Research in International Business and Finance

Article	Citations
Information demand and net selling around earnings announcement	210
Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in the banking sector: A multi-stakeholder cognition-driven framework	180
Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility through Green Finance Legislation	170
FinTech and economic readiness: Institutional navigation amid climate risks	134
Long memory and volatility persistence across BRICS stock markets	123
When giants fall: Tracing the ripple effects of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse on global financial markets	98
Governance network externality: Exploring systemic risk generation mechanisms	97
Internal monitoring mechanisms and corporate environmental and social performance: Evidence from Korea	88
How do economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk drive Bitcoin volatility?	85
How socially sustainable multinational banks promote financial inclusion in developing countries	85
The crossroads of ESG and religious screening on firm risk	82
Social media, investor-company interaction and insider trading profitability: Evidence from China	81
Motivation of discretionary goodwill impairments	76
Coronavirus disease outbreak and supply chain disruption: Evidence from Taiwanese firms in China	74
The impact of sovereign credit ratings on Eurobond yields: Evidence from Africa	72
Editorial Board	71
Gender Diversity Index. Measuring persistence	71
Editorial Board	71
Critical dimensions in the empirical measurement of common shareholding	68
How do partial acquisitions affect the wealth of acquiring firms? The case of Japanese firms	67
Perceived vs actual financial crisis and bank credit standards: Is there any indication of self-fulfilling prophecy?	67
Does market quality benefit from internationalization? Evidence from Chinese commodity futures markets	67
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	65
Asset pricing during pandemic lockdown	63
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	63

Rookie independent directors and audit fees: Evidence from China	61
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	61
Hedging gas in a multi-frequency semiparametric CVaR portfolio	59
Global economic policy uncertainty and the stability of cryptocurrency returns: The role of liquidity volatility	58
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	56
Tail-risk interconnectedness in the Chinese insurance sector	56
Editorial Board	56
Acquisition for innovations? M&A intensity and intra-firm innovation reallocations	56
Puzzling retrenchment of banking outflows: The role of information asymmetry	56
Does economics and management education make managers more cautious? Evidence from R&D of Chinese listed firms	55
Business model contributions to bank profit performance: A machine learning approach	55
The mediating role of competition on deposit insurance and the risk-taking of banks in ASEAN countries	51
Institutional determinants of bid–ask spreads in Caribbean offshore stock exchanges	51
Family firms and the cost of borrowing: empirical evidence from East Asia	51
Macro-financial implications of central bank digital currencies	51
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	49
Editorial Board	48
Emerging market exchange rates during quantitative tapering: The effect of US and domestic news	48
Interdependence between foreign exchange rate and international reserves: Fresh evidence from China	48
Factorial asset pricing models using statistical anomalies	47
Short-term financing sources in Africa: Substitutes or complements?	47
Editorial Board	46
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	46
Do foreign ownership and home-host country distance matter? Evidence on the impact of bank market power on liquidity creation in a selected Southeast Asian country	45
Selling options to beat the market: Further empirical evidence	45
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	45
Structure and evolution of the greenfield FDI network along the belt and road	45
Supply chain risks and the cost of debt: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	44
Return and volatility connectedness between agricultural tokens and us equity sectors	44
The relationship between share pledge and corporate performance: Does corporate governance matter?	44
The gender gap in trust in Banks	44
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	44
Does green finance promote green transformation of the real economy?	43
A bibliometric analysis of ESG performance in the banking industry: From the current status to future directions	43
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	42
ESG, governance variables and Fintech: An empirical analysis	42
The maturity effect of stock index futures: Speculation or carry arbitrage?	41
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	40
Political risk in banks: A review and agenda	40
Economic policy uncertainty: Persistence and cross-country linkages	40
Winners and losers from financial sector openness: A Firm’s international exposure matters	39
Countering money laundering and terrorist financing: A case for bitcoin regulation	39
Peer effects with multifaceted network dependence structures in R&D investment decisions: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	39
Return spillover across the carbon market and financial markets: A quantile-based approach	37
Financial stability: A scientometric analysis and research agenda	37
Benefits of sectoral cryptocurrency portfolio optimization	37
Big data analytics, firm risk and corporate policies: Evidence from China	36
Extreme state media reporting and the extreme stock market during COVID-19: A multi-quantile VaR Granger causality approach in China	36
Is climate transition risk priced into corporate credit risk? Evidence from credit default swaps	36
Expectation or risk aversion when outward foreign direct investment firms invest in the belt and road: Evidence from China	35

Monetary policy shocks and Bitcoin prices	35
Existence of long memory in crude oil and petroleum products: Generalised Hurst exponent approach	35
COVID-19 and investment–cash flow sensitivity: A cross-country analysis	35
Re-evaluating portfolio diversification and design using cryptocurrencies: Are decentralized cryptocurrencies enough?	34
Commodity market stability and sustainable development: The effect of public health policies	34
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	34
Downside risk in Dow Jones Islamic equity indices: Precious metals and portfolio diversification before and after the COVID-19 bear market	33
Does social media distort price discovery? Evidence from rumor clarifications	33
Vulnerability of financial markets in India: The contagious effect of COVID-19	33
The financial conservatism of firms in emerging economies	32
The impact of banks’ climate engagement on systemic risk. Does committing a little or a lot make a difference?	32
Editorial Board	32
Economic policy uncertainty and financing structure: A new panel data evidence from selected Asian economies	31
Does market efficiency matter for Shanghai 50 ETF index options?	31
Measuring digitalization capabilities using machine learning	31
Commonality in liquidity and corporate default risk - Evidence from China	30
Tail connectedness between category-specific policy uncertainty, sovereign debt risk, and stock volatility during a high inflation period	30
Financial market imperfections and sensitivity of cash holdings to R&D investment: Evidence from chinese listed firms	30
Using machine learning to analyze the impact of coronavirus pandemic news on the stock markets in GCC countries	29
Non-state shareholder governance and shadow banking business: Evidence from Chinese state-owned manufacturing enterprises	29
Predicting consumption-wealth ratio changes and stock market returns	29
The information environment and ecological environment perspectives: Capital market openness and firm ESG rating divergence	29
Analyst tracking and innovation inconsistency in companies	29
The interconnectedness of European Banking and Shadow Banking for sustainable development goals: Insights from a network GVAR model	29
Business perception of obstacles to innovate: Evidence from Chile with pseudo-panel data analysis	29
Golden ratio-based leverage targeting and the ESG performance of US and European listed firms	28
Partisan conflict, trade policy uncertainty, and the energy market	28
Anatomy of sovereign yield behaviour using textual news	28
Stewardship code adoption and firms’ decisions on treasury shares: Evidence from South Korea	28
Dynamic linkages among transparency, income inequality and economic growth in developing countries: Evidence from panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model	27
Economics of blockchain-based securities settlement	27
Less is more: Evidence from firms with low cash and debt	27
A PRISMA systematic review of greenwashing in the banking industry: A call for action	27
Do Chinese managers listen to the media?: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	27
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	26
Can portfolio construction considering ESG still gain high profits?	26
Too sunny to borrow: Sunshine and borrower discouragement	26
Institutional investors by nationality and long-term investor value appropriation	25
BeFi meets DeFi: A behavioral finance approach to decentralized finance asset pricing	25
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	25
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	25
Governance and monetary policy impacts on public acceptance of CBDC adoption	24
COVID-19, government policy responses, and stock market liquidity around the world: A note	24
Distribution of export size, Pareto exponent and financial crisis	24
Volatility communicator or receiver? Investigating volatility spillover mechanisms among Bitcoin and other financial markets	24
On the asymmetrical connectedness between cryptocurrencies and foreign exchange markets: Evidence from the nonparametric quantile on quantile approach	24
THE REVIVAL OF THE FELDSTEIN-HORIOKA PUZZLE AND MODERATION OF CAPITAL FLOWS AFTER THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS (2008/09)	24
A hybrid approach for forecasting bitcoin series	24
Machine learning sentiment analysis, COVID-19 news and stock market reactions	23
Does reinforcement learning outperform deep learning and traditional portfolio optimization models in frontier and developed financial markets?	23
Parent company board reform and subsidiary optimization of cash holdings: A quasi-natural experiment from central state-owned enterprises in China	23
The safe haven, hedging, and diversification properties of oil, gold, and cryptocurrency for the G7 equity markets: Evidence from the pre- and post-COVID-19 periods	23
Greenwashing prevention in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures: A bibliometric analysis	23
Investor preferences, financial literacy and intermediary choice towards sustainability	23
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	23
ESG disclosure and technological innovation capabilities of the Chinese listed companies	23
Making sense and transparency in finance literature: Evidence from trends in readability	23
Does the source of uncertainty matter? The impact of financial, newspaper and Twitter-based measures on U.S. banks	23
Revisiting the interdependences across global base metal futures markets: Evidence during the main waves of the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Newly-constructed Chinese geopolitical risk index and trade stock returns	22
Private equity and financial distress: A bibliometric literature review	22
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	22
Editorial Board	22
Relational capital’s contribution to international success: Evidence from family-owned wineries and olive oil mills in Spain	22
Sustainable synergy: Static and dynamic nexus between ESG and BRICS equity markets	22
Common institutional ownership and executive pay-performance sensitivity: Mediating role of information transparency and fund occupation	22
Collaboration and regulation: A dual regulatory game for the sustainable development of green housing	22
Is the Evergrande crisis spilling beyond China?	21
Customer concentration and corporate financialization: Evidence from non-financial firms in China	21
The impact of readability of risk disclosures in bond prospectuses on credit risk premium	21
Counterbalance effect of multiple major shareholders in Chinese listed companies: A strategic decision-making perspective	21
Readability and banks’ risk-taking behavior: Evidence from GCC	21
Accounting for digital currencies	20
Impact of the COVID-19 event on U.S. banks’ financial soundness	20
Does supporting Ukraine pay well? The performance of companies that suspended their business in Russia	20
Oil prices and economic policy uncertainty: Evidence from global, oil importers, and exporters’ perspective	20
Do Investors Pay a Premium for Corporate Government Subsidy? Role of China's Strategic Emerging Industries Policy and Political Connections	20
Does short selling reduce analysts’ optimism bias in earnings forecasts?	20
Pandemic effect on corporate financial asset holdings: Precautionary or return-chasing?	20
Exploring the predictability of attention mechanism with LSTM: Evidence from EU carbon futures prices	20

Price limits, informed trading, and information consumption	20
Volatility spillovers between sovereign CDS and futures markets in various volatility states: Evidence from an emerging economy around the pandemic	20
Fixed price and book building methods in an exogenous environment: Evidence from Indonesia stock market	19
COVID-19 pandemic and economic policy uncertainty: The first test on the hedging and safe haven properties of cryptocurrencies	19
Are green IPOs priced differently? Evidence from China	19
Market structure, factor endowment, and technology adoption	19
How has consumers' willingness to pay for the environmental value of new energy vehicles changed? Based on comparative surveys in 2016 and 2023	19
What determines mergers and acquisitions in BRICS countries: Liquidity, exchange rate or innovation?	19
Bank liquidity hoarding and corporate maturity mismatch: Evidence from China	19
Does digital finance lessen credit rationing?—Evidence from Chinese farmers	19
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	19
Impact of firm characteristics and country-level governance on global energy stocks during crises	19
How does employment protection legislation affect labor investment inefficiencies?	19
False Safe Haven Assets: Evidence From the Target Volatility Strategy Based on Recurrent Neural Network	19
Index mutual fund ownership and financial reporting quality	19
Traders’ motivation and hedging pressure in commodity futures markets	19
The impact of board capital on open innovation with the moderating effect of executive equity incentives	19
The COVID-19 pandemic, volatility, and trading behavior in the bitcoin futures market	18
Inflation and the war in Ukraine: Evidence using impulse response functions on economic indicators and Twitter sentiment	18
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	18
Direct and spillover portfolio effects of COVID-19	18
ESG in the financial industry: What matters for rating analysts?	18
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	18
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	18
Systemic risk assessment using complex networks approach: Evidence from the Brazilian (re)insurance market	18
Fleeing entrepreneurs: Foreign residency right and corporate risk-taking	18
The crowding-out effect of zombie companies on fixed asset investment: Evidence from China	18
Can enhancing financial inclusivity lower climate risks by inhibiting carbon emissions? Contextual evidence from emerging economies	17
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	17
The impact of government environmental attention on firms’ ESG performance: Evidence from China	17
Time and frequency dynamics of connectedness and hedging performance in global stock markets: Bitcoin versus conventional hedges	17
When is organisational resizing helpful or harmful for innovation outputs?	17
Integration of investor behavioral perspective and climate change in reinforcement learning for portfolio optimization	17
Determinants of deposits volatility: The case of the microfinance sector in gabon	17
Effect of operating multiple affiliates on the performance of subsidiaries in the same host country	17
Quantile dependence and portfolio management between oil, gold, silver, and MENA stock markets	17
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	17
Women directors’ attributes and demographics: New insights into bank risk	17
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	17
Wholesale funding and bank stability: The impact of economic policy uncertainty	17
Return–volume nexus in financial markets: A survey of research	17
Deciphering asymmetric spillovers in US industries: Insights from higher-order moments	17
How macroprudential regulation and board effectiveness interact to shape bank risk-taking behavior	17
Recession fears and stock markets: An application of directional wavelet coherence and a machine learning-based economic agent-determined Google fear index	17
The COVID-19 pandemic and feedback trading dynamics: Unveiling global patterns	16
Sustainable development goals and environmental performance: Exploring the contribution of governance, energy, and growth	16
The effect of impact investing on performance of private firms	16
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	16
Loan loss provisions of European banks – Does macroprudential tightening matter?	16
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	16
Examining institutional investor preferences: The influence of ESG ratings on stock holding in China's stock market	16
Place-based policies and local technology spillovers: Evidence from national high-tech zones in China	16
Risk spillovers and diversification benefits between crude oil and agricultural commodity futures markets	16
Broadband infrastructure and enterprise digital transformation: Evidence from China	16
The effect of corporate executives’ academic experience on firm financialization — Evidence from listed manufacturing firms in China	16
Impact of fund cliques on corporate cash dividends: Evidence from China	16
Can internal regulatory technology (RegTech) mitigate bank credit risk? Evidence from the banking sector in China	15
Surname relationship and trade credit: Evidence from China	15
The digital economy and entrepreneurial dynamics: An empirical analysis of urban regions in China	15
Do clean and dirty cryptocurrencies connect financial assets differently? The perspective of market inefficiency	15
Placebo in the random walk of stock price: Momentum effect of corporate site visits	15
Corrigendum to “Multiple large shareholders and pay-performance sensitivity: Evidence from China” [Res. Int. Bus. Financ. 73 (2025) 102597]	15
Do financial performance indicators predict 10-K text sentiments? An application of artificial intelligence	15
Political uncertainty, innovation-driven strategy, and corporate R&D	15
An examination of whether gold-backed Islamic cryptocurrencies are safe havens for international Islamic equity markets	15
Impact of central bank digital currency uncertainty on international financial markets	15
Does acquisition lead to the growth of high-tech scale-ups? Evidence from Europe	15
Identifying the asymmetric price dynamics of Islamic equities: Implications for international investors	15
Does CEO early-life famine experience affect corporate tax avoidance? Evidence from China	15
The sensitivity of investment to internal and external funds: New emerging market evidence	14
Navigating greenwashing in the G8: Insights into family-owned firms, technology innovation, and economic policy uncertainty	14
Staggered boards, agency costs and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China	14
Dividend policy and stock liquidity: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe	14
Editorial Board	14
Lending activity efficiency. A comparison between fintech firms and the banking sector	14
Socio-economic issues and bank stability: The moderating role of competition	14
The dark side of tournaments: Evidence from innovation performance	14
How can green finance promote the transformation of China's economic growth momentum? A perspective from internal structures of green total-factor productivity	14
Rookie directors and dividend payouts: Evidence from China	14
Analysing and forecasting co-movement between innovative and traditional financial assets based on complex network and machine learning	14
Information technology and financial development for achieving sustainable development goals	13
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on major industries in Japan: A dynamic conditional correlation approach	13
From sentiment to systemic risk: Information transmission in Asia-Pacific stock markets	13
Climate policy and corporate green transformation: Empirical evidence from carbon emission trading	13
Short-term market impact of crypto firms’ bankruptcies on cryptocurrency markets	13
Central bank digital currency: A systematic literature review using text mining approach	13
The effects of NASDAQ delisting on firm performance	13
Economic policy uncertainty and stock liquidity: The mitigating effect of information disclosure	13
Corporate governance effects of digital finance: Evidence from corporate tax avoidance in China	13
How does climate policy uncertainty shape corporate investment behavior?	13
Environmental protection fee-to-tax and enterprise investment efficiency: Evidence from China	13
Benefits of investing in cryptocurrencies when liquidity is a factor	13
Does COVID-19 open a Pandora's box of changing the connectedness in energy commodities?	13
Sustainability-linked bonds, corporate commitment and the cost of debt	13
Environmental protection interview and corporate environmental investment: Evidence from China	13