Research in International Business and Finance

2004 - 2025

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Volume 74, issue C, 2025

Relational capital’s contribution to international success: Evidence from family-owned wineries and olive oil mills in Spain

Valeriano Sanchez-Famoso, Myriam Cano-Rubio and Guadalupe Fuentes-Lombardo

Multi-media textual information, COVID-19 sentiment and bond spread

Funing Liu and Xiaolin Zhang

Sustainability-linked bonds, corporate commitment and the cost of debt

Massimo Mariani, D’Ercole, Francesco, Domenico Frascati and Giuseppe Fraccalvieri

In the name of the law: How does legal distance affect US international mutual funds’ financial performance?

Jorge Fleta-Asín and Fernando Muñoz

Climate risk perception and oil financialization in China: Evidence from a time-varying Granger model

Xiaohang Ren, Chenjia Fu and Yi Jin

Financial flexibility or financial constraints? Zero-leverage firms during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jiyoon Choi

Board gender diversity, CEO power and LGBTQ-supportive corporate policies

Sanjukta Brahma and Agyenim Boateng

Do foreign institutional investors curb carbon emissions? Evidence from an emerging economy

Hao Liu, Xue Tang and Jyun-Ying Fu

Energy transition, institutional quality, and financial development in Africa

Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh, Younes Ben Zaied and Faisal Mahmoud

Long-span multi-layer spillovers between moments of advanced equity markets: The role of climate risks

Matteo Foglia, Vasilios Plakandaras, Rangan Gupta and Qiang Ji

Determinants of credit spreads and cash flow-related lending in commercial real estate

Ricarda Haffki and Kerstin Hennig

Green investments and their effect on ESG ratings: An empirical analysis of Chinese publicly traded companies

Bo Hou, Wenhui Huang, Xiji Wang and Jizhou Wang

Decentralized autonomous organizations: The new global digital venture capital

Ilan Alon, Andreas Sauge Berthelsen, Espen Bjellerås and Bernardo Silva-Rêgo

The spillover effects between renewable energy tokens and energy assets

Yajie Yang, Longfeng Zhao, Lin Chen, Chao Wang and Gang-Jin Wang

Easing the squeeze: How do acquisitions relieve target firms’ financial constraints?

Sadok El Ghoul, Gong, Zhaoran (Jason) and Omrane Guedhami

Private equity and financial distress: A bibliometric literature review

Cristina De Silva, Belinda Laura Del Gaudio, Anna Gervasoni and Michele Lertora

Climate policy and corporate green transformation: Empirical evidence from carbon emission trading

Lin Liu, Liqun Liu, Kai Liu and Ana Isabel Jiménez-Zarco

Harnessing digital finance for sustainability: An integrative review and research agenda

Sanchita Bansal, Satish Kumar, Searat Ali, Shifali Singh, Priya Nangia and Umesh Bamel

Green finance for achieving environmental sustainability in G7 countries: Effects and transmission channels

Henda Omri, Bilel Jarraya and Montassar Kahia

Achieving energy resilience: The joint role of environmental policy stringency and environmental awareness

Amal Dabbous, Alexandre Croutzet and Matthias Horn

Extreme risk connection among the European Tourism, energy and carbon emission markets

Hongjun Zeng, Mohammad Zoynul Abedin, Abdullahi D. Ahmed and Qingcheng Huang

Environmental protection interview and corporate environmental investment: Evidence from China

Jiewei Zhang and Yi Yang

Common institutional ownership and executive pay-performance sensitivity: Mediating role of information transparency and fund occupation

Shaobo Mou, Sijia Yi, Qiufeng Zhang and Danping Liu

How does climate policy uncertainty shape corporate investment behavior?

Lili Zhao, Yibing Ma, Na Chen and Fenghua Wen

Collaboration and regulation: A dual regulatory game for the sustainable development of green housing

Qianwen Li, Tingyu Qian, Qian Hua, Jialin Min, Yizhuo Zhao, Qingyuan Wang and Ruyin Long

Sustainable synergy: Static and dynamic nexus between ESG and BRICS equity markets

Shoaib Ali, Nassar S. Al-Nassar, Muzammal Ilyas Sindhu and Muhammad Naveed

The clout of happiness and uncertainty in the environmental transition: Insights from CO2 and clean energy dynamic spillovers

Ilyes Abid, Houda BenMabrouk, Khaled Guesmi and Abir Mansour

Crossroads of volatility spillover: Interactions between Islamic and conventional financial systems

Abdelhamid Addi, Matteo Foglia, Gang-Jin Wang and Federica Miglietta

Investor sentiment and market returns: A multi-horizon analysis

Huan Huu Nguyen, Vu Minh Ngo, Luan Minh Pham and Phuc Van Nguyen

A legal origins perspective on ESG rating disagreement

Barbara Kurbus and Vasja Rant

Do economic policy uncertainties matter for economic growth? Evidence from MIDAS approaches

Zhuo Wang, Yu Wei, Yue Shang, Qian Wang and Cheng Zhao

Newly-constructed Chinese geopolitical risk index and trade stock returns

Jixiang Zhang, Qing Zeng, Elie Bouri and Giray Gözgör

Do past ESG scores efficiently predict future ESG performance?

Dilvin Taskin, Görkem Sariyer, Ece Acar and Efe Caglar Cagli

Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk

Feng Cao, Haitong Li, Xueyan Zhang and Zixi Zhang

Controlling shareholder equity pledging and tone management: Evidence from China

Manman Li and Luguang Qi

Balancing ecology and finance: The impact of carbon performance on dividend payout policy

Ramzi Benkraiem, Olfa Berrich, Nadia Lakhal, Hamza Nizar and Faten Lakhal

The effect of political connections on earnings management: Evidence from ECB-supervised banks

Catarina Proença, Mário Augusto and José Murteira

Does ESG performance affect trade credit financing? Evidence from China

Yonghui Lian, Zixin Yang and Hong Cao

Can the development of e-government make local enterprises more attractive to foreign capital: Empirical evidence from the performance of Chinese local government websites

Bofan Liu and Ruifei Guo

Detecting, characterizing, and predicting arbitrage opportunities in international rights issues

Manuel Verdú Henares, Óscar Carchano Alcina and Jesús Ruiz Andújar

Greenwashing prevention in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures: A bibliometric analysis

Agne Sneideriene and Renata Legenzova

Class imbalance Bayesian model averaging for consumer loan default prediction: The role of soft credit information

Futian Weng, Miao Zhu, Mike Buckle, Petr Hajek and Mohammad Zoynul Abedin

How do Chinese urban investment bonds affect its economic resilience? Evidence from double machine learning

Yan Fang, Yinglin Liu, Yi Yang, Brian Lucey and Mohammad Zoynul Abedin

Green bond market stability and Russia Ukraine conflict: The role of green inclusive finance

Anqi Wang, Shusheng Ding and Tianxiang Cui

Volume 73, issue PB, 2025

A paradox of emerging government securities market development

Tadashi Endo

The impact of inclusion in the MSCI EM index on firms' investment efficiency：Evidence from China

Shizheng Dong, Jiacheng Liu, Yuexing Zhang, Qian Tian and Junzhou Yan

Risk sharing framework and systemic tolerance in Indian banks: Double layer network approach

Ameet Kumar Banerjee, Molla Ramizur Rahman, Arun Kumar Misra and Ahmet Sensoy

The COVID-19 pandemic and feedback trading dynamics: Unveiling global patterns

Chia-Hsien Tang, Yen-Hsien Lee, Chan-Shin Chen and Ya-Ling Huang

Integration of investor behavioral perspective and climate change in reinforcement learning for portfolio optimization

Youssef Bouyaddou and Ikram Jebabli

The impact of carbon awareness, country-governance, and innovation on the cost of equity: Evidence from oil and gas firms

Nohade Nasrallah, Rim El Khoury, Osama F. Atayah, Hazem Marashdeh and Khakan Najaf

The effect of international diversification on investment efficiency

Alireza Askarzadeh, Kenneth Yung and Fatemeh Askarzadeh

Loan loss provisions of European banks – Does macroprudential tightening matter?

Małgorzata Olszak, Christophe Godlewski, Sylwia Roszkowska and Dorota Skała

Identifying contextual content-based risk drivers for advanced risk management strategies

Shirley Hsueh-Li Huang, Guo-Hsin Hu and Ming-Fu Hsu

How digital leadership guides ESG sustainability

Penghua Qiao, Yuying Zhao, Anna Fung and Hung-Gay Fung

Broadband infrastructure and enterprise digital transformation: Evidence from China

Meng Li, Zhengqi Wang, Linhan Shu and Haoyu Gao

Sustainable development goals and environmental performance: Exploring the contribution of governance, energy, and growth

Mirza Muhammad Naseer, Ahmed Hunjra, Alessia Palma and Tanveer Bagh

Green finance and ESG performance: A quasi-natural experiment on the influence of green financing pilot zones

Xiaoyu Ye and Xiangyu Tian

Digital transformation and corporate donations from the perspective of legitimacy management

Ruidong Mai

Booster or trapper? Corporate digital transformation and capital allocation efficiency

Yumei Fu and Chun Guo

Market reaction to EU CRD IV regulation in the banking industry

Sara Longo, Michele Fabrizi and Antonio Parbonetti

Towards the estimation of ESG ratings: A machine learning approach using balance sheet ratios

Federico Cini and Annalisa Ferrari

Are base layer blockchains establishing a new sector? Evidence from a connectedness approach

Geul Lee and Doojin Ryu

The green premium of unconventional monetary policy: Evidence from the enlarged collateral framework by the People's Bank of China

Ruoyu Chen, Guoqing Wang, Nabiha Jamil and Najaf Iqbal

Zero-leverage and firm performance – Evidence from Taiwan

Chong-Chuo Chang, San-San Kyi, Kuen-Shiou Yang and Hsiang-Pei Wu

The role of green bonds on industrial sustainability for achieving carbon neutrality: Evidence from the artificial neural network method

Chi Keung Lau, Hemachandra Padhan, Amit Kumar Das, Aviral Tiwari, Giray Gözgör and Preksha Jain

On the time-frequency effects of macroeconomic policy on growth cycles in Brazil

Paulo Matos, Douglas Alves and Valdeir Monteiro

Registration reform and stock mispricing: Causal inference based on double machine learning

Yewen Wang, Jiaxuan Tang and Cheng Li

Volume 73, issue PA, 2025

Mobile fintech adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis

Lars Hornuf, Kulondwa Safari and Johannes Voshaar

The role of institutional quality in the nexus between green financing and sustainable development

Xialing Sun, Zheng Meng, Xuchao Zhang and Jiaxi Wu

The use of positive language in equity crowdfunding pitches and fundraising success: The moderating role of punctuation

Carmen Gallucci, Antonio Salvi, Rosalia Santulli and Riccardo Tipaldi

Comparing the resilience of socially responsible and SIN investment during the COVID-19 pandemic

David Meehan and Shaen Corbet

How does the digital economy affect the green transition: The role of industrial intelligence and E-commerce

Chenchen Huang, Anna Min Du and Boqiang Lin

The audit committee’s IT expertise and its impact on the disclosure of cybersecurity risk

Zheng Guohong, Xia Zhongwei, He Feng and Xiao Zhongyi

FinTech and economic readiness: Institutional navigation amid climate risks

Shajara Ul-Durar, Yassine Bakkar, Noman Arshed, Shabana Naveed and Beifan Zhang

Connectedness and frequency connection among green bond, cryptocurrency and green energy-related metals around the COVID-19 outbreak

Hongjun Zeng, Qingcheng Huang, Mohammad Zoynul Abedin, Abdullahi D. Ahmed and Brian Lucey

Inter- and intra-connectedness between energy, gold, Bitcoin, and Gulf cooperation council stock markets: New evidence from various financial crises

Ijaz Younis, Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Waheed Ullah Shah and Xuan Tang

Does data asset disclosure contribute to the market efficiency? Evidence from China

Yanlin Wei, Junrui Zhang, Maoyong Cheng and Tingting Liu

Towards sustainability: Examining financial, economic, and societal determinants of environmental degradation

Rim El Khoury, Anna Min Du, Nohade Nasrallah, Hazem Marashdeh and Osama F. Atayah

The environmental and social performance of firms and the impact of different types of institutional ownership: A French perspective

Houssein Ballouk, Vanessa Serret and Mohamed Khenissi

Commercial bank NSFR adjustment and risk: Evidence from China

Minghui Li, Kaiyue Li, Yeni Huang and Zhongyu Cao

Green credit’s impact on pollution and economic development: A study from Vietnam

Duc Huu Nguyen, Huan Huu Nguyen, Tam Ha Minh Nguyen and Xihui Haviour Chen

Currency Internationalization, payment infrastructures and central banks: An institutional analysis of renminbi internationalization

Marina Zucker-Marques

Interconnectedness and return spillover among APEC currency exchange rates: A time-frequency analysis

Shubham Kakran, Parminder Kaur Bajaj, Dharen Pandey and Ashish Kumar

Impact of political risk on emerging market risk premiums and risk adjusted returns

Ralph Sonenshine and Aya Aboulhosn

Are stock markets efficient with respect to the Google search volume index? A robustness check of the literature studies

Sarra Ghaddab, Christian de Peretti and Lotfi Belkacem

A hybrid deep learning model for cryptocurrency returns forecasting: Comparison of the performance of financial markets and impact of external variables

Ismail Jirou, Ikram Jebabli and Amine Lahiani

Asset pricing when social preference meets lottery preference: Evidence from China

Jing Lu, Rong Ran, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Nien-Tzu Yang

Time horizon and corporate investment: Evidence from private and public firms around the world

Serkan Akguc and Jongmoo Jay Choi

The firms’ perception of global uncertainty and R&D investment: Evidence from China

Bing Lu, Wanwan Ren and Wenge Liu

Risk spillovers and diversification benefits between crude oil and agricultural commodity futures markets

Walid Mensi, Mobeen Ur Rehman, Remzi Gök, Eray Gemici and Xuan Vinh Vo

Place-based policies and local technology spillovers: Evidence from national high-tech zones in China

Donghui Li, Wei Chen and Kaixuan Hao

Geographic matching analysis between green finance development and carbon emissions in China’s new era of environmental transition

Jin Chen, Wenfei Meng, Yang Dong and Wei Zhou

The bright side of analyst coverage: Evidence from stock price resilience during COVID-19

Chao Zhang, Xiaoxiao Song and Cancan Wang

Does ESG information disclosure increase firm value? The mediation role of financing constraints in China

Hui An, Chenyang Ran and Ya Gao

Confucian culture and corporate environmental management: The role of innovation, financing constraints and managerial myopia

Anna Min Du, Mengyuan Lu, Yiyan Zhang and Zhongyuan Li

The effect of impact investing on performance of private firms

Riste Ichev and Aljoša Valentinčič

The effect of corporate executives’ academic experience on firm financialization — Evidence from listed manufacturing firms in China

Chang Li and Yongjun Hua

The impact of digital transformation on the servitization transformation of manufacturing firms

Xiaoning Sui, Huanhuan Hu and Rong Wang

Debt distribution and ESG performance: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Yue Zhang

Signaling vs. agency theory: What drives dividends of promoter-owned firms during a crisis?

Neha Gosain, Smita Kashiramka and Neeru Chaudhry

Do oil price shocks drive systematic risk premia in stock markets? A novel investment application

Riza Demirer, Onur Polat and Amin Sokhanvar

Contingent cash crunch: How do performance commitments affect acquirer liquidity?

Kai Wu, Yufei Lu and Donghui Li

Blockchain adoption and analyst forecast accuracy

Fenghua Wang, Qiang Ye, Jiang Li and Wen Shi

Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity

Can Zhang, Jingyi Liu, Mohammad Zoynul Abedin and Brian Lucey

Expansion or retrenchment: Corporate investment reactions to external security risks

Hailiang Zhang, Yao Li, Haijun Wang and Lei Yin

Connectedness across environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indices: evidence from emerging markets

Ata Assaf, Marcelo Cabus Klotzle, Rafael Baptista Palazzi and Ender Demir

Multiple large shareholders and pay-performance sensitivity: Evidence from China

Xinyu Liu, Shuanping Gao, Lijing Tong and Jiyuan Li

Uncovering patterns of fintech behavior in Italian banks: A multidimensional statistical analysis

Carlo Drago, Francesco Minnetti, Loris Di Nallo and Alberto Manzari

Investing during a Fintech revolution: The hedge and safe haven properties of Bitcoin and Ethereum

Bao Khac Quoc Nguyen and Dung Thi Ngoc Pham

Economic growth and carbon disclosure: Does board composition matter?

Jibriel Elsayih, Abdelmuttalab Amraaiyid and Abdullah Bugshan

The Global Financial Cycle and country risk in emerging markets during stress episodes: A Copula-CoVaR approach

Luis Fernando Melo-Velandia, José Romero and Mahicol Stiben Ramírez-González

Multiscale cross-sector tail credit risk spillovers in China: Evidence from EEMD-based VAR quantile analysis

Liya Hau, Xiaoli Liu and Xinyu Wu

Information flow between stock returns of advanced markets and emerging African economies

Umar-Farouk Atipaga, Imhotep Alagidede and George Tweneboah

Share pledging and non-financial corporations’ systemic risk contribution: Evidence from China

Shaofang Li, Sihua Tian and Qinen Gu

The influence of institutional void and socio-cultural factors on the internationalization of emerging multinationals

Nouhaila Ettalibi, Murugesh Arunachalam, Thao Nguyen and Kashif ur Rehman

Impact of green bonds on traditional equity markets

Ahmed Bouteska, Faruk Bhuiyan, Taimur Sharif, Badir Miftah and Mohammad Zoynul Abedin

The advantages of CBOE credit VIXs for corporate bond investors in North America: A sectoral analysis

Najaf Iqbal, Elie Bouri and Oktay Ozkan

De-localization of environmental governance and corporate innovation structure: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Lianchao Yu, Donghui Liu, Qiang Liu and Hongling Han

Examining institutional investor preferences: The influence of ESG ratings on stock holding in China's stock market

Jin Zou, Xiaoying Zhong, Chi Gong and Xiaoye Lu

Global Stock Markets during Covid-19: Did Rationality Prevail?

Alireza Talebi, George Bragues, Seham Hadlul and Agam Sharma

Product market competition and disclosure deficiencies in different mandatory filing types: Evidence from SEC comment letters

Jae Hwan Ahn and Hanyong Chung

The multilevel determinants of overlapping membership on board committees: Evidence from Chinese banks

Feng Wei and Binyan Ding

Bank Fintech and firm leverage adjustment speed: Evidence from China

Haiming Liu and Jikong Hu

Firm-level political risk and CEO compensation

Chunmi Jeon, Seung Hun Han and Yunji Hwang

OCI information and analysts’ forecast accuracy: Evidence from US commercial banks☆

Imen Fredj, Marjène Rabah Gana and Samir Trabelsi

The effect of ESG divergence on the financial performance of Hong Kong-listed firms: An artificial neural network approach

Louis T.W. Cheng, Tsun Se Cheong, Michal Wojewodzki and David Chui

Going green with digital media attention: Evidence from Chinese A-share listed companies’ environmental performance

Xin Liu and Hui Xu

Carry trade behavior by non-US banks

Yasutake Homma and Katsushi Suzuki

Impact of fund cliques on corporate cash dividends: Evidence from China

Yumei Feng, Hongxin Pei, Yuying Pan and Kung-Cheng Ho

Supply chain finance and outward foreign direct investment

Kai Wang, Ning Ding and Chenbo Wang

Corporate ESG performance and credit misallocation: Evidence from China

Yicheng Kuai, Peiwen Wang and Guanglin Huang

Enterprise value and risk taking in the banking industry: Cooperatives vs. corporations

Valter Lazzari and Luigi Vena

Role of financial development and inclusivity in moderating the environmental effects of human development

Alina Cristina Nuta, Olivier Joseph Abban, Hicham Ayad and Florian Nuta

Influence of green ICT and socioeconomic factors on sustainable development: Evidence from Chinese provinces

Muhammad Zubair Chishti, Muhammad Salam, Sorphasith Xaisongkham and Anna Min Du

Small and medium-sized enterprises and sustainable transition: Role of FinTech in a country's banking ecosystem

Andrea Quintiliani

Asymmetry in returns and volatility between green financial assets, sustainable investments, clean energy, and international stock markets

Buhari Doğan, Sami Ben Jabeur, Aviral Tiwari and Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah

Impact of central bank digital currency uncertainty on international financial markets

Zheng Lü, Oguzhan Ozcelebi and Seong-Min Yoon

Inclusive finance and sustainability: The dynamic spillover effects of uncertainties on access to credit

Yunpeng Sun, Giray Gözgör, Chi Keung Lau and Alaa M. Soliman

Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification

Irene Henriques and Perry Sadorsky

Interlinkage between lending and borrowing tokens and US equity sector: Implications for social finance

Shoaib Ali, Ting Zhang and Imran Yousaf

A step toward the attainment of carbon neutrality and SDG-13: Role of financial depth and green technology innovation

Sunil Tiwari, Arshian Sharif, Emrah Sofuoğlu and Florian Nuta

Insights for sustainable business practices: Comparative impact of independent and corporate venture capital funding on financial and environmental performance

Fatima Shuwaikh, Agathe Tanguy, Emmanuelle Dubocage and Othman Alolah

Micro-mechanisms of digitalization-driven financing for renewable energy: Growing capital pools and shifting flows

Siquan Wang, Anna Min Du and Boqiang Lin

“Volatility in a Mug Cup”: Spillovers among cocoa, coffee, sugar futures and the role of climate policy risk

Jiamin Ge, Anna Min Du and Boqiang Lin

Digital development and rural financial inclusion: Evidence from China

YiZheng Wang and ZhenTian Zhang