{"title":"Does China’s social credit system construction promote foreign bank expansion?","authors":"Xifang Sun, Tianjian Yang, Liyu Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100886","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100886","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Information asymmetry is one of the significant barriers to the development of multinational banks. This paper examines the impact of China’s social credit system construction in pilot cities and the privatization of credit reporting on the expansion of foreign banks. The findings indicate that the upgrading of China’s social credit system significantly promotes the expansion of foreign banks. Foreign banks establish more business branches in pilot cities and cities with higher levels of privatization in credit reporting systems. The mechanism lies in the fact that the development of the credit reporting system alleviates the information asymmetry for foreign banks. Further analysis reveals that this effect is particularly applicable to foreign banks from European and American markets, globally systemically important banks, cities with high financial development, and regional central cities. This study provides evidence from the perspective of credit reporting system reform to facilitate foreign bank expansion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47268,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multinational Financial Management","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 100886"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142653888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directors appointed by non-state shareholders and stock price synchronicity: Evidence from Chinese SOEs","authors":"Zongtao Tian, Zhibin Chen, Xinxue Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100884","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100884","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Do non-state shareholders who are given more boardroom \"voice\" inhibit stock price synchronicity? Utilizing panel data for Chinese enterprises spanning 2007–2021, we explore the impact of directors appointed by foreign shareholders and non-foreign shareholders on stock price synchronicity. Our findings indicate that directors appointed by non-state shareholders are negatively related to stock price synchronicity. Compared with directors appointed by non-foreign shareholders, directors appointed by foreign shareholders exert more effective governance effects and reduce stock price synchronicity. Compared with directors appointed by non-foreign shareholders, directors appointed by foreign shareholders exert a more effective information effect, resulting in lower share price synchronicity. Heterogeneous analyses reveal that this impact is more pronounced in non-multinational enterprises, and enterprises with foreign directors. Furthermore, directors appointed by non-state shareholders reduce stock price synchronicity mainly through the information effect.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47268,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multinational Financial Management","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 100884"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142577921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sectoral responses to economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk in the US stock market","authors":"Sun-Yong Choi","doi":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100874","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100874","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk on various industries, highlighting their asymmetric effects on sectoral volatility. Furthermore, we investigate the differential effects of economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk on sectoral volatility, distinguishing between good and bad volatility responses. We find an asymmetric relationship between economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk in these industries, with economic policy uncertainty generally exerting a stronger impact on sector-specific volatility compared to geopolitical risk. During normal circumstances since the 2010s, the influence of geopolitical risk on sector-specific volatility has been relatively insignificant. However, both economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk have played significant roles in affecting multiple sectors during certain crisis periods, with geopolitical risk demonstrating short-term effects. These findings have important implications for both investors and policymakers. Investors can time positions using insights on policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk, while policymakers can identify vulnerable sectors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47268,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multinational Financial Management","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 100874"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142158503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do cultural differences affect the share price puzzle?","authors":"Riccardo Ferretti , Pierpaolo Pattitoni , Alessia Pedrazzoli","doi":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100873","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100873","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examine the impact of cultural differences on nominal share prices across 63 countries from 2002 to 2018. Using institutional and catering theories, we assess how cultural dimensions—including World Governance Indicators (WGI), legal systems, religious influences, and GLOBE dimensions—affect the spatial heterogeneity of share price levels. Our findings indicate that share prices are higher in countries with common law systems and comprehensive information reporting, as these environments tend to attract institutional investors. Conversely, cultural traits emphasizing altruistic values correspond with lower share prices, reflecting the preferences of individual investors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47268,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multinational Financial Management","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 100873"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1042444X24000380/pdfft?md5=3c50aae2a35f6210bce0548495b1dbff&pid=1-s2.0-S1042444X24000380-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extreme weather exposure and corporate carbon emissions management: Evidence from forty countries","authors":"Xianhang Qian, Shanyun Qiu, Xue Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100872","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100872","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Utilizing survey data for firms from 40 countries, we explore the impact of extreme weather exposure on corporate carbon emissions management. Our findings indicate that firms manage their carbon emissions better if they have suffered losses due to extreme weather events. These results persist after considering endogeneity concerns, including placebo tests, the Heckman two-stage method, propensity score matching, the instrumental variables approach, and other robustness tests. Cross-sectional analyses reveal that this impact is more pronounced for firms located in developed countries and in countries with superior climate protection and lower levels of carbon emissions. Furthermore, the effect of extreme weather exposure is more significant for firms with foreign ownership and political connections and those subject to an energy tax. Finally, improved management of carbon emissions accompanied by extreme weather exposure can lead to increased corporate capacity utilization and reduced production costs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47268,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multinational Financial Management","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 100872"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141948284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Faroque Ahmed , Constantin Gurdgiev , Kazi Sohag , Md. Monirul Islam , Veton Zeqiraj
{"title":"Global, local, or glocal? Unravelling the interplay of geopolitical risks and financial stress","authors":"Faroque Ahmed , Constantin Gurdgiev , Kazi Sohag , Md. Monirul Islam , Veton Zeqiraj","doi":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100871","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100871","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Since the start of the previous decade, regionalization of trade and investment flows has led to complex coupling in local (country-level) and global risks. To-date, little is known about how global uncertainty interacts with local uncertainty across the financial systems. Our study investigates the nexus between global and country-specific Geopolitical Risks (GPRs) and financial stress index (FSI) in five highly-open, large developed economies. We employ the cross-quantilogram and cross-spectral quantile coherency approaches on weekly data over 2000–2022 to show heterogeneous dependency of local and global geopolitical uncertainty on the financial stress conditions. Specifically, our results show that in the U.S. and the UK dependency of local and global geopolitical uncertainty on the financial stress conditions is influenced by the varying market conditions. In contrast, Canadian FSI is intensified by both global and country-level geopolitical risks, whereas German and French financial systems exhibit significant resilience to the global and local geopolitical shocks. Hence, the latter markets show hedging properties vis-a-vis global geopolitical risks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47268,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multinational Financial Management","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 100871"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141629776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qu Deng , Garland Huang , Donghui Li , Shijie Yang
{"title":"The impact of climate risk on corporate innovation: An international comparison","authors":"Qu Deng , Garland Huang , Donghui Li , Shijie Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100870","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Employing an international sample of 10,012 firms across 62 economies spanning 2005–2017, we show that climate risk is negatively associated with corporate innovation activities. This finding is consistent with increased managerial risk aversion when managers perceive higher climate risk, leading to lower innovativeness. Through risk-buffering mechanisms, the negative association is weaker when firms are not subject to financial constraints, when corporate governance is stronger, and when the economy is more developed. Through risk-sharing mechanisms, better equity market development, greater trade openness, and greater insurance coverage can help mitigate the negative impact of climate risk on corporate innovation. Further analyses suggest that firms respond to climate change by inventing more green patents. Our study has implications for how to motivate corporate innovation in high-climate-risk economies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47268,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multinational Financial Management","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 100870"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141483845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do foreign investors make firms more transparent? Evidence from Korea","authors":"Junyong Lee , Frederick Dongchuhl Oh","doi":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100860","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, we investigate whether foreign equity participation enhances the level of transparency in Korean listed firms’ accounting information. Using panel data on the Korean listed firms during the 1999–2019 period, we find that foreign ownership has a positive effect on the accounting transparency of firms. This suggests that foreign investors effectively monitor the earnings management activities of a firm and contribute to increasing the quality of accounting information. In addition, this positive impact of foreign equity ownership is more pronounced in non-chaebol firms than in chaebols. We further show that foreign investors reinforce the effect of changes in accounting systems on the transparency of Korean firms. Finally, firms with enhanced transparency by foreign investors perform better in the future. Overall, our study highlights the importance of foreign investors for enhancing accounting transparency in the Korean stock market. (JEL F21, F65, G15, G30, M40)</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47268,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multinational Financial Management","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 100860"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140823497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alanoud Hamad Fetais, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Ruslan Nagayev
{"title":"Navigating the complexities of GCC real state markets: An analysis of interlinkages amidst shocks and oil effects","authors":"Alanoud Hamad Fetais, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Ruslan Nagayev","doi":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100859","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study investigates the interconnectedness of GCC real estate markets using wavelet coherence analysis of daily data from 2013 to 2023 and analyzes the impact of various external shocks (political, economic, regulatory, and pandemic) and oil dependence on these dynamics. Despite shared cultural ties and energy intensity, findings reveal primarily weak to moderate linkages, with increased coherence observed during significant events. These linkages exhibit temporal variability, characterized by short-term spikes, loose medium-term correlations, and evolving long-term relationships. Isolating the effect of oil prices yielded limited impact, suggesting the influence of country-specific factors. This research offers valuable insights for policymakers, investors, and stakeholders, aiding informed decision-making during sensitive periods and fostering a deeper understanding of international finance and investments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47268,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multinational Financial Management","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 100859"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1042444X24000240/pdfft?md5=78f7ff5577e6a88551a8b74983bbd9c3&pid=1-s2.0-S1042444X24000240-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140811775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When local and foreign investors meet the Chinese government's risk perception about COVID-19","authors":"Chao Deng , Shiyu Li , Yun Hong","doi":"10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2024.100858","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the nuanced extreme market responses exhibited by segmented domestic and foreign investors in reaction to state media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in China’s A-share and H-share markets. Our findings indicate that an extreme increase (or decrease) in this unexpected attention is likely to lead to an extreme increase (or decrease) in stock prices. Domestic investors show increased sensitivity to an abnormal decrease in state media attention, whereas foreign investors are more responsive to an increase in this attention. An extreme unexpected decline in state media coverage of the pandemic significantly influences extreme fluctuations in the A-share market’s trading volume. In contrast, an abnormal increase in state media coverage of the pandemic tends to extremely decrease the H-share market’s trading volume. In the early panic phase, domestic (foreign) investors tend to reach a consensus more on abnormal declines (increases) in state media reports on the pandemic.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47268,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Multinational Financial Management","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 100858"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140536887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}