International Journal of Finance & Economics

Article	Citations
A portfolio diversification measure in the unit interval: A coherent and practical approach	116
Market discipline and the risk‐taking behaviour of banks in India	96
Factors affecting firm‐level job cuts during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐country evidence	94
How does institutional cross‐ownership affect firm productivity? The importance of the corporate social responsibility channel	82
The implications of non‐synchronous trading in G‐7 financial markets	70
Climate Change Laws and European Stock Markets: An Event Analysis	54
Banks and Financial Crises: Market Valuation of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science 2022	52
Inconsistency of the Capital Asset Pricing Model in a Multi‐Currency Environment	44
Endogenous market choice, listing regulations, and IPO spread: Evidence from the London Stock Exchange	42
The scientific tale of the nexus between oil prices, macroeconomic uncertainty and Pakistan's exports to its major trading partners: Insights from advanced methods	42
Links between growth, trade and financial openness in South Africa: An empirical investigation	41
Fundamental analysis of Initial Coin Offerings	41
Green R&D Efficiency and China's Industrial Carbon Intensity: New Evidence From a Spatial Perspective	38
Do creditors care about greening in corporations? Do contingencies matter?	34
The Transformation of Economic Structure in Developing Countries: Evidence of Financial Development as a Source of Financing	33
Breaks in term structures: Evidence from the oil futures markets	32
Do Vice Chancellors' Career Horizon Matter for University Sustainability Performance? The Moderating Role of Soft Information	31
Financial Literacy, Financial Development and Economic Growth	31
Economic Policy Uncertainty, Investor Sentiment and Industry Stock Market Volatility in China: A Quantile Regression Approach	30
The Relationship Between Energy Metal Price Volatility and Clean Energy Assets	29
Fintech and Dividend Payouts: Evidence From China	28
FinTech Advancement in the Banking Industry: Is It Driving Efficiency?	27
Revisiting corporate governance and financial risk‐taking	27
How does monetary policy moderate the influence of economic complexity and technological innovation on environmental sustainability? The role of green central banking	27
US partisan polarization and households' portfolio decisions	26

Inventory information arrival and the crude oil futures market	26
Credit risk modelling within the euro area in the COVID‐19 period: Evidence from an ICAS framework	25
Drivers of Cashless Payment Decision in Vietnam	24
Playing by the rules: Do the post‐crisis regulations influence banks' funding model in the EU?	24
Bank income smoothing behaviours under expansionary and recessionary economic environments: New evidence using micro‐data sample	23
In search of light in the darkness: What can we learn from ethical, sustainable and green investments?	23
Cash holdings and corruption prevention commitment: Evidence from the UK	23
Exploring the Information Acquisition Mechanism in a Bond Market: Evidence From Peer Effects in Bond Covenant Design in China	23
Corporate ESG Performance, Ownership Structure and Export Intensity: Evidence From Chinese Listed Companies	23
Appeasing Stockholders at the Expense of Stakeholders: Do Contingencies Matter?	23
Board Monitoring, Shareholders' Rights, and CSR Strategy: Firm Value and Risk Implications	22
Bitcoin Prices: Configurational Effects of Technological Drivers, Macroeconomic Fundamentals and Economic Agents' Expectation	22
Public Debt Dynamics Over the Business Cycle: A Fresh Perspective	22
Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Investment: The Moderating Role of Early‐Life War Exposure and Firm Size	22
Does democracy matter in banking performance? Exploring the linkage between democracy, economic freedom and banking performance in the European Union member states	22
The Effects of Top Management Team R&D Functional Background on Corporate Social Responsibility: Detrimental or Beneficial in Family Firms?	21
Uncertainty and Innovation: Assessing the Impact of Economic, Monetary, Trade, and Fiscal Shocks in Japan and the United States	21
Household Portfolios and Monetary Policy	21
Life insurance consumption across generations: The roles of financial knowledge, planning horizon, and self‐control	21
Ranking of countries based on multi‐dimensional financial inclusion index: A global perspective	21
Multi‐class financial distress prediction based on stacking ensemble method	20
Shock Absorbers or Amplifiers? How Do Firms Transmit Shocks in a Polycrisis Era?	19
Does Digital Banking Promote Remittance Receipts? Evidence From Developing Countries	18
Investment‐cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from investment in identifiable intangible and tangible assets activities	18
Communicating tokenomics and monetary policy: A comparative analysis of real and virtual economies	18
The choice of performance measures, target setting and vesting levels in UK firms' Chief Executive Officer equity‐based compensation	17
Governance, debt service, information technology and access to electricity in Africa	17
Is the Stock Market Performance Vulnerable to the Russian–Ukrainian War? Evidence From the Twitter Sentiment Index	16
Banking performance and institutional quality: Evidence from dynamic panel data analysis	16
The Power of Cognition: Has Executive Environmental Cognition Promoted Corporate Environmental Information Disclosure?	16
Does financial stability communication affect financial asset prices? Evidence from the Bank of England's communication experiment	16
Central Bank Transparency and Interest Rate Volatility	15
The impact of CEOs' early‐life experience on the financialization of non‐financial firms: Evidence from the great Chinese famine	15
Digital Dividend or Digital Divide: Can Fintech Bridge the Wealth Gap Amid Public Health Emergencies? a Comparative Research of Urban and Rural China	15
The impact of R&D investment on grain crops production in China: Analysing the role of agricultural credit and CO2 emissions	15
Higher‐Order Moment Spillovers Among Global ESG Stock Markets: The Impacts of Geopolitical Risks, Sustainability Uncertainty and Climate Policy Uncer	15
Predicting Financial Distress With ESG‐Driven Deep Learning and Risk‐Based Stratification	15
Bank competition and corporate risk: Firm‐level evidence from BRIC economies	14
Issue Information	14
The term structure of interest rates as predictor of stock market volatility	14
A risk–return trade‐off or co‐movement? Are food processing firms risk‐averse?	14
Real Earnings Management and ESG Performance in China: The Mediating Role of Corporate Innovations	14
Margin buying activity and stock market trading in China: Is there a connection?	14
Corporate price dynamics during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic: Insights from a partial equilibrium model	14
The Impact of Social Media Activities on Stock Price Informativeness	14
Green Finance, Biased Technical Progress and Carbon Reduction From the Perspective of Inequality	13
Essays in modelling financial market dynamics: An overview	13
Macroeconomic factors and financing strategies in working capital: Evidence from China	13
It Is Not Your Risk but It Is Your Problem: Peer Country Effects on Emerging Market Credit Default Swap Spreads	13
Kryptonite for Cryptocurrencies? What Are the Effects of Regulatory Controls on Bitcoin Returns and Volatility?	13

The Effect of CSR Report Similarity on CSR Performance	13
Bank Capital Regulation and Derivatives Clearing	13
The Drivers of NPLs in Europe: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis	13
Does a co‐opted director affect a firm's financial distress risk?	12
Does Market Power Fuel the Systemic Stability of Alternative Financial Systems?	12
Revisiting and Extending Our Understanding of Market Responses to Unconventional Monetary Policy	12
Climate Risk and Foreign Direct Investment Entry Mode	12
Returns and volatility connectedness among the Eurozone equity markets	12
Corporate social responsibility assurance, board characteristics and social performance disclosure. Evidence of listed firms in India	12
Forecasting the Asian stock market volatility: Evidence from WTI and INE oil futures	12
Do Big Data Applications and Financial Innovation Lead to Enhanced Banking Performance? Evidence From the United Kingdom	12
Financial Market Determinants of Dynamic Herding in North American Energy Equity Market	12
Time‐Varying Efficiency and Predictability in Cryptocurrency Markets: Forward‐Looking Dynamics	12
Contemporaneous Spillovers Across Foreign Exchange Markets	12
Quantifying Market Efficiency: Information Dissemination Through Social Media	11
Uncertainties and green bond markets: Evidence from tail dependence	11
The impact of inflation on inequality in the CEMAC and UEMOA zones of Sub‐Saharan Africa	11
The impact of cryptocurrency heists on Bitcoin's market efficiency	11
Investigating green energy–environment nexus in post‐COP26 era: Can technological innovation, financial development and government expenditure deliver Africa's targets?	11
The impact of International Financial Reporting Standards adoption on the integration of capital markets	11
The oil price plummeted in 2014–2015: Is there an effect on Chinese firms' labour investment?	11
Investor trading behavior and asset prices: Evidence from quantile regression analysis	11
Does ESG investing pay‐off? An analysis of the Eurozone area before and during the Covid‐19 pandemic	11
Risk Aversion and Economic Policy Uncertainty Impacts on Investor Attention: Evidence From International Stock Markets Indices	11
Sovereign Credit Ratings: A Friend or Foe to Financial Development of African Countries?	11
Reference prices and withdrawn acquisitions	11
The optimal time to buy and hold stock in a reversal	11
Environmental, Social and Governance ( ESG ) Rating Divergence and Corporate Carbon Risk: Evidence From China	11
The natural real rate of interest and monetary policy: New evidence for the US	11
Investor attention and environmental information disclosure quality: Evidence from heavy pollution industries in China	11
Decoding the Role of Corruption in Economic Freedom and CO 2 Emissions N	11
Star power as quality signal or marketing effect? A path analysis on China's motion‐picture industry	11
Asset allocation, limited participation and flight‐to‐quality under ambiguity of correlation	11
Deposit‐borrowing substitutability: Evidence from microfinance institutions around the world	11
Stock price informativeness and credit default swap trading	10
Do cryptocurrencies integrate with the indices of equity, sustainability, clean energy, and crude oil? A wavelet coherency approach	10
Clean Energy Markets: Responses to Emerging Risks and Investor Behaviour	10
Do political connections matter for bank efficiency in times of crisis?	10
Fiscal Rules, Independent Fiscal Institutions and Sovereign Risk: Evidence From the European Union	10
The effect of the US dollar exchange rate on oil prices: An oil financialization perspective	10
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Digital Finance Development: Evidence From 30 Regions in China	10
Investment under uncertainty and irreversibility: Evidence from the shipping markets	10
Macro‐management policies: A supporting role to company' capital expenditure	10
Do Analysts Care About ESG Performance? Evidence From Tracking Decisions	10
How Does International Investment Affect National Innovation?	10
Bank Digital Transformation and Market Risk Mitigation: A Perspective From Economic Capital	10
Assessing the Role of Macroeconomic Policy Tools in Addressing Environmental Degradation in Developing Countries	10
Alternative Price Dynamics and Valuation of Flexible Strategies	10
Climate and Environment Risks and Opportunities in the Banking Industry: The Role of Risk Management	9
The Effect of Geopolitical Risk on the Volatility of Connectedness Between Carbon Neutrality and Energy Markets: Evidence From China	9
Does Central Bank Independence Reduce Economic Vulnerability in Africa?	9
Market supervisor monetary penalties for non‐compliance with informational requirements: Do investors care?	9
Cross‐border buyout exit success	9
Sustainable investing in emerging markets: Evidence from the Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative	9
ESG Performance, Family Ownership, and Corporate Risk‐Taking: The Moderating Role of the CSR Committee	9
Does Geopolitical Risk Matter for the Success of Initial Coin Offerings?	9
A Learning Model with Memory in the Financial Markets	9
Banks, financial markets, and income inequality	9
Do Co‐Opted Boards Lead to Managerial Obfuscation? Evidence From the 10‐K Report Readability	9
Labour reallocation and unemployment fluctuations: A tale of two tails	9
Financial Contagion: Detecting Non‐Simultaneous Breaks in DCC ‐ GARCH Models	9
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People are people: A comparative analysis of risk attitudes across Europe	9
Climate transition risk and corporate environment, social and governance performance: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	9
Market Rewards in Capital Markets: The Impact of First‐Time Recognition by the Golden Round Table Award on Stock Price Crash Risk	9
Issue Information	8
Effects of Financial Agglomeration on Green Technology Innovation: Evidence From the Yangtze River Delta in China	8
Hedging With Gold, Correlation Cycles and Risk Aversion: Evidence From Global Economic Sectors	8
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Corporate capital structure in BRICS economies: An integrated analysis of ESG, firm, industry, and macroeconomic determinants	8
The Effect of Corporate Leverage Regulation on Innovation: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China	8
The myth of business cycle sector rotation	8
Are European commercial banks more profitable than cooperative banks? Evidence from a low interest rate environment	8
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Dynamic Persistence of Shocks to Stock Prices in Emerging Markets: Non‐Normal Distributions, Structural Changes and Asymmetry	8
Market Efficiency and Equity Risk Premium Predictability	8
Corporate cash policy and double machine learning	8
Relating economic openness and export diversification to eco‐efficiency: Is green innovation critical?	8
Total, quantile, and frequency risk transmission among metal commodities	8
Foreign exchange hedging using regime‐switching models: The case of pound sterling	8

Capital flow data—A guide for empirical analysis and real‐time tracking	8
Macroeconomic determinants of households' indebtedness in Portugal: What really matters in the era of financialisation?	8
Stock returns, government response strategies, and daily new case bursts during COVID‐19: A cross‐country perspective	8
Returns to scale, spillovers and persistence: A network perspective of U.S. bank size	8
The conditional impact of market conditions, volatility and liquidity shocks on the arbitrage opportunities during pre‐COVID and COVID periods	8
How Does Environmental Regulation Promote Environmental Total Factor Productivity: Evidence From China's Total Carbon Emission Control Policy	8
The religion effect on corporate cash holding in China: Buddhism and Taoism	8
Investigating the Nexus Between Forest Product Trade and Economic Growth: Evidence From the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach	7
Time Varying Efficiency and Asymmetric Extreme Risk Spillover Effects: Evidence From the Chinese and US Stock Markets	7
Measuring the efficiency and productivity of U.K. insurance market	7
The repo market under Basel III: Effects of capital and liquidity regulations on market fragmentation	7
Does Climate Risk Exacerbate Corporate Greenwashing Behaviour? Evidence From China	7
Dynamic Connectedness Between a Corporate Bond Market With WTI , Geopolitical and Financial Volatility: Spillover From Post‐	7
Sovereign bonds' risk‐based heterogeneity	7
ESG Meets DeFi: Exploring Time‐Varying Linkages and Portfolio Implications	7
Financial Development, Institutions, and Technological Innovation in Africa	7
Effects of consolidation of cooperative financial institutions in Japan: Evidence from meta‐frontier analysis	7
Macro‐financial linkages in the high‐frequency domain: Economic fundamentals and the Covid‐induced uncertainty channel in US and UK financial markets	7
Investor Site Visits, Discussion Contents, and Analyst Forecasts: A Machine Learning Approach	7
Climate Risk and Risk‐Taking of Rural Financial Institutions in China	7
Relative corporate social performance and cost of equity capital: International evidence	7
The moderating role of governance on the nexus of financial crime and sustainable development	7
Transforming Cities With Digital Governance: Insights and Innovations From China's Urban Landscape	7
The S&P 500 index inclusion effect: Evidence from the options market	7
Do Private and Public Capital Flows Respond Differently to Income Inequality? Evidence From Emerging Markets and Developing Economies	7
Is Globalisation all Good? Asymmetric Analysis of the Roles of Globalisation on Poverty in Africa	7
Digital Financial Inclusion and Rural Household Debt Risks	7
How bank‐specific factors affect access to financing for small and medium enterprises: Evidence from an emerging economy	7
Acquisition deal characteristics and earnings management: New evidence from Gulf Cooperation Council countries	6
The nexus between climate change risk and financial policy uncertainty	6
Multiple Large Shareholders and Controlling Shareholders' Equity Pledging	6
Can digital M&A reduce the stock price crash risk?	6
Pivoting to Avoid Pitfalls: Trade Policy Uncertainty and Corporate ESG Performance	6
The Impact of Brexit Disclosure on Trade Credit	6
Power Play: How Bank Market Power Shapes Earnings Management in European SMEs	6
Monetary policy transmission under pandemic uncertainty: Effect on banks' risk and capital adjustments	6
Can market information outperform hard and soft information in predicting corporate defaults?	6
Arab Spring, democratization of corruption, and income inequality	6
Not on My Nickel: The Aptness of Blank Check Companies for Islamic Finance	6
Driving ESG Excellence: Analysing China's Green Finance Policy With Double/Debiased Machine Learning	6
CSR Governance Committee and Carbon Emission Performance: Does Committee Composition Matter?	6
CAPM and Skewness Pricing Under Probability Weighting: Based on the Generalised Wang Transform	6
Analysis of Spatial Evolution of Inclusive Finance at the County Level: A Comparative Study of Traditional and Digital Finance	6
Major Conundrums and Possible Solutions in DeFi Insurance	6
Economic policy uncertainty and credit risk in microfinance: A cross‐country analysis	6
Educational (mis)match in the context of new manufacturing: A qualitative comparative analysis study in five European countries	6
Corruption and foreign bank entry denials: A cross‐country panel analysis	6
Corporate Culture as a Shelter for Climate Change Exposure: A Text‐Based Approach	6
Earnings Quality and ESG Performance in Energy and Utilities: What Really Matters?	6
ESG disclosure and financial performance of multinational enterprises: The moderating effect of board standing committees	6
On the evolution of competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe: Is it broken?	6
Coupling men‐to‐women: Promoting innovation in emerging markets	6
Geopolitical Risk and Bank Stability in the MENA Region: The Moderating Role of Diversification and Financial Flexibility	6
Reading the Financial Stars: The Interplay of Chinese Fortune‐Telling, Western Astrology, and Investment Decisions	6
The Impact of the 2016 EU Audit Reforms, Oversight, and Corruption on Earnings Management: Evidence From European Banks Using a Dynamic Panel Approac	6
Digital Washing and Executives' Opportunistic Stock Reduction	6
Correcting for productivity growth misspecification: A local likelihood estimation in global banking	5
Who cares about corruption in Africa? China or the USA?	5
Corporate Climate Risk and Greenwashing Behaviour: Evidence From China	5
Asymmetric Effect of Green Energy and Economic Growth on the Environmental Deterioration and the Environmental Kuznets Curve Validation in MENA Countries	5
Investment decisions under uncertainty: Corporate venture capital as a real option	5
Too costly to make a difference: An examination on the relationship between online financing and economic growth	5
Investigating the Role of Natural Resource Depletion and Consumption Expenditures in Escalating Carbon Inequality	5
Unveiling the Double‐Edged Sword: Assessing the Impact of Venture Capital Market Competition on Startup Success in China	5
Alternative measures for the global financial cycle: Do they make a difference?	5
Banking uncertainty and corporate financial constraints	5
Stock Market Efficiency in Asia: Evidence from the Narayan–Liu–Westerlund's GARCH‐based unit root test	5
Capital flows to emerging economies and global risk aversion during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Volatility forecasting with Hybrid‐long short‐term memory models: Evidence from the COVID‐19 period	5
Environmental Courts and Corporate ESG Greenwashing	5
Navigating Uncertainty: The Impact of FinTech Advancement, Economic Policy, and Social Media on the US Bank Stock Returns	5
Sovereign credit and geopolitical risks during and after the EMU crisis	5
Golden Returns From Green Investments: The Impact of Corporate Environmental Behaviour on Product Market Performance	5
ESG Rating Disagreement and the Quality of Analysts' Forecasts: Information or Noise	5
Do off‐Site R&D Institutions Matter for Corporate Exploratory Innovation?	5
Mergers and Acquisitions and Brexit: A Natural Experiment	5
Unveiling financial inclusion dynamics: Fintech's resonance in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)	5
Herding and Anti‐Herding Behaviour in the UK , French and German Stock Markets Before and During the Covid Pandemic	5
On the solution of games with arbitrary payoffs: An application to an over‐the‐counter financial market	5
Why do corporate social responsibility‐oriented companies opt for bond debt? Evidence from crisis periods	5
The Impact of Say‐On‐Pay on Firm Efficiency in Anglo‐Saxon Economies—Do CEO Personal Traits and CG	5
The Impact of Value Jumps on Bond Spreads: Based on ChinaBond Valuation	5
What can we learn from the analysis of the fine wines market efficiency?	5
Political uncertainty and stock market liquidity, size, and transaction cost: The role of institutional quality	5
Does investor sentiment create value for asset pricing? An empirical investigation of the KOSPI‐listed firms	5
The effect of IFRS adoption on bank internationalisation	5
How culture and legal environment affect classification shifting? Global evidence	5
International Joint Ventures in the Digital Sector and Foreign Subsidiary Performance: Does Cultural Distance Matter?	5
The Black‐Box of ESG Scores From Rating Agencies: Do They Genuinely Reflect Sustainability Practices, or Are They Disproportionately Shaped by Financ	5
Interdependence of Venture Capital Screening Criteria: A Decision Support Framework	5
Audit report information improvement and earnings management	5
Forecasting equity risk premium: A new method based on wavelet de‐noising	5
How important is tourism for growth?	5
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The Mediating Effect of Capital Adequacy on the Relationship Between the ECL Model and Commercial Banks Profitability in the Middle East	5