International Review of Economics & Finance

Papers
(The median citation count of International Review of Economics & Finance is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
COVID-19 exposure, financial flexibility, and corporate leverage adjustment465
Does intergenerational mobility affect corporate innovation? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises290
Board independence and PIPE offerings265
Impacts of population aging on bank loan portfolios: Evidence from China260
Trade facilitation and firms exports: Evidence from customs data227
The peer effects of PIPEs224
Board gender diversity and cost of equity: Evidence from mandatory female board representation196
Can rural health insurance coverage improve educational attainment? Evidence from new cooperative medical scheme in China159
Local CEOs and environmentally-friendly enterprise behaviour155
Capital structure and corporate litigation144
Can the degree of party membership among management enhance corporate innovation performance? The moderating role of technology finance138
Effects of shareholder proposals on the market value of Japanese firms137
Dig the treasure nearby: The impact of local supplier preference on trade credit financing114
Forecasting stock volatility using pseudo-out-of-sample information108
Only strong short-term contrarian effect exists in Chinese stock market: The role of the T+1 trading mechanism102
Does heterogeneous media sentiment matter the ‘green premium’? An empirical evidence from the Chinese bond market101
Does environmental regulation affect labor investment Efficiency?Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China100
Determinants of the price of bitcoin: An analysis with machine learning and interpretability techniques99
Controlling shareholder expropriation and labor investment efficiency96
Debt finance and economic activity in the euro-area: evidence on asymmetric and maturity effects94
Behavioral aspects of household portfolio choice: Effects of loss aversion on life insurance uptake and savings93
Variation in the competition − Efficiency nexus: Evidence from emerging markets88
Measuring the productivity of urban commercial banks in China84
Active or passive portfolio: A tracking error analysis under uncertainty theory82
Why have UK universities become more indebted over time?79
Cybersecurity policy, ESG and operational risk: A Virtuous relationship to improve banks’ performance78
Can green credit policy increase corporate pollution abatement efforts? Evidence from China76
Climate change exposure in uncertain times: A text-based approach75
An indicator of monetary bias for emerging and partially dollarized economies: The case of Uruguay74
Renaissance of climate policy uncertainty: The effects of U.S. presidential election on energy markets volatility74
Impact of low-carbon energy structure transition on rural revitalization73
Regional economic policy uncertainty, implicit government guarantees and bank's risk-taking73
A comprehensive analysis of the decline in the market-to-book ratio of European banks71
Exploring the dynamic linkages between carbon trading market and smart technology indices: A multi-dimensional analysis of China's case71
Do financing constraints affect the financial integrity of firms?71
Non-linear nexus between economic policy uncertainty and bank lending70
How does corporate diversification affect earnings management? A path analysis approach69
Risk-premium shocks and the prudent exchange rate policy69
The impact of different recommendation algorithms on consumer search behavior and merchants competition69
Scale of cities and social trust: Evidence from China68
Exploring the dynamic links, implications for hedging and investment strategies between Sukuk and commodity market volatility: Evidence from country level analysis68
Financial crises, bank efficiency and survival: Theory, literature and emerging market evidence67
Debt's shadow: How leverage weighs down investment67
Do China and USA differ in the interrelationship between green bond and ESG markets?67
Market-timing performance of mutual fund investors in Emerging Markets67
Impact of Government Public Data Openness on Agricultural Total Factor Productivity65
Global uncertainty and the spillover of tail risk between green and Islamic markets: A time-frequency domain approach with portfolio implications65
Corporate ESG performance and trade credit financing – Evidence from China65
Deliberate premarket underpricing: New evidence on IPO pricing using machine learning65
Do the dynamics of macroeconomic attention drive the yen/dollar exchange market volatility?65
Extreme dynamic connectedness and hedging strategy across commodity, bond, currency, and stock markets: Evidence from Asian Pacific, Canada, Mexico, and US countries64
Crowding out or crowding in? Reevaluating the effect of government spending on private economic activities64
Digital finance, capital misallocation and corporate innovation62
Dynamic spillover between green cryptocurrencies and stocks: A portfolio implication62
Measuring Chinese climate uncertainty62
Policy-driven employment structure transformation: The role of innovation and education investment62
Editorial Board61
Business cycles in emerging markets: The role of liability dollarization and valuation effects60
The heterogeneity of interest-induced MPC: Evidence from mortgage borrowers60
Competitive runs on Government debt60
Impacts of digital-technology adoption on workers: A simple model and evidence from China59
Network externalities, strategic delegation and optimal trade policy59
Corporate loan duration, macroeconomic environments, and COVID-1959
Mortgage loan and housing market57
Asymmetric effect of trading volume on realized volatility57
A revisit of capital structure puzzle: Global evidence and analysis56
WITHDRAWN: Bond market reform and investors' risk awareness: Evidence from the issuing pricing of corporate bonds in China56
The Brazilian financial market reaction to COVID-19: A wavelet analysis55
Informed trading in the CDS and OTM put option markets55
Earnings informativeness, debt financing, and managerial characteristics55
Editorial Board54
Music stocks and music tokens: Extreme connectedness and portfolio applications54
The religious fringe of Corporate Social Responsibility53
Trading activity, risk aversion, and risk neutral skewness: Evidence from SSE 50ETF option52
Risk-return trade-off in the Australian Securities Exchange: Accounting for overnight effects, realized higher moments, long-run relations, and fractional cointegration51
Does individual auditor quality contribute to firm value? Evidence from the market valuation on corporate cash holdings51
Why risk attitude differs between macro and micro level? A decoherence perspective51
The effect of political and bureaucratic regime changes on Australia's real interest rate50
Forecasting stock market realized volatility: The role of investor attention to the price of petroleum products50
Industrial linkage and clustered regional business cycles in China50
How do carbon markets interact with energy-intensive sectors? Evidence from price connectedness50
Factors affecting trade credit in India50
Overseas operations, global value chain position and technological innovation49
Risk connectedness between international oil and stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict: Fresh evidence from the higher-order moments48
Corporate carbon emission governance: The mediating role of financial leverage48
The nexus between toxic-air pollution, health expenditure, and economic growth: An empirical study using ARDL47
Assessing the impact of rural E-commerce on regional poverty alleviation: A spatial spillover analysis47
Can executive equity incentives enhance corporate debt-paying ability?—An analysis based on the moderating mechanism of patient capital47
Can digital inclusive finance reduce household poverty? Evidence from the China household finance survey47
Digital transformation and rural labour force occupational mobility46
Public service equalization, digital financial inclusion and the rural revitalization: Evidence from Chinese 283 prefecture-level cities46
Time-varying risk aversion and capital Structure: An overlooked effect46
The impact of Party organizations' participation in corporate governance on the enhancement of corporate resilience44
Can international cooperation base for science and technology drive cooperation ability? Evidence from Xinjiang China44
Fiscal & tax incentives, ESG responsibility fulfillments, and corporate green innovation performance43
Functional or selective policy? - Research on the relationship between government intervention and enterprise innovation in China43
“Tax reduction” and the financialization of real enterprises: Evidence from China’s “VAT reform”43
Achieving carbon neutrality in emerging markets: The dual impact of energy transition investments on economic growth and carbon emissions43
Using boosting algorithms to predict bank failure: An untold story43
Environmental attention in cryptocurrency markets: A catalyst for clean energy investments41
Diversified firms and corporate labor policy: The role of managerial equity incentives41
The impact of monetary and fiscal policy on FinTech firms during the crisis40
Editorial Board40
Market volatility and skewness risks in China40
Small and medium-sized banks and pollution emissions from industrial enterprises39
Analyzing a dynamic relation between RMB exchange rate onshore and offshore during the extreme market conditions39
Directors' and officers’ liability insurance and the pricing of seasoned equity offerings39
Research on the impact of land rights certification on farmers’ operating behavior39
Bond market spillover networks of ASEAN-4 markets: Is the global pandemic different?38
Dynamic asymmetric tail dependence structure among multi-asset classes for portfolio management: Dynamic skew-38
The role of renewable energy investment in energy economic efficiency under the “dual carbon” drive37
Bitcoin trading, economic growth, energy use, and CO2 emissions: An advanced panel study of emerging market economies37
Digital transformation driving green innovation: Evidence from Chinese A-Share firms37
Dynamic connectedness of major financial markets in China and America37
Financial dynamics, green transition and hydrogen economy in Europe37
Time and frequency dynamic connectedness between cryptocurrencies and financial assets in China36
Decoding the nexus: How fintech and AI stocks drive the future of sustainable finance36
Output gap and consumption risk on the cross-section of stock returns in Korea35
Board internationalization, market competition, and corporate digital transformation35
Can digital transformation of enterprise improve the information environment of the capital market? ——Evidence from Analyst's perspective35
ESG performance and corporate innovation under the moderating effect of firm size35
The impact of local government debt on entrepreneurship: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of local debt governance reform35
Impact of the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem on startup performance: An empirical study from China35
Revisiting environmental Kuznets curve: The effects of foreign aid on air quality in Africa34
Cryptocurrencies are not immune to coronavirus: Evidence from investor fear34
Strategic emerging industries and innovation: Evidence from China33
Epidemics, local institutional quality, and corporate cash holdings33
Digital transactions and financial development: The moderating role of global integration across income levels32
Easing credit for small firms amidst expansionary policy shifts: Iran 2005–201332
New venture team faultlines and corporate innovation from the perspective of structuration theory32
Bank competition and the price of credit: Evidence using Mexican loan-level data32
Subjective probabilities under behavioral heuristics32
Does firms’ corporate social responsibility reduce crime?31
Impact of innovative capacity on agri-environmental efficiency and mechanism research31
The predictability of skewness risk premium on stock returns: Evidence from Chinese market31
What drives the ‘synchrony’ and ‘asynchrony’ between China's stock and bond markets? An adaptive Lasso-DCC-MIDAS model31
Do pension subsidies reduce household education expenditure inequality? Evidence from China31
Flight to quality and implicit guarantee: Evidence from Chinese trust products31
The biggest bank may not be the most interconnected: A refined entropy-based approach for indicating the direction of interbank flow31
Understanding the credit cycle and business cycle dynamics in India31
Competence enhancement from interactive learning: Does attending conferences affect CEO turnover?30
Subscription price discounts of stock warrants and cost of potential ownership dilution30
Endogenous choice of corporate social responsibility and emissions tax: What impact do green consumers have on economic welfare?30
Modeling dynamic higher-order comoments for portfolio selection based on copula approach30
Frequency domain causality and quantile connectedness between investor sentiment and cryptocurrency returns30
Industrial investments and housing prices in China30
Causes and effects of worldwide demutualization of financial exchanges30
The role of financial advisorʼs industry expertise in M&A quality: Evidence from goodwill impairment30
The balance of payments stages hypothesis: Improvements and new discoveries30
Firm commonality, bank connectedness and portfolio riskiness30
Risk spillover from international financial markets and China's macro-economy: A MIDAS-CoVaR-QR model29
Does globalization affect credit market controls?29
Do credit rating agencies listen to investors’ voices on social media? Evidence from China29
Investor sentiment spillover effect and market quality in crude oil futures29
Does regional services development enhance manufacturing firm productivity? A manufacturing servitization perspective29
Does internal whistleblowing build more socially responsible firms?29
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 reform29
Social interactions in short squeeze scenarios29
Strategic alliances and corporate ESG performance28
The development of firm size distribution – Evidence from four Central European countries28
Political background, digital finance, and risky financial asset allocation28
Does foreign equity matter for pollution? Firm-level evidence from China28
The impact of ESG performance on R&D investment stability: Evidence from China28
Global liquidity and commodity market interactions: Macroeconomic effects on a commodity exporting emerging market28
Can government-guided funds promote corporate technology innovation? Evidence from the new energy automobile industry28
Life-cycle planning with CEV model and time-inconsistent preferences28
The impact of digitalization on the green transformation of China's industrial sectors: The mediating role of green technology innovation and technological transformation27
An investigation into the causes of stock market return deviations from real earnings yields27
Implied volatility information of Chinese SSE 50 ETF options27
Exploring the interconnectedness of China's new energy and stock markets: A study on volatility spillovers and dynamic correlations27
“Cooperation” or “competition”: Digital finance enables green technology innovation—a new assessment from dynamic spatial spillover perspectives27
The influence of government health investment on economic resilience: A perspective from health human capital27
Impact of inclusive finance on private enterprise Lending: Evidence from China private enterprise survey27
Computing resources and trade credit financing: Evidence from China27
Extreme connectedness between NFTs and US equity market: A sectoral analysis27
Impact of green technology innovation on the quality of regional economic development27
Does the commercialization reform of rural credit cooperatives promote the growth of family farms?27
Dynamic connectedness among the implied volatilities of oil prices and financial assets: New evidence of the COVID-19 pandemic27
Exploring the Impact of Traditional Cultural Intensity and Patient Capital on Sustainable Green Innovation in Listed Companies: A Mediation and Heterogeneity Analysis26
The governance role of corporate party organization on innovation26
The spatial spillover effects of regional integration on carbon emissions26
The evolution of “Acquaintance Society” in urban China26
Green trade barriers, financial support and agricultural exports26
Size, value and volatility26
Green innovation perspective: Artificial intelligence and corporate green development26
Why do U.S. uncertainties drive stock market spillovers? International evidence26
Environmental Regulation, regional finance development and enterprises' cross-regional capital flow26
Chinese consumption shocks and U.S. equity returns26
Promoting cooperation in collective actions: Evidence from the reserve fund for maintenance in China26
Research on the risk effects of accounting information disclosure26
Diversification and bank stability: Role of political instability and climate risk26
Intellectual property protection and enterprise collaborative innovation26
Feeling the heat: Climate risks and the cost of sovereign borrowing26
Information loss from perception alignment26
Debts and depth of recessions26
Asymmetric search behavior for gasoline prices: Evidence from the Chinese gasoline market25
Corporate social network, ownership structure, and corporate financing constraints: Evidence from China25
Understanding growth and its policy implications for Canadian credit unions25
Watchdog from academia: Do academic independent directors matter for financial statement fraud?25
Does informal economy undermine the effects of China’s aid on its outward foreign direct investment?25
Adjustments in VAT rates and business innovation: Empirical insights from China25
Investor sentiment, credit rating, and stock returns25
Insider trading and government intervention25
Downward pressure, investment style and performance persistence of institutional investors25
Dangerous density: Urban density and the criminalization of China25
Do emerging art market segments have their own price dynamics? Evidence from the Chinese art market25
Tourism prosperity and high-quality economic development25
Confucian culture and corporate default risk: Assessing the governance influence of traditional culture25
Local attention to employees’ rights and firm value: Evidence from China24
Borrow to be the poor or the rich? It depends: Credit market and wealth accumulation24
Government adoption of generative artificial intelligence and ambidextrous innovation24
A non-parametric synthesize measure for corporate governance: empirical evidence from Indian banks24
Analyzing the game pricing mechanism of data assets: Theoretical evidence considering market structure and competitive characteristics24
How does directors' and officers' liability insurance affect green innovation? Evidence from China24
Academic workstations and corporate green innovation24
An enquiry into the monetary policy and stock market shocks in the US24
Bank competition with technological innovation based on evolutionary games24
The impact of tax compliance on platform enterprises’ competitive advantage and the role of contract enforcement efficiency24
Does a coin have only two sides? -The inverted U-shaped relationship between corporate digital transformation and carbon information disclosure and its flip-flopping23
The impact of tax reduction and fee cuts policy on corporate new-form productivity: Evidence from Chinese A-share listed companies23
Research on wage distortion in R&D and innovation activities —— Evidence from China's listed manufacturing enterprises23
The Paradox of environmental disclosure:Evidence of greenwashing from suppliers23
Bank lending behavior and housing market booms: The Australian evidence23
Research on livelihood capital, endogenous development momentum and sustainable livelihoods of relocated farmers23
Decoupling effects and impact mechanisms of carbon emissions in China's plantation system23
Evaluating the synergistic effects of the digital economy and carbon emission trade exchange on enterprise high-quality development23
The influence of cash flow volatility on firm use of debt of different maturities or zero-debt: International evidence23
How does green finance affect carbon emission intensity? The role of green technology innovation and internet development23
The impact of economic openness on common prosperity: Insights from provincial panel data23
Climate change exposure and corporate culture: A text-based approach22
Optimal bond holding dynamics with hedging against real exchange rate risks22
Stability of executive teams, corporate financialization, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions22
Immigration and entrepreneurship: Is there a uniform relationship across countries?22
Does unconventional monetary policy improve credit support for the industry chain? The mechanism of trade credit22
Are stablecoins better safe havens or hedges against global stock markets than other assets? Comparative analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic22
The influence of contextual and household factors on multidimensional poverty in rural Vietnam: A multilevel regression analysis22
Firm-level climate change exposure and firm efficiency22
Can intelligent development improve manufacturing firms' supply chain resilience?21
Money talks: How financial constraint influence corporate environmental behavior prioritization21
Does air pollution impede corporate innovation?21
Systemic risk propagation in the Eurozone: A multilayer network approach21
Do corporate carbon emissions affect risk and capital costs?21
Risk-return relationship and structural breaks: Evidence from China carbon market21
Do FDI inflows bring both capital and CO2 emissions? Evidence from non-parametric modelling for the G7 countries21
Impact of budget performance management reform on local fiscal relief21
Carbon risk and investment efficiency: A merger and acquisition perspective21
Flexibility in jobs and autonomy on saving: Mental accounting of personal pension saving decision in Chinese part-time employees21
Revisiting the role of investor sentiment in the stock market21
Family performance following share repurchases, information asymmetry and interest alignment21
Is it just green? Asymmetry behavior of returns in green investments21
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