International Review of Economics & Finance

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Volume 79, issue C, 2022

Does air quality affect firms’ investment efficiency? Evidence from China pp. 1-17

Dequan Jiang, Weiping Li, Yongjian Shen and Ying Zhang

Exchange rate dynamics with crash risk and interventions pp. 18-37

Cho-Hoi Hui, Chi-Fai Lo and Chi-Hei Liu

Globalization blueprint and households’ fintech debt: Evidence from China’s One Belt One Road initiative pp. 38-55

Yun Zhang, Yun Liu, Yifei Zhang and Xin Chen

Bank competition and the price of credit: Evidence using Mexican loan-level data pp. 56-74

Carlos Cañón, Edgar Cortés and Rodolfo Guerrero

Multiple performance criteria for government-controlled firms pp. 75-96

Kun Tracy Wang and Greg Shailer

Would the market mechanism cause the formation of overcapacity?: Evidence from Chinese listed firms of manufacturing industry pp. 97-113

Kaiqiang Dong and Wei Sun

Financial wealth, investment, and confidence in a DSGE model for China pp. 114-134

Tao Jin, Simon Sai Man Kwok and Xin Zheng

Does individual auditor quality contribute to firm value? Evidence from the market valuation on corporate cash holdings pp. 135-153

Nan-Ting Kuo, Shu Li, Ya-Guang Du and Cheng-Few Lee

Determinants of Return-maximizing CEO Equity & Cash compensation pp. 154-168

Gurupdesh Pandher

Dividend policy, risk and the cross-section of stock returns: Evidence from India pp. 169-192

Heba Ali and Aya Yasser Hegazy

Defend or remain quiet? Tax avoidance and the textual characteristics of the MD&A in annual reports pp. 193-204

Linlang Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Peng Zhang and Xiongyuan Wang

How arbitrage-free is the Nelson–Siegel model under stochastic volatility? pp. 205-223

Hideyuki Takamizawa

Does the swap-covered interest parity still hold in long-term capital markets after the financial crisis? Evidence from cross-currency basis swaps pp. 224-240

Takahiro Hattori

The effect of combat exposure on financial problems pp. 241-257

Adam Ackerman and Ben Porter

Book-to-market equity and asset correlations—An international study pp. 258-274

Kung-Cheng Ho, Shih-Cheng Lee and Jiun-Lin Chen

Network connectedness dynamics of the yield curve of G7 countries pp. 275-288

Zaghum Umar, Yasir Riaz and David Y. Aharon

On the predictive power of tweet sentiments and attention on bitcoin pp. 289-301

Sandy Suardi, Atiqur Rahman Rasel and Bin Liu

Stock market contagion during the COVID-19 pandemic in emerging economies pp. 302-309

Gazi Uddin, Muhammad Yahya, Gour Goswami, Brian Lucey and Ali Ahmed

Another look at sources of momentum profits pp. 310-323

Daniel Chai, Mardy Chiah, Angel Zhong and Bob Li

Son preference, intrahousehold discrimination, and the gender gap in education in China pp. 324-339

Hao Guo, Chenxu Hu and Xiaozhou Ding

Effect of geographical distance between underwriters and listed companies on IPO underpricing: Evidence from China's A-share market pp. 340-352

Feng Wang, Wei Chai, Bin Yan, Jing Shan and Wenna Fan

Informed trading in the CDS and OTM put option markets pp. 353-367

May Hu, Paresh Narayan, Jason Park and Peter Verhoeven

Economic policy uncertainty, financial development, and financial constraints: Evidence from China pp. 368-386

Huanyu Ma and Dapeng Hao

A cryptocurrency empirical study focused on evaluating their distribution functions pp. 387-407

Carmen López-Martín, Raquel Arguedas-Sanz and Sonia Benito Muela

Realized moments and the cross-sectional stock returns around earnings announcements pp. 408-427

Qingxia Wang, Robert Faff and Min Zhu

Pricing like things alike: The role of financial statement comparability in bond pricing pp. 428-447

Shijiao Cao, Jianqiong Wang and Jianan Zhou

Openness and government size: Revisiting the relationship using a large cross-country panel pp. 448-465

Yong Ma and Chi Yao

Optimal time for the excess of loss reinsurance with fixed costs pp. 466-475

Peng Li, Ming Zhou and Dingjun Yao

Accounting for real exchange rates in emerging economies: The role of commodity prices pp. 476-492

Carlos Yepez and Francis Dzikpe

Factor portfolio and target volatility management: An analysis of portfolio performance in the U.S. and China pp. 493-517

Haifang Xiong, Gaofei Yang and Zhiqiang Wang

House price decoupling in East Asia and the Pacific: Trilemma versus dilemma revisited pp. 518-539

Ruijie Cheng and Ramkishen Rajan

The dispersion of beta estimates and the investors’ heterogeneous Beliefs：Evidence from the stock market in China pp. 540-550

Jiawei Hong, Xiaojian Yu, Weilin Xiao and Xili Zhang

Zombie firms and corporate savings: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms pp. 551-564

Ling Feng, Henan Lang and Tingting Pei

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions, regional cultural diversity and acquirers’ corporate social responsibility: Evidence from China listed companies pp. 565-578

Na Yang, Yuan Zhang, Lu Yu, Jue Wang and Xiaming Liu

Financing anomaly, mispricing and cross-sectional return predictability pp. 579-598

Baochen Yang, Tao Ye and Yao Ma

Measuring financial cycles: Empirical evidence for Germany, United Kingdom and United States of America pp. 599-630

Tiago Mota Dutra, José Carlos Dias and Joao Teixeira

Monetary policy surprises and investment of non-listed real sector firms in China pp. 631-642

Huoqing Tang, Chengsi Zhang and Hong Zhou

Stringent environmental regulation and capital structure: The effect of NEPL on deleveraging the high polluting firms pp. 643-656

Jingyi Yang, Daqian Shi and Wenbo Yang

Non-linear nexus between economic policy uncertainty and bank lending pp. 657-679

Mohsin Shabir, Ping Jiang, Shujahat Haider Hashmi and Satar Bakhsh

Fundamental momentum and enhanced fundamental momentum: Evidence from the Chinese stock market pp. 680-693

Yuanyue Tan, Zhiqiang Wang, Haifang Xiong and Yue Liu

Predicting future exchange rate changes based on interest rates and holding-period returns differentials net of the forward risk premium effects pp. 694-715

Nikolaos Elias, Dimitris Smyrnakis and Elias Tzavalis

Volume 78, issue C, 2022

Institutional distance and China's horizontal outward foreign direct investment pp. 1-22

Xiaoying Wang and Sajid Anwar

Trade costs and free trade agreements: Implications for tariff complementarity and welfare pp. 23-37

Akihiko Yanase and Masafumi Tsubuku

Overinvestment, ownership structure, and directors' and officers’ liability insurance pp. 38-50

Yao-Min Chiang and Pang-Ru Chang

Innovation decisions through firm life cycle: A new evidence from emerging markets pp. 51-67

Farrukh Shahzad, Munir Ahmad, Zeeshan Fareed and Zhenkun Wang

Does trade cause fear of appreciation? pp. 68-80

Hao Zhang and Jiaqing Zhu

Evaluating influential nodes for the Chinese energy stocks based on jump volatility spillover network pp. 81-94

Chuangxia Huang, Xian Zhao, Yunke Deng, Xiaoguang Yang and Xin Yang

Role of emerging markets vis-à-vis frontier markets in improving portfolio diversification benefits pp. 95-121

Nisha Mary Thomas, Smita Kashiramka, Surendra Singh Yadav and Justin Paul

Ownership concentration among entrepreneurial firms: The growth-control trade-off pp. 122-140

Shaojie Lai, Hongyan Liang, Zilong Liu, Xiaoling Pu and Jianing Zhang

Measuring volatility persistence in leveraged loan markets in the presence of structural breaks pp. 141-152

Emmanuel Abakah, Luis Gil-Alana, Emmanuel Kwesi Arthur and Aviral Tiwari

Growth impact of equity market crises: A global perspective pp. 153-176

Chai Liang Huang and Yu Ching Chang

Asymmetric impacts of individual investor sentiment on the time-varying risk-return relation in stock market pp. 177-194

Zhifang He

The reference dependency of short-term reversal pp. 195-211

Jihoon Goh, Giho Jeong and Jangkoo Kang

Monetary and macroprudential policies, output, prices, and financial stability pp. 212-233

Jianli Sui, Biying Liu, Zhigang Li and Chengping Zhang

Evaluation of European Deposit Insurance Scheme funding based on risk analysis pp. 234-247

Pilar Gómez Fernández-Aguado, Eduardo Trigo Martínez, Rafael Moreno Ruíz and Antonio Partal Ureña

Does political corruption affect mergers and acquisitions decisions? Evidence from China pp. 248-266

Hao Yang, Qiusheng Zhang, Xiaofang Zhao and Zhongchao Wang

Information spillover effects from media coverage to the crude oil, gold, and Bitcoin markets during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the time and frequency domains pp. 267-285

Hongwei Zhang, Huojun Hong, Yaoqi Guo and Cai Yang

Economic policy uncertainty and acquisition performance: Australian evidence pp. 286-308

Syed Shams, Abeyratna Gunaskerage and Eswaran Velayutham

Credit ratings of Chinese households using factor scores and K-means clustering method pp. 309-320

Chao Dang, Xinyang Chen, Shengjie Yu, Rongda Chen and Yifan Yang

Who is financing corporate green innovation? pp. 321-337

Xiaojian Xiang, Chuanjiang Liu and Mian Yang

Social capital and CEO involuntary turnover pp. 338-354

Mingming Zhang, Qizhi Tao, Fei Shen and Ziyang Li

CEO option incentives and corporate share repurchases pp. 355-376

Douglas O. Cook and Weiwei Zhang

The impact of the send-down experience on the health of elderly Chinese women: Evidence from the China family panel studies pp. 377-389

Yu Liang and Jing Dong

The influence of contextual and household factors on multidimensional poverty in rural Vietnam: A multilevel regression analysis pp. 390-403

Tuyen Tran, Hoai Thu Thi Nguyen, Quang Ngoc Hoang and Dinh Van Nguyen

Complex causalities between the carbon market and the stock markets for energy intensive industries in China pp. 404-417

Xiaotian Sun, Wei Fang, Xiangyun Gao, Haizhong An, Siyao Liu and Tao Wu

Information content of order imbalance in the index options market pp. 418-432

Ahmet Sensoy and John Omole

Do oil prices and economic policy uncertainty matter for precious metal returns? New insights from a TVP-VAR framework pp. 433-445

Jianbai Huang, Xuesong Dong, Jinyu Chen and Meirui Zhong

ESG scores and the response of the S&P 1500 to monetary and fiscal policy during the Covid-19 pandemic pp. 446-456

Richard Paul Gregory

Monetary policy uncertainty and stock returns in G7 and BRICS countries: A quantile-on-quantile approach pp. 457-482

Fenghua Wen, Aojie Shui, Yuxiang Cheng and Xu Gong

Firm centrality and limited attention pp. 483-500

İhsan Bozok and Süheyla Özyıldırım

Liquidity commonality in sovereign bond markets pp. 501-518

Thomas Julian Richter

What threatens stock markets more - The coronavirus or the hype around it? pp. 519-539

Alexander Nepp, Ostap Okhrin, Julia Egorova, Zarnigor Dzhuraeva and Alexander Zykov

Can the E-commercialization improve residents’ income? --Evidence from “Taobao Counties” in China pp. 540-553

Ke Tang, Qiaoqin Xiong and Fengyu Zhang

Diversity of signing auditors and audit quality: Evidence from capital market in China pp. 554-571

Manoj Athavale, Zhaorui Guo, Yun Meng and Tianshu Zhang

Venture capital staging under economic policy uncertainty pp. 572-596

Ying Sophie Huang, Jiajia Wu and Feng Guo

Herding in the Chinese and US stock markets: Evidence from a micro-founded approach pp. 597-604

Zhenxi Chen and Huanhuan Zheng

Managerial risk-taking incentives and cash holding in U.S. firms: Evidence from FAS 123R pp. 605-628

Jean Canil and Sigitas Karpavičius

Volatility spillovers between fine wine and major global markets during COVID-19: A portfolio hedging strategy for investors pp. 629-642

Aristeidis Samitas, Spyros Papathanasiou, Drosos Koutsokostas and Elias Kampouris

Stock dividend and analyst optimistic bias in earnings forecast pp. 643-659

Lixin Huang, Wei Li, Hong Wang and Liansheng Wu

Informal we stand? The role of social progress around the world pp. 660-675

Tiziana Medda, Flaviana Palmisano and Agnese Sacchi