International Review of Economics & Finance

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Volume 73, issue C, 2021

What are bitcoin market reactions to its-related events? pp. 1-10

Zhenghui Li, Liming Chen and Hao Dong

Does structural matching between finance and the real economy promote economic growth? pp. 11-29

Dezhu Ye, Yunjue Huang and Fanqing Zeng

Explaining equity home bias using hedging motives against real exchange rate and wage risks pp. 30-43

Kyounghun Kim and Sunghyun Henry Kim

Chinese lexicography and stock trading pp. 44-59

Cui Hu and Ben G. Li

Index option trading and equity volatility: Evidence from the SSE 50 and CSI 500 stocks pp. 60-75

Cong Sui, Peter Lung and Mo Yang

Unusual investor behavior under tacit and endogenous market signals pp. 76-97

Lanfang Wang and Susheng Wang

Local, global and regional shocks indices in emerging exchange rate markets pp. 98-113

Fatma Erdem and Utku Geyikçi

Financial development and entrepreneurship pp. 114-126

Nabamita Dutta and Daniel Meierrieks

Does local corruption affect IPO underpricing? Evidence from China pp. 127-138

Xin Wang and Di Song

The realized volatility of commodity futures: Interconnectedness and determinants# pp. 139-151

Elie Bouri, Brian Lucey, Tareq Saeed and Xuan Vinh Vo

Do regulatory bank mergers improve operating performance? pp. 152-174

Abdullah Mamun, George Tannous and Sicong Zhang

Optimal portfolio choice with stock market entry costs and human capital investments: A developing country model pp. 175-195

Indrajit Thakurata

How does news flow affect cross-market volatility spillovers? Evidence from China’s stock index futures and spot markets pp. 196-213

Xinmiao Zhou, Junru Zhang and Zhaoyong Zhang

Mean reversion in Asia-Pacific stock prices: New evidence from quantile unit root tests pp. 214-230

Gilbert Nartea, Harold Glenn Valera and Maria Luisa G. Valera

The impact of global financial crisis on regulation S private debt market pp. 231-248

Yingqi Li, Usha R. Mittoo, Xin Yu and Zhou Zhang

Forecasting stock prices pp. 249-256

Arie Harel and Giora Harpaz

China’s interest rate pass-through after the interest rate liberalization: Evidence from a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model pp. 257-274

Xiao-Lin Li, Deng-Kui Si and Xinyu Ge

Increase in income and international promotion of language: Evidence from China pp. 275-289

Mengjun Xie

Do hometown connections affect corporate governance? Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies pp. 290-302

Qiuhua Xu, Li Deng, Sen Li and Wen Huang

Vice or virtue? The impact of earnings management on bank loan agreements pp. 303-324

Young Sang Kim, Yura Kim and Ha-Chin Yi

Multilayer information spillover networks analysis of China’s financial institutions based on variance decompositions pp. 325-347

Gang-Jin Wang, Yang-Yang Chen, Hui-Bin Si, Chi Xie and Julien Chevallier

MAX is not the max under the interference of daily price limits: Evidence from China pp. 348-369

Shouyu Yao, Chunfeng Wang, Zhenming Fang and Chaoshin Chiao

Is national governance quality a key moderator of the boardroom gender diversity–firm performance relationship? International evidence from a multi-hierarchical analysis pp. 370-390

Tuan Nguyen, An Nguyen, Mau Nguyen and Thuyen Truong

The role of analysts in negative information production and disclosure: Evidence from short selling deregulation in an emerging market pp. 391-406

Lin Zhu, Qinyuan Chen, Shengzhi Yang and Zhihong Yi

Effect of oil price uncertainty on clean energy metal stocks in China: Evidence from a nonparametric causality-in-quantiles approach pp. 407-419

Liuguo Shao, Hua Zhang, Jinyu Chen and Xuehong Zhu

The existence and motivations of irrational loan herding and its impact on bank performance when considering different market periods pp. 420-443

Hao Fang, Yang-Cheng Lu, Joseph.C.P. Shieh and Yen-Hsien Lee

Financial openness and capital inflows to emerging markets: In search of robust evidence pp. 444-458

Diego A. Cerdeiro and András Komáromi

How factor market distortions affect OFDI: An explanation based on investment propensity and productivity effects pp. 459-472

Qunxi Kong, Xin Tong, Dan Peng, Zoey Wong and Huy Chen

Composite survey sentiment as a predictor of future market returns: Evidence for German equity indices pp. 473-495

Zuzana Rakovská

Predictive role of online investor sentiment for cryptocurrency market: Evidence from happiness and fears pp. 496-514

Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Imen Mbarki and Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad

Volume 72, issue C, 2021

Do credit conditions matter for the impact of oil price shocks on stock returns? Evidence from a structural threshold VAR model pp. 1-15

Yong Jiang, Gang-Jin Wang, Chaoqun Ma and Xiaoguang Yang

International reserves and economic growth pp. 16-28

Ozan Sula and Umut Oguzoglu

Unionised labour market, environment and endogenous growth pp. 29-44

Chandril Bhattacharyya and Manash Ranjan Gupta

Ownership structure and R&D: The role of regional governance environment pp. 45-58

Wei Wan, Fanqi Zhou, Lingjie Liu, Libing Fang and Xudong Chen

Government financial assistance as catalyst for private financing pp. 59-78

Sasan Bakhtiari

Government size and speculative attacks on public debt pp. 79-89

Pompeo Della Posta

Information asymmetry and financing choice between debt, equity and dual issues by Indian firms pp. 90-101

Bipin Sony and Saumitra Bhaduri

Institutions, regulations and initial coin offerings: An international perspective pp. 102-120

Prabal Shrestha, Özgür Arslan-Ayaydin, James Thewissen and Wouter Torsin

It ain’t over until it’s over: English auctions with subsequent negotiations pp. 121-124

Onur Koska and Frank Stähler

Can workers’ increased pessimism about the labor market conditions raise unemployment? pp. 125-134

Jaylson Jair da Silveira and Gilberto Lima

The welfare implications of housing-related tax policies in China pp. 135-153

Shen Guo and Zheng Jiang

Environmental regulation and corporate R&D investment—evidence from a quasi-natural experiment pp. 154-174

Jingchang Huang, Jing Zhao and June Cao

GDP per capita IN SUB-SAHARAN Africa: A time series approach using long memory pp. 175-190

Luis Gil-Alana, Robert Mudida and Eleazar Zerbo

The imputed effect of US tariffs on wages pp. 191-197

Alexi Thompson and Henry Thompson

Local financial intermediation and foreign direct investment: Evidence from China pp. 198-216

Yao Yao, George Chen and Lin Zhang

Does the Belt and Road Initiative cause more troubled Chinese overseas investments? pp. 217-232

Gang Jin, Kunrong Shen and Yue Jiang

Understanding cryptocurrency volatility: The role of oil market shocks pp. 233-253

Libo Yin, Jing Nie and Liyan Han

How does economic policy uncertainty affect corporate diversification? pp. 254-269

Khanh Hoang, Cuong Nguyen and Hailiang Zhang

The effectiveness of the counter-cyclical loan-to-value regulation: Generic versus sector-specific rules pp. 270-288

Guangling Liu and Thabang Molise

The response of hedge fund higher moment risk to macroeconomic and illiquidity shocks pp. 289-318

François-Éric Racicot, Raymond Théoret and Greg N. Gregoriou

Strategic CSR and merger decisions in multiproduct mixed markets with state-holding corporation pp. 319-333

Mariel Leal, Arturo Garcia and Sang-Ho Lee

Determinants of defaults on P2P lending platforms in China pp. 334-348

M. Gao, J. Yen and M. Liu

Inequality hikes, saving surges, and housing bubbles pp. 349-363

Qingbin Zhao, Guoqiang Li, Xinhua Gu and Chun Kwok Lei

Commodity futures returns and policy uncertainty pp. 364-383

Deepa Bannigidadmath and Paresh Kumar Narayan

Earnings management at target firms and the acquirers’ performance pp. 384-404

Azhar Mughal, Qizhi Tao, Yicheng Sun and Xueman Xiang

Intraday analysis of the limit order bias on the ex-dividend day of U.S. common stocks pp. 405-421

Vassilis A. Efthymiou, Athanasios Episcopos, George Leledakis and Emmanouil G. Pyrgiotakis

Trade liberalization and incentives to implement antidumping protection pp. 422-437

Hiroshi Mukunoki

Macroeconomic policies and the pandemic-driven recession pp. 438-465

Celso Costa Junior, Alejandro C. Garcia-Cintado and Karlo Marques

Stock price crashes in emerging markets pp. 466-482

Min Bai, Yafeng Qin and Huiping Zhang

Do higher-order realized moments matter for cryptocurrency returns? pp. 483-499

Walid Ahmed and Mustafa Al Mafrachi

The transmission of default risk between banks and countries based on CAViaR models pp. 500-509

Wei Peng

Redistribution and wage inequality pp. 510-523

Jiancai Pi and Pengqing Zhang

Forecasting bond returns in a macro model pp. 524-545

Keqiang Hou, Xing Li, Zeguang Li and Ting Wu

Anticipated versus unanticipated productivity shocks and hours-worked pp. 547-572

Syed Ali and Irfan Qureshi

Anti-corruption courts and foreign direct investments pp. 573-582

Emre Kuvvet

A study on the motivation of financialization in emerging markets: The case of Chinese nonfinancial corporations pp. 606-623

Xingmei Xu and Chao Xuan

R&D competition and cooperation with asymmetric spillovers in an oligopoly market pp. 624-642

Nana Ishikawa and Takashi Shibata

Do sovereign ratings cause instability in cross-border emerging CDS markets? pp. 643-663

Laura Ballester and Ana González-Urteaga

Pandemic uncertainties and fiscal procyclicality: A dynamic non-linear approach pp. 664-671

Himadri Shekhar Chakrabarty and Rudra Prosad Roy

Harnessing the decomposed realized measures for volatility forecasting: Evidence from the US stock market pp. 672-689

Botao Lu, Feng Ma, Jiqian Wang, Hui Ding and M.I.M. Wahab

Land finance, land attracting investment and housing price fluctuations in China pp. 690-699

Ren Wang and Jie Hou

Crisis response of nursing homes during COVID-19: Evidence from China pp. 700-710

Yu Liang and Junzhuo Xu