Research in International Business and Finance

2004 - 2026

Current editor(s): T. Lagoarde Segot

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Volume 89, issue C, 2026

Non-linear ESG effects on Jensen’s Alpha: Evidence from a CAPM-based framework

Massimo Postiglione, Alberto Falini and Paolo Zaninelli

Crowdfunding in a shifting landscape: The impact of competition and exogenous shocks on platform dynamics

Burze Yasar, Işıl Sevilay Yılmaz and Ayça Tekin-Koru

Deposit insurance, bank competition, and corporate lending in China: A loan-level analysis

Qian Chen and Xinyu Zhan

Information-driven carbon emissions trading and firm green investment

Pan Yang, Yanfang Zhao, Lin Yang, Maura Sheehan and Juanjuan Xia

The corporate biodiversity exposure effects on ESG performance

Shusheng Ding, Chang Su, Shanshan Qu and Hongjie Pan

The role of retail investor attention in shaping corporate diversification strategies: Evidence from China

Sili Mao, Ming Xiao and Qinru Wang

Dynamic:connectedness among global technology-linked financial assets: Portfolio implications

Zaheer Anwer, Zakaria Boulanouar, Saqib Farid and Amoon Akhtar

Saving planet earth or maximizing financial gains: A global analysis of environmental performance positioning as an ESG strategy

Louis T.W. Cheng, Kwok Yuen Fan, Jianfu Shen and Qing Yu

The identity of capital: Why does the market assign asymmetric price weights to foreign investors?

Yang Li, Jiankai Xiang, Yang Wang and Yongqiang Meng

Does green finance moderate the impact of geopolitical risk on environmental sustainability? Evidence from G7 economies

Tarek Ghazouani and Marwa Mhaidi

Mid-market private equity investments as a tool to enlarge company size in Spain

Annalisa Croce, Jose Martí and Elisa Ughetto

The Sentiment Cascade: A sequential structure from earnings calls through media and investors to market reaction

Chuan-Chun Ho and Dong-Shang Chang

From survival to silos: CEOs with famine experience and corporate collaborative culture

Chun Tang, Lei Tan and Xiaoxing Liu

The impact of trading mechanism reforms on behavioral biases: Evidence from Taiwan stock market

Jui-Cheng Hung, Chien-Liang Chiu, Chien-Ming Huang and Chun-Pin Liao

The seasonality of India's gold price premium and discount: Evidence from world gold council and MCX India

Imlak Shaikh, Priyanka Vallabh and Leena A. Kaushal

Institutional capital and corporate innovation frictions: Evidence from China’s university science parks

Qing Zhou, Jinghua Tang, Qigui Liu and Wei Huang

Corporate investment under different manifestations of climate policy uncertainty: An analysis within a real options framework

Sheng Xu, Shufang Liu and Xin Wang

When the state buys: Public procurement and supplier climate risk transparency

Yu Qin, Wei Huang, Zongyan Li and Hong Zhang

State assets supervision reform: Does it boost SOEs' digital innovation quantity and quality?

Qi-an Chen and Shiyao Min

Solvency and provisioning under aggressive monetary tightening: Bank risk responses to policy shocks

Zhongtian Chen, Birjees Rahat, Chi Wei Su and Monica Violeta Achim

Why do ESG disagree? A survey of measurement, methodology, and financial outcomes

Latifa Al Fadhel and Jeevananthan Manickavasagam

Green finance transmission mechanisms and renewable energy deployment: Threshold effects in EU carbon markets

Apostolos Ampountolas and Yagmur Saglam

The impact of artificial intelligence development on urban economic resilience: A carbon emissions perspective

Gaofeng Zong, Ruoyu Wang, Peiyu Guo and Qiguang An

Using on-chain data to predict Bitcoin cycles

Klaus Grobys, Sebastian Näsman and Davide Sandretto

Inhibiting or promoting corporate digital technology usage: How do companies respond to climate risks?

Shuang Zhao, Hongjuan Yu, Xiaoping Wang, Haiyan Zhou, Feng Hu and Yufeng Chen

Unlocking the power of fintech: Nonlinear impacts on new quality productive forces

Jinyi Wang, Chuqi Cui, Liang He and Hao Dong

Green innovation in a warming climate: Substantive commitment or strategic response?

Qunyang Du, Liner Bao, Zhongyuan Li and Zheyu Xu

The dynamic relationship among private and public markets and its most important features

Adnan Aslam and Rayenda Brahmana

The value of words: Data asset disclosure and firm reputation

Zain Ul Abideen and Kai Wu

Artificial intelligence and cross-regional capital flows: Evidence from corporate cross-regional investment

Linfeng Zhang and Bing Zhou

Volume 88, issue C, 2026

Controlling shareholders’ over-appointment of directors and the cost of debt financing

Jing Lu and Yuke Huang

Cross-continental analysis: Culture, ESG disclosure, and bank performance nexus

Elena Fedorova, Svetlana Ledyaeva, Elena Meshkova, Olga Loktionova and Valentin Stepanov

The economic value of ESG practices: New evidence from the overcapacity reduction effect of ESG performance

Yonghuan Yan, Xuena Liu and Lu Li

How does the effectiveness of external supervision affect corporate opportunistic behavior? Identification based on corporate R&D manipulation

Zhennan Sun and Qunyang Du

Volatility prediction model based on EPU-GPR-VIX multidimensional portfolio

Cheng Ye, HongJing Ou and Qianyi Chen

Digital Transformation of Firms and ESG Rating Divergence: An International Context

Qian Wang, Liming Zhao, Bill Wang, Jianli Luo and Yan Jiang

Artificial intelligence and corporate investment efficiency: Quasi-experimental evidence from China

Wen Li, Wang Liao and Xuesong Tang

Vertical institutional ownership and analyst forecast bias: Evidence from industry chain equity linkages

Li Li, Xuanhao Huang, Tiantian Li and Erxia Tian

Natural gas and financial commodities towards resilience: A novel factor-based connectedness model

Giorgos Kotsompolis, Panayotis G. Michaelides, Theodoulos-Eleftherios Papadakis, Evangelos Sfakianakis and Christos Tasioulas

Labor inflexibility and investment sensitivity to value-added growth

Enxi An and Kenneth Yung

From ESG risk to financial strength: How controversy management and corporate governance shape resilience

Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo and Tarsisius Renald Suganda

Friend or foe? The impact of controlling shareholders’ share pledging on firms’ financial distress risk: A cash flow perspective

Huixia Geng, Wei Theng Lau and Hongbing Zhu

More words than actions: CEO overconfidence and digital decoupling

Qi Chen, Haoran Liang and Menghan Li

Does sentiment analysis bring more responsive and comprehensive commodity price forecasting: Case of machine learning models?

Kenza Elkarnighi, Abdelkader El Alaoui, Malek Sarhani and Said Ouatik El Alaoui

CEOs’ green governance abilities and corporate green innovation

Cai, Chu’an, Siyu Huang and Donghui Li

Ethical culture as a catalyst for SMEs’ financial sustainability: The role of sustainability innovations and regenerative environmental practices

Tiffany C.H. Leung, Peggy M.L. Ng, Calvin Wan and Jason K.Y. Chan

Does climate policy uncertainty exacerbate systemic risk contagion among banks? Evidence from China

Yun Chen and Minhua Ouyang

Invest for customer: Customer orientation and investment efficiency

Chengcheng Liu, Ziyi Wang and Yu-En Lin

Idiosyncratic risk down, contagion risk up: FinTech and macroprudential limits

Yangjingzhuo Liu and Shuang Liang

Volume 87, issue C, 2026

Bioeconomy enters the market: The effect of bioeconomy policies on stock market returns

Florian Grebe, Leonard Grebe and Daniel Hermann

A study on the mechanism of Fintech to improve the resilience of China's capital market

Dingsheng Zeng, Jie Zhou and Lei Wang

Diversification effect of green assets on cryptocurrencies: New evidence from R2 connectedness measures and multivariate portfolio strategies

Hongli Niu and Wenwen Gao

Monetary policy and corporate financialization: Does banking uncertainty matter?

Japan Huynh

Research on the impact of U.S. monetary policy uncertainty on international oil price forecasting: A deep learning approach based on frequency domain decomposition

Guanhao Bao and Baisheng Cui

How carbon markets reshape the structure of traditional energy markets: New evidence from EU energy and carbon markets

Tao Ling, Ying Fan and Xuan Mo

Expansion of local government debt and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China

Feifei Li, Ruile Xue, Mingyue Du and Yang Yang

Asymmetric risk spillovers and multiscale interconnectedness in sustainable financial markets: A time-varying frequency analysis

Bashir A. Wahab, Adeolu O. Adewuyi, Aviral Kumar Tiwari and Chi-Chuan Lee

Green cryptocurrencies and portfolio diversification in lesser-developed economies

Fahad Ali, Tabassum Kamal and Qinye Lu

Climate risk and firm location choice: Based on the empirical evidence of supply chains

Lijia Yang, Yanxi Li and Weigang Dong

Does FinTech security matter for the stability of commercial banks?

Xiaojie Chen

Corporate charitable giving and agency problem: Evidence from a business group

Yu Kyung Lee

Formal institutions and financial inclusion: Evidence from cross-country analysis

Yiqing Peng, Niels Hermes and Robert Lensink

Corporate digital transformation and M&A completion: Evidence from China

Lin Yu, Qi Yin and Yifan Zhan

Do dividends signal information about capital allocation: Evidence from intra-group loans?

Liubing Cheng, Yanyan Chen and Bing Zhu

How do green investors drive firms toward a win-win of carbon reduction and value creation?

Ziru Tang, Zenglian Zhang and Chenrui Zhang

The information transfer effect of local government debt on corporate investment

Yuqi Yang and Chen Cheng

Market responses to sentiment shocks: A machine learning approach to major sporting events

Tchai Tavor

Regulatory fragmentation and corporate ESG performance: Evidence from China

Chenyi Li, Pengcheng Ma and Yang Zhong

Catering or governance: The impact of customer concentration on corporate ESG greenwashing

Yueqin Guan, Zhuangzhuang Niu and Liping Xu

Aligning ESG talk and walk: The effect of corporate site visits on ESG decoupling

Xinyi Zhang, Muhammad Usman Khurram, Yuexiang Jiang and M. Kabir Hassan

Bank efficiency and the role of intangible assets: Evidence from multinational analysis and a meta-SFA approach

Wenhui Zhu and Takashi Hatakeda

Time-frequency return and volatility spillovers among CBDC uncertainty, cryptocurrency uncertainty, and ESG stock indexes

Jieru Wan, Libo Yin, You Wu and Lei Wu

Managers' tax administration experience and firms' direct investment in tax havens: Empirical evidence from China

Xiaozhen Pan and Lijuan Cai

Digital technology risk disclosures and corporate bond risk premium

Congcong Wang, Xueying Zhang, Liying Qian and Tangkun Xie

Public emergencies and stock price synchronicity: Evidence from China

Tong Li, Chunfeng Wang, Xin Cui, Duo Niu and Shouyu Yao

Retail cryptocurrency adoption and the progress of Central Bank Digital Currencies

Thabet Bakheet Thabet and Charilaos Mertzanis

How maturity-mismatched investment influences firms’ morality performance: Active pursuit or forced compromise

Jingwen Xu, Meng Xu, Decheng Fan and Xu Yang

The impact of leverage volatility on risk: A tug-of-war between amplification and attenuation effects

Zhiyong Zheng, Ahmed Hunjra, Suha Mahmoud Alawi and Xiaodong Yang

New frontiers in digital finance: An exploratory study on a sample of Italian FinTech companies

Simona Arduini, Pinar Ünal, Chiara Di Mario and Tommaso Mattei

The impact of Chinese local government hidden debt on corporate ESG greenwashing

Lei Deng, Yizhen Fu, Yu Chen and Meiling Wang

Dividends in the storm: Navigating firm-level climate change risk exposure

Marco Di Antonio, Laura Nieri and Giulio Velliscig