Ștefana Belbe , Darie Moldovan , Alin Marius Andrieș , Philipp Otto , Codruța Mare
{"title":"Evaluation of the space-time effects of Covid-19 on household loans and savings in Romania - A spatial panel data approach at county level","authors":"Ștefana Belbe , Darie Moldovan , Alin Marius Andrieș , Philipp Otto , Codruța Mare","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101209","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101209","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the effects of the Covid-19 crisis on the banking sector of Romania using a spatial panel dataset of 21 months, from April 2020 to December 2021, among 41 counties. The empirical setup exploits the spatial and time-series variations of the banking sector during the pandemic via means of exploratory data analysis, simple linear models for each month with spatial diagnosis, and spatial panel data models with fixed effects. County-level differences and particular disturbances in the trend of banking services are highlighted against the turning points of the pandemic. We show that increasing Covid-19 infections result in higher loans and savings per capita, with significant spatial interactions given by the neighboring counties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101209"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142422770","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}
{"title":"How does Russia's economy affect the region? Transmission channels and policy options","authors":"Shant Arzoumanian","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101205","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101205","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies how output fluctuations in Russia are transmitted internationally. Using dynamic panel models, the paper finds that Russia's output fluctuations are an important driver of output fluctuations of countries in the region, especially for oil importers, and are transmitted increasingly via trade and market confidence channels. The magnitude of cross-border spillovers is larger for countries with relatively high bilateral trade concentration, low export diversification, and weak external buffers. The paper also finds evidence that stronger public institutional quality- especially in the fiscal area- may help insulate countries from volatility in the Russian sovereign debt market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101205"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142422772","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}
Siyu Zhang , Rongli Yuan , Yukun Li , Li Chen , Danglun Luo
{"title":"Local official turnover and bank risk-taking: Evidence from China","authors":"Siyu Zhang , Rongli Yuan , Yukun Li , Li Chen , Danglun Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101208","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101208","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the impact of turnover among local government officials on the risk-taking of local commercial banks in China. Our findings reveal a positive relationship between official turnover and risk-taking in banks. The observed effect is mainly due to a deterioration in credit allocation and heightened competition among banks. Heterogeneous analysis indicates that the impact is more significant in non-election years, in years of enhanced anti-corruption efforts, in regions with poor credit environments, and among smaller banks or banks without political connections. Additionally, compared to normal and local turnover, the positive impact of local official turnover on banks' risk-taking is more pronounced for abnormal and non-local turnovers. These insights deepen our understanding of the economic consequences of official turnover on commercial banks and offer valuable perspectives for banks' risk management strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101208"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142432278","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}
{"title":"Impact of asymmetry on exchange rate determination: The role of fundamentals","authors":"Levent Korap","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101206","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101206","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study tries to take a new look at the exchange rate determination model by employing recent developments in time series estimation methodologies. For this purpose, the validity of the sticky price monetary exchange rate model has been searched for the Turkish lira / US dollar case. Estimation results considering both linear and non–linear modeling approaches highly support the theoretical foundations and reveal explicitly the asymmetric nature of the model. The paper infers that since the nominal exchange rate seems to be determined through the economic fundamentals, it should not be used as a policy tool with a long–term perspective.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101206"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142358269","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}
{"title":"How do stock markets in emerging economies respond to World Bank loan approvals?","authors":"Erasmus Kersting, Christopher Kilby","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101207","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101207","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the impact of World Bank loan approvals on equity markets in borrowing countries. We exploit a rich dataset with World Bank loan commitments and daily stock market returns for 47 emerging markets, allowing us to study short run market reactions to news about World Bank programs. These programs fall into three categories: investment projects, structural adjustment loans that tie future macroeconomic reforms to future loan disbursements (prior to FY2006), and development policy loans that reward completed macroeconomic reforms with current loan disbursements (since FY2006). Event study analysis shows positive abnormal stock market returns on the trading day following investment project loan announcements. The effect depends on loan size as well as market characteristics. Structural adjustment loan announcements are followed by negative abnormal returns; development policy loan announcements, in contrast, are considered good news. This suggests that expected macroeconomic implications of policy change in response to loan conditions drive market reactions, and that changes in the conditionality and disbursement structure of World Bank policy lending were successful in improving market reactions to World Bank programs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101207"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142239537","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}
{"title":"Does environmental information disclosure regulation improve environmental governance? Evidence from China","authors":"Bo Cheng , Xinyang Mao","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101196","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101196","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the effectiveness of Chinese environmental information disclosure (EID) regulations. We find that EID regulations improve firms' EID quality (i.e., exist information effect) and foster firms' green behavior (i.e., exist green effect). Mechanism analysis shows that due to lower audit risks, heavy-polluting firms are charged lower audit fees after the implementation of EID regulations; and due to less managerial myopia, heavy-polluting firms significantly increase green investment and green innovation following EID regulations. Additional heterogeneity analysis shows that these information and green effects can be strengthened by institutional environment factors, such as media coverage, audit quality and political cost.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101196"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142239529","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}
Ricardo Montañez-Enríquez , Matias Ossandon Busch , Manuel Ramos-Francia
{"title":"Untangling the finance-growth nexus: The dual role of financial development in the transmission of shocks","authors":"Ricardo Montañez-Enríquez , Matias Ossandon Busch , Manuel Ramos-Francia","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Does financial development shield countries from the pass-through of financial shocks to real outcomes? We evaluate this question by characterizing the probability density of GDP growth conditional on foreign and domestic financial stress indicators in a panel of 24 emerging countries. Our robust results unveil a previously unexplored dual impact of higher degrees of financial development on the transmission of financial stress: while the effect of global factors is attenuated, the impact of domestic factors is exacerbated. This result highlights a previously unexplored channel through which financial development can alter the link between financial (in)stability and GDP growth.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101192"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172737","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}
{"title":"Does share pledging affect corporate sustainability performance? Empirical evidence from an emerging market","authors":"Huili Zhang, Yibo Huang, Zhiwei Zou","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using data of Chinese A-share firms between 2010 and 2021, this paper examines whether and how share pledging affects corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. We find that share pledging by major shareholders reduces corporate ESG performance, and this finding remains robust after various robustness tests, such as addressing endogeneity issues and using alternative measures. We also find that major shareholders' share pledging inhibits ESG performance by exacerbating short-term financial behaviors such as tunneling and earnings management and suppressing sustainable investments such as green innovation, social donations, and internal control. It suggests that firms with share pledging prioritize short-term financial activities and decrease investment in sustainable development. The heterogeneity tests show that investors focusing on long-term development, effective external monitoring, and internal governance could mitigate the negative impact of share pledging on sustainability performance. Furthermore, we find that the negative influence of share pledging on ESG performance occurs mainly in the sample in which the pledged funds are invested in entities other than the focal listed companies. Based on sustainable business development, this paper contributes to the literature on the economic consequences of share pledging. These findings are valuable and motivating for regulators and investors in their decision-making.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101195"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142233912","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}
Gaye-Del Lo , Isaac Marcelin , Théophile Bassène , Assane Lo
{"title":"Connectedness and risk spillovers among sub-Saharan Africa and MENA equity markets","authors":"Gaye-Del Lo , Isaac Marcelin , Théophile Bassène , Assane Lo","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101193","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates risk spillovers among sub-Saharan African (SSA) stock markets, the Middle East, and North Africa (MENA). Analyzing daily data from March 27th, 2014, to January 24th, 2022, using a quantile connectedness approach, we find high and heterogeneous connectedness, particularly during extreme market conditions. Lower and upper quantiles exhibit the strongest connectivity and shock transmission. Network structure intensified during the global health crisis and subsequent recovery phase. Geopolitical and oil price uncertainty are significant drivers in risk spillovers between SSA and MENA equity markets. The observed variation in transfer spillovers across quantiles offers investors opportunities to optimize hedging strategies. Our findings underscore the need for policymakers to consider market interconnectedness when developing measures to address asset price sensitivity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101193"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168700","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}
Babatunde Lawrence , Adefemi A. Obalade , Anthanasius F. Tita , Joseph J. French
{"title":"Stock market connectedness during an energy crisis: Evidence from South Africa","authors":"Babatunde Lawrence , Adefemi A. Obalade , Anthanasius F. Tita , Joseph J. French","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101194","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the within-industry and global volatility connectivity of the South African equity market during a major domestic energy crisis (load-shedding) and the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a time-varying parameter vector autoregressive model, we identify distinct patterns in volatility spillovers across periods of global and domestic crises. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic increased interconnectedness between South Africa and global equity markets. In contrast, during domestic load-shedding, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) became detached from international markets, highlighting the localized impact of this crisis. We find that the financial and energy industries are consistently net receivers and transmitters of shocks during both crises which demonstrate their systemic importance to South Africa. Our findings provide insights into the dynamic nature of volatility connectedness, with implications for risk management and policy formulation in Africa.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101194"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168699","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}