Pablo A. Garcia-Fuentes , P. Lynn Kennedy , Gustavo F.C. Ferreira
{"title":"Growth effects of remittances in developing countries: A growth accounting approach","authors":"Pablo A. Garcia-Fuentes , P. Lynn Kennedy , Gustavo F.C. Ferreira","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101303","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101303","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the growth effects of remittances using a panel of 103 countries over the period 1990–2019. It uses growth accounting methods and addresses the endogeneity of remittances by introducing external instruments based on economic indicators of the remittance sending-countries. It finds a robust remittance positive effect on growth in remittance-receiving countries. For the average country, an increase of one percentage point in remittances as share of GDP (from 4.16% to 5.46%) increases growth by 0.16%. Additionally, estimations based on the models in Chami et al. (2005), Barajas et al. (2009), and Senbeta (2013) show that remittances promote growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101303"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143935938","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}
Vardan Baghdasaryan , Roy Mersland , R. Øystein Strøm
{"title":"Multibanking in microfinance yields positive performance: Evidence from Ecuadorian entrepreneurs","authors":"Vardan Baghdasaryan , Roy Mersland , R. Øystein Strøm","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101302","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101302","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Is it, on average, harmful for micro-entrepreneurs to borrow from several banks? In this study we find that having loans from several banks improves entrepreneurs' performance, that is, their current revenue. We ensure causal identification by applying instrumental variable estimator to control for the endogeneity as well as test for possible attrition induced bias. Importantly, we uncover certain borrowing patterns of these multiple loans that are associated with greater gross income – specific temporal order of taking out loans and their size relative to incomes. We cannot claim whether this pattern is initiated by the borrower or the banks. The study uses proprietary rich customer data from an Ecuadorian bank matched with credit registry records. Although we acknowledge the many risks involved, our findings suggest a more positive role for multibanking, which has primarily been considered a driver of over-indebtedness in the microfinance literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101302"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143918341","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}
Fatma Hilal Ergen Keleş , Emrah Keleş , Bodo B. Schlegelmilch
{"title":"CSR news and stock prices: A fine-grained analysis in an underexamined Muslim setting","authors":"Fatma Hilal Ergen Keleş , Emrah Keleş , Bodo B. Schlegelmilch","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101301","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101301","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite considerable efforts to understand the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate financial performance (CFP), findings have remained inconsistent for decades due to the complexity of the CSR-CFP relationship and its context-specific nature. Our study takes a fine-grained approach by examining the connection between CSR news and stock prices. We leverage comprehensive and up-to-date CSR characteristics obtained through content analysis and a novel dataset of 315 CSR events distilled from 14,473 corporate and industrial news items of 38 companies listed in the BIST 100 index of the Istanbul Stock Exchange from 2014 to 2018. We discover that the stock market responds positively to CSR news, with a mean 2-day cumulative abnormal return (CAR) of 0.14 percentage points, roughly equivalent to 9.59 million USD. This response is particularly strong in contexts related to “social CSR,” “external stakeholder focus,” and “new information.” Additionally, cross-sectional analysis indicates that investors are inclined to react favorably to CSR news related to productivity while exhibiting a negative response to international CSR initiatives. Our further analyses uncover that the impact of CSR news is moderated by social capital and institutional ownership and is contingent upon whether the market conditions are characterized as “normal” or “hard.” These findings remain robust after a series of tests. Our results offer insights into how firms should communicate CSR initiatives, implement international or local CSR, and prioritize actions serving the firm<strong>.</strong></div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101301"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143911584","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":"Colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa, access to finance, and firm growth","authors":"Lawrence Ngalim , Asli Togan","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101300","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101300","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Whether adequate access to external finance matters for firm-growth remains an unsettled debate in the finance literature, mainly because of endogeneity concerns. In this paper, we approach these concerns with two instruments constructed from colonial history that plausibly explain the current variations in financial development across sub-Saharan African (SSA) economies. We conjecture that these instruments–– the firm's distance from a colonial railway station and whether it is located in an area that had colonial settlements—provide potential channels of impact that identify the present-day effects of access to finance on firm-growth across SSA. By using these instruments, empirical results underscore the primacy of access to finance in firm-growth and consistently suggest that firms with access to finance are more likely to experience higher revenue growth and asset growth. Overall, our results are consistent and robust to alternative specifications and highlight the importance of access to finance for firms. Our findings provide policy implications on the development of the banking sector as well as private sector development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101300"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143899947","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":"Corporate investment and shadow banking channel of monetary policy","authors":"Bo Jiang, Liang Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101291","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101291","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the differential impact of monetary policy on investment between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-SOEs in China, a context marked by a transition from quantity-based to interest rate-based monetary policy and the growth of the shadow banking sector. Utilizing a high-frequency, interest-rate-based measure of monetary policy shocks, we find that contractionary monetary policy has a significantly larger negative impact on SOE investment. This differential response is attributed to the distinct financing structures of SOEs and non-SOEs: SOEs' reliance on traditional bank loans, facilitated by implicit government guarantees, renders them more sensitive to monetary tightening, while non-SOEs' dependence on the shadow banking sector mitigates this effect.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101291"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143859115","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}
José Antonio Ocampo , Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas , Germán Orbegozo-Rodríguez , Nicolás Fajardo-Baquero , Oscar Botero-Ramírez , Camilo Orozco-Vanegas
{"title":"The role of investor participation on sovereign debt markets: Evidence from an emerging economy","authors":"José Antonio Ocampo , Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas , Germán Orbegozo-Rodríguez , Nicolás Fajardo-Baquero , Oscar Botero-Ramírez , Camilo Orozco-Vanegas","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101284","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101284","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the impact of sovereign debt holdings on bond yields and volatility across different maturities and investor types. Using a unique Colombian panel dataset encompassing all government shares and concentrations of public and private institutions from 2006 to 2018, our analysis reveals that a one-standard-deviation increase in non-residents' market share leads to a 0.5% reduction in bond yields and a 10% decrease in volatility relative to their mean values. For domestic banks and pension funds, a one-standard-deviation increase in market shares results in a 0.7% and 1.3% increase in bond yields, along with a 10% and 6% rise in yield volatility, respectively. Additionally, we observe unexpected negative effects of foreign investors' market concentration on bond yields and volatility. These effects are attributed to the mix of investors. Initially, all foreign investors were foreign banks, demonstrating a stable demand despite their limited number. Over time, they ceded participation to mutual funds, which, although more numerous, adopted speculative strategies associated with short-term return investments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101284"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143821205","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":"The employment effects of anticorruption: Evidence from China","authors":"Xiangbing Xu , Nanyan Dong , Chengzhang Wu , Sicheng Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101290","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101290","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines whether China's anticorruption efforts affect firm employment. We find that Chinese provinces with higher pre-existing levels of corruption experience significant increases in the employment scale of listed firms post-campaign. Two channels through which anticorruption affects employment are identified: the mitigation of expropriation risk and the alleviation of financing pressure. The employment effects are more pronounced in firms with higher labor costs, lower management fees, and those located in regions with weaker marketization. Moreover, the campaign can mitigate underhiring and its effects on employment will not come at the expense of compensation or firm profitability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101290"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143791857","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":"Risk-sharing networks, consumption, and asset allocation: Micro-evidence from China","authors":"Ying Fan , Yidi Wang , Zan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101289","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101289","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Kinship networks play an important role in sharing risk under insufficient social security. We examine the heterogeneous risk-sharing networks and their impacts on household finance. Based on a staggered DID design, we find that households under negative shocks obtain a larger extent of social capital from extended family members with blood ties and geo-proximities, similar income positions, and lower uncertainty exposures. The vehicles of risk-sharing differ across networks, and direct monetary transfers over quasi-credits are facilitated by altruism and social norms. However, over-reliance on risk-sharing networks reduces willingness to engage in life-cycle financial planning and dampens long-term financial performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101289"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143783964","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":"Targeted monetary policy and household business credit access: Based on the credit asset pledge relending policy","authors":"Mingxin Zhang , Min Lin , Yanmei Sun , Weixing Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101288","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101288","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper reveals the impact of targeted monetary policy on household business credit access, emphasizing its implications on entities not explicitly targeted by the policy. The primary goal of the Credit Asset Pledge Relending Policy lies in motivating financial institutions to extend credit to the agricultural sector and small enterprises. However, stringent relending regulations often render loans extended to entities with insufficient financial information ineligible as collateral for further relending. By utilizing data from the China Household Finance Survey, we demonstrate that the Credit Asset Pledge Relending Policy, which is supposed to inject additional liquidity into the market, paradoxically results in a notable reduction in household commercial loans. Based on our heterogeneity analysis, regions with limited capital liquidity and heightened bank competition witness more significant effects on household business loans. Finally, households with an increased aversion to risk or lower financial literacy encounter greater financing constraints in accessing business credit.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101288"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143800401","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":"Dynamic financial connectedness among the US, China, and countries of the Belt and Road Initiative","authors":"Walter Bazán-Palomino, Diego Winkelried","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101286","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101286","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How have the financial linkages among the US, China, and emerging markets changed since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)? Using intraday data from 2013 to 2023, we study the financial connectedness of stock markets in the US, China, and the regions with BRI countries. Our time-varying measures of connectedness indicate that the BRI has not significantly changed the financial relationships between China and BRI countries nor has it diminished the financial connections between these countries and the US. Our net directional connectedness analysis finds that the Middle East and Africa region, and the Central Asia and Europe region are the most susceptible to shocks from the US and China. Policymakers and investors should be concerned about periods and regions susceptible to American and Chinese financial shocks, as these can increase network connectivity, thereby heightening financial instability and reducing the benefits of portfolio diversification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 101286"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143791858","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}