International Review of Economics & Finance

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Volume 100, issue C, 2025

CEO power and internal pay disparities within enterprises

Xiaoyi Li, Liping Shen and Yaofan Ling

Regional knowledge protection, innovation level, and data element level

Yingchuan Yan, Yongqian Tu, Gaofeng Zhu and Grace Li Tian

Executive compensation disparity and corporate operational performance

Long Guo, Can Cai, Debin Yang and Zibu Zhou

Regional financial regulatory intensity and corporate capital misallocation

Huilian Fu, Jingyi Cai, Sinan Xia and Lianjie Zhou

Tax digitization and earnings management

Qiao Zhao and Wangqing Wang

The effect of regulatory requirements on market liquidity: ESG promotion as a special case

Judit Hevér and Péter Csóka

Institutional investor cliques and ESG performance: Evidence from Chinese firms

Wenkang Qiu, Cheng Xiang, Chunhong Li and Yinong Chen

Green density and spillover effects on earnings management

Hugo Benedetti, Mohammad A. Karim, Sayan Sarkar and Andrew C. Spieler

Regional climate change action and corporate ESG performance - Evidence from China

Zhifang Zhou, Zhuoxuan Yang, Huijia Li and Jinhao Liu

ESG peer spillover effect in supply chain: Evidence from Taiwan semiconductor industry

Donald Lien and Lie-Huey Wang

Climate change exposure in uncertain times: A text-based approach

Viput Ongsakul, Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard, Pandej Chintrakarn and Pornsit Jiraporn

Technological innovation, external debt, and green energy adoption: Assessing their impact on environmental sustainability in MINT economies

Kailai Zhang and Daizheng Jia

Beyond the linear link: Threshold effects of CSR on financial performance

Béchir Ben Lahouel and Lotfi Taleb

Private equity market dynamics: Beyond the surface

Antonio Díaz, Carlos Esparcia and Lars Tegtmeier

Is it just green? Asymmetry behavior of returns in green investments

Mobeen Ur Rehman, Neeraj Nautiyal and Xuan Vinh Vo

Revisiting the role of investor sentiment in the stock market

Quyen Pham, Huy Pham, Tra Pham and Aviral Kumar Tiwari

Can green finance policy promote inclusive green growth?- Based on the quasi-natural experiment of China's green finance reform and innovation pilot zone

Aiting Xu, Yujie Dai, Zhiyuan Hu and Keyang Qiu

Derivatives use and analysts’ forecasts: new evidence on the mechanisms from China

Guiling Zhang, Xu Lou, Danliang Yan and Hui Xu

Examining the role of artificial intelligence, financial innovation, and green energy transition in enhancing environmental quality

Abdul Majeed, Yuantao Xie, Chongyan Gao, Anna Min Du and Muniba,

ESG disclosure and firm performance in global south economy: Does industry profile and board independence moderate the relationship

Nisha Bamel, Komal Khatri, Umesh Bamel and Satish Kumar

Quality of accounting information and corporate green innovation performance

Runfang Xu, Yixiang Qiao and Hongjun Lv

The impact of global value chain embeddedness on the innovation of high-tech enterprises

Zhen Zeng, Jiqin Han, Jintao Zhan, Yigen Wu and Liangzhu Sun

Digital inclusive finance and common prosperity: The threshold effect based on rural revitalization

Jianying Wang, Zhihui Tan and Yuting Zuo

Online public opinion attention and corporate green finance development

Ying Meng and Lei Zhao

The development, regional differences, and dynamic evolution of China's Green Finance in the context of “Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality”

Yifan Zhang, Ke Gao, Tao Wang, Shuaina Chi, Kaiyuan Cui and Chen Wen

Opportunity or obstacle? Climate risk disclosure and corporate ESG performance

Dingkang Duan, Ran Wei, Chao Wang and Bingyu Xia

How public services affect human capital allocation ——the regulatory effect of digital economy☆

Xing Wang, Chentao Duan and Shulei Zhang

The impact of delayed retirement on labor employment, fertility rate and economic growth in China

Yuhui Dai, Zihan Zhao, Jing Sui and Jun Xu

Relative investor sentiment

Xiang Gao, Kees Koedijk, Thomas Walther and Zhan Wang

Board age diversity and digital transformation: Evidence from China

Heshu Huang, Yuchen Lu and Liukai Wang

A comprehensive analysis of the decline in the market-to-book ratio of European banks

S. Markoulis, S. Martzoukos, S. Savvas and V. Zagkreos

Bankruptcy court establishment and corporate financial fraud

Yong Zhou, Siting Liu and Wei Song

Dynamic impact of media coverage on corporate risk management: Moderating effect of environmental policies and heterogeneity analysis

Yan He and Chen Lin

Greener pastures, steadier returns: ESG ratings and idiosyncratic risk management

Miaomiao Tao, Boqiang Lin, Stephen Poletti and David Roubaud

E-government and corruption in an emerging country: New perspectives from a spatiotemporal approach

Trung Chinh Dang, Huong Vu Van and Dao Le Van

Financial inclusion and its impact on payment, savings, and credit

Néstor Gandelman, Rodrigo Lluberas and Daniel Misail

The impact of FDI on firms’ pollution emissions: Evidence from China

Yibing Liu, Liang Cao, Lamei Wu, Yanle Xi and Siyi Zhang

Impact of financial stress on the REIT market stability

Oguzhan Ozcelebi and Seong-Min Yoon

Evolution of investor sentiment: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis

Nhan Huynh, Lurion De Mello and Kai Li

Shadow banking of non-financial firms and labor income share: An inverted U-shaped relationship

Huaming Zhong, Zinb Abduljabbar Mohamed Al-Duais and Yaoting Guo

Global insights on wage and employee turnover in microfinance

Moh'd Al-Azzam and Shatha M. Obeidat

Business strategy heterogeneity and ESG disclosure

Man Dang, Premkanth Puwanenthiren, Edward Jones, Viet Anh Hoang, Thieu Quang Nguyen and Huu Cuong Nguyen

Macroeconomic effects of CBDC negative interest policy in an open economy: A comparison of quantity and price rules

Qiuling Hua, Zepeng Qiu, Tingfeng Jiang and Ke Tang

How does the toxic and sustainable index influence on corporate performance? A comparison analysis before and after pandemic

Haijun Kang, Shangping Chi, Xiuzhong Wang and Zhuoran Li

The effects of financial agglomeration on exports

Cen Cai, Jialian Wen, Ziyi Cui and Siyuan Bi

Stability of executive teams, corporate financialization, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Cen Cai, Limiao He and Jialian Wen

Intellectual property protection and corporate digital transformation: An empirical analysis from the perspectives of intellectual property protection and digital governance

Tianli Ding and Lin Yang

Environmental justice, corporate green total factor productivity, and pollution control: A quasi-natural experiment based on the establishment of environmental courts

Xiuqin Zhang and Meiqi You

Public environmental risks cognition and executive compensation arrangements

Yunfei Qi and Chengzhi Niu

Volume 99, issue C, 2025

Monetary policy spillovers and the role of prudential policies in the European Union

Andra Coman

Commodity financialization and firm investment:Implications for market efficiency and economic stability in emerging markets

Baochen Yang, Jingru Xu, Yuxuan Dai, Yongjie Zhang and Peixuan Geng

Climate change and listed agricultural companies’ risk-taking

Si Chen and Zanxin Wang

The effects of internet infrastructure on carbon neutrality

Weiteng Shen, Xuan Yu, Tong Sun, Tiejun Pan and Shunbin Zhong

Market volatility and skewness risks in China

Fang Zhen

The green innovation effect of the digital economy

Keren Chen, Shenghan Zhao, Gaozhe Jiang, Yafeng He and Hui Li

Digital maturity, dynamic capabilities and innovation performance in high-tech SMEs

Honglan Jie, Leong Mow Gooi and Yanchun Lou

Does being embedded in RTA networks promote firm productivity? Evidence from Chinese firms

Xiaozhuo Wang and Guang Yang

Trade liberalization, road expansion, and factor market distortion

Sai Wang, Ye Meng and Wenwu Xie

Carbon risk and the cost of equity capital: Evidence from China

Jingjing Yan, Yaoqi Guo and Fenghua Wen

Risk spillovers between the financial market and macroeconomic sectors under mixed-frequency information: A frequency domain perspective

Mengting Li, Xiaofu Ma, Junsheng Jia and Chen Zhu

Environmental risk and stock price crash risk: Evidence from energy substitution policy adoption

Sen Li and Yi Zhang

Interconnected bank networks: Shock amplifiers or absorbers in the financial system?

Jing Ren and Le Tang

How legal advisors affect mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from high tech industries

Ruoqi Li and Xingzi Ren

How does green finance improve food security? From the perspective of rural human capital

Zihao Yuan, Chien-Chiang Lee and Zhi-Wen He

Oil shocks and capital structure: Role of ESG across the globe

Purba Bhattacherjee and Sibanjan Mishra

The impact of mega-mergers on uninsured depositors: Evidence from Indian commercial banks

Sakshi Narula

Environmental Regulation, regional finance development and enterprises' cross-regional capital flow

Hong Yu, Qi Lyu and Yi Jiang

Do investors value the acquirers’ complexity in a merger and acquisition?

Ying Pan, Ngoc Thuy Mai, Nguyen Nhut Vu Truong, Dien Giau Bui and Ruihai Li

Saving puzzle: Head of household's prior childhood rural experience and saving decision

Jianning Wang, Cheng Zhang and Haodong Chang

Banking and monetary policy in a monetary union

Enzo Dia and David VanHoose

The Paris Agreement and firms’ carbon information disclosure: Honesty or catering?

Xiaoyun Fan, Xinyan Shen, Daoping Wang and Cier Zhou

How learning about behavioural biases can improve financial literacy?

Francisco Pitthan and Kristof De Witte

Uncovering the distress anomaly: The role of insider silence and limited investor attention

Yongming Chen and Hui Li

Research on sovereign credit and international banking industry tail risk contagion ----Perspective from double-layer complex network

Gong Xiao-Li, Wu Zhuo-Cheng, Xiong Xiong and Zhang Wei

How do entrepreneurial directors shape financial reporting quality in non-profit organizations?

Sicen Chen, Shuping Lin, Yalin Luo and Pengdong Zhang

Navigating ESG challenges in ICT: Risks and rewards across the pandemic landscape

Songhee Kang and Ahreum Hong

How does green finance affect carbon emission intensity? The role of green technology innovation and internet development

Qiufeng Zhang, Huan Huang, Liang Chen and Yushi Wang

The Macroeconomics of Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Ying Tung Chan, Qiang Ji and Dayong Zhang

Institutional shareholding, corporate financialization, and regulatory penalties for listed companies

Jingyi Guo, Yinglong Zheng, Shilin Du and Tian, Grace (Li)

Investor networks and social innovation: A stakeholder network analysis of Social Impact Bonds

Alfonso Del Giudice, Matteo Foglia and Igor Gianfrancesco

Regulation automation and green innovation: Evidence from China's industrial firms

Xin Jin

Does CEO competence affect enterprises’ financial performance?

Xiaoying Wang, Yi Li, Chaoqian Fu and Zhenbang Yue

Differentiated digital transformation strategies in manufacturing: The impact of firm ownership on productivity

Di Wang, Bin He, Nier Dong and Daocheng Yang

Green credit, tourism technology innovation, and sustainable development of tourism

Jingyu Sun and Dan Chen

Digital economy enterprise investment value evaluation model and empirical analysis

Yuyou He

Impacts of financial technology on resource allocation efficiency: A perspective based on the distribution differences of Inter-enterprise total factor productivity

Xiaolu Li, Zhonggang Yue and Yuchuan Wu

Impact of AI applications on corporate green innovation

Kang Xi and Xuefeng Shao

Research on the dynamic interaction effects of litigation events, financing constraints, and the risk of corporate stock price crashes

Xuemei Cheng, Yinglong Zheng and Yongqian Tu

Research on the impact of new quality productivity on enterprise ESG performance

Haiying Chu, Xiaoxiao Niu, Mou Li and Lei Wei

Leveraging traditional financial asset protection methods for digital asset security

Biyun Xiao, Su Lin, Chunxiao Wu and Boming Sun

Do industrial robot applications upgrade the global value chain position? Empirical evidence from China

Dawei Zheng and Tingdong Wang

The valuation of economic recovery: The case for investment-led fiscal spending policies in open economies

Carlos J. García, Wildo González and Gabriel Valenzuela

Flight to Bitcoin (in)attention and herding in cryptocurrencies

Xiao Li

Reassessing smart city development and personal data protection: A regulatory framework

Yulu Jin and Yu Wang

The impact of digital innovation on labor share: Evidence from Chinese firms

Tingyu Liu, Peng Huang and Qiaoru Wang

Optimizing investment strategies: Harnessing the power of K-line complex networks

Qiujun Lan, Haojie Li, Xianhua Mi and Chunyu Zhang

Dangerous density: Urban density and the criminalization of China

Ning Ma, Lu Chen and Zihan Zeng

Financial stability strategies: Bankruptcy courts and corporate capital structure adjustment

Yang Cui and Yanliang Zhang

Impact of digital divide on household consumption: Role of mental health and happiness

Xinjian Wang, Yihao Ding, Qiang Dong, Shuai Sun and Zhixiao Chen

Digital economy and high-quality agricultural development

Lin Ye

Digital economy, green innovation and high-quality economic development

Zhiang Chen and Ruikun Xing

Green credit policy and corporate green innovation

Jiale He, Haozhong Xue, Wei Yang, Yanyi Zhong and Bingyu Fan

Exploring dynamic extreme dependence of oil and agricultural markets

Khalid M. Kisswani, Amine Lahiani and Mahelet Fikru

Digital transformation and supply chain resilience

Pengcheng Li, Yanbing Chen and Xiaochuan Guo

Technological diversification and resilience to systematic risk: Evidence from listed firms in China

Jiaying Mo, Dongmin Kong, Zhao Rong and Li Yu

How does the innovation of digital and green technology integration promote corporate environmental performance

Shan Li, Kai Xing, Jixian Meng and Xiaoguang Yang

Digital transformation and enterprise employment

Jie Gao, Zhizhuo Li, Thithuha Nguyen and Wentao Zhang

How do analyst attention and green credit promote corporate green innovation?

Weijian Dou, Han Zhang, Bowen Miao and Bin Wang

Corrigendum to “Disappearing bank Branches: Evidence from China household finance survey” [International Review of Economics & Finance volume 98 (2025) 103873]

Qi Wang, Ming Liu and Kai Xie

Local vibrancy and innovation spillover

Ani Manakyan Mathers and Corey Allen Shank

Digital literacy, labor migration and employment, and rural household income disparities

Shumin Wang, Caiping Qu and Lingyan Yin

How economic stability shapes social relationship expenditures: Moderating effects of health and education

Xin Liu, Chaobo Zhou, Ying Li and Fei Fang

Positive and negative shocks of financial markets on sustainable finance in europe: Evidence from vector auto regression and granger causality

Ali Raza and Faizah Alsulami

Analyzing the game pricing mechanism of data assets: Theoretical evidence considering market structure and competitive characteristics

Wenchang Li, Weiqing Yang, Zhongsheng Zhou, Shuijuan Wu and Changwei Mo

Has the integration of fiscal agricultural funds promoted rural entrepreneurship?

Xucheng Huang, Erjia Yang and Wei Wang

The impact of transportation infrastructure on the regional economic integration in China:A CGE analysis

Huijuan Li, Teng Hu, Xinyu Ma and Baodong Cheng

The impact of ESG performance on R&D investment stability: Evidence from China

Che Chen, Song Chen and Dingwen Wu

How does climate change affect regional sustainable development? Empirical evidence from 186 countries around the world

Yuqing Cai

The co-evolution between organizational learning and business model design in incumbent firms: The role of firm life cycle

Zicheng Ma, Limei Ye and Jinzhu Liu

Cross-border capital inflows and systemic financial risks

Haoran Xu, Wenlong Miao and Siyu Zhang

The influence of government health investment on economic resilience: A perspective from health human capital

Tongji Guo, Yun Tong and Yuanze Yu

Analysis of recycling and emission reduction models under carbon taxes and government subsidies

Yuan Li, Zhao Jia, Chuan Qin, Zhaoqi Li and Jinhuika Ying

Cybersecurity policy, ESG and operational risk: A Virtuous relationship to improve banks’ performance

Elena Bruno, Francesco Pistolesi and Emanuele Teti

How does digital finance affect imports, exports and trade balance: Evidence from China

Hongya Li, Xiaobin Lin and Zhaoyong Zhang

An analysis of the path of labor protection in the innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises - A moderated mediation model

Shengchun Ma, Zixuan Zhang and Yaohui Wang

The impact of ESG factors on credit ratings: An empirical study of European banks

Sheng-Li Chen, Dan-ni Wang and Hao-Wei Chen

When is environmental performance most valued? International evidence from the CDS market

Laura Ballester, Ana González-Urteaga and Beatriz Martínez

Global uncertainty, macroprudence and export value: "Quality up" or "quantity up"

Zhiguo Fan, Fenghua Guo and ChenBian,

Cash management amid HFCAA-Induced data breach risks: A comparative analysis of reactive vs. proactive responses in Chinese firms

Xin Liu, Chenlan Liu, Mingzhe Duan and Sicen Chen

Taxation on cross-border capital flows, foreign exchange reserves rescue and risk prevention

Qiuju Yang, Bo Yu, Quan Yang and Chao Guan

Green technology innovation, ESG ratings and corporate sustainable performance: Empirical evidence from listed semiconductor companies in China

Yong Wang, Yujiao Liu and Xihui Haviour Chen

Effect of firm social status on ESG performance: Theoretical mechanism and heterogeneity analysis

Liuyang Xue, Shiyao Jiang, Nanxuan Wu and Meng Yin

Environmental attention in cryptocurrency markets: A catalyst for clean energy investments

Lingli Qing, Ibrahim Alnafrah and Abd Alwahed Dagestani

Unveiling time-frequency linkages among diverse cryptocurrency classes and climate change concerns

Inzamam Ul Haq, Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Chunhui Huo and Walid Bakry

Spillovers across the crude oil and major currencies exchange rates using dynamic-quantile-frequency analysis

Buhari Doğan, Magdalena Radulescu, Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Kamel S.I. Mohammed, Noureddine Benlagha and Cristina Florentina Baldan

Climate risk and firms’ R&D investment: Evidence from China

Yong Wang and Chao Wang

Mitigating corporate maturity mismatch: The role of green bond issuance in China

Jing Zhang, Yinglin Cui and Yingdan Jin

Capitalizing on risk: How corporate financial flexibility, investment efficiency, and institutional ownership shape risk-taking dynamics

Tanveer Bagh, Ahmed Hunjra, Collins G. Ntim and Mirza Muhammad Naseer

The mitigation effect of industrial robots on air pollution

Han Cheng and Changyi Min

Unleashing the power of data element markets: Driving urban green growth through marketization, innovation, and digital finance

Li Dong, Xiaowei Zhu, Luwei Yang and Guoliang Jiang

The green side of digital trade: Evaluating the impact of National E-commerce Demonstration Cities policy

Yujun Liu, Miao Zhang, Beiting Fan, Shengran Fu and Yiteng Liu

The impact of city diplomacy on foreign direct investment: Evidence from international sister city diplomacy agreements

Bei He, Mingyue Tang and Aodi Wei