International Journal of Finance & Economics

Article	Citations
Board gender diversity and firm performance: The UK evidence	132
Fossil energy consumption, economic development, inward FDI impact on CO2 emissions in Pakistan: Testing EKC hypothesis through ARDL model	115
Corporate governance and firms financial performance in the United Kingdom	114
The evaluation of efficiency and value addition of IFRS endorsement towards earnings timeliness disclosure	89
The pandemic and economic policy uncertainty	70
The impacts of R&D investment and stock markets on clean‐energy consumption and CO2 emissions in OECD economies	69
Military expenditure, financial development and environmental degradation in Turkey: A comparison of CO2 emissions and ecological footprint	68
Modelling renewable energy adoption across south Asian economies: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka	66
Long‐run relationship between R&D investment and environmental sustainability: Evidence from the European Union member countries	59
CO2 emission, economic development, fossil fuel consumption and population density in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: A panel investigation	58
Impacts of geopolitical risks and economic policy uncertainty on Chinese tourism‐listed company stock	51
Corporate environmental disclosure and earnings management—The moderating role of corporate governance structures	50
Role of financial development in economic growth in the light of asymmetric effects and financial efficiency	46
The impact of FDI on income inequality: Evidence from the perspective of financial development	45
Corporate governance and earnings management nexus: Evidence from the UK and Egypt using neural networks	45
Exchange rate fluctuations and interest rate policy	43
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on stock returns: The role of corporate environmental responsibility engagement	43
Political risk and environmental quality in Brazil: Role of green finance and green innovation	42
How do economic policy uncertainties affect stock market volatility? Evidence from G7 countries	41
The impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on hospitality stock returns in China	41
Increasing female participation on boards: Effects on sustainability reporting	39
The determinants of banks' credit risk: Review of the literature and future research agenda	38
Which uncertainty is powerful to forecast crude oil market volatility? New evidence	38
The crypto‐trade volume, GDP, energy use, and environmental degradation sustainability: An analysis of the top 20 crypto‐trader countries	37
National culture, corporate governance and corruption: A cross‐country analysis	37

Can we learn lessons from the past? COVID‐19 crisis and corporate governance responses	37
Modelling the volatility of crude oil returns: Jumps and volatility forecasts	35
Does financial inclusion enhance economic growth? Empirical evidence from the IsDB member countries	34
On the nexus of innovation, trade openness, financial development and economic growth in European countries: New perspective from a GMM panel VAR approach	33
Are bank risk disclosures informative? Evidence from debt markets	33
The impact of external governance and regulatory settings on the profitability of Islamic banks: Evidence from Arab markets	33
What matters for finance‐growth nexus? A critical survey of macroeconomic stability, institutions, financial and economic development	32
Emerging market debt and the COVID‐19 pandemic: A time–frequency analysis of spreads and total returns dynamics	32
Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in the case of tourism island states: The moderating role of globalization	31
Financial innovation, human capital development, and economic growth of selected South Asian countries: An application of ARDL approach	31
Does financial development spur environmental and energy‐related innovation in Brazil?	30
The determinants of export sophistication: Does digitalization matter?	30
Financial innovation and economic growth: Empirical evidence from China, India and Pakistan	30
Leveraging random forest in micro‐enterprises credit risk modelling for accuracy and interpretability	30
The spillover effects of economic policy uncertainty on the oil, gold, and stock markets: Evidence from China	29
Corporate social responsibility and supply chain: A study for evaluating corporate hypocrisy with special focus on stakeholders	29
Causality and dynamic spillovers among cryptocurrencies and currency markets	29
Explicating the impact of hierarchical CEO succession on small‐medium enterprises' performance and cash holdings	29
Do corporate governance mechanisms and ESG disclosure drive CSR narrative tones?	28
Social funding of green financing: An application of distributed ledger technologies	27
On intellectual capital efficiency and shariah governance in Islamic banking business model	27
How fintech impacts pre‐ and post‐loan risk in Chinese commercial banks	27
Do the macroeconomic factors influence the firm's investment decisions? A generalized method of moments (GMM) approach	27
Nonlinear contagion between stock and real estate markets: International evidence from a local Gaussian correlation approach	26
The impact of uncertainty on financial institutions: A cross‐country study	26
Time‐dependent intrinsic correlation analysis of crude oil and the US dollar based on CEEMDAN	26
Cryptocurrencies value‐at‐risk and expected shortfall: Do regime‐switching volatility models improve forecasting?	26
Emerging and advanced economies markets behaviour during the COVID‐19 crisis era	26
Peer effects in R&D investment policy: Evidence from China	26
Market efficiency and volatility persistence of cryptocurrency during pre‐ and post‐crash periods of Bitcoin: Evidence based on fractional integration	26
Microfinance and poverty reduction: New evidence from Pakistan	25
Capital structure revisited. Do crisis and competition matter in a Keiretsu corporate structure?	25
A network analysis of electricity demand and the cryptocurrency markets	25
Is causality between globalization and energy consumption bidirectional or unidirectional in top and bottom globalized economies?	24
Determinants of FDI in France: Role of transport infrastructure, education, financial development and energy consumption	24
Cryptocurrencies: A survey on acceptance, governance and market dynamics	24
Asymmetric effect of macroeconomic variables on the emerging stock indices: A quantile ARDL approach	24
Development of Vietnamese stock market: Influence of domestic macroeconomic environment and regional markets	24
Monetary policy uncertainty, investor sentiment, and US stock market performance: New evidence from nonlinear cointegration analysis	24
Corporate board and dynamics of capital structure: Evidence from UK, France and Germany	24
Financial inclusion: A pathway to economic growth in Sub‐Saharan African economies	23
Environmental regulations and inward FDI in China: Fresh evidence from the asymmetric autoregressive distributed lag approach	23
Analysing spillover between returns and volatility series of oil across major stock markets	23
The environmental consequences of blockchain technology: A Bayesian quantile cointegration analysis for Bitcoin	22
Does the quality of country‐level governance have an impact on corporate environmental disclosure? Evidence from Gulf Cooperation Council countries	22
Some new efficient mean–variance portfolio selection models	22
A credit scoring model for SMEs using AHP and TOPSIS	22
Exploring asymmetric relationship between Islamic banking development and economic growth in Pakistan: Fresh evidence from a non‐linear ARDL approach	22
Leverage in family firms: The moderating role of female directors and board quality	21
Anti‐money laundering regulations and financial sector development	21

Global equity market volatility forecasting: New evidence	21
The mitigating effect of governance quality on the finance‐renewable energy‐growth nexus: Some international evidence	21
A kernel fuzzy twin SVM model for early warning systems of extreme financial risks	21
Financial development, real sector and economic growth: Evidence from emerging market economies	21
Nexus between non‐performing loans and economic growth in emerging countries: Evidence from Turkey with wavelet coherence approach	21
Age diversity of audit committee financial experts, ownership structure and earnings management: Evidence from China	20
Do socially responsible firms demand high‐quality audits? An international evidence	20
Should stock investors include cryptocurrencies in their portfolios after all? Evidence from a conditional diversification benefits measure	20
Dynamic network topology and market performance: A case of the Chinese stock market	20
Threshold effects in the relationship between inflation and economic growth: Further empirical evidence from the developed and developing world	19
Systemic risk in the Chinese financial system: A copula‐based network approach	19
Cross‐shareholding networks and stock price synchronicity: Evidence from China	19
Trade openness, financial development and economic growth in North African countries	19
Stock market reaction to macroeconomic variables: An assessment with dynamic autoregressive distributed lag simulations	19
Time‐frequency analysis of risk spillovers from oil to BRICS stock markets: A long‐memory Copula‐CoVaR‐MODWT method	19
What drives risk disclosure in Islamic and conventional banks? An international comparison	19
Political environment and financial crises	19
Quantile causality and dependence between crude oil and precious metal prices	19
ESG investment: What do we learn from its interaction with stock, currency and commodity markets?	19
Financial contagion across G10 stock markets: A study during major crises	19
Exploring the dynamic price discovery, risk transfer and spillover among INE, WTI and Brent crude oil futures markets: Evidence from the high‐frequency data	19
Nexus between corporate social responsibility and firm’s performance: A panel data approach	19
Role of capital investment, investment risks, and globalization in economic growth	19
Jump volatility spillover network based measurement of systemic importance of Chinese financial institutions	18
Financial contagion in real economy: The key role of policy uncertainty	18
Does financial development reduce the level of corruption? Evidence from a global sample of 140 countries	18
Rapid rise of life expectancy in Bangladesh: Does financial development matter?	18
The effects of environmental taxes on environmental pollution and unemployment: A panel co‐integration analysis on the validity of double dividend hypothesis for selected African countries	18
Causal relationship among international crude oil, gold, exchange rate, and stock market: Fresh evidence from NARDL testing approach	18
Outward foreign direct investment and economic growth in Romania: Evidence from non‐linear ARDL approach	18
Performances and risk of socially responsible investments across regions during crisis	18
The impact of COVID‐19 on unemployment rate: An intelligent based unemployment rate prediction in selected countries of Europe	18
Analyzing airlines stock price volatility during COVID‐19 pandemic through internet search data	18
Are the top six cryptocurrencies efficient? Evidence from time‐varying long memory	17
A two‐stage Bayesian network model for corporate bankruptcy prediction	17
Does global value chain participation enhance domestic value‐added in exports? Evidence from emerging market economies	17
The effects of institutional settings and risks on bank dividend policy in an emerging market: Evidence from Tobit model	17
An empirical examination of the impact of country‐level corporate governance on profitability of Indian banks	17
Financial development and health expenditure nexus: A global perspective	17
Household consumption and exchange rate extreme dynamics: Multiple asymmetric threshold non‐linear autoregressive distributed lag model perspective	17
On the Italian public accounts' sustainability: A wavelet approach	17
Relationship between investor sentiment and earnings news in high‐ and low‐sentiment periods	17
Connectedness of Asia Pacific forex markets: China's growing influence	17
Are cryptocurrencies connected to gold? A wavelet‐based quantile‐in‐quantile approach	17
Banking sector stability and economic growth in post‐transition European Union countries	16
Strive towards investment efficiency among Egyptian companies: Do board characteristics and information asymmetry matter?	16
CEO power and earnings management: Dual roles of foreign shareholders in Vietnamese listed companies	16
Time‐frequency dynamics between fear connectedness of stocks and alternative assets	16
Good variance, bad variance, and stock return predictability	16
A portfolio construction framework using LSTM‐based stock markets forecasting	16
Finance‐growth nexus: New insight from Ghana	16
Oil price uncertainty and the risk‐return relation in stock markets: Evidence from oil‐importing and oil‐exporting countries	16
Covid‐19 outbreak and stocks return on the West African Economic and Monetary Union's stock market: An empirical analysis of the relationship through the event study approach	16
Boardroom gender diversity and dividend payout strategies: Effects of mergers deals	16
Financialization, household debt and income inequality: Empirical evidence	16
Relating economic openness and export diversification to eco‐efficiency: Is green innovation critical?	16
Which predictor is more predictive for Bitcoin volatility? And why?	16
Agricultural production efficiency of Indian states: Evidence from data envelopment analysis	16
Customers' usage behaviour of e‐banking services: Interplay of electronic banking and traditional banking	16
ESG disclosure and financial performance of multinational enterprises: The moderating effect of board standing committees	16
The ex‐post impact of agricultural technology adoption on poverty: Evidence from north Shewa zone of Amhara region, Ethiopia	16
Synchronisation of policy related uncertainty, financial stress and economic activity in the United States	15
Prediction on the volume of non‐performing loans in Turkey using multivariate adaptive regression splines approach	15
FDI inflows and economic growth in Arab region: The institutional quality channel	15
Co‐movement of foreign exchange rate returns and stock market returns in an emerging market: Evidence from the wavelet coherence approach	15
The influence of corporate governance and shareholding structure on corporate social responsibility: The key role of executive compensation	15
Evidence of speculative bubbles and regime switch in real estate market and crude oil price: Insight from Saudi Arabia	15
Impacts of financial openness on economic complexity: Cross‐country evidence	15
Impact of dividend policy on corporate value: Experiment in Vietnam	15
What's in an education? Implications of CEO education for financial inclusion	15
The determinants of bank profitability of GCC: The role of bank liquidity as moderating variable—Further analysis	15
Economic integration and the currency and equity markets nexus	15
Does corporate social responsibility influence firm probability of default?	15
Revisiting the linkage between oil and agricultural commodity prices: Panel evidence from an Agrarian state	15
Volatility dynamics of the Tunisian stock market before and during the COVID‐19 outbreak: Evidence from the GARCH family models	15
Does corporate social responsibility mediate the influence of national culture on investment inefficiency? Firm‐level evidence from Asia Pacific	15
Board of directors' foreign experience and stock price informativeness	14
The short‐run response of Saudi Arabia stock market to the outbreak of COVID‐19 pandemic: An event‐study methodology	14
Studying the relationship between managerial ability and real earnings management in economic and financial crisis conditions	14
The role of institutional infrastructures in financial inclusion‐growth relations: Evidence from SSA	14

Financial development, financial structure and economic growth in the Sub‐Saharan African countries	14
Deconstructing three‐stage overall efficiency into input, output and stability efficiency components with consideration of market power and loan loss provision: An application to Chinese banks	14
Foreign financial flows, human capital and economic growth in African developing countries	14
The impact of financial deepening on income inequality: Empirical evidence from Australia	14
Does reputation matter for firm risk in developing country?	14
The effect of financial sector development on economic growth of selectedsub‐SaharanAfrica countries	14
A heterogeneous ensemble credit scoring model based on adaptive classifier selection: An application on imbalanced data	14
Board diversity and corporate innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	14
Board gender composition and debt financing	14
A comparison on particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm performances in deriving the efficient frontier of stocks portfolios based on a mean‐lower partial moment model	14
Corporate governance and performance in sports organisations: The case of UK premier leagues	13
Is the relationship between corruption, government stability and non‐performing loans non‐linear? A threshold analysis for the MENA region	13
Debt financing and technology investment Kuznets curve: Evidence from China	13
The profitability of Ichimoku Kinkohyo based trading rules in stock markets and FX markets	13
OPECmeetings, oil market volatility and herding behaviour in the Saudi Arabia stock market	13
Liquidity risk and expected cryptocurrency returns	13
Is there a threshold effect in the liquidity risk–non‐performing loans relationship? A PSTR approach for MENA banks	13
The impacts of oil price shocks and United States economic uncertainty on global stock markets	13
Corporate governance and earnings management: A quantile regression approach	13
Ownership identity and firm performance: Pre‐ and post‐crisis evidence from an African emerging market	13
Dynamic dependence and extreme risk comovement: The case of oil prices and exchange rates	13
Financial inclusion and bank profitability in Sub‐Saharan Africa	13
Bank efficiency in Vietnam: Do scale expansion strategies and non‐performing loans matter?	13
Influence of financial literacy on retail investors' decisions in relation to return, risk and market analysis	12
Meditation for level of institutional quality to combat income inequality through financial development	12
Dynamic relation between macroeconomic variable, stock market returns and stock market development in Ghana	12
Asymmetric impact of oil price on trade balance in BRICS countries: Multiplier dynamic analysis	12
Research on external financial risk measurement of China real estate	12
Decomposing scale and technique effects of economic growth on energy consumption: Fresh evidence from developing economies	12
CEO overconfidence and bank systemic risk: Evidence from U.S. bank holding companies	12
Foreign direct investment, income inequality and country risk	12
Impact of bank regulation on risk of Islamic and conventional banks	12
Dynamic operating efficiency and its determining factors of listed real‐estate companies in China: A hierarchical slack‐based DEA‐OLS approach	12
The most consistent and reliable predictors of corporate financial choices in Pakistan: New evidence usingBICestimation	12
The performance of social responsible investing from retail investors' perspective: international evidence	12
Does economic complexity influence environmental performance? Empirical evidence from OECD countries	12
Intellectual capital performance in the financial sector: Evidence from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan	12
Why do some merger and acquisitions deals fail? A global perspective	12
The effect of non‐performing loans on credit expansion: Do capital and profitability matter? Evidence from European banks	11
Political connections, legal environments and firm performance around the world	11
Clarifying the impact of corporate governance and intellectual capital on financial performance: A longitudinal study of Deutsche Bank (1957–2019)	11
Do extreme shocks help forecast oil price volatility? The augmented GARCH‐MIDAS approach	11
Internet and private insurance participation	11
Credit information sharing and non‐performing loans: The moderating role of creditor rights protection	11
Modelling demand and supply of Islamic banking deposits	11
Empirical analysis of debt maturity, cash holdings and firm investment in developing economies	11
Efficiency and productivity analysis of Pakistan's banking industry: A DEA approach	11
Hedging against risks associated with travel and tourism stocks during COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of gold	11
The effect of Confucian culture on household risky asset holdings: Using categorical principal component analysis	11
Modelling sustainability efficiency in banking	11
Innovation—Unemployment Nexus: The case of EU countries	11
Dynamic volatility linkages and hedging between commodities and sectoral stock returns in Turkey: Evidence from SVAR‐cDCC‐GARCH model	11
If global or local investor sentiments are prone to developing an impact on stock returns, is there an industry effect?	11
U.S. stock prices and macroeconomic fundamentals: Fresh evidence using the quantile ARDL approach	10
The impact of unconventional monetary policy in the euro area. Structural and scenario analysis from a Bayesian VAR	10
Impact of intellectual capital efficiency on financial stability in banks: Insights from an emerging economy	10
Predicting GDP growth with stock and bond markets: Do they contain different information?	10
Financial stability and sustainable development	10
The impact of terrorism on formal and informal economy in African countries	10
The euro to dollar exchange rate in the Covid‐19 era: Evidence from spectral causality and Markov‐switching estimation	10
International financial reporting standards, domestic debt finance and institutional quality: Evidence from developing countries	10
Islamic portfolio optimization under systemic risk: Vine Copula‐CoVaR based model	10
Exchange rate and volatility: A bibliometric review	10
Sentiment indices and stock returns: Evidence from China	10
The impact of Euro through time: Exchange rate dynamics under different regimes	10
Bibliometric analysis of global research trends on microfinance institutions and microfinance: Suggesting new research agendas	10
Market discipline in South Asia: Evidence from commercial banking sector	10
Can sentiments on macroeconomic news explain stock returns? Evidence form social network data	10
The impact of tunnelling on financial distress and resolution: Evidence from listed firms in China	10
Excessive focus on risk? Non‐performing loans and efficiency of microfinance institutions	10
Key factors of the net interest margin of European and US banks in a low interest rate environment	10
Capacity utilization under credit constraints: A firm‐level study of Latin American manufacturing	10
Uncertain SBM data envelopment analysis model: A case study in Iranian banks	9
The role of information and communication technology (internet penetration) on Asian stock market efficiency: Evidence from quantile‐on‐quantile cointegration and causality approach	9
Fintech and the economic capital of Chinese commercial bank's risk: Based on theory and evidence	9
Factors influencing dividend decisions of Indian construction, housing and real estate companies: An empirical panel data analysis	9
Political economy of Islamic banking growth: Does political regime and institutions, governance and political risks matter?	9
Receptivity of capital structure with financial flexibility: A study on manufacturing firms	9
Do the Shanghai–Hong Kong & Shenzhen–Hong Kong Stock Connect programs enhance co‐movement between the Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong, and U.S. stock markets?	9
FDI inflows spillover effect implications on the Asian‐Pacific labour productivity	9
Efficient portfolio construction by means of CVaR and k‐means++ clustering analysis: Evidence from the NYSE	9
The impact of macro economy on the oil price volatility from the perspective of mixing frequency	9
The uncertainty spillovers of China's economic policy: Evidence from time and frequency domains	9
Why do sukuks (Islamic bonds) need a different pricing model?	9
A meta‐analysis of SMEs literature based on the survey on access to finance of enterprises of the European central bank	9
The asymmetric impact of oil price uncertainty on emerging market financial stress: A quantile regression approach	9
Dynamics between disaggregates of governance and stock market performance in selected South Asia countries	9
An application of frequency domain approach to the causal nexus between information, communication and technology infrastructure and financial development in selected countries in Africa	9
Investors' trading behaviour and stock market volatility during crisis periods: A dual long‐memory model for the Korean Stock Exchange	9
The Oil Price‐Macroeconomic fundamentals nexus for emerging market economies: Evidence from a wavelet analysis	9
Analysis of default risk in microfinance institutions under the Basel III framework	9
Financial cycles around the world	9
Assessment of the asymmetric impacts of the geopolitical risk on oil market dynamics	9
The term structure effects of individual stock investor sentiment on excess returns	9
Macroeconomic determinants of credit risk: Evidence from the Eurozone	9