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ESG performance and corporate financialization: A dual perspective of risk management and value creation 环境、社会和公司治理绩效与公司金融化:风险管理与价值创造的双重视角
IF 7.4 2区 经济学
Finance Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106442
Chengyin Gao , Shujun Zhang
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Stock market reaction to the voluntary adoption of nature-related financial disclosure: An event study 股票市场对自愿采用与自然相关的财务披露的反应:事件研究
IF 7.4 2区 经济学
Finance Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106389
Tiphaine Jérôme , Cédric Poretti
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Capital market liberalization, internal control and corporate diversification: Evidence from China 资本市场自由化、内部控制和企业多元化:来自中国的证据
IF 7.4 2区 经济学
Finance Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106438
Zhongze Li , Qinyuan Chen , Yi Zhang
{"title":"Capital market liberalization, internal control and corporate diversification: Evidence from China","authors":"Zhongze Li ,&nbsp;Qinyuan Chen ,&nbsp;Yi Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106438","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106438","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using a sample of Chinese listed firms, we examine the effect of capital market liberalization on corporate diversification in the host country. Our findings show that after the opening of the capital market, corporate diversification significantly reduces. Moreover, we show that improving the quality of internal control is an important mechanism for capital market liberalization to reduce corporate diversification. Heterogeneity tests show that the effect of capital market liberalization on corporate diversification is more significant in firms with dual CEOs and low board diligence. Overall, capital market liberalization enhances the corporate governance of firms in a host country.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 106438"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Political risk impact on China’s OFDI along the belt and road initiative 政治风险对中国 "一带一路 "对外直接投资的影响
IF 7.4 2区 经济学
Finance Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106407
Qin Yang , Xiuguo Gong , Tao Chen , Tian Xiao
{"title":"Political risk impact on China’s OFDI along the belt and road initiative","authors":"Qin Yang ,&nbsp;Xiuguo Gong ,&nbsp;Tao Chen ,&nbsp;Tian Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106407","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106407","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Geopolitical tensions increasingly affect China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI); however, conventional risk models do not adequately capture these complexities. This study introduces a new quantitative index for assessing the political risks impacting Chinese OFDI along the Belt and Road Initiative, considering both host country systems and bilateral relations. Our analysis reveals an inverse relationship between the host country’s political risk and China’s OFDI, with a tendency towards developing nations. Coastal countries are more sensitive to political risks than landlocked ones. Strong US ties in host countries discourage Chinese investment, whereas market size, resources, and innovation capacity moderate the risk effects. These results provide critical insights for policymakers and business leaders to guide strategic investments and diplomatic strategies in politically volatile regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 106407"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Digital finance as a catalyst for energy transition and sustainable rural economic growth 数字金融作为能源转型和农村经济可持续增长的催化剂
IF 7.4 2区 经济学
Finance Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106405
Qinyi Gong, Rui Zhang
{"title":"Digital finance as a catalyst for energy transition and sustainable rural economic growth","authors":"Qinyi Gong,&nbsp;Rui Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106405","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106405","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper uses provincial level data from 2011 to 2020 in China to analyse the role and mechanism of digital finance in the sustainable growth of China's rural economy. We find that digital finance promotes sustainable rural economic growth by accelerating China's rural energy transition. When the level of rural energy transition exceeds the threshold, the promoting effect is stronger. As the level of regional digital finance development increases, its promoting effect on energy transition and sustainable economic growth also becomes stronger. Compared to the breadth of coverage and depth of use, the degree of digitization has the greatest impact.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 106405"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Analyzing the role of regulation in shaping private finance for sustainability in the European Union 分析监管在形成欧盟可持续发展私人融资方面的作用
IF 10.4 2区 经济学
Finance Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106435
Leonardo Boni, Lisa Scheitza
{"title":"Analyzing the role of regulation in shaping private finance for sustainability in the European Union","authors":"Leonardo Boni, Lisa Scheitza","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.106435","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the effect that the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance has on mobilizing private finance for sustainable-purpose companies. Our results suggest that the EU regulation has substantially augmented the influx of private financial capital into companies with sustainability purposes situated in EU countries subject to the regulation. This is valid mostly for companies whose purpose addresses environmental issues, while companies focused on social issues did not find a significant increase in financial attractions. Our findings contribute to understanding the role of policies to facilitate the transition of private finance towards sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Business environment optimization effects on enterprise environmental protection investment 营商环境优化对企业环保投资的影响
IF 7.4 2区 经济学
Finance Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106423
Xiaofang Guo , Sicen Chen , Chenlan Liu
{"title":"Business environment optimization effects on enterprise environmental protection investment","authors":"Xiaofang Guo ,&nbsp;Sicen Chen ,&nbsp;Chenlan Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106423","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106423","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The business environment is essential for enterprise survival and development. A favorable business environment promotes high-quality enterprise development; however, research on its impact and mechanism regarding corporate environmental protection investment is lacking. This study examined China's Shanghai and Shenzhen A–share listed companies from 2010 to 2020 to explore the relation between the business environment and corporate environmental protection investment. We found that a positive business environment contributes to increased corporate environmental protection investment, alleviating financing constraints and promoting digital transformation as essential mechanisms. Heterogeneity analysis demonstrates that this promotion effect was more pronounced among nonstate-owned enterprises and nonheavy-polluting industry firms. This study augments the literature concerning business environments and firms’ environmental protection investment by elucidating their impact mechanism and providing a reference for government departments in optimizing business environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 106423"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Adoption of green technology with financial friction 采用绿色技术的资金摩擦
IF 7.4 2区 经济学
Finance Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106388
Fabian Herweg
{"title":"Adoption of green technology with financial friction","authors":"Fabian Herweg","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106388","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106388","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate firms’ incentives to adopt green technology. To cover the adoption costs, a firm needs a bank loan. The bank cannot observe firms’ adoption costs and offers a loan contract that allows it to earn an intermediation margin. The Pigouvian tax leads to optimal abatement but inefficiently low adoption. The first-best outcome is achieved via a combination of environmental tax and loan subsidy. If the regulator is restricted to an environmental tax, it faces a trade-off between optimal adoption and optimal abatement. In this case, the second-best tax rate exceeds the Pigouvian tax rate.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 106388"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Advances in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) in Finance 可解释人工智能 (xAI) 在金融领域的应用进展
IF 10.4 2区 经济学
Finance Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106358
Tony Klein, Thomas Walther
{"title":"Advances in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) in Finance","authors":"Tony Klein, Thomas Walther","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.106358","url":null,"abstract":"Explainable Artificial Intelligence addresses the black box problem associated with AI, aiming to promote greater transparency, traceability, and trust in applications of AI. xAI is becoming a vital element in finance and economics in fields like risk management, credit decisions, and regulatory compliance. The need for xAI arises from the challenges in understanding, trusting, and communicating AI-generated results. While some argue for the adoption of inherently interpretable models, others critique popular xAI methods. This special issue explores xAI’s role in finance and its advances, focusing on its implications for future research, practice, and policy in FinTech.","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Who, republican or democrat CEOs, laughs last? Political cycles in the market for corporate directors 共和党和民主党首席执行官谁笑到最后?公司董事市场的政治周期
IF 7.4 2区 经济学
Finance Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106428
Seong Jin Ahn , Changmin Lee
{"title":"Who, republican or democrat CEOs, laughs last? Political cycles in the market for corporate directors","authors":"Seong Jin Ahn ,&nbsp;Changmin Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106428","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106428","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the relationship between CEOs' political preferences and their post-retirement directorship opportunities, proposing that political donations may serve as signals of political influence or connections that impact career prospects in the market for corporate directors. Using data on political contributions from 1998 to 2016, we explore whether CEOs' political affiliations create a cyclical pattern in the professional labor market, favoring those aligned with the ruling party. Our analysis reveals that Republican partisan CEOs are more successful in securing directorships under Republican regimes (George Walker Bush, 2003∼2008), while the reverse holds under Democratic regimes (Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. 2009∼2014). These results remain robust after addressing potential endogeneity using presidential election outcomes as an instrumental variable.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 106428"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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