International Journal of Finance & Economics

Article	Citations
Links between growth, trade and financial openness in South Africa: An empirical investigation	78
Fundamental analysis of Initial Coin Offerings	76
Factors affecting firm‐level job cuts during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐country evidence	62
Do creditors care about greening in corporations? Do contingencies matter?	58
Breaks in term structures: Evidence from the oil futures markets	50
Endogenous market choice, listing regulations, and IPO spread: Evidence from the London Stock Exchange	50
Market discipline and the risk‐taking behaviour of banks in India	35
Revisiting corporate governance and financial risk‐taking	32
Economic Policy Uncertainty, Investor Sentiment and Industry Stock Market Volatility in China: A Quantile Regression Approach	27
The implications of non‐synchronous trading in G‐7 financial markets	27
How does monetary policy moderate the influence of economic complexity and technological innovation on environmental sustainability? The role of green central banking	26
Green R&D Efficiency and China's Industrial Carbon Intensity: New Evidence From a Spatial Perspective	26
The scientific tale of the nexus between oil prices, macroeconomic uncertainty and Pakistan's exports to its major trading partners: Insights from advanced methods	25
Do Vice Chancellors' Career Horizon Matter for University Sustainability Performance? The Moderating Role of Soft Information	24
The Transformation of Economic Structure in Developing Countries: Evidence of Financial Development as a Source of Financing	23
A portfolio diversification measure in the unit interval: A coherent and practical approach	22
How does institutional cross‐ownership affect firm productivity? The importance of the corporate social responsibility channel	21
FinTech Advancement in the Banking Industry: Is It Driving Efficiency?	21
Inventory information arrival and the crude oil futures market	21
Bank income smoothing behaviours under expansionary and recessionary economic environments: New evidence using micro‐data sample	20
The effect of International Monetary Fund programs on corporate default risk	19
Playing by the rules: Do the post‐crisis regulations influence banks' funding model in the EU?	19
Life insurance consumption across generations: The roles of financial knowledge, planning horizon, and self‐control	19
US partisan polarization and households' portfolio decisions	19
Credit risk modelling within the euro area in the COVID‐19 period: Evidence from an ICAS framework	19

In search of light in the darkness: What can we learn from ethical, sustainable and green investments?	19
Cash holdings and corruption prevention commitment: Evidence from the UK	18
Does democracy matter in banking performance? Exploring the linkage between democracy, economic freedom and banking performance in the European Union member states	18
Investment‐cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from investment in identifiable intangible and tangible assets activities	17
Appeasing Stockholders at the Expense of Stakeholders: Do Contingencies Matter?	17
Ranking of countries based on multi‐dimensional financial inclusion index: A global perspective	16
Uncertainty and Innovation: Assessing the Impact of Economic, Monetary, Trade, and Fiscal Shocks in Japan and the United States	15
The Effects of Top Management Team R&D Functional Background on Corporate Social Responsibility: Detrimental or Beneficial in Family Firms?	15
Household Portfolios and Monetary Policy	15
Multi‐class financial distress prediction based on stacking ensemble method	15
Corporate ESG Performance, Ownership Structure and Export Intensity: Evidence From Chinese Listed Companies	14
Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Investment: The Moderating Role of Early‐Life War Exposure and Firm Size	14
Board Monitoring, Shareholders' Rights, and CSR Strategy: Firm Value and Risk Implications	14
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Synthetic money: Addressing the budget‐constraint issue	13
Governance, debt service, information technology and access to electricity in Africa	13
Banking performance and institutional quality: Evidence from dynamic panel data analysis	13
Public Debt Dynamics Over the Business Cycle: A Fresh Perspective	13
Does financial stability communication affect financial asset prices? Evidence from the Bank of England's communication experiment	13
The choice of performance measures, target setting and vesting levels in UK firms' Chief Executive Officer equity‐based compensation	13
Is the Stock Market Performance Vulnerable to the Russian–Ukrainian War? Evidence From the Twitter Sentiment Index	12
Issue Information	12
Essays in modelling financial market dynamics: An overview	12
The impact of R&D investment on grain crops production in China: Analysing the role of agricultural credit and CO2 emissions	12
Central Bank Transparency and Interest Rate Volatility	12
The impact of CEOs' early‐life experience on the financialization of non‐financial firms: Evidence from the great Chinese famine	12
Real Earnings Management and ESG Performance in China: The Mediating Role of Corporate Innovations	12
The Impact of Social Media Activities on Stock Price Informativeness	12
Communicating tokenomics and monetary policy: A comparative analysis of real and virtual economies	12
Corporate price dynamics during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic: Insights from a partial equilibrium model	12
The impact of refinery and oil demand shocks on the motor fuel market in Sweden	11
Margin buying activity and stock market trading in China: Is there a connection?	11
Bank competition and corporate risk: Firm‐level evidence from BRIC economies	11
Investment opportunities in the energy market: What can be learnt from different energy sectors	11
A risk–return trade‐off or co‐movement? Are food processing firms risk‐averse?	11
Clarifying the impact of corporate governance and intellectual capital on financial performance: A longitudinal study of Deutsche Bank (1957–2019)	11
Returns and volatility connectedness among the Eurozone equity markets	11
Forecasting the Asian stock market volatility: Evidence from WTI and INE oil futures	10
Does a co‐opted director affect a firm's financial distress risk?	10
Investor trading behavior and asset prices: Evidence from quantile regression analysis	10
Financial Market Determinants of Dynamic Herding in North American Energy Equity Market	10
Corporate social responsibility assurance, board characteristics and social performance disclosure. Evidence of listed firms in India	10
Climate Risk and Foreign Direct Investment Entry Mode	10
The term structure of interest rates as predictor of stock market volatility	10
Macroeconomic factors and financing strategies in working capital: Evidence from China	10
Bank Capital Regulation and Derivatives Clearing	10
Investigating green energy–environment nexus in post‐COP26 era: Can technological innovation, financial development and government expenditure deliver Africa's targets?	10
Sovereign Credit Ratings: A Friend or Foe to Financial Development of African Countries?	9
The oil price plummeted in 2014–2015: Is there an effect on Chinese firms' labour investment?	9
The impact of inflation on inequality in the CEMAC and UEMOA zones of Sub‐Saharan Africa	9

The impact of cryptocurrency heists on Bitcoin's market efficiency	9
Star power as quality signal or marketing effect? A path analysis on China's motion‐picture industry	9
Is the Fisher effect asymmetric? Cointegration analysis and expectations measurement	9
Contemporaneous Spillovers Across Foreign Exchange Markets	9
Investor attention and environmental information disclosure quality: Evidence from heavy pollution industries in China	9
How state ownership affects corporate R&D: An inverted‐U‐shaped relationship	9
The natural real rate of interest and monetary policy: New evidence for the US	8
Connectedness between G10 currencies: Searching for the causal structure	8
Does ESG investing pay‐off? An analysis of the Eurozone area before and during the Covid‐19 pandemic	8
Uncertainties and green bond markets: Evidence from tail dependence	8
Macro‐management policies: A supporting role to company' capital expenditure	8
Deposit‐borrowing substitutability: Evidence from microfinance institutions around the world	8
Decoding the Role of Corruption in Economic Freedom and CO2 Emissions Nexus: A Disaggregated Analysis From BRICS and N‐11	8
Do political connections matter for bank efficiency in times of crisis?	8
Economic policy uncertainty and stock markets’ co‐movements	8
The optimal time to buy and hold stock in a reversal	7
ESG Performance, Family Ownership, and Corporate Risk‐Taking: The Moderating Role of the CSR Committee	7
Stock price informativeness and credit default swap trading	7
A Learning Model with Memory in the Financial Markets	7
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Digital Finance Development: Evidence From 30 Regions in China	7
Labour reallocation and unemployment fluctuations: A tale of two tails	7
Do Analysts Care About ESG Performance? Evidence From Tracking Decisions	7
The importance of staying positive: The impact of emotions on attitude to risk	7
The impact of International Financial Reporting Standards adoption on the integration of capital markets	7
Asset allocation, limited participation and flight‐to‐quality under ambiguity of correlation	7
Bank Digital Transformation and Market Risk Mitigation: A Perspective From Economic Capital	7
Clean Energy Markets: Responses to Emerging Risks and Investor Behaviour	7
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The myth of business cycle sector rotation	7
Do cryptocurrencies integrate with the indices of equity, sustainability, clean energy, and crude oil? A wavelet coherency approach	7
Reference prices and withdrawn acquisitions	7
Investment under uncertainty and irreversibility: Evidence from the shipping markets	7
Unbundling institutional determinants of innovation	7
Climate and Environment Risks and Opportunities in the Banking Industry: The Role of Risk Management	7
Fiscal Rules, Independent Fiscal Institutions and Sovereign Risk: Evidence From the European Union	7
Cross‐border buyout exit success	7
Foreign exchange hedging using regime‐switching models: The case of pound sterling	7
The effect of the US dollar exchange rate on oil prices: An oil financialization perspective	7
Sustainable investing in emerging markets: Evidence from the Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative	6
Incomplete information model of credit default of micro and small enterprises	6
Bibliometric analysis of global research trends on microfinance institutions and microfinance: Suggesting new research agendas	6
Total, quantile, and frequency risk transmission among metal commodities	6
Climate transition risk and corporate environment, social and governance performance: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	6
Does Central Bank Independence Reduce Economic Vulnerability in Africa?	6
Relating economic openness and export diversification to eco‐efficiency: Is green innovation critical?	6
Are European commercial banks more profitable than cooperative banks? Evidence from a low interest rate environment	6
Banks, financial markets, and income inequality	6
Capital flow data—A guide for empirical analysis and real‐time tracking	6
The conditional impact of market conditions, volatility and liquidity shocks on the arbitrage opportunities during pre‐COVID and COVID periods	6
Do Co‐Opted Boards Lead to Managerial Obfuscation? Evidence From the 10‐K Report Readability	6
People are people: A comparative analysis of risk attitudes across Europe	6
Macroeconomic determinants of households' indebtedness in Portugal: What really matters in the era of financialisation?	6
The religion effect on corporate cash holding in China: Buddhism and Taoism	6
Market supervisor monetary penalties for non‐compliance with informational requirements: Do investors care?	6
The Effect of Corporate Leverage Regulation on Innovation: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China	6
Corporate capital structure in BRICS economies: An integrated analysis of ESG, firm, industry, and macroeconomic determinants	6
How Does Environmental Regulation Promote Environmental Total Factor Productivity: Evidence From China's Total Carbon Emission Control Policy	6
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Corruption and foreign bank entry denials: A cross‐country panel analysis	5
Can digital M&A reduce the stock price crash risk?	5
Sovereign bonds' risk‐based heterogeneity	5
Relative corporate social performance and cost of equity capital: International evidence	5
Effects of consolidation of cooperative financial institutions in Japan: Evidence from meta‐frontier analysis	5
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Corporate board and dynamics of capital structure: Evidence from UK, France and Germany	5
Information diversity and household portfolio diversification	5
Can market information outperform hard and soft information in predicting corporate defaults?	5
Market Efficiency and Equity Risk Premium Predictability	5
ESG Meets DeFi: Exploring Time‐Varying Linkages and Portfolio Implications	5
Hedging With Gold, Correlation Cycles and Risk Aversion: Evidence From Global Economic Sectors	5
Returns to scale, spillovers and persistence: A network perspective of U.S. bank size	5
The S&P 500 index inclusion effect: Evidence from the options market	5
Stock returns, government response strategies, and daily new case bursts during COVID‐19: A cross‐country perspective	5
The moderating role of governance on the nexus of financial crime and sustainable development	5
Acquisition deal characteristics and earnings management: New evidence from Gulf Cooperation Council countries	5
Dynamic Persistence of Shocks to Stock Prices in Emerging Markets: Non‐Normal Distributions, Structural Changes and Asymmetry	5
Corporate cash policy and double machine learning	5
Macro‐financial linkages in the high‐frequency domain: Economic fundamentals and the Covid‐induced uncertainty channel in US and UK financial markets	5
How bank‐specific factors affect access to financing for small and medium enterprises: Evidence from an emerging economy	5
IFRS 8 and the cost of capital in Europe	5

Measuring the efficiency and productivity of U.K. insurance market	5
Financial Development, Institutions, and Technological Innovation in Africa	5
Major Conundrums and Possible Solutions in DeFi Insurance	4
CAPM and Skewness Pricing Under Probability Weighting: Based on the Generalised Wang Transform	4
Monetary policy transmission under pandemic uncertainty: Effect on banks' risk and capital adjustments	4
Who cares about corruption in Africa? China or the USA?	4
A disaggregated approach to analysing the effects of globalization and energy consumption on economic growth: New insights from low‐income countries	4
How important is tourism for growth?	4
How powerful are fiscal and monetary policies in a directed technical change model with humans and robots?	4
Why do corporate social responsibility‐oriented companies opt for bond debt? Evidence from crisis periods	4
On the evolution of competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe: Is it broken?	4
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Capital flows to emerging economies and global risk aversion during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Earnings Quality and ESG Performance in Energy and Utilities: What Really Matters?	4
Multiple Large Shareholders and Controlling Shareholders' Equity Pledging	4
Not on My Nickel: The Aptness of Blank Check Companies for Islamic Finance	4
The repo market under Basel III: Effects of capital and liquidity regulations on market fragmentation	4
Sovereign credit and geopolitical risks during and after the EMU crisis	4
The nexus between climate change risk and financial policy uncertainty	4
Correcting for productivity growth misspecification: A local likelihood estimation in global banking	4
Arab Spring, democratization of corruption, and income inequality	4
What can we learn from the analysis of the fine wines market efficiency?	4
Economic policy uncertainty and credit risk in microfinance: A cross‐country analysis	4
Pivoting to Avoid Pitfalls: Trade Policy Uncertainty and Corporate ESG Performance	4
CSR Governance Committee and Carbon Emission Performance: Does Committee Composition Matter?	4
The Impact of Brexit Disclosure on Trade Credit	4
Banking uncertainty and corporate financial constraints	4
Educational (mis)match in the context of new manufacturing: A qualitative comparative analysis study in five European countries	4
Volatility forecasting with Hybrid‐long short‐term memory models: Evidence from the COVID‐19 period	4
ESG disclosure and financial performance of multinational enterprises: The moderating effect of board standing committees	4
Audit report information improvement and earnings management	4
Global factors and the transmission between United States and emerging stock markets	4
Too costly to make a difference: An examination on the relationship between online financing and economic growth	4
Driving ESG Excellence: Analysing China's Green Finance Policy With Double/Debiased Machine Learning	4
Is Globalisation all Good? Asymmetric Analysis of the Roles of Globalisation on Poverty in Africa	4
Coupling men‐to‐women: Promoting innovation in emerging markets	4