcher's favorite – President Donald Trump and the stock market

Elias-Noah Batt, Jan Munkow and Dirk Schiereck

Entropic dynamics of the universal equivalent: Tail-risk amplification and crisis signatures in financial market microstructure

Nam Anh Quach

Forced executive turnover and innovation in Chinese SOEs: Governance enhancement or political conformity?

Zhui Liu and Peibin Wang

Assessing the extreme risk spillover effects of climate policy uncertainty on global ESG stocks

Yiming Chen, Yining Guan, Fei Wu and Kun Guo

Beyond compliance: National environmental technical standards and coordinated reductions in pollution and carbon emissions

Tianren Li, Hao Huang, Minghao Chen and Fushun Zhang

Effects of regulatory reforms on banking affiliations and conflict of interest

Tien Foo Sing and Zhi Min Zhang

Navigating financial turbulence: The role of financial literacy, financial education, and access to financial information in personal finance management

Chadia Sawaya, Dani Aoun, Nada Jabbour Al Maalouf, Gebran El Khoury, Mohamad Balouza and Jean Elia

ESG performance as a catalyst for digital innovation: Unveiling the role of firm willingness and risk appetite in Chinese listed companies

Zhennan Sun, Qunyang Du and Anna Min Du

From capital guidance to innovation-driven: How do government-guided funds shape city innovation ecosystems for strategic emerging industries?

Jie Wang, Pengchao Wang and Che Liu

From smart to green: Unlocking artificial intelligence’s potential for urban green productivity

Ruzong Xie

Strategic coherence as a signal in innovation grants: Unpacking how technological alignment and financial flexibility shape SME funding decisions

Hanwei Liang

Technological complexity and diversity: Unraveling the new pathways to corporate continuous innovation

Xiaoyi Zhan, Yong Zhan, Guangjin Li and Qilin Cao

The resilience shield: Can GVC resilience mitigates systemic risk contagion?

Siyu Zhu and Lulu Qin

From exposure to action: How headquarters’ extreme weather experience shapes managerial attention and regional reallocation strategies

Lan Wu, Xingyu Zhang, Xudong Tang, Han Bao and Xikai Chen

Data element marketization, financial flexibility, and corporate value creation

Bingjie Cui and Xiaoxuan Zhang

The impact of qualified foreign institutional investor holdings on corporate carbon risk

Xiaowei Zhang, Jiayin Liu, Fan Wang and Guoliang Liu

How does digital supply chain finance drive corporate decarbonization? Dual-pathway mechanism analysis

Wei Xue and Lu Yang

Labor protection and corporate artificial intelligence technology innovation: A quasi-natural experiment based on the implementation of China's Social Insurance Law

Shanshan Wei

Government public data openness and firms’ digital-green transformation synergy: Quasi-experimental evidence from China

Xiang Huang, Weigui Guo, Changqi Wu, Zhuqing Weng, Guoyong Yang and Xiaorong Chen

Green regulatory incentives and green bond financing costs: Evidence from China's Green Finance Evaluation Scheme

Xuecheng Zhao and Wenjie Ma

How do environmental policy mixes affect green innovation? Evidence of complementarity and crowding effects from Chinese resource-based firms

Yuening Long and Chao Ding

Carbon intensity, energy transition, and economic development in Africa: Evidence from a panel vector autoregression analysis

Michael Ayine Alpha, Albert Ahenkan and David Alemzero

How does linguistic diversity affect supply chain efficiency? Evidence from Chinese dialects

Yuqing Shi and Mei Chen

Artificial intelligence and productivity gains: An empirical analysis of industry heterogeneity

Eunjung Park and Sangyoon Yi

Data breach notification laws and corporate payout policy

Zuobao Wei and Yicheng Zhu

Does investor attention affect employee stock options repricing activity?

Abhinav Sharma and Ajay Pandey

End-of-day price manipulation and enterprise total factor productivity: Evidence from China

Zhiyu Yu, Xiang Li, Haiyan Luo, Haiyuan Zhao and Miao Zhang

Who Cares Wins: Executive cognition and board education as catalysts for environmental innovation

Shanshan Yue, Guang Ye, Liu Wang, Yini Lee and Teng Wang

Do balance sheet vulnerabilities predict financial crises? Evidence from machine learning and Shapley decomposition

Hari Venkatesh

Greenhouse gas emissions, corporate capital structure, and financial decisions: US state-level evidence

Hai Hong Trinh

Resilient financial networks in the open data ecosystem: A dual-evolutionary strategy for inclusive pricing and risk control

Dongqing Chen, Chaoqun Ma, Lijie Li and Liwei Zhang

Does human capital mitigate the deflationary effects of aging?

Jakir Hussain Mazumder and Bharat Diwakar

Doing well by doing good? Quasi-experimental evidence from corporate philanthropy in banking

Marcelo J. Villena, Mauricio G. Villena and Franco Antonucci

Supplier artificial intelligence investment and focal firms’ abnormal inventory growth: A transaction cost perspective

Ye Tian and Shuili Yang

The impact of corporate data assets on internal pay gaps: Empirical evidence from A-share listed firms in China

Qian Xiao and Ya Liu

Corrigendum to “Busy outside directors and CEO–employee pay gap” [International Review of Economics Finance 110 (2026) 105629]

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

Corrigendum to “Forward premium anomaly explained” [International Review of Economics & Finance 110 (2026) 105593]

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

The impact of technological convergence between digital and real economy industries on supply chain resilience

Haohua Liu and Qiang Pan

Regulatory capture and reputation trade-off under media exposure: A differential game analysis of greenwashing behavior governance in building material enterprises

Xingwei Li, Weihong Chen and Zuoyi Ding

Information vs sentiment: the impact of negative media reports on stock price

Yunpeng Zhang, Fan Wang and Lijian Wei

Artificial intelligence and corporate sustainability performance: Evidence from China's A-share listed firms

Chenxi Xu, Peiqi Zhao, Xiaonan Liu and Ziyan Yang

Booster or brake? Digital platform inputs and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from China

Xinyue Li, Qi Wang and Jiaqi Zhao

Voluntary environmental regulation and corporate ESG performance: Evidence from Chinese environmental management system certification

Yi Liu and Fanchen Kong

Enduring strength: Uncertainty shocks, Confucian culture, and employment

Shuya Rao, Ye Pan and Xixiong Xu

The long-term efficiency of tactical asset allocation: Evidence from 86 systematic strategies (1995–2025)

Francesc Prior-Sanz, Emili Vizuete-Luciano, Alexander Cruz-Zayash and Marc Ferrer-Canteli

Cryptocurrency–carbon market connectedness: Evidence from energy-intensive and energy-efficient digital assets

Remzi Gök, Elie Bouri and Eray Gemici

Volatility spillovers and network-based risk transmission in global stock markets: A multi-scale analysis

Can-Zhong Yao and Yan-Li Li

Digital industrial agglomeration, financial technology, and high-quality innovation

Ziyi Wang and Lizhi Xu

Does sci-tech finance reduce stock price crash risk? Based on a quasi-natural experiment

Tao Cen, Yongcan Li and Shuping Lin

Green financial system reform and corporate green productivity: Evidence on coordination with green fiscal policy in China

Fei Wu, Yiting Yang, Wei Huang and HaiLing Xiang

Perceived vulnerability and coping efficacy in climate-driven FinTech adoption

Vikas Sharma and Ramona Rupeika-Apoga

Talk is cheap, green is hard: The effect of AI-washing on corporate energy transition

Shan Wang, Yanze Wang, Yue Gao and Xinran Lyu

Political disconnection and green innovation: Evidence from mandatory resignations of political independent directors in China

Huiling Liu, Qing Liu and Hui Li

A framework for financial fraud detection based on Kolmogorov-Arnold network

Dong Li, Rongqi Wang and Jiaxin Zhang

Dynamic interactions between green and non-green cryptocurrencies, clean energy, and financial risks: A novel wavelet–entropy–quantile framework

Moslem Ansarinasab

How population aging affects the real exchange rates in the euro area countries under a unified monetary policy

Juanjuan Zhuo and Masao Kumamoto

Digital infrastructure and county-level common prosperity: Evidence from China's information entering villages and households pilot policy

Guangqin Li, Yaxuan Bian and Panpan Xi

Geopolitical risk and climate resilience: A nonlinear global perspective

Heng Luo, LianPing Zhang, Ying Sun and Li Zhang

Digital-asset volatility and conditional co-movement across pandemic-era and later market conditions

Imran Hussain Shah

Can information transparency mitigate border pollution? Evidence from public data openness in China

Hong Yu, ShenYi Zhang and Meng Du

How industrial governance shapes market power: The chain leader policy and firms’ markups in China

Lu Yang, Manyu Huang, Hufeng Peng and Haoyang Wang

The impact of expansionary quantity- and price-based monetary policies on investment in China: Insights from corporate financialization

Yichao Mo, Youqiang Ding, Kexin Ouyang, Yifan Tan and Ziqi Wang

When GARCH is not enough: Volatility dynamics and extreme tail risk in coffee commodity markets

Filippo Brun

Regime-dependent pricing of tax policy uncertainty: Evidence from U.S. equity markets

Marc W. Simpson and Axel Grossmann

Noise reduction or idiosyncratic information? ESG performance and stock price synchronicity in China

Dan Sun and Yiping Li

Artificial intelligence in public sector accounting: Understanding the drivers of adoption readiness

Natalia Alonso-Morales and Alejandro Sáez-Martín

ESG fund flows under shocks: Are they more resilient against macro-financial shocks?

Yanchen Wang, Mia Xiao and Steven Chan

Synergistic effects of fiscal and monetary policy intensities on financial stability: Evidence from China

Lin Zhu and Jian He

Looking beyond sustainability preferences: The role of sustainable finance literacy in sustainable investing

Alix Auzepy, Christina E. Bannier and Florian Gärtner

Digital-green synergy and corporate innovation efficiency: Knowledge conversion, information disclosure, and innovation pathways

Chunhua Ju, Zijie Wang and Aiting Xu

Corporate ESG disclosure in supply Chains: Peer effects and relational conditions of institutional influence

Jilin Zhang, Zhicheng Yao, Wenxu Chen, Jianan Ke, Muen Huang and Mingxing Xu

Insolvent firms and systemic vulnerability: Identification and financial stability implications in Kazakhstan

Zhandos Ybrayev, Serik Rustanov, Bekzhan Kuandykov and Sabit Khakimzhanov

National urban agglomeration policy, market integration, and interregional capital flows: Firm-level evidence from China

Qi Shen and Chen Li

Towards sustainable economic growth: The role of technology readiness and foreign direct investment

Sok-Gee Chan, Zulkufly Ramly, Bora Aktan and Saban Celik

The bank balance sheet management revisited: Lending vs. securities investment

Xiaoyun Xing, Xiaohan Wang and Boyao Li

The role of China’s OFDI in deepening bilateral value chain cooperation with Belt and Road partner countries: A symbiosis-development perspective

Hui Wang, Zhihua Chen and Xin Zhong

Digital services trade openness and firm digital innovation: The J-curve effect and evidence from China

Suzhen Zhang, Jie Zhou, Zhilan Ye, Wenzhi Chen, Kezheng Cai and Meishan Lin

Corporate climate attention and transparency in China: Based on the signaling game model and principal-agent theory

Yuanyu Cao

Exploring the nexus between intangible assets and firm value: The role of innovation resources

Sorin Gabriel Anton

Dual-pilot policy, supervisory technology and overseas technology investment: Evidence from high-tech firms in China

Hanrui Wu, Jingyi Li, Yao Chen and Dewen Liu

The impact of climate risk exposure on capital markets: Empirical evidence from a-share listed manufacturing companies in China

Ma Yu, He Wanting and Xue Jingfang

Shadow-banking regulation and corporate earnings management: Evidence from China’s New Regulations on Asset Management

Alice Y. Ouyang, Yan Xu, Xundong Yin and Dengjin Zheng

Is China's urban green development efficiency improved by the digital economy?

Hui Liu

No benefit, no donation: How the transfer of social insurance contributions collection authority affects corporate donations in China

Yong Xie, Junfeng Xiang, Fang Li and Suyan Shen

Driving green transformation along the supply chain: Spillover effects from vertical relationships

Ying Fang, Guofeng Wen and Zhenwei Zhang

Bridging the gap: How financial development channels renewable energy to reduce energy poverty

Olivier Joseph Abban, Alex Dankyi Boadi, Khaled Guesmi and Florian Marcel Nuta

Secured debt and clean firms: The green effects of creditor rights

Ning Gong and Zhiyan Wang

Executive financial backgrounds and corporate financialization: Implications for regional non-government employment

Wei Guo, Jun Liang, Ling Pu, Ting Zhao, Xiaojie Zhang and Hui Yang

Corporate cash holdings and macroeconomic uncertainty: Does CEOs’ corporate distress experience matter?

Jiunn-Shyan Khong, Chee-Wooi Hooy and Janice C.Y. How

Non-tax revenue and education expenditure: Evidence from provincial panel data in China

Cao Yang, Wang Xiaoqi and Ren Xihe

Intergenerational upward educational mobility and labor market performance in China: A dual mediation model of occupational prestige and job autonomy

Chengzhi Qiao

The green innovation effect of public data access: Evidence from Chinese cities

Yanmin Shi and Yan Chen

From capital flow to responsible investment: OFDI and the establishment of board-level ESG committees in Chinese firms

Xiaoxu Kong, Yuxuan Yang and Xuexin Liu

Rare earth elements in the clean energy transition: Hedge effectiveness and safe haven properties

Maruf Yakubu Ahmed, Anupam Dutta and Timo Rothovius

Buying AI, buying compliance? Artificial intelligence investment and corporate fraud

Sifei Li, Hui Zhang and Tianyu Gao

Do green finance policies have a sustained carbon emission reduction effect globally? Evidence from 74 countries around the world

Xinyao Wang

Environmental industry-linked directors and firm green innovation: Evidence from China

Xiao Chen, Ziang Lin and Yutong Sun