International Review of Economics & Finance

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Volume 107, issue C, 2026

Financial dynamics and interconnectedness between layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains

Turker Acikgoz

In culture we trust: Corporate culture and credit risk assessment

Harvey Nguyen, Mia Hang Pham and Quynh Pham

Financial technology and high-quality corporate development: The role of supply chain management

Donghui Pan, Dongliang Pan, Zhenyu Yin and Yuan Zhang

How does privacy protection affect the innovation performance of artificial intelligence corporations: empirical evidence from the personal information protection law

Yanling Wang, Yingying Jiang, Kaili Li and Xiangjian Zhang

The green transformation effect of climate investment and financing pilot policies

Xiangmei Li, Suya Zhang and Yunlu Bai

Digital infrastructure and urban-rural income gap: Empirical evidence from China

Kunli Liang and Weiqi Liu

From compliance disclosure to innovative action: A study on the transmission mechanism of climate risk disclosure from the dual legitimacy perspective

Ting Xu, Chante Jian Ding and Kunqian Zhao

Signaling green, performing less green: An exploratory study on energy efficiency narratives and sustainability governance in Saudi mega-projects

Damien Nouvel and Myriam Ben Saad

Connectedness between communication digital assets and communication stock markets: Implications for portfolio design and hedging performance

Erkan Ustaoglu

How do the digital economy and openness boost green productivity?

Haoliang Wang, Jingwen Li, Chengyonghui Duan and Shizong Wu

Decoding annual report narrative disclosure readability: Pension plan characteristics perspective

Tsung-Kang Chen, Yijie Tseng, Yu-Shun Hung and Yun Hao

Investing with ESG ratings and the performance of stock returns

Justice Kyei-Mensah

Can cryptocurrency fear influence technology firm investors?

Nikolaos Kyriazis and Shaen Corbet

Minimum wage increases and firm-level labor investment efficiency: Evidence from Korea

Jungho Cho, Daecheon Yang and Eunjung Kim

Corporate integrity and corporate cash reserves: Insights from textual analysis

Sirimon Treepongkaruna, Pornsit Jiraporn and Hue Hwa Au Yong

Geopolitical risk and China's international capital flows——dynamic identifications and time-varying effects

Puhao Chen and Chuanqi Zhu

IT-experienced executives and digital-physical integration: An internal capabilities perspective

Chang Liu, Xue Guo, Huan Liu and Hong Sun

Effect of language on cost stickiness: Evidence from dialect consistency between chairpersons and general managers

Siqi Yin, Yancheng Zhang and Yi Gao

Financial distress, inter-firm payment network and free cash flow target: An agent-based approach

Rémi Stellian and Jenny P. Danna-Buitrago

Rough Heston model with variable Hurst exponent and option pricing

Zhengguang Shi and Haofei Wu

Intergenerational inheritance and business carbon emissions

Qian Wang, Jie Xiong and Chen Cheng

Too good to be true: The effect of media coverage on ESG greenwashing via managerial myopia

Qianru Li, Yuhao Zhang and Geumchul Um

Look up and ahead: How climate scenarios affect European sovereign credit risk

Luca De Angelis, Irene Monasterolo and Luca Zanin

Shaping new horizons in management accounting with artificial intelligence: an exploration of information networks

Fariba Arab Baferani, Mahdi Salehi and Mohammad Hossein Vadiei

The bandwagon effect in college students’ online consumer loan behavior: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in Shanghai

Wei Huang, Yang Wang and Sajid Anwar

Technology breakthrough borders: impact of cross-border green patents on firms’ environmental performance

Shujie Yao, Zhenya Sun, Jing Fang and Yingjie Li

The effect of financial agglomeration on regional economic resilience: Based on nighttime light intensity and bank branch density

Fan Yang, Bing Xiao, Muxi Lin, Vivian W.Y. Tam, Clyde Zhengdao Li and Zilong Huang

Was the Paris agreement a turning point? A worldwide stock market analysis

Karen Serrano, Ana M. Ibáñez and José E. Farinós

US-Russia geopolitical risk and corporate cybersecurity risk: Evidence from 10-K reports

Bao Khac Quoc Nguyen, Bao To and Khanh Hoang

Does digital trade enhance energy use efficiency? Examining China's cross-border E-commerce comprehensive pilot zone policy

Donglin Zhou, Hanzhi Gao, Ziyan Pan and Jianyun Bao

Can financial literacy promote rural entrepreneurial resilience? Exploring the asymmetric role of formal and informal credit in China

Zhilue Xiang, Xizhi Xue, Qiaoyue Yin, Xia Wang and Zhenya Liu

How social security expenditure and the digital economy shape regional economic resilience?

Zhipeng Guan and Yan Xu

Balancing diversity and control: Top management team faultlines, CEO power, and innovation persistence in family enterprises

Dongping Yu, Yalin Zheng, Minchao Liao and Anna Min Du

Household debt leverage, social comparison pressure, and residents' happiness

Huaming Zhang, Mingfeng Shao and Haizhou Yan

The impact of sci-tech finance policy on the urban land green use efficiency

Jianbo Niu, Chaobo Zhou, Liqin Zhang and Aimaitijiang Ailikamujiang

Can low-carbon city pilot policy alleviate corporate green innovation bubbles? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Xia Zhang, Jiaqiang Liu and Xin Pan

Financing divestment from Russia

Helena Sarkodie, Keefe, Michael O’Connor and Kwabena Boasiako

The mechanism and effects of new quality productive forces driving the improvement of employment quality

Xiaoyan Shi, Daimin Shi and Peng Wang

Energy conservation and emission reduction policies, green finance, and the green transformation of construction enterprises

Jialing Li and Shi Cheng

Internal strife or united strength breaks gold: Sibling co-management and corporate green innovation

Chun Su and Qinhao Sun

Is it strategy or technology that drives value? Exploring the impact of digital transformation on manufacturing firms

Ziyu Jiang, Ling Li and Chao Zhou

Impact of environmental indicators on green bond issuance with the interaction effect of GDP – A PMG-ARDL analysis across developed countries

Khajabee Pathan and Shaiku Shahida Saheb

The economic growth and inflation nexus: New empirical assessment for emerging market economies

Benjamin Owusu and Bettina Bökemeier

The impact of vocational skills training on earnings: Evidence from China

Hongye Sun

Spatial drivers of data element marketization on green total factor energy efficiency: Spillover effects, transmission pathways, and financial empowerment

Runlin Tian, Hongchang Li, Han Jia and Runde Gu

Natural disasters, corporate ESG performance and firm value

Dong Lu, Hao Wu, Cunyu Xing, Jin Xu and Ge Zhang

Too familiar to perceive: How does extreme air quality affect investors' disposition effect?

Wen Long, Wei Zhang and Man Guo

Green technology innovation and urban sprawl in China: Theory and mechanism

Sijing Zheng, Peiwen Tang, Zhuo Yu, Yitong Yao, Lijia Zhang, Meihan Zhou and Hejun Xu

Unpacking the effects of rule of law on the marketplace lending: Evidence from China

Jianwen Li, Huicong Liang and Yang Zhou

Post-pandemic efficient hedging strategies for U.S. factor and sector ETFs

SeungOh Han

Female leadership and corporate carbon emissions: Economic mechanisms and institutional contingencies

Mianmian Chen, Lu He and Zhuoran Li

The impact of local government debt on corporate inefficient investment

Baoshi Wang and Boyuhao Shi

Digital intelligence and financial support

Manze Xue and Xinghui Chen

Educational investment and regional economic growth: The mediating effect of financial innovation

Tianrui Zhao, Yue Shi and Jiaxun Chen

The impact of the integration of artificial intelligence and data assetization on enterprise total factor productivity: Evidence from China

Jiubiao Liu, Liuhao Hu and Haiyang Fan

Should we trust impact indices? Not all that glitters is gold

R. Carè, R. Fatima, M. Cerciello and S. Taddeo

Does the new energy transition in cities promote talent aggregation? Evidence from China's new energy demonstration city policy

Qingquan Yu

The negative externalities of fund holdings: A network analysis of systemic risk contagion

Kaiwei Jia and Longhe Yin

Unleashing new-quality productive forces: Reconsidering the impact of data-factor marketization

Xiaoming Zuo, Xiaoxian Zeng and Peng Sun

The inflation-energy nexus in OPEC: A nonlinear forecasting perspective

Ismail O. Fasanya, Oluwatomisin J. Oyewole and Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan

Does artificial intelligence contribute to soliciting trade credit?

Han Cui, Yaman Wang and Bingcan Wang

Common institutional ownership and stock price informativeness in carbon-intensive industries

Taher Hamza and Zeineb Barka

Physical and transition climate risks and financial risk predictability in the US banking sector

Petre Caraiani, Onur Polat, Rangan Gupta and Elie Bouri

Sectoral Islamic finance and uncertainties: The role of different market condition

Boxun Li, Mobeen Ur Rehman, Ibrahim D. Raheem, Oluwatomisin J. Oyewole and Mufutau I. Raheem

The impact of banking fintech on the efficiency of green investment in real economy enterprises

Shengfeng Xie, Wei Li and Liangzi Zhang

Institutional investor distraction and corporate fraud: Evidence from China

Haifang Wang and Dongjun Fan

Climate policy risk and corporate asset structure upgrading: The rise of asset-light operations

Mo Chen, Yue Liu, Xue Lei, Wei Zhang and Ting Xu

The impact of capital account openness on economic growth: A panel data analysis of emerging market economies

Yingjie Liu, Binghui Zhu, Bingxin Liu and Chi Zhang

Fossil fuel lending and transition risk: Evidence from provisions and credit risk capital requirements

Xuefeng Shao, Zidu Wang, Nawazish Mirza and Muhammad Umar

VAT credit refund and corporate resource allocation--A perspective based on cost stickiness

Fangchao Kou, Haoqing Zhu and Xia Yang

New forms and models of foreign trade, standardization construction and enterprises “going global”: a dual machine learning perspective

Yuetao Yang, Yijing Du, Yunfan Chu and Yan Zhang

Policy-driven transition risks: Evidence from ESG investment policies

Fangning Fu, Yong Wang and Zhixi Zhou

The rise of FinTech as a systemic risk transmitter: A time-frequency analysis of spillovers to energy and macroeconomic markets

Mrs Faryal, Yong Tang, Chin Man Chui and Ifran Khan

Exploring stock returns in financial markets with interpretable financial variables and graph neural networks

Dan-Liou Yu, Ming-Che Hu, Alex YiHou Huang, Pei-Duo Yu and Siao-Syuan Huang

Double Dividends of China's 2018 personal income tax Reform: Personal income growth and household Consumption upgrading

He-Hong Hou, Min Jiang and Cheng-Zi Jiang

Reconciling interpretability and accuracy: Evidence from categorical factors

Yu Zhao, Sen Lin and Ao Kong

The modified ESG-KMV model for default prediction

Chih-Yuan Yang, Yun-Ting Lin and Chia-Chien Chang

Risk aversion heterogeneity and the equity term structure

Hamilton Galindo Gil

Spillover and connectedness dynamics of precious metals, cryptocurrencies and green assets under climate risk

Ifran Khan, Huangbao Gui, Bijia Li, Chin Man Chui and Mrs Faryal

Carbon risk and corporate cost stickiness

Tingwei Luo, Min Liao and Fubi Luo

The impact of cross-regional clean energy dispatch on environmental welfare performance: Evidence from the west-east gas transmission project

Weixiang Xu, Liuxiang Xie and Jianping Zhou

The impact of household wealth shocks on entrepreneurial activity: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of housing demolition

Xiaohao Feng, Ming Zhou and Long Wu

Extreme climate effects on agricultural growth: the role of digital transformation

Jing Wang and Baoren Yang

Corrigendum to “The green transformation effect of climate investment and financing pilot policies” [International Review of Economics and Finance 107 (2026) 105001]

Xiangmei Li, Suya Zhang and Yunlu Bai

The impact of climate physical risks on risk-taking of Chinese small and medium-sized banks: Transmission mechanism and heterogeneity

Ziyu Xue, Sha Zhu and Hai Fu

What drives SME investment in digitalisation? Micro-data evidence for Ireland

Janez Kren and O’Toole, Conor

Generative AI for easing SMEs’ financing constraints: Empirical evidence from E-commerce supply chain finance

Qian Zhang, Yue Zhang, Guanming Chen and Jiajia Zheng

The coordination mechanism and effect measurement of vocational colleges on regional development —— based on bidirectional fixed effects of multi-regional empirical test

Liyang Huang

The risk-mitigation effects of artificial intelligence adoption: Evidence from executive misconduct

Jie Wu, Siyuan Tang, Zhipeng Zhou and Zexuan Qi

Migration diversity and economic complexity in developing countries: Direct and indirect effects through growth, innovation, and human capital

Eric Ayang, Mohamadou Sani and Bruno Ndouyang Balguessam

Fiscal and tax incentives and the nighttime Economy: The role of the digital economy

Meng Sun and Xiaoying Xu

Corrigendum to “Institutional investor distraction and corporate fraud: Evidence from China” [International Review of Economics & Finance https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.105102]

Haifang Wang and Dongjun Fan

Unleashing the metaverse: Assessing the effects of China's city pilot policy on firm performance

Lu Liu, Kai-Hua Wang, Bao-Chang Xu and Xiao-Qing Wang

Green finance and debt concentration: Evidence from purchase obligations

Steven X. Zhu and Hui Zhu

Governing innovation: The role of D&O insurance in curbing R&D opportunism

Chujun Zhang, Wen Ju Liao and Zhexin Xie

Blind imitation or rational decision-making? The impact of generative artificial intelligence on corporate investment herd behavior

Yongxiang Wang, Zhanhong Wu and Jun Zhang

In gold and Franc we trust? Rethinking safe havens in Europe

Spyros Papathanasiou, Drosos Koutsokostas, Apostolos Christopoulos and Bogdan Wierzbiński

Unlocking productivity: How digital finance catalyzes manufacturing's new-quality capabilities

Rongjun Zhou and Menghan Ji

Funding diversification, governance autonomy, and higher education resilience

Zheng ShaoXin and Li Ming

When supply chains tighten innovation scope: The moderating role of digital inclusive finance and supply chain finance

Yang Zhao and Qian Ma

Institutional quality, vulnerability, and FDI attraction: New evidence from a novel quantile regression approach

Dang Trung Chinh, Do Thi Minh Hue and Luu Quoc Dat

Executive shareholding, R&D intensity and corporate innovation: Evidence from China listed companies

Xuanhao Zhang, Yiqi Sun, Yi Yang and Wencheng Wang

The marketization of data elements, facilitation of cross-border capital flows, and regional green total factor productivity

HaoLiang Wang, Zhong Wang, JingWen Li and Zheng Shan

Environmental regulation, regional ecological compensation, and corporate green investment

Shixi Yang and Zhimiao Cui

Digital economy, digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises, and carbon emission reduction

Dan Wu

On the optimal equity ratio: Pinning the anchor

Dirk Loehr

The impact of artificial intelligence development on enterprise labor investment efficiency

Xiuxian Fu, Qinwen Zhang, Min Sun, Jing Yi Liu and Yuan Lu

Dividend policy and corporate integrity: Insights from textual analysis of earnings calls

Tanakorn Likitapiwat, Pornsit Jiraporn and Sirimon Treepongkaruna

Understanding the green-growth: Which pathways cities undertake in their climate programs

Simona Bigerna, D’Errico, Maria Chiara and Paolo Polinori

Data element sharing: Public data openness and enterprise total factor productivity

Shanfeng Liu and Xinyu Zhou

Does more public information always improve price efficiency? Evidence from the EDGAR adoption

Daewoung Choi, Yong Kyu Gam, Yong Hyuck Kim, Jaejin Lee and Hojong Shin

Does admission to the rich list drive listed firms to improve corporate social responsibility ---- based on the perspective of media attention

Jialan Huang, Yan Zhao, Libin Zhao and Danmei Li

ESG and financial performance: Link intensity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Batoul El Mawla, Jacques Igalens and Nassima Selmane

Behavioral determinants of cryptocurrency adoption during financial collapse: Evidence from Lebanon

Dani Aoun, Chris Youssef and Nada Jabbour Al Maalouf

The rising cost of cooling: Regional energy futures in a warming Saudi Arabia

Jeyhun I. Mikayilov, Abdulelah Darandary and Khalid Alhadhrami

The impact of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration expansion on enterprises’ export product quality: An analysis based on geographic regression discontinuity design

Kai Zhao, Jingjing Zou and Wanshu Wu

Digital government construction and inter-regional capital flows: Based on the perspective of inter-regional mergers and acquisitions

Ruiqing Cao, Fei Guo, Chenchen Shi and Bin Li

Disclosure impact on factor exposure, information asymmetry, risk, and value: A study of Bitcoin

William C. Johnson and Ariel Markelevich

The impact of digital government on the green transformation of enterprises

Xueqin Lu and Wuyao Ding