International Review of Economics & Finance

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Volume 108, issue C, 2026

How do global value chain positions affect CO2 emissions in supply chains?

Yongming Huang, Xin Li and Wan Fei

The impacts of sectoral productivity shocks on sectoral economic growth through input-output linkages in Australia

William Connell, Viet-Ngu Hoang, Clevo Wilson and Xuan-Hoa Nghiem

Your debt matters to my business: Spillover effect of buyers' debt structure on suppliers’ credit risk

Jing Gu, Zixuan Zhou, Xiaoguang Yang, Kevin W. Li and Xun Xu

Green finance reforms and environmental protection: Evaluating the impact of GFRIs on polluting firms in China

Siyu Sun, Zhiying Xiao and Chen Zhijie

Does physical exercise facilitate labor participation? Evidence from the Chinese general social survey

Dongjin He, Jiajun Zhou, Yingmei Li and Zhengqi Zhong

The impact of BRICS de-dollarization on exchange rate fluctuations

Ronghao Deng and Hanbing Xie

Can e-government services inhibit corporate tax avoidance? Evidence from China

Yu Bi, Kaihong Tan, Baoli Wang and Xin Wang

Green finance development empowered by artificial intelligence: Evidence from the perspective of carbon asset pricing

Chang Liu, Jingke Gao, Ziyuan Liu and Kejun Liu

Corporate risk disclosure, investor confidence, and stock price crash risk

Zhe Fan and Lianmei Zhu

Measuring the natural rate of real interest for the Chinese economy

Lixin Sun

Causality direction and correlation dynamics between oil and gold prices in the global market: A VAR model and crisis subperiods approach

Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Younes Teymouri and Nader Mehregan

Artificial intelligence technology and corporate innovation financing: A perspective on R&D efficiency

Daliang Wang and Yuping Wu

Intraday price forecasts using candlestick patterns in cryptocurrency markets

Stefanie Moser and Alexander Brauneis

Climate club in China

Ming Fang, Ye Fan, Tim Döring and Steven D. Shaw

Climate policy uncertainty exposure and corporate ESG performance: Evidence from China

Daping Zhao, Yande Wang, Liping Zou, Wu, Ji (George) and Jing Li

Digital finance, entrepreneurial choice, and the risk resistance of rural households

Li Zhang and Xinwei Song

Science and technology finance policy and inclusive green growth in cities

Sen Yang and Jiawei Xu

FinTech capability and systemic risk in banking

Zhe Fan and Lianmei Zhu

Artificial intelligence adoption, financialization, and technological innovation: Evidence from the media industry

Yu Gao, Qiming Zhang, Shiyuan Huang and Nan Li

Reciprocal growth and spatial spillover: From the perspective of agricultural trade competitiveness in countries along the BRI route

Jingbo Ning, Yuhan Gao and Lei Dou

Forecasting the realized volatility of oil futures: Machine learning with cross-market spillovers

Bo Yu, Huaming Du and Dayong Zhang

Minimum wage regulations: What it reveals about the Chinese forest products industry?

Ying Guan, Xiaojiao Cheng, Yingli Huang and Peng Zhang

The impact of artificial intelligence and group effects on supply chain resilience in enterprises

Chaobo Zhou, Feng Gong and Xinyu Li

Central bank digital currencies and bank net interest margin

Xinming Li, Yixuan Wang, Zixin Jiang and Xiaolin Zhang

The impact of market-incentivised environmental regulation on energy equity: An empirical study based on China's carbon emissions trading policy

Yuegang Song, Haoqing Geng and Chien-Chiang Lee

Do gender-diverse boards improve financial statements comparability? Cross-country evidence

Wan Adibah Wan Ismail, Khairul Anuar Kamarudin, Nor Hazwani Hassan and Akmalia Mohamad Ariff

Research on the impact of cash holdings on the productivity growth of power enterprises in an uncertain environment

Xiaobin Xu, Jiannan Li, Hangtian Li, Soledad Le Clainche and Juan Angel Martin Bautista

How does government open data suppress corporate ESG Greenwashing? Evidence from the dual mechanisms of financing constraints and external monitoring

Mingfei Liu, Ye Wang and Zongyi Yin

“Financial experts to the rescue”: Evidence from corporate reputation risk and firm valuation

Sulaiman Ademola Oreshile, Olayinka Adedayo Erin and Odunayo Magret Olarewaju

Why the rule of law matters for financial stability: Insights from international comparison

Yosuke Tomita

Flying dragon in the Eagle's sky: Is Chinese and US aid a vanguard of their FDI flows to the developing world?

Muhammad Saleh

Digital transformation and cross-regional investment: Evidence from China

Yahan Jiang and Wenlei Yu

Opportunistic insider trading: An analysis of symbolic insider purchases

Xin Wang, Yumu Yang and Yue Sun

Green emerging multinational enterprises and innovation performance under energy transition: Evidence from China

Lin Jia and Shuaihe Zhuo

How does FinTech promote enterprise green innovation? From perspectives of ESG and digital intelligence

Yuexu Zhao, Xiaodong Zheng and Hangyan Wei

Venture capital, investor patience, and corporate innovation: Evidence from China

Shuang Liang and Shuguang Wang

Achieving economic development through humanistic cities-evidence from China

Yuntao Chen and Baocheng Yu

Effects of venture debt on early- and late-stage funding of tech startups in tech ecosystems

David Dekker, Vanessa Galeano-Duque and Dimitris Christopoulos

Sentiment momentum and regime-dependent predictability in crude oil markets: A Markov Switching analysis with higher-order VIX and MOVE derivatives

Kais Tissaoui and Nadia Azibi

How does sci-tech finance affect the high-quality development of sci-tech innovation: based on the test of intermediary effect and threshold effect

Yanzhi Jin and Weixian Xue

Impact of AI pilot zones on corporate ESG performance: Evidence from China

Yanyan Ma

Global economic uncertainty shocks and macroeconomic dynamics before and after COVID-19: Evidence from Africa and the Americas

Ridmi Madurawala, Priyan Navamohan, Dinuli Gamage, Supipi Hansika and Ruwan Jayathilaka

Sports industry upgrading amid institutional logic conflicts: Policy response mechanisms and regional coordinated development models under digital economy empowerment

Zebo Qiao, Yan Liang and YuChen,

The impact of carbon emissions trading system on corporate innovation performance from the perspective of global value chains

Xiaomin Li and Kiyoung Jeon

When does employee-oriented corporate social responsibility enhance Research Quotient innovation efficiency? The role of corporate governance

Marcellin Makpotche, Kais Bouslah, Gossa Julien Amouh and Bouchra M'Zali

Predicting takeover rumor accuracy with machine learning

Hamed Khadivar, Frederick Davis, Ameneh Khadivar and Ivan Stetsyuk

Ecological governance and corporate carbon exposure: Quasi-experimental evidence from a staggered judicial reform

Qing Li and Ziyuan Shen

Can artificial intelligence reduce corporate audit risk? Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Yan Li

Beyond greenwashing: How green reporting authenticity triggers moral emotions and value congruence to drive green purchase intention

Xueling Nie and Xiaochun Zhou

How central bank transparency and independence shape inflation in the Western Balkans

Vera Gojčaj, Martin M. Bojaj and Vesna Karadžić

Liquidity and volatility in the municipal bond market: Evidence from the municipal liquidity facility and other early interventions

Felipe Lozano-Rojas and Luis Navarro

Liquidity dynamics and risk premia in China's green bond market

Zijian Wu, Ke Shi, Yunpeng Su and Fancheng Kong

Capital market reaction to information disclosure of enterprise annual report core competitiveness--Based on text feature analysis perspective

Bo Huo and Shuo Wang

Can information transparency of company prospectus improve the price discovery efficiency under the registration system?

Haoyang Du, Hanshuo Dai and Wei Bu

How employees’ perceptions of gender equality affect firm innovation: Evidence from online textual reviews

Xiaoyu Li, Fujing Xue, Ting Zhang, Nan Hu and Ling Liu

Enhancing financial fraud detection with graph neural network and ensemble learning: insights from Related Party Transactions network

Xuting Mao, Jianping Li, Xiaoqian Zhu and Yinghui Wang

Centralized environmental legislation, local enforcement discretion disparities, and firm green mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from China

Linqing Liu, Yannan Geng, Jiajie Tang and Kai Yan

The heterogeneous effects of artificial intelligence on labor markets: A calibrated simulation of skills, tasks, and wages

Abdullah Mohammad Ghazi Al khatib and Bayan Mohamad Alshaib

Performance evaluation of weakly correlated expense projects in enterprises

Qiwen Jiang, Jing Zhou, Lianghua Chen, Lingjuan Ying and Wan Li

Climate calm? Long-run temperature signals and volatility in EU carbon futures

Adriano Barasal Morales

Portfolio optimization with multivariate elliptical stable distributions

Pérez-Gayo Pedro, Quiroga-García Raquel and Cañal-Fernández Verónica

Environmental regulation and environmental information disclosure: A legitimacy and stakeholder perspective from China

Hairong Wang, Xinghe Liu and Han Chen

Impact of internal control quality on financing constraints of high-carbon-emission manufacturing enterprises

Jing Bai, Xin Kang and Siwen Zhou

ESG performance, digital finance, and corporate real earnings management

Lingyu Yao, Ying Guo and Yan Guo

Impact of EU climate change mitigation policy on total-factor energy efficiency: Evidence from a synthetic control method

Zonglin Li, Xuanhao Hu and Tianhui Fang

Climate risk and stock price stability: A profitability and financial leverage perspective

Yang Tang, Bowen Xu and Yonggang Liu

Joint credit system, accounting information quality, and management's tone management in annual reports

Shoucheng Qi and Hui Jia

Digital finance, financial inclusion and green economic efficiency: A new analysis

Hongyang Li and Hongwei Yang

How does digital supply chain finance affect the fluctuation of corporate cash flow? Based on panel data analysis of industry heterogeneity

Jing Xue and Yifei Qu

The impact of heterogeneous labor mobility on income inequality: A skill premium perspective

Mengyun Hu and Baozhong Yi

The real effects of green fund self-regulation: Evidence from corporate green innovation

Chen Wu and Zhiyong Dong

Financial inclusion status and cryptocurrency usage in the U.S

Claudia Njilla and Mika Kato

Logistics complexity, regulatory uncertainty, and dynamic capabilities in industrial cross-border e-commerce strategy: Evidence from China–USA semiconductors trade relations

Mengdi Wei, Abdul Karim Armah and Jinfa Li

Green growth, globalization and financial expansion in BRICS: PMG-ARDL insights for economic development

Sajjad Nawaz Khan, Nadir Munir, Nabaz Nawzad Abdullah, Adeeb Alhebri, Valentin Marian Antohi, Costinela Fortea, Monica Laura Zlati and Teodora Odett Breaz

Bidirectional spillover effects between China and US short-term interest rate volatility driven by economic policy uncertainty: A BHK-L-MIDAS-Copula analysis

Zhen Zou, Dandan Li and Vikkram Singh

Irony in Chinese stock markets: Policy uncertainty, idiosyncratic volatility, and volatility transmission

Seungho Shin, Jiayuan Tian and Amelia Biehl

Which orientation of CSR disclosure can drive consumer benefits?

Kung-Cheng Ho, Qidi Zhang, Leonard F.S. Wang and Andreas Karathanasopoulos

How does digital transformation affect greenwashing?

Tingxian Yan, Changlong Wang and Shuxiao Wang

Reassessing non-financial firms’ shadow banking in the Chinese stock market: From Re-lending to cash-liquidity allocation

Chen Wang, Wei Zhang and Yongqiang Meng

Policy-driven FDI dynamics: Examining the rising proportion of OECD and China’s outward capital flows

Mingying Zhu and Shu Guo

Does ESG washing affect audit fees?

Xiaohui Zhou and Pengzhen Lou

Robust investment portfolio management for dynamic financial markets using Bayesian neural networks

Yifu Jiang and Jine Liu

Real options, energy uncertainty, and nonlinear forecasting of Saudi oil consumption and exports

Kais Tissaoui, Sahbi Boubaker and Mariem Nsaibi

Industrial-finance cooperation policy and corporate employment: Evidence from China

Jie Zhang, Chong Liu, Zhiting Bai and Huiru Wei

How does big data development affect urban environmental welfare performance in China? Evidence from national big data comprehensive pilot zones

Xia Wang, Jian Song and Haoyu Li

Financial development, digitalization, and the trajectories of sustainable development

Thanh Huu Phu Nguyen and Hoang Phong Le

Could environmental courts promote substantive corporate green innovation? Evidence from cities of China

Xiangrui Yin

Sale versus licensing of a quality-enhancing innovation by an outside patentholder

Manel Antelo and Lluís Bru

Assessing the static and dynamic effects of ESG performance on corporate financial and market outcomes: Global evidence from instrumental variable and GMM analyses

Sofik Handoyo

From complaints to creativity: How consumer complaints drive supplier innovation

Haokai Shi, Andi Zhang and Rongrong Xie

Industry-university-research digital innovation collaboration and AI-driven green innovation: An innovation resource perspective

Zhen Ju and Jun Shao

How do energy firms respond to climate risks? Theoretical framework and empirical evidence from Chinese listed energy firms

Zhilei Pan, Shouwei Li, Wenqiang Zhu and Sitong Yang

Green supply chain management and enterprise resource allocation: A supply chain trade credit perspective

Hongzhi Tian, Bin Wang and Jia Gong

Different effect of positivity and negativity: ESG media sentiment and corporate energy consumption intensity

Yongjian Huang, Yi Zhang, Yilong Li, Shenglin Ma and Chengwei Hao

Market reactions to climate news: Evidence from European energy markets

Mobeen Ur Rehman, Raazia Jarral, Wafa Ghardallou, Muhammad Kashif and Xuan Vinh Vo

Forecasting LNG prices using a multi-scale decomposition learning model

Jianping Wang, Li Xiao, Junmei Hu, Pengxiang Zhai and Yunhan Zhang

Data elements and corporate tax avoidance in China: From the perspective of internal and external information effects

Hengyan Liu, Pengbo Yuan, Ting Han and Tongwei Du

The impact of artificial intelligence on corporate ESG performance: The moderating role of coercive and normative pressures

Chunli Liu, Fangying Kuang and Yang Li

Towards sustainable development: Can artificial intelligence development become an accelerator for Chinese corporate green investment?

Qin Zhu and Xin Li

Internal information asymmetry and cost of equity capital: Evidence from insider trading profitability disparities

Yingzhao Ni, Xin Gao, Donghui Li and Lu Xing

Major customers-suppliers’ duality and audit fees

Jie Niu, Yinwen Li, Hongliang Zhang and Jingyu Wang

The different impacts of Fed's pure monetary policy and information shocks on crude oil's price

Dongdan Jiao, Yuchen Wei, Li Heng and Cong Yu

Railway construction and FDI firm entry in Chinese cities

Dan Mu, Jian Lu and Ruiqi Sun

The impact of internet development on carbon productivity: New evidence from China's service sector

Yini Deng, Yaqin Li, Shuli Wang and Xuliang Wang

How does financial institution reform affect regional development models?

Xue Zhang and Zhihan Yang

Minority shareholder activism and corporate risk-taking level

Can Yuan, Linqing Liu and Xinchen Liu

Digital finance, public governance level, and corporate ESG performance

Shuai Wang

Assessing the impact of artificial intelligence adoption on corporate financial performance: Evidence from emerging markets

Yacine Guettoufi

Did hard facts or journalistic opinion predict stock prices during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Tomasz Piotr Wisniewski and Emma Shaker

Green finance, innovation, and firm resilience: Econometric evidence from global data

Mohamed Djafar Henni, Salim Bourchid Abdelkader and Kamel Si Mohammed

Endogenous trading and price overreaction

Liang Wu, Zhijie Tong, Yujia Liu and Chang Liu

Dynamic and asymmetric spillovers between crude oil, biofuels and agricultural commodities: Evidence from periods of geopolitical tensions and energy policy uncertainty

Roland Amagbo and Hélyette Geman

The impact of safety investment on economic performance in listed mining enterprises: An analysis based on the moderating effect of executive compensation incentives

Gonglong Shi, Yingxue Yan, Qian Wang, Hongxia Li and Shuicheng Tian

Research on the spatio-temporal evolution of coupling coordination in the national economic system from the perspective of green finance

Haihui Xu and Ling Liu

The unintended consequences of administrative monopoly regulation: Evidence from audit fees

Xiaoming Wei, Deli Wang, Zhiying Zhang and Wenqi Han

"Pollution Haven" or "Pollution Halo": Evidence from microdata of Chinese firms’ OFDI

Biqiong Zhang and Zhengping Wu

Patient capital and the performance of strategic emerging enterprises

Pei Yuan and Pengfei Zhao

Greening the countryside: The unexpected role of returning entrepreneurship in agricultural carbon mitigation

Xing Ji, Xiaomin Li and Yijun Peng

Market segmentation, infrastructure construction and corporate tax avoidance in China

Jiawei Liu, Yao Zhou and Xiaoqi Chen

How does data sovereignty regulation in the AI era affect the financial system's risk resistance?

Zhiguo Xi, Weiyang Lou and Xiangjian Zhang

Institutional investor attention, supply chain ESG collaboration, and corporate sustainable performance

Shan Huang, Qian Chen, Yue Liu, Yan Ding and Wang Li

Monetary policy, enterprise financialization, and technological innovation

Liangzhu Sun, Xingdong Wang and Yigen Wu

Public data openness and digital financial inclusion: Evidence from Chinese cities

Maoguang Wang, Jianxiang Zhang and Xinzi Xia

Predictability of climate policy uncertainty index

Ying Chen, Liang Peng and Jiliang Sheng

The role of market mechanisms in green innovation: Supply chain spillovers driven by customer environmental awareness

Xiaohan Wu and Pengbo Yuan

How artificial intelligence drives corporate green innovation: Intelligent empowerment and smart manufacturing transformation in the digital era

Yinghao Song, Yanhui Li, Jinghan Liu, Zhaian Bian and Chongrun Wang

Does informatization improve labor investment efficiency? Evidence from China’s IT and industrial integration pilot zones

Luya Feng, Yiqun Xie, Yangyang Wang and Donghui Li

Union structure and product quality differentiation

Nicola Meccheri and Cecilia Vergari

Can FinTech empower companies to develop corporate new quality productive forces? Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Qiang Tang, Kui Xu, Mengqi Zou and Lihua Huo

Invisible assets, visible power: How does intangible capital affect firm markups?

Wen Yue and Jingyan Zhao

Hedge and safe-haven assets for stock markets revisited: Evidence from the prospect theory

Krzysztof Echaust, Małgorzata Just and Silvana Musti

Uniting for a Sustainable Future: Exploring the spatial spillover effect of intercity innovation collaboration on carbon emission performance in China

Zhaoxia Wu, Kun Sun and Jing Li

How the financial-industrial integration affects the “greenwashing” of heterogeneous property rights enterprises

Yue Zhang, Pengliang Zhang, Yifan Dong, Xuyang Wang and Qingbin Meng

Endogenous mobility frictions and college entrance examination policies: A spatial equilibrium analysis

Jifeng Zheng, Jun Zhang and Jufei Wang

Research on the carbon emission reduction effect of supply chain digitalization: Evidence from China

Feimei Liao, Yihang Huang, Jingwen Li, Yongling Ye and WeiHang Peng

Blockchain, supply chain finance collaboration, and the ESG performance of cultural and tourism enterprises

Lei Sun

Corporate litigation, social responsibility, and firm productivity

Yanying Su, Tao Bi and Jianan Tang

Development of a unified national market, fintech innovation, and the level of industrial chain modernization: Interaction mechanisms and empirical evidence

Wuchao Liang and Yang Xia

How to Manage Portfolios in Different Clusters: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach

Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman, Zeeshan Ali Syed, Cynthia Abiemwense Akiotu and Rasol Eskandari

Deregulation, corruption, and banks failure in the US

Joseph G. Attila and Kanfitine Lare-Lantone

Market response to foreign exchange intervention information release: Evidence from Japan's return to active intervention

Zhenkun Lu, Genki Urushidani and Keigo Kameda

The macroeconomic effects of oil price and oil shipping costs shocks: Evidence from a GVAR model

Christina Anderl and Guglielmo Maria Caporale

The power of patience: How does patient capital affect corporate financialization?

Xusheng Fang, Youliang Yan and Shenglin Ma

Centrality in stock market networks as a risk factor: Evidence from the Iranian stock market

Hadi Esmaeilpour Moghadam and Arezou Karami

Is more ESG disclosure always better? New evidence from ESG disclosure quantity and firm value

Zhao Zhang, Bing Zhang, Jiyuan You, Ni Wang and Xuegao Xu

Shifting spillover dynamics between sustainability indices and tourism markets amid geopolitical crises

Muhammad Imran, Na Wei, Hui Zhang, Abad Alzuman, Xuebing Zhang and Xulong Dai

Environmental risks and bank capital measures: A theoretical approach

Olli Castrén and Riccardo Russo

Long-run risks and international asset prices

Tribhuvan N. Puri and Weibin Huang

The effects of currency hedging on firm value using a threshold model

Yidi Sun, Bruce Morley and Paolo Zeppini

Digital finance, liquidity management, and stock price crash

Yongbo Xu and Na Tang

Judicial innovation and market response: How the establishment of environmental tribunals affects stock volatility in polluting industries?

Mian Xiang

Trade policy uncertainty, government subsidies, and the degree of corporate internationalization

Ruifeng Li, Shengpo Jia and Yuzhuo Chen

Venture capital participation, mitigation of financial constraints, and disruptive innovation in enterprises: A comparative study based on ownership heterogeneity

Jiaer Fei, Zhenlong Miao, Meng Li and Wen Liu

The impact of environmental policy synergy on corporate green innovation persistence: Evidence from China

Ke Yang, Yuya Liu and Zhaoyang Wang

How does labor market segmentation affect corporate investment efficiency?

Hao Wu, Chao Zai and Zengyuan Ren

Beyond remittances: The role of trade and human capital

Elton Beqiraj, Marilena Giannetti and Mathurin Aime Mekam Pouatcha

From governance to growth: Role of institutional quality in economic freedom

Ahmad Reshad Osmani

Anchors of global currencies: The evolution of currency anchors in the post-Bretton Woods era

Chong Zhang, Fengjuan Guo, Jie Yang and Ming Zhang

The impact of geopolitical risks on Chinese enterprises' OFDI performance

Zhuo Yang and Ping Xu

Financing the green shift: Digital innovation and corporate investment in China's polluting giants

Hemachandra Padhan and Sujit Kumar Pruseth

The impact of gambling culture on corporate ESG performance: From the perspective of ESG rating disagreement

Jiacong Ao, Xianrui Mo and Junyi Tian

Do intelligent manufacturing policies promote regional employment? Moderating role and heterogeneity of financial innovation

Zhiyuan Chen and Jun Han

Shadow prices and abatement costs of air pollutants in manufacturing in China: New evidence from industrial enterprises and listed companies

Si-E Li, Hongling Xie, Chen Chen and Kaiming Cheng

Green credit and carbon emission reductions: Evidence from supply chain networks

Jiayu Wan, Jiayi Tao and Meiling Wang

The impact of local government debt governance on cross-regional investment

Yu Chen, Changsheng Xu, Zhenyu Chen and Yang Hu

Institutional contexts and the dialectical dynamics of government subsidies: how environmental regulation and market competition shape green innovation outcomes

Hongsheng Zhang, Yang Wang, Shaojing Zhang and Xinyi Jiang