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Volume 88, issue C, 2023

Has the opening of high-speed rail narrowed the inter-county economic gap? The perspective of China's state-designated poor counties pp. 1-13

Ming Chen, Xiucai Liu, Xiancheng Xiong and Jiao Wu

Does digitization drive corporate social responsibility? pp. 14-26

Wei Jiang, Jiahao Wu and Xiaozhong Yang

Hedging Covid-19 risk with ESG disclosure pp. 27-46

Yuqian Jin, Qingfu Liu, Yiuman Tse and Kaixin Zheng

Information and communication technology and innovation performance of firms: Evidence from Chinese listed state-owned enterprises pp. 47-59

Bin He, Haiyang Chen, Zheng Li and Xizhen Zhou

Religion and household borrowing: Evidence from China pp. 60-72

Dawei Feng, Mengtao Gao and Li Zhou

Can green finance development abate carbon emissions: Evidence from China pp. 73-91

Jiaqi Wang, Jiaxin Tian, Yuxin Kang and Kun Guo

Factors behind the performance of green bond markets pp. 92-106

Oluwasegun Adekoya, Emmanuel J.A. Abakah, Johnson A. Oliyide and Luis Gil-Alana

Do independent directors’ scientific achievements matter? Evidence from over-investment of Chinese listed firms pp. 107-122

Minghao Fang, Conggang Li, Wenlan Wang and Rong Xu

Stock hyping before auction-style SEOs: Are primary market investors misled? pp. 123-140

Shenghao Gao, Jinzhao Liu, Qi Zhang and Jun Zhou

What can we learn from the convenience yield of Bitcoin? Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis pp. 141-153

Gideon Bruce Arkorful, Haiqiang Chen, Ming Gu and Xiaoqun Liu

How does high-speed railway opening affect stock price synchronicity? pp. 154-177

Lei Zhou, Yuansheng Wang, Caiquan Bai and Weiwei Xiao

Urban administrative hierarchy and urban land use efficiency: Evidence from Chinese cities pp. 178-195

Binbin Yu and Xinru Zhou

The impact of Brexit on U.K. habits for expenditure on imports and consumption pp. 196-203

Adrian R. Fleissig and James L. Swofford

How does China's crude oil futures affect the crude oil prices at home and abroad? Evidence from the cross-market exchange rate spillovers pp. 204-222

Chuanwang Sun, Yiqi Peng and Yanhong Zhan

Online search attention, firms’ ESG and operating performance pp. 223-236

Xuezhou Zhao, Libing Fang and Ke Zhang

State ownership and credit rationing: Evidence From China pp. 237-257

Han Gao, Jie Li, Fang Liu and Jin Wu

A non-parametric synthesize measure for corporate governance: empirical evidence from Indian banks pp. 258-279

Rohit Kumar Singh and Supran Kumar Sharma

A factor pricing model based on machine learning algorithm pp. 280-297

Yi Fang, Yuzhi Chen and Hang Ren

Time-varying spillover networks of green bond and related financial markets pp. 298-317

Ping Wei, Kang Yuan, Xiaohang Ren, Cheng Yan and Zudi Lu

Corporate governance, moral hazard, and financialization pp. 318-331

Zehao Liu, Huoqing Tang and Chengsi Zhang

Systemic risk propagation in the Eurozone: A multilayer network approach pp. 332-346

Matteo Foglia, Vincenzo Pacelli and Gang-Jin Wang

How does bubble risk propagate among financial assets? A perspective from the BSADF-vine copula model pp. 347-364

Can-Zhong Yao, Min-Jian Li and Xin Xu

Do bitcoin news information flow and return volatility fit the sequential information arrival hypothesis and the mixture of distribution hypothesis? pp. 365-385

Ke-Hsin Chou, Min-Yuh Day and Chien-Liang Chiu

Do individuals and institutions make different short selling strategies around the 52-week highs? pp. 386-407

Mei-Chen Lin and Meng Ping Chou

On the marketing effect of financial analysts: Evidence from investor bids in SEO auctions pp. 408-428

Mingjing Yang, Xiaoke Cheng, Jenny Xinjiao Guan, Shenghao Gao and Jia Liu

Are Chinese residents willing to pay for green express packaging and to participate in express packaging recycling? pp. 429-441

Boqiang Lin and Xia Wang

The impact of differential risk disclosures: Evidence from cross-listed firms in China and Hong Kong pp. 442-457

Paul Brockman, Xi Gao, Xu Li and You Xu

Forecasting VIX with time-varying risk aversion pp. 458-475

Xinyu Wu, Qizhi He and Haibin Xie

Betting against low nominal prices: Evidence from China pp. 476-500

Bing Zhang

Board gender diversity and cost of equity: Evidence from mandatory female board representation pp. 501-515

Chen Jun, Liu Qiyuan, Ma Xiaofang and Zhang, Feida (Frank)

Outward foreign direct investment and urban green productivity: Promote or inhibit? pp. 516-530

Juntian Wang, Jingwei Chen and Rongrong Li

Economic policy uncertainty and business performance: The moderating role of service transformation pp. 531-546

Ling Ou, Zhibin Zhang, Renyu Li and Zhuo Chen

Interconnectivity and investment strategies among commodity prices, cryptocurrencies, and G-20 capital markets: A comparative analysis during COVID-19 and Russian-Ukraine war pp. 547-593

Sanjeev Kumar, Reetika Jain, Narain,, Faruk Balli and Syed Billah

Does carbon risk amplify environmental uncertainty? pp. 594-606

Bin Gao, Jinlong Zhang and Xiaofeng Liu

Digital finance and stock price crash risk pp. 607-619

Yongfang Ai, Guanglin Sun and Tao Kong

Does financial development matter the accomplishment of rural revitalization? Evidence from China pp. 620-633

Shuaishuai Fan, Meihui Jiang, Daoyuan Sun and Shunkai Zhang

Factors affecting trade credit in India pp. 634-649

Debidutta Pattnaik and H. Kent Baker

Managerial foreign experience and outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China pp. 650-669

Wen Wen, Yun Ke, Tingyu Zhao and Mengjiao Zhang

Build resilience to overcome panic? Examining the global capital market during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 670-682

Ming Liu, Qizhi Tao, Xiangjin Wang and Hongyong Zhou

Inventor CEO and technology M&A pp. 683-697

Nan Lin, Ao Li, Han Chen and Wenchuan Chen

Forecasting crude oil prices: A reduced-rank approach pp. 698-711

Yixuan Song, Mengxi He, Yudong Wang and Yaojie Zhang

Skill choice and dynamic efficiency: The effects of skill subsidies pp. 712-722

Hung-Ju Chen

Liquidity spillover between ETFs and their constituents pp. 723-747

D. Pham Son, Ben R. Marshall, Nhut H. Nguyen and Nuttawat Visaltanachoti

Do trade credit and bank credit complement or substitute each other in public and private firms? pp. 748-765

Godfred Adjapong Afrifa, Ishmael Tingbani, Ahmad Alshehabi and Hussein Halabi

Financial distress and corporate transparency/opacity: The role of firm visibility pp. 766-798

Cemil Kuzey, Ali Uyar, Shaista Wasiuzzaman, Abdullah S. Karaman and Petra Inwinkl

Don't miss out on NFTs?! A sentiment-based analysis of the early NFT market pp. 799-814

Florian Horky, Lili Dubbick, Franziska Rhein and Jarko Fidrmuc

Hedging firm's idiosyncratic risk from commodity financialization pp. 815-842

Baochen Yang, Peixuan Geng and Ying Fan

R&D investment management and ambidextrous technological innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms pp. 843-860

Duan Liu, Yuntian Jiang, Qianzhen Zhou and Shujie Yao

Does managerial ability drive frequent acquisitions? The role of strategic agency, firm innovativeness, and environmental uncertainty pp. 861-873

Chandra S. Mishra

How does actual relative to target leverage affect reinsurance use? pp. 874-890

Xiaoyi Li and Yung-Ming Shiu

Measuring Chinese climate uncertainty pp. 891-901

Kiryoung Lee and Juik Cho

Deliberate premarket underpricing: New evidence on IPO pricing using machine learning pp. 902-927

Davood Pirayesh Neghab, Reza Bradrania and Robert Elliott

Managerial ability and investment to price sensitivity pp. 928-941

Jianghua Shen and Lingmin Xie

How does environmentally induced R&D affect carbon productivity? A government support perspective pp. 942-961

Shikuan Zhao, Yuequn Cao, Ahmed Hunjra and Yan Tan

Calendar anomalies in stock market returns: Evidence from Middle East countries pp. 962-980

Ali A. Shehadeh and Min Zheng

Financial development, legal systems and SME finance: Cross-country evidence pp. 981-1002

Hongzhi Wang, Xin Xiang and Liang Han

Carbon allowance auction design of China's ETS: A comprehensive hierarchical system based on blockchain pp. 1003-1019

Xun-Qi Chen, Chao-Qun Ma, Yi-Shuai Ren and Yu-Tian Lei

Output gap and consumption risk on the cross-section of stock returns in Korea pp. 1020-1034

Byeung-Joo Lee and Ji Ho Kwon

Frequency domain causality and quantile connectedness between investor sentiment and cryptocurrency returns pp. 1035-1051

Huiming Zhu, Zhanming Xing, Yinghua Ren, Yiwen Chen and Liya Hau

Does the administrative approval reform impact firm's investment decisions? pp. 1052-1067

Bo Cheng, Zhuming Guo, Ting Xiong and Baoyin Qiu

Innovation or imitation? The impacts of financial factors on green and general research and development pp. 1068-1086

Ruohan Wu

Predicting stock market returns using aggregate credit risk pp. 1087-1103

Tangrong Li and Xuchu Sun

Carbon intensity, default risk, and investors’ attention to environment: Evidence from South Korea pp. 1104-1121

Dojoon Park, Yong Joo Kang and Jiyoon Lee

Do CEOs’ social networks affect carbon emissions in China? The moderating role of CEO reputation pp. 1122-1137

Panni Li, Zhongguo Lin, Binbin Peng and Huibin Du

Does venture capital improve corporate social responsibility performance? pp. 1138-1150

Ronghua Luo, Baofang Zhao, Chunjia Han and Sen Wang

Evolution of digital economy research: A bibliometric analysis pp. 1151-1172

Yan Xia, Gongming Lv, Huijuan Wang and Lin Ding

Attention allocation and cryptocurrency return co-movement: Evidence from the stock market pp. 1173-1185

Yitong Hu, Dehua Shen and Andrew Urquhart

Entrusted investment in China: Firm characteristics and economic consequences pp. 1186-1203

Rongli Yuan, Shengjie Xia and Ruijing Li

The 15 West African countries as an optimum currency area and the role of labour mobility in the adjustment to asymmetric shocks pp. 1204-1222

Dennis Nchor

Bank stability in the uncollateralised overnight interbank market: A topological analysis pp. 1223-1246

Ye Bai, Pia Weiss, Victor Murinde and Christopher J. Green

The effect of stock market liberalization on corporate cash savings sensitivity: Evidence from China pp. 1247-1271

Yulin Chen, Haozhe Han, Xieyang Shen and Jianyu Zeng

Does digital finance development affect carbon emission intensity: Evidence from China pp. 1272-1286

Fengzhi Lu, Zhongwu Li and Shuai Zhang

Can green finance improve the financial performance of green enterprises in China? pp. 1287-1300

Bo Yu, Lu Liu and Hong Chen

Carbon reduction consciousness, determinants and value of low-carbon transition: Evidence from textual and empirical analysis of Chinese listed manufacturing enterprises pp. 1301-1323

Huabin Bian, Fei Jin and Xinle Tong

How much do public and private sectors invest in physical and human capital? Towards a new classification of investments pp. 1324-1336

Wojtek Paczos, Jakub Sawulski and Filip Leśniewicz

Downside and upside risk spillovers between financial industry and real economy based on linear and nonlinear networks pp. 1337-1374

Youtao Xiang and Sumuya Borjigin

Technology management has a significant impact on digital transformation in the banking sector pp. 1375-1388

Luís Filipe Rodrigues, Abílio Oliveira and Helena Rodrigues

Is ChatGPT competent? Heterogeneity in the cognitive schemas of financial auditors and robots pp. 1389-1396

Tian Wei, Han Wu and Gang Chu

Asymmetric spillover from Bitcoin to green and traditional assets: A comparison with gold pp. 1397-1417

Kun Duan, Yanqi Zhao, Zhong Wang and Yujia Chang

Trust in banks, financial inclusion and the mediating role of borrower discouragement pp. 1418-1431

Isaac Koomson, Paul Koomson and Abdallah Abdul-Mumuni

Choice of trade policy for international oligopoly with incomplete information pp. 1432-1443

Haokai Ning

Cryptocurrencies are not immune to coronavirus: Evidence from investor fear pp. 1444-1463

Lai T. Hoang and Dirk G. Baur

Revisiting environmental Kuznets curve: The effects of foreign aid on air quality in Africa pp. 1464-1474

Zhicheng Xu and Yu Zhang

Do credit rating agencies listen to investors’ voices on social media? Evidence from China pp. 1475-1499

Yu Liu, Lingxuan Yang and Jing Zhou

The value-growth premium in a time-varying risk return framework pp. 1500-1512

Keehwan Park, Mookwon Jung and Zhongzheng Fang

Environmental regulation and stock price synchronicity: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China pp. 1513-1528

Jing Chen and Xinghe Liu

Does financial inclusion promote consumption smoothing? Evidence from emerging and developing economies pp. 1529-1546

Tony Cavoli and Sasidaran Gopalan

Corporate social network, ownership structure, and corporate financing constraints: Evidence from China pp. 1547-1564

Tianjiao Zhao, Ming Xiao and Bingshi Zhang

Stock liquidity, cash flow sensitivity and the value of cash pp. 1565-1581

Helen Spiropoulos and Ruoyun Zhao

Corporate social responsibility and corporate fraud in China: The perspective of moderating effect of board gender diversity pp. 1582-1601

Shaner Chu, Erin Oldford and Jun Wang

A systematic literature review of blockchain technology and environmental sustainability: Status quo and future research pp. 1602-1622

Ameena Arshad, Faisal Shahzad, Ijaz Ur Rehman and Bruno S. Sergi