Research in International Business and Finance

Article	Citations
Stock markets’ reaction to COVID-19: Cases or fatalities?	723
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for equity markets? An international perspective from the COVID-19 pandemic	352
Can fintech improve the efficiency of commercial banks? —An analysis based on big data	162
Innovation as recovery strategy for SMEs in emerging economies during the COVID-19 pandemic	155
ESG disclosure and Firm performance: A bibliometric and meta analysis	120
COVID-19, government policy responses, and stock market liquidity around the world: A note	120
The impact of COVID-19 on the stock market crash risk in China	109
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in finance: A bibliometric review	101
A systematic review of the bubble dynamics of cryptocurrency prices	93
Impact of COVID-19 on stock market efficiency: Evidence from developed countries	87
Does COVID-19 open a Pandora's box of changing the connectedness in energy commodities?	87
On the nonlinear relationship between energy use and CO2 emissions within an EKC framework: Evidence from panel smooth transition regression in the MENA region	83
Corporate Social Responsibility Amid Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Crisis: BRICS vs. OECD Countries	78
Trade credit research before and after the global financial crisis of 2008 – A bibliometric overview	78
Are stablecoins truly diversifiers, hedges, or safe havens against traditional cryptocurrencies as their name suggests?	77
Does economic policy uncertainty affect cryptocurrency markets? Evidence from Twitter-based uncertainty measures	75
Did COVID-19 change spillover patterns between Fintech and other asset classes?	71
Does bitcoin co-move and share risk with Sukuk and world and regional Islamic stock markets? Evidence using a time-frequency approach	70
How does economic policy uncertainty affect the bitcoin market?	70
In search of safe haven assets during COVID-19 pandemic: An empirical analysis of different investor types	65
Return and volatility spillovers between energy and BRIC markets: Evidence from quantile connectedness	65
How does corporate social responsibility affect financial performance, financial stability, and financial inclusion in the banking sector? Evidence from Pakistan	64
Empirical investigation of changes in policy uncertainty on stock returns—Evidence from China’s market	64
A bibliometric analysis of ESG performance in the banking industry: From the current status to future directions	64
How do financial globalization, institutions and economic growth impact financial sector development in European countries?	64

Oil prices and economic policy uncertainty: Evidence from global, oil importers, and exporters’ perspective	63
Financial crises and the dynamics of the spillovers between the U.S. and BRICS stock markets	63
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	63
The historic oil price fluctuation during the Covid-19 pandemic: What are the causes?	60
Does the porter hypothesis work well in the emission trading schema pilot? Exploring moderating effects of institutional settings	57
Volatility spillover between economic sectors in financial crisis prediction: Evidence spanning the great financial crisis and Covid-19 pandemic	57
Twitter-Based uncertainty and cryptocurrency returns	56
Asymmetric volatility spillovers between economic policy uncertainty and stock markets: Evidence from China	53
Nonlinear dynamic correlation between geopolitical risk and oil prices: A study based on high-frequency data	52
Banking sector reactions to COVID-19: The role of bank-specific factors and government policy responses	52
Does financial deepening attract foreign direct investment? Fresh evidence from panel threshold analysis	52
Does low-carbon pilot city program reduce carbon intensity? Evidence from Chinese cities	51
COVID-19 Sentiment and the Chinese Stock Market: Evidence from the Official News Media and Sina Weibo	50
Can FinTech improve corporate investment efficiency? Evidence from China	50
A firefly algorithm modified support vector machine for the credit risk assessment of supply chain finance	49
The COVID-19 black swan crisis: Reaction and recovery of various financial markets	48
Blockchain in banking and finance: A bibliometric review	46
Asymmetric effect of COVID-19 pandemic on E7 stock indices: Evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression approach	45
COVID-19 pandemic and economic policy uncertainty: The first test on the hedging and safe haven properties of cryptocurrencies	44
Capture the contagion network of bitcoin – Evidence from pre and mid COVID-19	44
The role of economic structural factors in determining pandemic mortality rates: Evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak in France	43
Comparing COVID-19 with the GFC: A shockwave analysis of currency markets	43
Modelling the nonlinear relationship between oil prices, stock markets, and exchange rates in oil-exporting and oil-importing countries	42
Studying the properties of the Bitcoin as a diversifying and hedging asset through a copula analysis: Constant and time-varying	42
COVID-19 social distancing and the US service sector: What do we learn?	41
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on a firm’s green behavior: Evidence from China	41
COVID-19, stock market and sectoral contagion in US: a time-frequency analysis	41
The recovery of global stock markets indices after impacts due to pandemics	40
Does the Covid-19 pandemic affect faith-based investments? Evidence from global sectoral indices	40
On the short-term persistence of mutual fund performance in Europe	40
World equity markets and COVID-19: Immediate response and recovery prospects	40
The financial impact of COVID-19: Evidence from an event study of global hospitality firms	40
Correlations among cryptocurrencies: Evidence from multivariate factor stochastic volatility model	39
Gold and US sectoral stocks during COVID-19 pandemic	39
Determinants of bank risk governance structure: A cross-country analysis	39
COVID-19, government interventions and emerging capital markets performance	39
Volatility communicator or receiver? Investigating volatility spillover mechanisms among Bitcoin and other financial markets	38
Controlling shareholder pledging and corporate ESG behavior	38
Machine learning sentiment analysis, COVID-19 news and stock market reactions	38
Financing constraints and firm-level responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: International evidence	38
Time and frequency dynamics of connectedness and hedging performance in global stock markets: Bitcoin versus conventional hedges	38
Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in the banking sector: A multi-stakeholder cognition-driven framework	37
Insurance and economic policy uncertainty	37
Uncertainty and herding behavior: evidence from cryptocurrencies	37
Do non-traditional banking activities reduce bank liquidity creation? Evidence from Vietnam	36
ESG disclosure and technological innovation capabilities of the Chinese listed companies	36
The impact of digital transformation of manufacturing on corporate performance — The mediating effect of business model innovation and the moderating effect of innovation capability	36
Central Bank Digital Currencies: Agendas for future research	36
Dynamics of the sheltering role of Bitcoin against crude oil market crash with varying severity of the COVID-19: A comparison with gold	35
Nonlinear tail dependence in cryptocurrency-stock market returns: The role of Bitcoin futures	34

The role of global economic conditions in forecasting gold market volatility: Evidence from a GARCH-MIDAS approach	34
Countering money laundering and terrorist financing: A case for bitcoin regulation	34
Spatial econometric analysis of effect of New economic momentum on China’s high-quality development	34
Confucian Culture and Trade Credit: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies	33
Digital transformation and trade credit provision: Evidence from China	33
Resource misallocation, production efficiency and outward foreign direct investment decisions of Chinese enterprises	33
Economic policy uncertainty and stock liquidity: The mitigating effect of information disclosure	33
Is idiosyncratic volatility priced in cryptocurrency markets?	33
Bitcoin’s price efficiency and safe haven properties during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison	32
Insurance fraud detection: Evidence from artificial intelligence and machine learning	31
The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hedging functionality of Chinese financial markets	31
Green bond issuance and corporate ESG performance: Steps toward green and low-carbon development	31
Downside risk in Dow Jones Islamic equity indices: Precious metals and portfolio diversification before and after the COVID-19 bear market	31
Central bank digital currencies: An agenda for future research	30
Investor attention and cryptocurrency: Evidence from wavelet-based quantile Granger causality analysis	30
Are investors sensitive to climate-related transition and physical risks? Evidence from global stock markets	30
The impact of corporate governance and agency effect on earnings management – A test of the dual banking system	29
Vulnerability of financial markets in India: The contagious effect of COVID-19	29
Does the US-China trade war affect co-movements between US and Chinese stock markets?	29
Volatility spillovers and hedging effectiveness between the oil market and Eurozone sectors: A tale of two crises	29
Crude oil shocks and African stock markets	29
No more black boxes! Explaining the predictions of a machine learning XGBoost classifier algorithm in business failure	29
Bank funding, market power, and the bank liquidity creation channel of monetary policy	28
Human Capital Allocation and Enterprise Innovation Performance: An Example of China's Knowledge-Intensive Service Industry	28
Uncovering the global network of economic policy uncertainty	28
Systemic stablecoin and the defensive case for Central Bank Digital Currency: A critique of the Bank of England’s framing	28
The role of internal corporate governance mechanisms on default risk: A systematic review for different institutional settings	28
Sustainable finance and blockchain: A systematic review and research agenda	27
Stock market reactions to domestic sentiment: Panel CS-ARDL evidence	27
Forecasting Value-at-Risk of Cryptocurrencies with RiskMetrics type models	26
Past, present, and future of the application of machine learning in cryptocurrency research	26
Multilayer network analysis of investor sentiment and stock returns	26
Corporate social responsibility and cost of capital: The moderating role of policy intervention	26
Economic policy uncertainty and financing structure: A new panel data evidence from selected Asian economies	26
Stock market volatility and the COVID-19 reproductive number	25
Thirty years of herd behavior in financial markets: A bibliometric analysis	25
Do sentiment trades explain investor overconfidence around analyst recommendation revisions?	25
Intraday volume-return nexus in cryptocurrency markets: Novel evidence from cryptocurrency classification	25
The conditioning role of performance on the bank risk-taking channel of monetary policy: Evidence from a multiple-tool regime	25
Research on the accelerating effect of green finance on the transformation of energy consumption in China	24
The voice of minority shareholders: Online voting and corporate social responsibility	24
Border disputes, conflicts, war, and financial markets research: A systematic review	24
Do emerging and developed countries differ in terms of sustainable performance? Analysis of board, ownership and country-level factors	24
Investigating individual privacy within CBDC: A privacy calculus perspective	24
Investigating volatility spillover of energy commodities in the context of the Chinese and European stock markets	23
Quantifying systemic risk in US industries using neural network quantile regression	23
An extreme value analysis of the tail relationships between returns and volumes for high frequency cryptocurrencies	23
Return spillover analysis across central bank digital currency attention and cryptocurrency markets	23
Digital economy and business investment efficiency: Inhibiting or facilitating?	23
From me to you: Measuring connectedness between Eurozone financial institutions	23
The performance of Islamic versus conventional stocks during the COVID-19 shock: Evidence from firm-level data	23
COVID-19 and stock returns: Evidence from the Markov switching dependence approach	23
Measurement and prediction of systemic risk in China’s banking industry	22
Capital regulation, competition and risk-taking: Policy implications for banking sector stability in the MENA region	22
Artificial intelligence adoption in the insurance industry: Evidence using the technology–organization–environment framework	22
Financial performances, entrepreneurial factors and coping strategy to survive in the COVID-19 pandemic: case of Vietnam	22
The non-linear relationship between oil prices and stock prices: Evidence from oil-importing and oil-exporting countries	21
Linkage dynamics of sovereign credit risk and financial markets: A bibliometric analysis	21
Acceptance of digital investment solutions: The case of robo advisory in Germany	21
Excessive managerial entrenchment, corporate governance, and firm performance	21
The effects of daily growth in COVID-19 deaths, cases, and governments’ response policies on stock markets of emerging economies	21
Economic policy uncertainty: Persistence and cross-country linkages	21
Can happiness predict future volatility in stock markets?	21
Exploring the predictability of cryptocurrencies via Bayesian hidden Markov models	21
The effects of board structure on corporate performance: Evidence from East African frontier markets	21
Earnings management and internal governance mechanisms: The role of religiosity	20
The global economic policy uncertainty spillover analysis: In the background of COVID-19 pandemic	20
Forecasting volatility of Bitcoin	20
Ownership discrimination and private firms financing in China	20
Performance of Canadian banks and oil price movements	20
An examination of whether gold-backed Islamic cryptocurrencies are safe havens for international Islamic equity markets	20
Multiscale information transmission between commodity markets: An EMD-Based transfer entropy network	20
The Role of National Culture in International Financial Reporting Standards Adoption	20
Modelling the asymmetric linkages between spot gold prices and African stocks	20
Shariah compliance and corporate cash holdings	20
Volatility spillovers between WTI and Brent spot crude oil prices: an analysis of granger causality in variance patterns over time	19
Naval disasters, world war two and the British stock market	19
Board governance and bank performance: A meta- analysis	19
Determinants of financial inclusion in South Asia: The moderating and mediating roles of internal conflict settlement	19
Existence of long memory in crude oil and petroleum products: Generalised Hurst exponent approach	19

“Digital Gold” and geopolitics	19
A novel two-stage hybrid default prediction model with k-means clustering and support vector domain description	19
On the asymmetrical connectedness between cryptocurrencies and foreign exchange markets: Evidence from the nonparametric quantile on quantile approach	19
Does compliance with corporate governance codes help to mitigate financial distress?	18
Five decades of research on capital budgeting – A systematic review and future research agenda	18
Effects of Price of Gold on Bombay Stock Exchange Sectoral Indices: New Evidence for Portfolio Risk Management	18
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	18
Firm-level trade credit responses to COVID-19-induced monetary and fiscal policies: International evidence	18
Media sentiment and cross-sectional stock returns in the Chinese stock market	18
The impact of bank FinTech on liquidity creation: Evidence from China	18
Can enhancing financial inclusivity lower climate risks by inhibiting carbon emissions? Contextual evidence from emerging economies	18
Return and volatility properties: Stylized facts from the universe of cryptocurrencies and NFTs	18
Does confucianism influence corporate earnings management?	18
Comovements between heavily shorted stocks during a market squeeze: Lessons from the GameStop trading frenzy	18
Governance and monetary policy impacts on public acceptance of CBDC adoption	18
The impact of the ESG disclosure on sell-side analysts’ target prices: The new era post Paris agreements	17
Dynamic linkages among transparency, income inequality and economic growth in developing countries: Evidence from panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model	17
Shadow banking business and firm risk-taking: Evidence from China	17
Digital financial inclusion. Visualizing the academic literature	17
Asymmetric volatility dynamics in cryptocurrency markets on multi-time scales	17
Financial Sector transparency and net interest margins: Should the private or public Sector lead financial Sector transparency?	17
Attention allocation and international stock return comovement: Evidence from the Bitcoin market	17
Effects of a negative interest rate policy in bank profitability and risk taking: Evidence from European banks	17
Economic policy uncertainty and shadow banking: Firm-level evidence from China	17
The crossroads of ESG and religious screening on firm risk	17
Stock market dependence in crisis periods: Evidence from oil price shocks and the Qatar blockade	17
Which industries benefited from Trump environmental policy news? Evidence from industrial stock market reactions	17
Central bank digital currencies and the international payment system: The demise of the US dollar?	16
Does mandatory CSR disclosure improve stock price informativeness? Evidence from China	16
Economic policy uncertainty, agency problem, and funding structure: Evidence from U.S. banking industry	16
How much finance is in climate finance? A bibliometric review, critiques, and future research directions	16
Quantile dependencies and connectedness between the gold and cryptocurrency markets: Effects of the COVID-19 crisis	16
Are there asymmetric linkages between African stocks and exchange rates?	16
Coronavirus disease outbreak and supply chain disruption: Evidence from Taiwanese firms in China	16
Tail-risk spillovers from China to G7 stock market returns during the COVID-19 outbreak: A market and sectoral analysis	16
Estimating the reaction of Bitcoin prices to the uncertainty of fiat currency	16
Reporting quality and financial leverage: Are qualitative characteristics or earnings quality more important? Evidence from an emerging bank-based economy	16
Forecasting Value-at-Risk of cryptocurrencies using the time-varying mixture-accelerating generalized autoregressive score model	16
Does high profitability improve stability for European banks?	16
Evolution of research in finance over the last two decades – A topographical view	16
Bank liquidity hoarding and corporate maturity mismatch: Evidence from China	16
Connectedness among fan tokens and stocks of football clubs	16
External financing and earnings management: Evidence from international data	16
Value at risk and returns of cryptocurrencies before and after the crash: long-run relations and fractional cointegration	16
Does digital innovation cause better ESG performance? an empirical test of a-listed firms in China	16
Does Supply Chain Finance (SCF) alleviate funding constraints of SMEs? Evidence from China	16
The impact of central bank digital currency news on the stock and cryptocurrency markets: Evidence from the TVP-VAR model	16
The COVID-19 pandemic, volatility, and trading behavior in the bitcoin futures market	16
Examining the Effect of Globalization on Insurance Activities in Large Emerging Market Economies	15
Venture capital financing during crises: A bibliometric review	15
From sentiment to systemic risk: Information transmission in Asia-Pacific stock markets	15
The impact of government environmental attention on firms’ ESG performance: Evidence from China	15
Climate change and the pricing of sovereign debt: Insights from European markets	15
Investor attention, ETF returns, and country-specific factors	15
The entry and exit dynamics of the cryptocurrency market	15
Does green technology innovation matter to the cost of equity capital?	15
Are green IPOs priced differently? Evidence from China	15
Too big to fail: The aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse and its impact on financial markets	15
Eco-efficiency and financial performance in Latin American countries: An environmental intensity approach	15
Greenness index: IPO performance and portfolio allocation	15
Bank globalization and efficiency: Host- and home-country effects	15
Does global climate risk encourage companies to take more risks?	14
Inter- and intra-regional stock market relations for the GCC bloc	14
The impact of personality traits on attitude to financial risk	14
Bankruptcy prediction using fuzzy convolutional neural networks	14
A model for CBDC audits based on blockchain technology: Learning from the DCEP	14
Simultaneous effects of clustering and endogeneity on the underpricing difference of IPO firms: A global evidence	14
Forecasting gold volatility with geopolitical risk indices	14
Does utilizing smart contracts induce a financial connectedness between Ethereum and non-fungible tokens?	14
Bank business models and liquidity creation	14
Industry policy, cross-region investment, and enterprise investment efficiency	14
How to calm down the markets? The effects of COVID-19 economic policy responses on financial market uncertainty	14
The market reaction to syndicated loan announcements before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of corporate governance	14
Identifying systemically important financial institutions in Turkey	14
The mechanism of credit risk contagion among internet P2P lending platforms based on a SEIR model with time-lag	14
CEO gender and managerial entrenchment	13
The bright side of market power in Asian banking: Implications of bank capitalization and financial freedom	13
Can investors’ informed trading predict cryptocurrency returns? Evidence from machine learning	13
How does the COVID-19 affect earnings management: Empirical evidence from China	13
Pricing Efficiency and Arbitrage in the Bitcoin Spot and Futures Markets	13
Risk, resilience, and Shariah-compliance	13
Internationalization and the capital structure of firms in emerging markets: Evidence from Latin America before and after the financial crisis	13
Does digital finance lessen credit rationing?—Evidence from Chinese farmers	13
Macroeconomic determinants of loan defaults: Evidence from the U.S. peer-to-peer lending market	13
The heterogeneity of innovation, government R&D support and enterprise innovation performance	13
Correlation between geopolitical risk, economic policy uncertainty, and Bitcoin using partial and multiple wavelet coherence in P5 + 1 nations	13
Monetary policy and speculative spillovers in financial markets	13
Roles of stable versus nonstable cryptocurrencies in Bitcoin market dynamics	13
The zero-leverage phenomenon: A bivariate probit with partial observability approach	13
Real returns from unreal world? Market reaction to Metaverse disclosures	13
Infectious disease equity market volatility, geopolitical risk, speculation, and commodity returns: Comparative analysis of five epidemic outbreaks	13