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Herding and Anti-Herding Behaviour in the UK, French and German Stock Markets Before and During the Covid Pandemic 新冠疫情前和期间英国、法国和德国股市的羊群和反羊群行为

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International Journal of Finance & Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.70015

Dimitrios Asteriou, Paraskevi Katsiampa, Keith Pilbeam, Alexander Tziamalis

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Do off-Site R&D Institutions Matter for Corporate Exploratory Innovation? 异地研发机构对企业探索性创新重要吗？

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International Journal of Finance & Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.70020

Chen Cheng, Jinghao Mu, Guanchun Liu

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Economic Policy Uncertainty, Investor Sentiment and Industry Stock Market Volatility in China: A Quantile Regression Approach 中国经济政策不确定性、投资者情绪与行业股票市场波动：一个分位数回归方法

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International Journal of Finance & Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.70010

Peng Guo, Luzhu Tian, Jing Shi

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The Effect of Corporate Leverage Regulation on Innovation: Evidence From a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China 企业杠杆监管对创新的影响：来自中国准自然实验的证据

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International Journal of Finance & Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.70011

Xiaofang Xu, Moran Jia, Yu Lu

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The Return Power of Analyst Reports: Definition, Factor and Strategy 分析报告的回报力：定义、因素与策略

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International Journal of Finance & Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.70018

Yongli Li, Baoqiang Zhan, Tianchen Wang

{"title":"The Return Power of Analyst Reports: Definition, Factor and Strategy","authors":"Yongli Li, Baoqiang Zhan, Tianchen Wang","doi":"10.1002/ijfe.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Analyst reports are crucial in financial markets, providing information that guides investment decisions. However, existing research on their profitability and impact, especially over different time horizons, remains inconclusive. This study introduces a novel metric, ‘return power’, to assess the performance of analyst reports in both short- and long-term contexts. We find that analyst reports serve as the short-term ‘news’ and the long-term ‘information’, each influencing stock returns differently. Using a dataset of 249,576 analyst reports from the Chinese stock market (2007–2022), we empirically examine key factors—such as broker's status, broker's prior performance, and investors' or analysts' attention—that affect return power at different time horizons. Based on these findings, we design investment strategies utilising both regression models and eight other well-known machine learning techniques. Our results show that the regression-based strategy outperforms other machine learning models and a market index, consistently providing superior risk-adjusted returns across various transaction costs. This study confirms the profitability of analyst reports and offers a practical framework for report-driven investment strategies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47461,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Finance & Economics","volume":"31 2","pages":"1833-1859"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147686329","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}

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The Relationship Between Energy Metal Price Volatility and Clean Energy Assets 能源金属价格波动与清洁能源资产的关系

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International Journal of Finance & Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.70013

Philip Igeland, Mona El Yadini, Gazi Salah Uddin, Muhammad Yahya, Ali Ahmed, Axel Hedström

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Earnings Quality and ESG Performance in Energy and Utilities: What Really Matters? 能源和公用事业公司的盈余质量和ESG绩效：真正重要的是什么？

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International Journal of Finance & Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.70007

Antonios Persakis, Athanasios P. Fassas, Dionisis Philippas

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Evaluating Innovation Output of Companies Backed by Corporate, Independent and Syndicated Venture Capital 企业风险投资、独立风险投资和联合风险投资支持下企业创新产出的评估

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International Journal of Finance & Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.70003

Fatima Shuwaikh, Sabrina Khemiri, Souad Brinette, Joakim Zebulon Börrén Dias

{"title":"Evaluating Innovation Output of Companies Backed by Corporate, Independent and Syndicated Venture Capital","authors":"Fatima Shuwaikh, Sabrina Khemiri, Souad Brinette, Joakim Zebulon Börrén Dias","doi":"10.1002/ijfe.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines how Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), Independent Venture Capital (IVC) and Venture Capital Syndicate (VCS) promote innovation among startups. Drawing on a dataset of 4406 venture-backed deals in North America, spanning 1998–2019, it explores how the configurations of investors and their contextual factors influence innovation output. The findings show that syndicated and CVC-backed ventures outperform IVC-backed ventures. Syndicates with a larger membership are positively associated with innovation outcomes based on resource pooling and knowledge sharing; contextual factors, such as location and technology fit, environmental munificence and absorptive capacity have a positive moderating effect on the relationship between VC type and innovation outcomes. This research adds to both academic knowledge and practical implications, offering entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers' actionable insights about how to facilitate innovation, improve venture funding and enhance innovation management to ultimately strengthen the innovation ecosystem.</p>","PeriodicalId":47461,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Finance & Economics","volume":"31 2","pages":"1530-1556"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ijfe.70003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147684076","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}

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Excess Remuneration, Governance, and Risk-Taking in Islamic Banks 伊斯兰银行的超额报酬、治理和风险承担

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International Journal of Finance & Economics Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.70022

Tastaftiyan Risfandy, M. Kabir Hassan

{"title":"Excess Remuneration, Governance, and Risk-Taking in Islamic Banks","authors":"Tastaftiyan Risfandy, M. Kabir Hassan","doi":"10.1002/ijfe.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We comprehensively investigate the impact of remuneration on the governance of Islamic banks pertaining to the board of directors (BOD), <i>Shariah</i> supervisory board (SSB), executives, and the chief executive officer (CEO). The research in this area is still muted, especially using samples of Islamic banks and involving all board member types. Using the hand-collected data of dollar remuneration on those board members, we estimate their ‘normal’ remuneration, and we find that all board types, including the CEO, are over-remunerated from USD 20,790–305,920. However, in further investigation, we find that the excess remuneration in the directors and SSB favours the Islamic banks, particularly to lessen the risk-taking incentive. Our result highlights the importance of Islamic banks' two-layer governance system, which has a role in preventing excessive risk-taking behaviour. Supporting the ‘efficiency wage hypothesis’, the good remuneration design for the directors and <i>Shariah</i> scholars will attenuate the agency problems in the context of Islamic banks. Regarding executives and the CEO, we do not find a significant impact of the excess remuneration. This is likely because the Islamic banking industry faces a number of restrictions due to its presence as a heavily regulated financial institution and the voluminous <i>Shariah</i> requirements that must be fulfilled in its operations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47461,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Finance & Economics","volume":"31 2","pages":"1899-1916"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147686131","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}

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Do Financial Structural Characteristics Affect Economic Resilience? 金融结构特征影响经济弹性吗？

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International Journal of Finance & Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.3185

Yujia Chen, Fuqiang Wu, Guihong Hua

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