Research in International Business and Finance

Article	Citations
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	334
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	268
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	206
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	152
Factorial asset pricing models using statistical anomalies	144
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	126
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	121
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	117
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	116
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	115
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	101
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	100
Extreme return connectedness among renewable energy and rare earth markets: The role of global factors	100
Are institutional investors effective monitors in a country where closely held firms predominate? Insights from agency problem-driven dividend payouts	99
Perceived vs actual financial crisis and bank credit standards: Is there any indication of self-fulfilling prophecy?	97
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	94
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	93
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	92
Existence of long memory in crude oil and petroleum products: Generalised Hurst exponent approach	92
ESG news and firm value: Evidence from China’s automation of pollution monitoring	88
Digital finance, institutional quality, and air pollution: Evidence from China	88
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	86
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	86
Family firms and the cost of borrowing: empirical evidence from East Asia	84
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	82

The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	82
Traders’ motivation and hedging pressure in commodity futures markets	79
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	77
The impact of insider-appointment on the fulfillment of M&A performance commitments: Based on the power-responsibility paradox	77
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	76
Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in the banking sector: A multi-stakeholder cognition-driven framework	76
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	74
Accounting for digital currencies	74
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	74
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	73
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	72
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	71
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	69
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	68
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	64
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	62
Can CFOs improve enterprise loan bargaining power? An empirical analysis based on CFO characteristics	60
Editorial Board	60
Vulnerability of financial markets in India: The contagious effect of COVID-19	60
Do investors listen? Exploring the effect of investor relationship management on firm-specific stock return variation	60
FinTech and unemployment: New evidence on the role of labor market regulation	59
Sports failures and stock returns between rationality and emotionality: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League	59
Financial inclusion, digital technology, and economic growth: Further evidence	59
Does Confucian culture affect shadow banking activities? Evidence from Chinese listed companies	57
Guarantee requirements by European central counterparties and international volatility spillovers	57
Institutional investors, heterogeneity, and capital structure decisions: Evidence from an emerging market	57
How do Chinese urban investment bonds affect its economic resilience? Evidence from double machine learning	57
Revisiting asset co-movement: Does network topology really matter?	56
Why do entrepreneurial firms switch lead venture capital? A double-sided matching perspective	55
Bank equity returns and oil prices: The story from U.S. regional banks during the “shale oil” revolution	54
Identifying the asymmetric price dynamics of Islamic equities: Implications for international investors	53
The takeover Tango: Unraveling the impact of state-owned enterprise acquisitions on American competitors	53
Global Stock Markets during Covid-19: Did Rationality Prevail?	53
The digital economy and entrepreneurial dynamics: An empirical analysis of urban regions in China	52
Precious metals and currency markets during the Russia-Ukraine conflict’s inflationary periods	52
Trade credit financing, social trust, and financial distress: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	52
The effect of the 2008–09 short selling sales ban on UK security equities in relation to market metrics of volatility, liquidity, and price discovery	52
How does climate risk affect corporate financialization?	51
The effects of regulatory mechanism on enterprise carbon reduction policies	51
Dynamic risk and hedging strategies in post-COVID digital asset sectors	50
Are stock markets efficient with respect to the Google search volume index? A robustness check of the literature studies	50
Volatility transmission in the property market during two inflationary periods: The 2008–2009 global financial crisis and the COVID-19 crisis	50
Political uncertainty, innovation-driven strategy, and corporate R&D	50
Predicting financial cycles with dynamic ensemble selection frameworks using leading, coincident and lagging indicators	49
Market competition and strategic interaction in the Spanish FinTech industry	49
Does common ownership affect stock price synchronicity?	49
Nurturing finance and harvesting intelligence: The green growth of urban industrial intelligence fueled by green finance	48
Analysing and forecasting co-movement between innovative and traditional financial assets based on complex network and machine learning	48
A sparsity algorithm for finding optimal counterfactual explanations: Application to corporate credit rating	48
Market response to environmental social and governance performance: A global analysis	48

Central Bank Digital Currencies: Agendas for future research	48
Peer effects in corporate advertisement expenditure: Evidence from China	47
The impact of environmental protection fee-to-tax reform on differentiated environmental management behavior of firms	47
Firms’ perceived trade policy uncertainty and management’s disclosure strategies: Evidence from financial statement comparability	47
Top executives’ great famine experience and stock price crash risk	47
Corporate social responsibility and dynamic liquidity management	46
China’s secondary privatization and corporate investment efficiency	46
Demographic structure and SME credit availability: Rethinking SME finance amid unprecedented demographic transformations	46
Intrafirm inventor network integration and cross-sectional stock returns	45
Military experience and sustainable development goal disclosure	45
Can big data inhibit earnings management in corporations? — An analysis based on national big data comprehensive pilot zones	45
The voice of minority shareholders: Online voting and corporate social responsibility	45
Mutual fund herding and audit pricing	45
Entrepreneurship in the digital era	45
Combination of antecedent conditions affecting the development of Chinese new energy market based on fuzzy sets	45
Editorial Board	44
Female political leaders and R&D investment	44
Earnings management and internal governance mechanisms: The role of religiosity	43
Are base layer blockchains establishing a new sector? Evidence from a connectedness approach	43
Is gold still a safe haven for stock markets? New insights through the tail thickness of portfolio return distributions	42
Day-night anomaly returns in China: The role of institutions	42
Towards the estimation of ESG ratings: A machine learning approach using balance sheet ratios	42
Imported financial risk in global stock markets: Evidence from the interconnected network	41
Genetic distance and cross-border M&A completion: Evidence from Chinese firms	41
Network structure, dynamic evolution and block characteristics of sovereign debt risk: The global evidence	40
Synthetic data generation with deep generative models to enhance predictive tasks in trading strategies	40
Institutional investor information network, analyst forecasting and stock price crash risk	40
Green finance and green innovation: the Moderating role of ESG and synergies with inclusive finance	40
Interconnectedness in the FOREX market during the high inflation regime: A network analysis	40
Impact of COVID-19 on stock market efficiency: Evidence from developed countries	39
Extraction of characteristic information from financial super-long texts and prediction of corporate violations	39
An evolutionary analysis of the diffusion of low-carbon technology innovation in supply networks	39
Five decades of research on capital budgeting – A systematic review and future research agenda	39
The effect of ESG performance on value creation of strategic alliances	39
Does data asset disclosure contribute to the market efficiency? Evidence from China	38
The impact of green public finance and green taxes on environmental and non-environmental innovation	38
Does Supply Chain Finance (SCF) alleviate funding constraints of SMEs? Evidence from China	38
Futures markets and the baltic dry index: A prediction study based on deep learning	38
Registration reform and stock mispricing: Causal inference based on double machine learning	38
CEO narcissism and ESG misconduct	37
Banking sector reactions to COVID-19: The role of bank-specific factors and government policy responses	37
How can firms' transition to a low-carbon economy affect the distance to default?	37
What determines interest rates for bitcoin lending?	37
Sequential management of energy and low-carbon portfolios	37
Decentralized autonomous organizations: The new global digital venture capital	37
The impact of economic uncertainty on corporate ESG performance: Global evidence	36
Investment efficiency under financial constraints: The role of CEO power	36
Digital transformation and trade credit provision: Evidence from China	36
Linkage dynamics of sovereign credit risk and financial markets: A bibliometric analysis	36
Share pledging of controlling shareholders and corporate social responsibility disclosure	35
Effects of family ownership and family management on the performance of entrepreneurial firms	35
Effect of twitter investor engagement on cryptocurrencies during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Payout policy and ESG: A European investigation	35
Product line transformation, foreign sales, and firm value: Evidence from COVID-19 pandemic governance in urban China	34
How do women directors ensure corporate ethics? The role of board tenure	34
Environmental stocks, CEO health risk and COVID-19	34
Is soft information substitutive or complementary to hard news for investor attention? Evidence from corporate advertising in Japan	34
Corporate bond defaults and spillover effects on bank risk: Evidence from city commercial banks in China	34
Uncovering patterns of fintech behavior in Italian banks: A multidimensional statistical analysis	34
Unleashing stock volatility and its implications for stock crash risk: Evidence from China’s price limit policies	34
Reporting quality and financial leverage: Are qualitative characteristics or earnings quality more important? Evidence from an emerging bank-based economy	34
How does macroeconomic uncertainty influence energy futures?: Evidence from extraordinary events	33
A tale of two revolutions: Environmental, social, and governance performance and dividend policy in Egyptian-listed companies during unstable times	33
Overconfident male CEOs and corporate outcomes: The moderating role of female CFOs	33
Do conventional and new energy stock markets herd differently? Evidence from China	33
Internationalization and donations allocated to domestic market: Evidence from emerging market SMEs	33
The intraday dynamics and intraday price discovery of bitcoin	33
The dichotomy of inclusiveness and vulnerability as a consequence of banking platform development	32
How does intellectual property protection in the host country affect outward foreign direct investment?	32
Volatility spillover between economic sectors in financial crisis prediction: Evidence spanning the great financial crisis and Covid-19 pandemic	32
The fintech revolution: Exploring the potential of fintech finance in reducing corporate credit constraints	32
Portfolio insurance strategy in the cryptocurrency market	32
A Support Vector Machine model for classification of efficiency: An application to M&A	32
Climate risk and banking stability in China: A dynamic analysis from the short- and long-term perspectives	32
Exploring the nexus between sustainable energy tokens, electric vehicles, and the hydrogen economy	32
Asymmetry in returns and volatility between green financial assets, sustainable investments, clean energy, and international stock markets	32
Firm-level political risk and CEO compensation	32
Influence of share pledging on corporate social responsibility: Evidence from India	32
The geographic distance of independent directors and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China	31
Does firm environmental performance mitigate the market reaction to COVID-19 uncertainty?	31

Does digital finance aggravate bank competition? Evidence from China	31
Changes in supply chain relationships and the enterprise internationalization process	31
Local government debt and firm productivity: Evidence from China	31
The performance of green bond portfolios under climate uncertainty: A comparative analysis with conventional and black bond portfolios	31
Does government ownership influence the dividend payments of European banks?	31
Market-based environmental regulations and green innovation: Evidence from the pilot carbon markets in China	31
The impact of personality traits on attitude to financial risk	31
How do FinTech companies contribute to the achievement of SDGs? Insights from case studies	31
Corporate ESG performance and credit misallocation: Evidence from China	30
Weathering the COVID-19 storm: The case of community banks	30
Does utilizing smart contracts induce a financial connectedness between Ethereum and non-fungible tokens?	30
Infectious disease equity market volatility, geopolitical risk, speculation, and commodity returns: Comparative analysis of five epidemic outbreaks	30
The historic oil price fluctuation during the Covid-19 pandemic: What are the causes?	30
Multilayer network analysis of investor sentiment and stock returns	30
Zero-leverage and firm performance – Evidence from Taiwan	29
Decomposition of social networks and household purchase of insurance as knowledge products	29
Mutual fund flows and returns dynamics: Investor preferences and performance persistence	29
Price limits, investor asset allocation, and price volatility: Evidence from China’s registration-based IPO reform	29
How do industry tournament incentives affect firm debt maturity?	29
Does ESG information disclosure increase firm value? The mediation role of financing constraints in China	29
Is oil risk important for commodity-related currency returns?	29
Banks’ interconnections and peer effects: Evidence from Chile	28
Web search volume acceleration and cross-sectional returns	28
Dancing with dragon: The RMB and developing economies’ currencies	28
Forecasting aggregate stock market volatility with industry volatilities: The role of spillover index	28
Debt Issues around Mergers & Acquisitions	28
Artificial intelligence and green innovation: Investigating the effects of executive pay and firm age	27
Uncertainty or investor attention: Which has more impact on Bitcoin volatility?	27
ESG reactions to fintech: The role of cross-border capital flows	27
Impact of environmental, social and governance initiatives on firm value: Analysis using AI-based ESG scores for Japanese listed firms	27
Harnessing digital finance for sustainability: An integrative review and research agenda	27
Does passive ownership affect corporate governance? Evidence from the Bank of Japan’s ETF purchasing program	27
Forecasting gold volatility with geopolitical risk indices	27
The influence of institutional void and socio-cultural factors on the internationalization of emerging multinationals	27
The impact of debt: International versus local debt in microfinance organizations	27
Redefining insurance through technology: Achievements and perspectives in Insurtech	26
The importance of owner loans for rebalancing the capital structure of small knowledge-intensive service firms	26
Chinese jigsaw: Solving the equity market response to the COVID-19 crisis: Do alternative asset provide effective hedging performance?	26
Information spillover features in global financial markets: A systematic analysis	26
Resolving agency and product market views of cash holdings	26
Digital payments and GDP growth: A behavioural quantitative analysis	26
Large scale mean-variance strategies in the U.S. stock market	26
Global trends and insights into cryptocurrency-related financial crime	26
Potential diversification benefits: A comparative study of Islamic and conventional stock market indexes	25
An asymmetrical approach to understanding consumer characteristics in banking trust during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	25
Financial inclusion and income inequality in developing countries: The role of aging populations	25
The impact of European firms’ emissions reduction effectiveness on financial constraints: Evidence from the quintuple helix model perspective	25
When stock price crash risk meets fundamentals	25
Three channels of monetary policy international transmission: Identifying spillover effects from the US to China	25
ESG disclosure and investment-financing maturity mismatch: Evidence from China	25
Dynamic interlinkages between carbon risk and volatility of green and renewable energy: A TVP-VAR analysis	25
The heterogeneity of innovation, government R&D support and enterprise innovation performance	25
The impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices on investment efficiency in China: Does digital transformation matter?	25
Social trust and the demand for audit quality	25
Interpretable selective learning in credit risk	25
Strategic fit of potential M&As between dual banks and conventional banks: Does Islamic banking matter?	25
“Volatility in a Mug Cup”: Spillovers among cocoa, coffee, sugar futures and the role of climate policy risk	25
Editorial Board	24
The effect of downstream expansion on upstream employment: Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China’s Accelerated Depreciation Policy	24
Corporate misconduct and innovation: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry	24
The dichotomy of corporate litigation risk in shaping ESG disclosure: Does green innovation matter?	24
Price effects after one-day abnormal returns and crises in the stock markets	24
Policy uncertainty and overseas property purchases: Evidence from China	24
Can a self-exciting jump structure better capture the jump behavior of cryptocurrencies? A comparative analysis with the S&P 500	24
Determinants of credit spreads and cash flow-related lending in commercial real estate	24
Institutional context as a moderator of the relationship between board structure and acquirer returns	24
An empirical study on the regulated Chinese agricultural commodity futures market based on skew Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model	24
Measuring the evolution of competition and the impact of the financial reform in the Mexican banking sector, 2008–2019	24
Emission trading policy and firm-level carbon disclosure in China: Unveiling the potential of market-based environmental regulation	24
How does international capital flows drive green technological innovation in emerging and developed markets?	23
The determinants of issuing central bank digital currencies	23
The determinants and consequences of tax avoidance: A psychological contract perspective	23
Economic policy uncertainty, institutional environments, and corporate cash holdings	23
Hedging climate risk: The role of green energy exchange-traded funds	23
Does the porter hypothesis work well in the emission trading schema pilot? Exploring moderating effects of institutional settings	23
The impact of economic policy uncertainty and digital integration on ESG practices in European companies	22
The development fit index of digital currency electronic payment between China and the one belt one road countries	22
Too big to fail: The aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse and its impact on financial markets	22
How well do investor sentiment and ensemble learning predict Bitcoin prices?	22
Policy uncertainty, the use of derivatives: Evidence from U.S. bank holdingcompanies (BHCs)	22
Estimating time-varying factors’ variance in the string-term structure model with stochastic volatility	22
Capture the contagion network of bitcoin – Evidence from pre and mid COVID-19	22
Anatomy of money-losing IPOs	22
Mergers and acquisitions in the financial industry: A bibliometric review and future research directions	22
Culture, financial literacy, and leverage of small firms	22
Does economic policy uncertainty affect cryptocurrency markets? Evidence from Twitter-based uncertainty measures	21
Free riding or participation in governance: Minority shareholders’ online voting and corporate responsiveness	21
Finance and sales growth at the firms level in Iran: Does type of spending matter?	21
Towards more inclusive finance: Exploring the mystery of low carbon green technological innovation	21
Does global climate risk encourage companies to take more risks?	21
Anticipatory gains and event-driven losses in blockchain-based fan tokens: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup	21
Sustainable finance and blockchain: A systematic review and research agenda	21
Research on the accelerating effect of green finance on the transformation of energy consumption in China	21
Shadow banking, macroprudential policy and banks’ systemic risk	21
How do climate risks affect corporate ESG performance? Micro evidence from China	21