International Review of Economics & Finance

Article	Citations
A comprehensive analysis of the decline in the market-to-book ratio of European banks	499
Impacts of population aging on bank loan portfolios: Evidence from China	314
Climate change exposure in uncertain times: A text-based approach	294
Impact of low-carbon energy structure transition on rural revitalization	273
Regional economic policy uncertainty, implicit government guarantees and bank's risk-taking	230
Do financing constraints affect the financial integrity of firms?	211
Exploring the dynamic links, implications for hedging and investment strategies between Sukuk and commodity market volatility: Evidence from country level analysis	181
Corporate ESG performance and trade credit financing – Evidence from China	163
Does heterogeneous media sentiment matter the ‘green premium’? An empirical evidence from the Chinese bond market	154
Digital finance, capital misallocation and corporate innovation	154
Only strong short-term contrarian effect exists in Chinese stock market: The role of the T+1 trading mechanism	137
CEO career experience and insurance innovation in China	133
(Im)perfect Substitutes: Business angels and crowd sourced start-up funding	122
The nonlinear impact of trade policy uncertainty on corporate ESG performance	120
Can the development of agricultural insurance promote the resilience of agricultural economy? The dynamic mechanisms of the digital economy development	113
The synergistic effects of financial development and industrial structure on urban decarbonization	110
Non-linear nexus between economic policy uncertainty and bank lending	107
Automotive industry development versus environment and policy:An integration of system dynamics and life cycle assessment	107
Forecasting stock volatility using pseudo-out-of-sample information	105
Deliberate premarket underpricing: New evidence on IPO pricing using machine learning	99
Does intergenerational mobility affect corporate innovation? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises	96
Exploring the dynamic linkages between carbon trading market and smart technology indices: A multi-dimensional analysis of China's case	89
Behavioral aspects of household portfolio choice: Effects of loss aversion on life insurance uptake and savings	89
Scale of cities and social trust: Evidence from China	87
Financial crises, bank efficiency and survival: Theory, literature and emerging market evidence	86

Variation in the competition − Efficiency nexus: Evidence from emerging markets	86
An indicator of monetary bias for emerging and partially dollarized economies: The case of Uruguay	85
Debt finance and economic activity in the euro-area: evidence on asymmetric and maturity effects	80
Why have UK universities become more indebted over time?	80
Board gender diversity and cost of equity: Evidence from mandatory female board representation	79
Crowding out or crowding in? Reevaluating the effect of government spending on private economic activities	79
Effects of shareholder proposals on the market value of Japanese firms	79
The peer effects of PIPEs	78
Can the degree of party membership among management enhance corporate innovation performance? The moderating role of technology finance	77
Capital structure and corporate litigation	76
Determinants of the price of bitcoin: An analysis with machine learning and interpretability techniques	76
ESG performance and audit committee expertise: advancing sustainable development goals in leading nations	75
Cybersecurity policy, ESG and operational risk: A Virtuous relationship to improve banks’ performance	75
Measuring the productivity of urban commercial banks in China	73
Quantile time-frequency spillovers among climate policy uncertainty, energy markets, and stock markets	73
Dynamic spillover between green cryptocurrencies and stocks: A portfolio implication	72
Does environmental regulation affect labor investment Efficiency?Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	72
COVID-19 exposure, financial flexibility, and corporate leverage adjustment	71
Do China and USA differ in the interrelationship between green bond and ESG markets?	71
Do the dynamics of macroeconomic attention drive the yen/dollar exchange market volatility?	71
Policy-driven employment structure transformation: The role of innovation and education investment	70
Risk-premium shocks and the prudent exchange rate policy	70
Renaissance of climate policy uncertainty: The effects of U.S. presidential election on energy markets volatility	70
Active or passive portfolio: A tracking error analysis under uncertainty theory	70
Dig the treasure nearby: The impact of local supplier preference on trade credit financing	70
Debt's shadow: How leverage weighs down investment	70
Controlling shareholder expropriation and labor investment efficiency	69
The impact of different recommendation algorithms on consumer search behavior and merchants competition	69
Market-timing performance of mutual fund investors in Emerging Markets	69
How does corporate diversification affect earnings management? A path analysis approach	68
Extreme dynamic connectedness and hedging strategy across commodity, bond, currency, and stock markets: Evidence from Asian Pacific, Canada, Mexico, and US countries	67
Global uncertainty and the spillover of tail risk between green and Islamic markets: A time-frequency domain approach with portfolio implications	66
Measuring Chinese climate uncertainty	66
Can green credit policy increase corporate pollution abatement efforts? Evidence from China	66
Local CEOs and environmentally-friendly enterprise behaviour	66
Can rural health insurance coverage improve educational attainment? Evidence from new cooperative medical scheme in China	65
Impact of the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem on startup performance: An empirical study from China	64
Why risk attitude differs between macro and micro level? A decoherence perspective	63
Corporate loan duration, macroeconomic environments, and COVID-19	61
Network externalities, strategic delegation and optimal trade policy	61
Impacts of digital-technology adoption on workers: A simple model and evidence from China	60
“Tax reduction” and the financialization of real enterprises: Evidence from China’s “VAT reform”	58
Asymmetric effect of trading volume on realized volatility	58
The impact of Party organizations' participation in corporate governance on the enhancement of corporate resilience	58
Can executive equity incentives enhance corporate debt-paying ability?—An analysis based on the moderating mechanism of patient capital	56
Can digital transformation of enterprise improve the information environment of the capital market? ——Evidence from Analyst's perspective	56
Research on the impact of land rights certification on farmers’ operating behavior	56
Time-varying risk aversion and capital Structure: An overlooked effect	56
The role of renewable energy investment in energy economic efficiency under the “dual carbon” policy	55
Executive team faultlines, business diversification, and corporate substantive innovation	55

Rural policies, regional integration, and tourism growth: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of the national tourism poverty alleviation demonstration project	54
Institutional investors’ field research and corporate green innovation	54
Inherited challenges: How second-generation involvement hinders green innovation in family firms	54
The impact of local government debt on entrepreneurship: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of local debt governance reform	53
Risk information disclosure effect on IPO pricing efficiency: Evidence from China	53
Dynamic asymmetric tail dependence structure among multi-asset classes for portfolio management: Dynamic skew-53
Achieving carbon neutrality in emerging markets: The dual impact of energy transition investments on economic growth and carbon emissions	53
Editorial Board	52
Bond market spillover networks of ASEAN-4 markets: Is the global pandemic different?	52
Overseas operations, global value chain position and technological innovation	52
Environmental attention in cryptocurrency markets: A catalyst for clean energy investments	52
Public service equalization, digital financial inclusion and the rural revitalization: Evidence from Chinese 283 prefecture-level cities	49
Does individual auditor quality contribute to firm value? Evidence from the market valuation on corporate cash holdings	49
Digital transformation and rural labour force occupational mobility	49
Can international cooperation base for science and technology drive cooperation ability? Evidence from Xinjiang China	49
Legal unification, financial regulatory intensity, and the enhancement of economic performance in the Greater Bay Area	48
Directors' and officers’ liability insurance and the pricing of seasoned equity offerings	48
Editorial Board	48
The impact of monetary and fiscal policy on FinTech firms during the crisis	48
The effect of political and bureaucratic regime changes on Australia's real interest rate	47
Mortgage loan and housing market	47
The Brazilian financial market reaction to COVID-19: A wavelet analysis	47
Trading activity, risk aversion, and risk neutral skewness: Evidence from SSE 50ETF option	46
Informed trading in the CDS and OTM put option markets	45
Competitive runs on Government debt	45
Bitcoin trading, economic growth, energy use, and CO2 emissions: An advanced panel study of emerging market economies	45
WITHDRAWN: Bond market reform and investors' risk awareness: Evidence from the issuing pricing of corporate bonds in China	44
The heterogeneity of interest-induced MPC: Evidence from mortgage borrowers	44
Business cycles in emerging markets: The role of liability dollarization and valuation effects	44
Using boosting algorithms to predict bank failure: An untold story	44
The religious fringe of Corporate Social Responsibility	43
Forecasting stock market realized volatility: The role of investor attention to the price of petroleum products	43
Industrial linkage and clustered regional business cycles in China	43
Risk-return trade-off in the Australian Securities Exchange: Accounting for overnight effects, realized higher moments, long-run relations, and fractional cointegration	43
Small and medium-sized banks and pollution emissions from industrial enterprises	42
Assessing the impact of rural E-commerce on regional poverty alleviation: A spatial spillover analysis	41
Financial dynamics, green transition and hydrogen economy in Europe	41
Digital transformation driving green innovation: Evidence from Chinese A-Share firms	40
Can digital inclusive finance reduce household poverty? Evidence from the China household finance survey	40
Time and frequency dynamic connectedness between cryptocurrencies and financial assets in China	40
Factors affecting trade credit in India	40
Market volatility and skewness risks in China	39
The nexus between toxic-air pollution, health expenditure, and economic growth: An empirical study using ARDL	39
Diversified firms and corporate labor policy: The role of managerial equity incentives	38
Analyzing a dynamic relation between RMB exchange rate onshore and offshore during the extreme market conditions	38
Editorial Board	38
Earnings informativeness, debt financing, and managerial characteristics	37
How do carbon markets interact with energy-intensive sectors? Evidence from price connectedness	37
Music stocks and music tokens: Extreme connectedness and portfolio applications	37
Fiscal & tax incentives, ESG responsibility fulfillments, and corporate green innovation performance	37
ESG performance and corporate innovation under the moderating effect of firm size	36
Functional or selective policy? - Research on the relationship between government intervention and enterprise innovation in China	36
Corporate carbon emission governance: The mediating role of financial leverage	36
Risk connectedness between international oil and stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict: Fresh evidence from the higher-order moments	36
Decoding the nexus: How fintech and AI stocks drive the future of sustainable finance	36
Board internationalization, market competition, and corporate digital transformation	36
Impact of innovative capacity on agri-environmental efficiency and mechanism research	35
The biggest bank may not be the most interconnected: A refined entropy-based approach for indicating the direction of interbank flow	35
Modeling dynamic higher-order comoments for portfolio selection based on copula approach	34
Life-cycle planning with CEV model and time-inconsistent preferences	34
An investigation into the causes of stock market return deviations from real earnings yields	33
Air pollution and green mergers and acquisitions: An empirical study on heavily polluting enterprises	33
Epidemics, local institutional quality, and corporate cash holdings	33
Does the commercialization reform of rural credit cooperatives promote the growth of family farms?	33
Green credit, bank competitiveness and bank risk-taking	33
Impact of inclusive finance on private enterprise Lending: Evidence from China private enterprise survey	33
Impact of environmental double materiality on firm valuation: Evidence from the EU	33
Exploring the impact of traditional cultural intensity and patient capital on sustainable green innovation in listed companies: A mediation and heterogeneity analysis	33
Firm commonality, bank connectedness and portfolio riskiness	32
Competence enhancement from interactive learning: Does attending conferences affect CEO turnover?	32
Do pension subsidies reduce household education expenditure inequality? Evidence from China	32
Bank competition and the price of credit: Evidence using Mexican loan-level data	32
Computing resources and trade credit financing: Evidence from China	32
Frequency domain causality and quantile connectedness between investor sentiment and cryptocurrency returns	32
The role of financial advisorʼs industry expertise in M&A quality: Evidence from goodwill impairment	32
Subscription price discounts of stock warrants and cost of potential ownership dilution	32
The development of firm size distribution – Evidence from four Central European countries	32
Does globalization affect credit market controls?	32
Output gap and consumption risk on the cross-section of stock returns in Korea	32
The balance of payments stages hypothesis: Improvements and new discoveries	31

Implied volatility information of Chinese SSE 50 ETF options	31
Social interactions in short squeeze scenarios	31
Cryptocurrencies are not immune to coronavirus: Evidence from investor fear	31
Does internal whistleblowing build more socially responsible firms？	31
Causes and effects of worldwide demutualization of financial exchanges	31
Do credit rating agencies listen to investors’ voices on social media? Evidence from China	31
Investor sentiment spillover effect and market quality in crude oil futures	31
Revisiting environmental Kuznets curve: The effects of foreign aid on air quality in Africa	31
Understanding the credit cycle and business cycle dynamics in India	31
The nonlinear effect of shareholder ownership structure on a firm's cash holdings: Type I and Type II agency problem perspectives in China's split-share reform	30
Impact of green technology innovation on the quality of regional economic development	30
Risk spillover from international financial markets and China's macro-economy: A MIDAS-CoVaR-QR model	30
Does foreign equity matter for pollution? Firm-level evidence from China	30
Cryptocurrency dynamics during global crises: Insights from Bitcoin’s interplay with traditional markets	30
Industrial investments and housing prices in China	30
The governance role of corporate party organization on innovation	30
Can government-guided funds promote corporate technology innovation? Evidence from the new energy automobile industry	30
The impact of ESG performance on R&D investment stability: Evidence from China	29
Endogenous choice of corporate social responsibility and emissions tax: What impact do green consumers have on economic welfare?	29
The spatial spillover effects of regional integration on carbon emissions	29
The influence of government health investment on economic resilience: A perspective from health human capital	29
Intellectual property protection and enterprise collaborative innovation	29
Feeling the heat: Climate risks and the cost of sovereign borrowing	29
Does regional services development enhance manufacturing firm productivity? A manufacturing servitization perspective	29
What drives the ‘synchrony’ and ‘asynchrony’ between China's stock and bond markets? An adaptive Lasso-DCC-MIDAS model	29
Research on the influence of enterprises digital transformation on inventory turnover	29
Political background, digital finance, and risky financial asset allocation	29
Environmental Regulation, regional finance development and enterprises' cross-regional capital flow	29
Global liquidity and commodity market interactions: Macroeconomic effects on a commodity exporting emerging market	28
Green innovation perspective: Artificial intelligence and corporate green development	28
Does firms’ corporate social responsibility reduce crime?	28
The double-edged effects of the ESG rating on analyst forecast performance	28
The impact of digitalization on the green transformation of China's industrial sectors: The mediating role of green technology innovation and technological transformation	28
Diversification and bank stability: Role of political instability and climate risk	28
The predictability of skewness risk premium on stock returns: Evidence from Chinese market	28
Dynamic connectedness among the implied volatilities of oil prices and financial assets: New evidence of the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Digital transactions and financial development: The moderating role of global integration across income levels	27
Strategic emerging industries and innovation: Evidence from China	27
Why do U.S. uncertainties drive stock market spillovers? International evidence	27
Chinese consumption shocks and U.S. equity returns	27
Strategic alliances and corporate ESG performance	27
The evolution of “Acquaintance Society” in urban China	27
Extreme connectedness between NFTs and US equity market: A sectoral analysis	27
Easing credit for small firms amidst expansionary policy shifts: Iran 2005–2013	27
Exploring the interconnectedness of China's new energy and stock markets: A study on volatility spillovers and dynamic correlations	27
Subjective probabilities under behavioral heuristics	27
New venture team faultlines and corporate innovation from the perspective of structuration theory	27
“Cooperation” or “competition”: Digital finance enables green technology innovation—a new assessment from dynamic spatial spillover perspectives	27
Promoting cooperation in collective actions: Evidence from the reserve fund for maintenance in China	26
Downward pressure, investment style and performance persistence of institutional investors	26
Insider trading and government intervention	26
Firm-level climate change exposure and firm efficiency	26
Adjustments in VAT rates and business innovation: Empirical insights from China	26
Evaluating the synergistic effects of the digital economy and carbon emission trade exchange on enterprise high-quality development	26
Tourism prosperity and high-quality economic development	26
Managerial myopia and corporate credit spreads	26
The impact of tax compliance on platform enterprises’ competitive advantage and the role of contract enforcement efficiency	26
Research on the risk effects of accounting information disclosure	26
Green trade barriers, financial support and agricultural exports	26
Debts and depth of recessions	25
Understanding growth and its policy implications for Canadian credit unions	25
Capital constraint relief and liquidity creation in small and medium-sized banks: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	25
Borrow to be the poor or the rich? It depends: Credit market and wealth accumulation	25
Bank competition with technological innovation based on evolutionary games	25
A non-parametric synthesize measure for corporate governance: empirical evidence from Indian banks	25
Size, value and volatility	25
Social insurance reform and corporate environmental Investments: Evidence from China	25
Asymmetric search behavior for gasoline prices: Evidence from the Chinese gasoline market	25
Systemic risk propagation in the Eurozone: A multilayer network approach	25
Bank lending behavior and housing market booms: The Australian evidence	25
Does unconventional monetary policy improve credit support for the industry chain? The mechanism of trade credit	25
Informational efficiency and rational bubbles	25
Local attention to employees’ rights and firm value: Evidence from China	25
Do emerging art market segments have their own price dynamics? Evidence from the Chinese art market	25
Do FDI inflows bring both capital and CO2 emissions? Evidence from non-parametric modelling for the G7 countries	24
Credit rationing during credit supply shock: Insights from loan level data	24
Flexibility in jobs and autonomy on saving: Mental accounting of personal pension saving decision in Chinese part-time employees	24
Energy prices and stock markets: Does energy supply security matter?	24
Is it just green? Asymmetry behavior of returns in green investments	24
Unveiling low productivity premium: A tale from emerging market	24
Stability of executive teams, corporate financialization, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions	23
Research on wage distortion in R&D and innovation activities —— Evidence from China's listed manufacturing enterprises	23
Climate change exposure and corporate culture: A text-based approach	23
Towards a greener future: The role of blockchain legislation in promoting corporate green innovation	23
Research on livelihood capital, endogenous development momentum and sustainable livelihoods of relocated farmers	23
Impact of budget performance management reform on local fiscal relief	23
The influence of contextual and household factors on multidimensional poverty in rural Vietnam: A multilevel regression analysis	23
Corporate social network, ownership structure, and corporate financing constraints: Evidence from China	23
How does directors' and officers' liability insurance affect green innovation? Evidence from China	23
The impact of tax reduction and fee cuts policy on corporate new-form productivity: Evidence from Chinese A-share listed companies	23
Decoupling effects and impact mechanisms of carbon emissions in China's plantation system	23
Can intelligent development improve manufacturing firms' supply chain resilience?	23
Does air pollution impede corporate innovation?	22
Does a coin have only two sides? -The inverted U-shaped relationship between corporate digital transformation and carbon information disclosure and its flip-flopping	22
Do corporate carbon emissions affect risk and capital costs?	22