{"title":"Managerial response to institutional investor distraction","authors":"Tri Trinh , Mark D. Walker , Keven Yost","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102342","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102342","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When institutional investors become distracted due to extreme returns in other portfolio firms, managers face less pressure to pursue and actively oversee risk-taking innovation that creates long-term shareholder value. We document that firms significantly reduce innovation output following increases in investor distraction, measured by both patent filings and patent citations and after controlling for firm and industry characteristics. We further show that managers respond by decreasing firm idiosyncratic risk as predicted by agency theory. However, our results examining executive compensation do not suggest that firm boards quickly alter executive compensation to adjust for changing incentives resulting from institutional distraction. Rather, executives increase their insider sale percentage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102342"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094373","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}
Huthaifa Sameeh Alqaralleh , Alessandra Canepa , Eva Muchova
{"title":"Inflation synchronization and shock transmission between the eurozone and the non-euro CEE Economies: A wavelet quantile VAR approach","authors":"Huthaifa Sameeh Alqaralleh , Alessandra Canepa , Eva Muchova","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102334","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102334","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This work examines inflation spillover between non-euro Central and Eastern European countries (CEE) and the euro area using a novel procedure that combines the benefits of the wavelet methodology with the parametric quantile VAR estimation. The proposed procedure allows us to estimate the level of inflation spillover within the network of countries under consideration at different time scales and across different inflation regimes. The empirical analysis reveals a high level of inflation spillover within the network of countries under consideration, with the euro area being the main shock transmitter. However, the spillover level varies across inflation quantiles. The estimation results suggest that during a high inflation regime, the level of spillover across the network is much higher than in spillover during normal inflation regimes. Also, it is found that large shocks do not propagate in the same way as smaller shocks do.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102334"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143103399","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":"The impact of outcome uncertainty on corporate investment compensation peer effects","authors":"Yu-En Lin , Yu-Xin Xu , Bo Yu , Keith S.K. Lam","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the compensation peer effect of investments and the moderate effect of outcome uncertainty on the compensation peer effect in the US stock markets. We document two new findings. Our results suggest a significant positive relation between firms’ own and compensation peers’ investments and a significant negative moderate effect of the outcome uncertainty on the relation. In addition, we also find that the moderate effect is more pronounced in the low information accuracy groups, suggesting that the inaccurate information disclosure of compensation peers’ investments is the main cause of the negative moderate effect. Our results remain sound after various robustness and endogenous tests.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102349"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143103401","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":"Market broadening and future volatility: A study of Russell 2000 and S&P 500 equal weight ETFs","authors":"Abbas Valadkhani , Barry O'Mahony","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102369","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102369","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the relationship between market broadening and future volatility in the U.S. using monthly data from May 2003 to July 2024. Market broadening is measured by the price returns of two exchange-traded funds (ETFs): the S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP) and the Russell 2000 Equal Weight ETF (IWM). We employ an Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (EGARCH) model to ensure the conditional variance remains positive, even when ETF returns are negative. Our findings support an inverted-U hypothesis, suggesting that market gains were more widely dispersed until 2014 but have since become concentrated among mega-cap stocks. More importantly, the results indicate that broadening market participation significantly reduces future volatility. This effect is consistent regardless of whether market broadening is measured using RSP or IWM. Our estimated time-varying GARCH series exhibit strong co-movements and co-jumpings with the VIX index, accurately capturing most of its turning points and critical events. This study offers practical insights into market behavior, investment strategies, and the risks of gains mainly driven by mega-cap companies, especially for market-cap ETF investors, without the need to analyze individual stocks or use hard-to-get data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102369"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094390","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":"Systemic risk and network effects in RCEP financial markets: Evidence from the TEDNQR model","authors":"Yan Chen , Qiong Luo , Feipeng Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102317","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102317","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has brought both opportunities and new challenges to the Asia-Pacific financial markets. To analyze the spillover effects of stock market risk among RCEP countries, this paper constructs a comprehensive framework for systemic risk management encompassing three aspects: risk measurement, connectivity analysis and identification of influential factors. Specifically, we apply the CoES as a risk measurement metric to construct a tail risk network. Based on risk decomposition in sliding windows, we examine the hierarchical propagation pathways, intensities and evolution mechanisms of systemic risk in RCEP stock markets across four levels (system, group, country and institution). Subsequently, we use a tail-event driven dynamic network quantile regression (TEDNQR) model to explore the influence of network topology, node heterogeneity, and common factors on stock price changes across different quantile levels. Finally, we employ robustness analysis based on goodness-of-fit and DM test to validate the reliability of our methodology and conclusions. The empirical results indicate that both the risk performance and the influential factors of RCEP stock markets exhibit time-varying and tail characteristics. Overall, simultaneous network effects significantly and positively impact stock movements, playing a dominant role among all factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102317"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143103411","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":"Valuing catastrophe equity put options with liquidity risk, default risk and jumps","authors":"Chao Tang , Peimin Chen , Shu Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102365","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102365","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The growing frequency of natural disasters and the impacts of climate change have caused many companies to face liquidity shortages. Consequently, how to hedge such risks has become an urgent issue for investors to consider. To construct an effective hedge tool, in this paper we mainly explore the pricing problem of catastrophe equity put options (CatEPuts) with liquidity risk. In the context of losses caused by catastrophic events, we use Markov modulated Poisson processes (MMPP) to depict its intensity. The default event of the option issuer occurring at any time before the expiration of the option and the correlation existing between the stock and the assets of the option issuer are also considered and involved in our model. Under this framework, we obtain a closed-form formula for CatEPuts with liquidity risk and default risk under MMPP by applying Escher transformation and multidimensional normality. Finally, we conduct numerical analysis. By comparing solutions with and without influencing factors, the significance of risk factors and jump diffusion processes are elucidated. It also includes sensitivity analysis to explore the impact of key parameters on the price of CatEPuts. In addition, as an application we explore some realistic cases, such as the measure of <em>VaR</em>. Through risk management analysis, it demonstrates that CatEPuts can effectively hedge catastrophic risks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102365"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094283","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":"Does corporate digital transformation improve capital market transparency? Evidence from China","authors":"Bin Gao , Mimi Qin , Jun Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102363","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102363","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital transformation empowers enterprises with new kinetic energy for high-quality development. Can digital transformation enhance the transparency of the<!--> <!-->capital market? This study constructs a digital transformation index and examines its impact on the information transparency of Chinese listed companies from the perspective of information senders. We find that digital transformation significantly enhances enterprise information transparency, and the relationship is more pronounced in non-technological enterprises, enterprises with high ownership concentration, and enterprises with high levels of intellectual property protection. Channel tests show that reducing management myopia and increasing news media supervision are possible mechanisms. Overall, our findings provide critical insights for improving the transparency construction of China’s capital market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102363"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093986","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":"An early prediction model on systemic risk under global risk: Using FinBERT and temporal fusion transformer to multimodal data fusion framework","authors":"Xiao Jin , Shu-Ling Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102361","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102361","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Several United States banks went bankrupt in 2023, and the total scale exceeded the subprime 2008 mortgage crisis. Thus, determining how to better predict banks’ systemic risks is crucial. While past research used quantitative data and statistical methods, rarely incorporated qualitative data, and lacked research exploring the impact of public confidence on systemic risk.</div><div>This study examined 445,500 daily multimodal quantitative and qualitative data to analyze financial news. We obtained data on public confidence through finance bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (hereafter FinBERT) to explore the relationship between public confidence and systemic risk through temporal fusion transformers (TFTs). We established an early prediction model that predicts the next 5 and 20 days, achieving more accurate prediction performance than <em>linear regression</em>, <em>LSTM</em> (long short-term memory), and <em>XGB</em> (eXtreme gradient boosting).</div><div>Based on the model that uses the past 20 days to predict the next five days, we found that positive and negative public confidence had a greater impact on systemic risk. In comparison, neutral public confidence had a lesser effect. Macro data such as carbon dioxide emissions also impact systemic risk. By expanding the time range to 60 days to predict 20 days, we found that the most significant impact on systemic risk factors was month, negative public information, interest rate, quasi-leverage, and the GDP growth rate.</div><div>The findings indicate that public confidence deserves more attention than macro variables in preventing systemic risks in the banking industry. Negative public confidence significantly affects systemic risk, echoing the adage that <em>Bad news has wings</em>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102361"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094285","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":"Greater fragility, greater exposure: A network-based analysis of climate policy uncertainty shocks and G20 stock markets stability","authors":"Yu-fan Wan , Ming-hui Wang , Feng-lin Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102343","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102343","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the impact of climate policy uncertainty shocks on stock market stability in both developed and emerging G20 economies. Using the network connectedness framework developed by Diebold and Yılmaz (2014), we quantify the risk spillover effects of climate policy uncertainty across various economics. Then, we employ the minimum spanning tree method to identify key risk transmission chains and analyze the changes after the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Our findings indicate that economies with robust financial systems exhibit stronger resilience to climate policy uncertainty shocks, while emerging markets show greater connectedness fluctuations and longer recovery periods after these shocks. Economies with weaker financial systems suffer more severe adverse effects. Furthermore, stable financial systems are becoming key nodes in the risk transmission network post the Paris Agreement, reflecting structural changes in global financial markets in response to climate policy shocks. Our research contributes to the growing literature of how climate policy uncertainty shock affects financial stability through complex networks analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102343"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094372","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":"Cryptocurrency market spillover in times of uncertainty","authors":"Wei-Peng Chen , Chih-Chiang Wu , Withz Aimable","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2024.102347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the liquidity spillovers in the cryptocurrency market during times of uncertainty. The empirical results show that liquidity spillovers are lower than both return and volatility spillovers, and liquidity spillovers increase noticeably during times of market shocks. Ethereum is the dominant transmitter of liquidity spillovers, followed by Bitcoin. We also find that heightened crude oil volatility, stock volatility, and economic policy uncertainty contribute to more significant liquidity spillovers within cryptocurrency markets. Moreover, increased volatility in exchange rates, crude oil, gold, and stock markets and economic policy uncertainty would enhance Ethereum’s role as a transmitter of liquidity shocks in the cryptocurrency market. These findings are relevant for investors and regulators to manage risks and uncertainties in the cryptocurrency market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102347"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094376","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}