Research in International Business and Finance

Article	Citations
Governance network externality: Exploring systemic risk generation mechanisms	266
Political uncertainty and stock performance: Evidence from sessions of the Chinese Provincial People’s Congress	203
Editorial Board	195
Loan pricing and biodiversity exposure: Nature-related spillovers to the financial sector	143
Corrigendum to “Multiple large shareholders and pay-performance sensitivity: Evidence from China” [Res. Int. Bus. Financ. 73 (2025) 102597]	137
Quality of accounting information and SMEs’ financial performance: The mediating role of bank and informal financing	127
Promoting corporate social responsibility through green finance legislation	107
The impact mechanism of interactive carbon disclosure on firm value moderated by investors’ online social networks	101
Can internal regulatory technology (RegTech) mitigate bank credit risk? Evidence from the banking sector in China	101
Spatial distribution of public service, spatial sorting, and labor market	95
Event-driven changes in connectedness among commodities and commodity currencies: A quantile, network and probabilistic analysis	93
Does human flight and brain drain affect cross-border acquisitions? Insights into tobit and binomial regression models	90
The co-effects of technology innovation and digital infrastructure on central bank digital currency: A DSGE analysis	89
Access to banking and corporate dividend policy: Evidence from the distribution of bank branches in China	89
Customer concentration and corporate financialization: Evidence from non-financial firms in China	88
COVID-19 pandemic and economic policy uncertainty: The first test on the hedging and safe haven properties of cryptocurrencies	86
Pandemic effect on corporate financial asset holdings: Precautionary or return-chasing?	84
Fleeing entrepreneurs: Foreign residency right and corporate risk-taking	83
Readability and banks’ risk-taking behavior: Evidence from GCC	83
Time and frequency dynamics of connectedness and hedging performance in global stock markets: Bitcoin versus conventional hedges	82
Big data analytics, firm risk and corporate policies: Evidence from China	80
Motivation of discretionary goodwill impairments	77
The impact of sovereign credit ratings on Eurobond yields: Evidence from Africa	73
Gender Diversity Index. Measuring persistence	72
Editorial Board	71

Editorial Board	70
Does market quality benefit from internationalization? Evidence from Chinese commodity futures markets	69
Perceived vs actual financial crisis and bank credit standards: Is there any indication of self-fulfilling prophecy?	68
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	68
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	67
Hedging gas in a multi-frequency semiparametric CVaR portfolio	66
Editorial Board	65
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	65
Does economics and management education make managers more cautious? Evidence from R&D of Chinese listed firms	64
Macro-financial implications of central bank digital currencies	64
Family firms and the cost of borrowing: empirical evidence from East Asia	62
Institutional determinants of bid–ask spreads in Caribbean offshore stock exchanges	62
Editorial Board	61
Factorial asset pricing models using statistical anomalies	60
Editorial Board	59
Return and volatility connectedness between agricultural tokens and us equity sectors	57
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	57
Impact of fund cliques on corporate cash dividends: Evidence from China	56
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	56
The interconnectedness of European Banking and Shadow Banking for sustainable development goals: Insights from a network GVAR model	54
Predicting consumption-wealth ratio changes and stock market returns	53
Business perception of obstacles to innovate: Evidence from Chile with pseudo-panel data analysis	53
Anatomy of sovereign yield behaviour using textual news	51
Stewardship code adoption and firms’ decisions on treasury shares: Evidence from South Korea	51
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	51
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	50
Countering money laundering and terrorist financing: A case for bitcoin regulation	50
Political risk in banks: A review and agenda	50
The information environment and ecological environment perspectives: Capital market openness and firm ESG rating divergence	48
Peer effects with multifaceted network dependence structures in R&D investment decisions: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	48
Return–volume nexus in financial markets: A survey of research	47
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	46
On the asymmetrical connectedness between cryptocurrencies and foreign exchange markets: Evidence from the nonparametric quantile on quantile approach	46
Does the source of uncertainty matter? The impact of financial, newspaper and Twitter-based measures on U.S. banks	45
Direct and spillover portfolio effects of COVID-19	45
How has consumers' willingness to pay for the environmental value of new energy vehicles changed? Based on comparative surveys in 2016 and 2023	45
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	45
Economic policy uncertainty and financing structure: A new panel data evidence from selected Asian economies	45
Common institutional ownership and executive pay-performance sensitivity: Mediating role of information transparency and fund occupation	44
Parent company board reform and subsidiary optimization of cash holdings: A quasi-natural experiment from central state-owned enterprises in China	44
Relational capital’s contribution to international success: Evidence from family-owned wineries and olive oil mills in Spain	44
Editorial Board	44
Collaboration and regulation: A dual regulatory game for the sustainable development of green housing	44
Commodity market stability and sustainable development: The effect of public health policies	43
Private equity and financial distress: A bibliometric literature review	43
Existence of long memory in crude oil and petroleum products: Generalised Hurst exponent approach	43
Vulnerability of financial markets in India: The contagious effect of COVID-19	43
Sustainable synergy: Static and dynamic nexus between ESG and BRICS equity markets	43
Expectation or risk aversion when outward foreign direct investment firms invest in the belt and road: Evidence from China	42
Editorial Board	41

Too sunny to borrow: Sunshine and borrower discouragement	41
The impact of banks’ climate engagement on systemic risk. Does committing a little or a lot make a difference?	41
Does market efficiency matter for Shanghai 50 ETF index options?	41
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	40
Institutional investors by nationality and long-term investor value appropriation	40
Distribution of export size, Pareto exponent and financial crisis	40
Economic policy uncertainty: Persistence and cross-country linkages	40
Rookie independent directors and audit fees: Evidence from China	39
Information demand and net selling around earnings announcement	39
Fixed price and book building methods in an exogenous environment: Evidence from Indonesia stock market	39
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	39
The financial conservatism of firms in emerging economies	39
Emerging market exchange rates during quantitative tapering: The effect of US and domestic news	38
Loan loss provisions of European banks – Does macroprudential tightening matter?	38
The impact of board capital on open innovation with the moderating effect of executive equity incentives	36
How socially sustainable multinational banks promote financial inclusion in developing countries	36
Price limits, informed trading, and information consumption	36
When is organisational resizing helpful or harmful for innovation outputs?	35
The effect of corporate executives’ academic experience on firm financialization — Evidence from listed manufacturing firms in China	35
Place-based policies and local technology spillovers: Evidence from national high-tech zones in China	34
Analyst tracking and innovation inconsistency in companies	34
Impact of central bank digital currency uncertainty on international financial markets	34
The effect of impact investing on performance of private firms	33
Newly-constructed Chinese geopolitical risk index and trade stock returns	33
Broadband infrastructure and enterprise digital transformation: Evidence from China	33
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	33
Greenwashing prevention in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures: A bibliometric analysis	33
Commonality in liquidity and corporate default risk - Evidence from China	32
Less is more: Evidence from firms with low cash and debt	32
Quantile dependence and portfolio management between oil, gold, silver, and MENA stock markets	32
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	32
Internal monitoring mechanisms and corporate environmental and social performance: Evidence from Korea	32
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	32
The relationship between share pledge and corporate performance: Does corporate governance matter?	32
Is climate transition risk priced into corporate credit risk? Evidence from credit default swaps	31
The maturity effect of stock index futures: Speculation or carry arbitrage?	31
Supply chain risks and the cost of debt: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Do Chinese managers listen to the media?: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	31
Coronavirus disease outbreak and supply chain disruption: Evidence from Taiwanese firms in China	31
Winners and losers from financial sector openness: A Firm’s international exposure matters	31
Asset pricing during pandemic lockdown	31
THE REVIVAL OF THE FELDSTEIN-HORIOKA PUZZLE AND MODERATION OF CAPITAL FLOWS AFTER THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS (2008/09)	30
Dynamic linkages among transparency, income inequality and economic growth in developing countries: Evidence from panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model	30
What determines mergers and acquisitions in BRICS countries: Liquidity, exchange rate or innovation?	30
Does social media distort price discovery? Evidence from rumor clarifications	30
Are green IPOs priced differently? Evidence from China	30
The crowding-out effect of zombie companies on fixed asset investment: Evidence from China	29
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	29
Economics of blockchain-based securities settlement	29
Counterbalance effect of multiple major shareholders in Chinese listed companies: A strategic decision-making perspective	29
Market structure, factor endowment, and technology adoption	29
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	29
Using machine learning to analyze the impact of coronavirus pandemic news on the stock markets in GCC countries	29
Selling options to beat the market: Further empirical evidence	29
Index mutual fund ownership and financial reporting quality	29
Benefits of sectoral cryptocurrency portfolio optimization	29
Effect of operating multiple affiliates on the performance of subsidiaries in the same host country	28
COVID-19 and investment–cash flow sensitivity: A cross-country analysis	28
Exploring the predictability of attention mechanism with LSTM: Evidence from EU carbon futures prices	28
Does reinforcement learning outperform deep learning and traditional portfolio optimization models in frontier and developed financial markets?	28
Puzzling retrenchment of banking outflows: The role of information asymmetry	28
Tail-risk interconnectedness in the Chinese insurance sector	28
Social media, investor-company interaction and insider trading profitability: Evidence from China	28
Extreme state media reporting and the extreme stock market during COVID-19: A multi-quantile VaR Granger causality approach in China	28
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	28
Is the Evergrande crisis spilling beyond China?	28
Impact of the COVID-19 event on U.S. banks’ financial soundness	27
The COVID-19 pandemic, volatility, and trading behavior in the bitcoin futures market	27
Wholesale funding and bank stability: The impact of economic policy uncertainty	27
How macroprudential regulation and board effectiveness interact to shape bank risk-taking behavior	27
Impact of firm characteristics and country-level governance on global energy stocks during crises	27
ESG in the financial industry: What matters for rating analysts?	27
Determinants of deposits volatility: The case of the microfinance sector in gabon	27
Women directors’ attributes and demographics: New insights into bank risk	27
Does supporting Ukraine pay well? The performance of companies that suspended their business in Russia	27
Traders’ motivation and hedging pressure in commodity futures markets	27
Systemic risk assessment using complex networks approach: Evidence from the Brazilian (re)insurance market	27
Deciphering asymmetric spillovers in US industries: Insights from higher-order moments	27
How do economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk drive Bitcoin volatility?	26
Sustainable development goals and environmental performance: Exploring the contribution of governance, energy, and growth	26

Risk spillovers and diversification benefits between crude oil and agricultural commodity futures markets	26
Integration of investor behavioral perspective and climate change in reinforcement learning for portfolio optimization	26
The COVID-19 pandemic and feedback trading dynamics: Unveiling global patterns	26
Recession fears and stock markets: An application of directional wavelet coherence and a machine learning-based economic agent-determined Google fear index	26
How does employment protection legislation affect labor investment inefficiencies?	25
Investor preferences, financial literacy and intermediary choice towards sustainability	25
Does short selling reduce analysts’ optimism bias in earnings forecasts?	25
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	25
Accounting for digital currencies	25
Revisiting the interdependences across global base metal futures markets: Evidence during the main waves of the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Downside risk in Dow Jones Islamic equity indices: Precious metals and portfolio diversification before and after the COVID-19 bear market	25
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	24
Measuring digitalization capabilities using machine learning	24
Can portfolio construction considering ESG still gain high profits?	24
Making sense and transparency in finance literature: Evidence from trends in readability	24
How do partial acquisitions affect the wealth of acquiring firms? The case of Japanese firms	24
A PRISMA systematic review of greenwashing in the banking industry: A call for action	24
Volatility spillovers between sovereign CDS and futures markets in various volatility states: Evidence from an emerging economy around the pandemic	24
Re-evaluating portfolio diversification and design using cryptocurrencies: Are decentralized cryptocurrencies enough?	24
Non-state shareholder governance and shadow banking business: Evidence from Chinese state-owned manufacturing enterprises	23
Examining institutional investor preferences: The influence of ESG ratings on stock holding in China's stock market	23
Do Investors Pay a Premium for Corporate Government Subsidy? Role of China's Strategic Emerging Industries Policy and Political Connections	23
Interdependence between foreign exchange rate and international reserves: Fresh evidence from China	23
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	23
How robust are financial connectedness networks? A network attack assessment	23
Structure and evolution of the greenfield FDI network along the belt and road	23
The gender gap in trust in Banks	23
Climate risk and renewable energy market volatility: Machine learning approach	22
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	22
The impact of the digital economy on rural industrial revitalization	22
The impact of digital inclusive finance on green economic efficiency: Pathways to inclusive sustainability	22
Can cryptocurrencies improve portfolio diversification? Evidence from the prospect risk perspective	22
Prediction of Chinese stock volatility: Harnessing higher-order moments information of stock and futures markets	21
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	21
Can ESG enhance the efficacy of emissions trading systems on enterprise productivity: Evidence from China	21
The effect of climate policy uncertainty and induced risks on US aggregate and sectoral stock returns	21
Empowering green households: How does digital finance influence household carbon footprints?	21
Banking system stress: Unravelling its influence on U.S. industry risk	21
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	21
Does green finance promote green transformation of the real economy?	21
Exit decisions of women entrepreneurs in resource-constrained environments	21
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	21
The effects of disruptive technologies on accountability in fintech industry: Using bibliometric analysis to develop a research agenda	21
Investigating volatility spillovers: Connectedness between green bonds, conventional bonds, and energy markets	21
Inflation and the war in Ukraine: Evidence using impulse response functions on economic indicators and Twitter sentiment	21
Navigating the intersection of competition and performance in the banking sector: A hybrid review	21
Global economic policy uncertainty and the stability of cryptocurrency returns: The role of liquidity volatility	20
Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in the banking sector: A multi-stakeholder cognition-driven framework	20
Can enhancing financial inclusivity lower climate risks by inhibiting carbon emissions? Contextual evidence from emerging economies	20
The mediating role of competition on deposit insurance and the risk-taking of banks in ASEAN countries	20
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	20
Dividend payouts and biodiversity risk — Chinese evidence	20
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	20
Long memory and volatility persistence across BRICS stock markets	20
A bibliometric analysis of ESG performance in the banking industry: From the current status to future directions	20
Machine learning sentiment analysis, COVID-19 news and stock market reactions	20
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	20
FinTech and economic readiness: Institutional navigation amid climate risks	20
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	20
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	20
Does digital finance lessen credit rationing?—Evidence from Chinese farmers	20
ESG disclosure and technological innovation capabilities of the Chinese listed companies	19
Unforeseen benefits: Can ESG enhance corporate access to commercial credit financing?	19
A hybrid approach for forecasting bitcoin series	19
Bank liquidity hoarding and corporate maturity mismatch: Evidence from China	19
Critical dimensions in the empirical measurement of common shareholding	19
Short-term financing sources in Africa: Substitutes or complements?	19
ESG, governance variables and Fintech: An empirical analysis	19
COVID-19, government policy responses, and stock market liquidity around the world: A note	19
Financial stability: A scientometric analysis and research agenda	19
Partisan conflict, trade policy uncertainty, and the energy market	19
The impact of government environmental attention on firms’ ESG performance: Evidence from China	19
Oil prices and economic policy uncertainty: Evidence from global, oil importers, and exporters’ perspective	18
Tail connectedness between category-specific policy uncertainty, sovereign debt risk, and stock volatility during a high inflation period	18
Monetary policy shocks and Bitcoin prices	18
Golden ratio-based leverage targeting and the ESG performance of US and European listed firms	18
Acquisition for innovations? M&A intensity and intra-firm innovation reallocations	18
Return spillover across the carbon market and financial markets: A quantile-based approach	18
Business model contributions to bank profit performance: A machine learning approach	18
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	18
The impact of readability of risk disclosures in bond prospectuses on credit risk premium	18
The crossroads of ESG and religious screening on firm risk	18
Volatility communicator or receiver? Investigating volatility spillover mechanisms among Bitcoin and other financial markets	18
BeFi meets DeFi: A behavioral finance approach to decentralized finance asset pricing	18
Financial market imperfections and sensitivity of cash holdings to R&D investment: Evidence from chinese listed firms	18
When giants fall: Tracing the ripple effects of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse on global financial markets	17
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	17
An examination of whether gold-backed Islamic cryptocurrencies are safe havens for international Islamic equity markets	17
False Safe Haven Assets: Evidence From the Target Volatility Strategy Based on Recurrent Neural Network	17
Identifying the asymmetric price dynamics of Islamic equities: Implications for international investors	17
Does CEO early-life famine experience affect corporate tax avoidance? Evidence from China	17
Governance and monetary policy impacts on public acceptance of CBDC adoption	17
Environmental protection fee-to-tax and enterprise investment efficiency: Evidence from China	17
Debt distribution and ESG performance: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	17
Dividend policy and the takeover market: Half a century of evidence	16