{"title":"Does soft shareholder activism hold hard consequences?","authors":"Linda Kallis , Shaen Corbet","doi":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the impact of soft shareholder activism, as reported in media narratives, on stock market performance using an EGARCH methodology. Focusing on US-listed firms, we analyse how news articles discussing shareholder activism, ranging from formal proposals to informal expressions of investor concern, affect stock market returns and volatility. Our findings reveal that approximately one-fourth of the companies highlighted in these reports experience significant stock market fluctuations coinciding with media coverage. These effects are notably pronounced in firms with higher market capitalisation and robust financial metrics (ROE and ROA) but lower ESG scores and negative leverage. The study also establishes a strong correlation between firm performance metrics, particularly ROE and ROA, and market reactions around news publication dates. This pattern suggests that the market responds more intensely to companies with higher performance levels. The research contributes to understanding shareholder activism’s indirect influence on market dynamics through media, offering insights for companies, investors, and policymakers in the evolving landscape of shareholder activism and the media’s role therein.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47962,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 152-159"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1062976924000486/pdfft?md5=047a378ac49d8dad2880c4a662c0ce85&pid=1-s2.0-S1062976924000486-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140283048","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":"The relationship between Chinese and FOB prices of rare earth elements – Evidence in the time and frequency domain","authors":"Volker Seiler","doi":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the relationship between domestic and export prices of rare earth elements (REEs) taking into account both, the time and the frequency domain using Granger causality tests and cross wavelet analysis. We find areas of significant comovement between both, returns and volatility of domestic and export prices, with the degree of connection being low at higher frequencies, increasing over medium frequencies and lower frequencies. Moreover, the lead-lag effects between the Chinese and the export market are time-varying and heterogenous, with no particular market as the leader. The analysis of volatility transmission shows that own-market volatility rather than spillover from the Chinese to the export market or vice versa accounts for the biggest share of volatility. While volatility transmission shows substantial variation over time, the Chinese market is generally a net giver of volatility to the export market, especially at the medium frequency band. Accordingly, market participants buying REEs in the export market might want to track Chinese prices as leading indicators of price fluctutations due to spillovers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47962,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 160-179"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140309305","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":"Financial literacy and financial advice seeking: Does product specificity matter?","authors":"Camilla Mazzoli , Riccardo Ferretti , Umberto Filotto","doi":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study the effect of financial literacy on financial advice seeking. We test the relationship across different measures of the former and the latter, providing a contribution to the existing literature. Overall results suggest complementarity, but when considering product-specific financial literacy and financial advice seeking, a complementary effect emerges for investments and debt, while a substitution effect prevails for insurance and pension products. Financial advising services can therefore compensate for the lack of financial literacy in insurance and pension planning in the short run. Conversely, greater policy efforts are needed for investment and loans, where poor financial literacy translates into a scarce demand for financial advice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47962,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 98-110"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1062976924000516/pdfft?md5=ce819353dc1fa41b4b75019d00f95999&pid=1-s2.0-S1062976924000516-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140190928","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}
V Veeravel , Vijaya Prabhagar Murugesan , Vijayakumar Narayanamurthy
{"title":"Does ESG disclosure really influence the firm performance? Evidence from India","authors":"V Veeravel , Vijaya Prabhagar Murugesan , Vijayakumar Narayanamurthy","doi":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we examine the influence of ESG disclosure scores on firm performance of companies listed in the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The study uses 167 sample firms from 2010 to 2020. We capitalise overall ESG disclosure scores taken as a proxy to measure the effect of sustainability disclosure on firm performance. Further, we consider the return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), Tobin’s Q, and Price Earnings ratio (P/E ratio) as firm performance measures. We employ dynamic panel data regression analysis to examine the influence of ESG disclosures on performance of the firm. In order, to address the endogeneity issues, we apply Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) model. The study results show a positive relationship between ESG disclosure and firm performance. It suggests that companies’ desire to enhance their performance need to pay more attention towards sustainability disclosures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47962,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 193-202"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140282664","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":"Dynamic connectedness of inflation around the world: A time-varying approach from G7 and E7 countries","authors":"Yanhui Jiang , Bo Qu , Yun Hong , Xiyue Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using advanced econometric techniques of the Time-Varying Parameters Vector Autoregression model with stochastic volatility (TVP-SV-VAR) and the Quantile Vector Autoregression (QVAR) model, this research investigates the dynamics of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) across G7 and E7 countries from January 1993 to January 2023, aiming to comprehensively analyze the international transmission of inflation. The study yields several key findings. Firstly, we ascertain that approximately 64% of inflation volatility can be attributed to international transmission. Secondly, our analysis consistently identifies Turkey and Russia as net exporters of inflation over the study period, while G7 countries and Mexico emerge as persistent net importers. Thirdly, we note a gradual increase in China's inflation connectivity with developing countries following the Asian financial crisis, coupled with a diminishing impact of Chinese inflation transmission to developed nations. Fourthly, we observe a heightened complexity in the inflation transmission network during periods marked by high Total Connectivity Index (TCI) values, compared to those with low TCI values. Lastly, our study underscores that the transmission of international inflation intensifies during periods characterized by extremely high or low international inflation rates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47962,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 111-125"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140195613","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":"Information shock, market reaction, and stock message board information diffusion","authors":"Xiuqi Huang, Yongqiang Meng","doi":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the market reaction to information shocks in the Chinese stock market and study the process of information diffusion among investors on the stock message board. We find that investors tend to overreact to information shocks and the communications on the stock message board facilitate this overreaction. Further analysis shows that stock market overreaction is more significant in response to small and medium-cap shocks, and the degree of overreaction decreass with increasing liquidity. Our empirical results provide significant evidence of how information spreads among retail investors from the perspective of investor overconfidence and information asymmetry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47962,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 180-192"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140274208","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":"Estimating financial integration in Europe: How to separate structural trends from cyclical fluctuations","authors":"Laurent Maurin , Enrico Minnella , Alfred Lake","doi":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We construct a new indicator of de facto financial integration for the EU. The resulting indicator is pro-cyclical as it evolves along the cyclical pattern of economic activity in the European Union. It is then appended to a set of relevant financial and macroeconomic variables, within a FAVAR framework, to allow us to separate the impact of cyclical boom-bust shocks from structural integration shocks. Increasing structural financial integration tends to improve risk absorption and reduce income disparities among European countries. However, our analysis suggests that most of the movements in the indicator reflect business cycle dynamics, not proper integration. Given the estimated beneficial effects of stronger structural financial integration, these results highlight the need to develop further policies to foster it in the EU.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47962,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 85-97"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1062976924000309/pdfft?md5=5577b56743241e9ad1754eb7ab0237b0&pid=1-s2.0-S1062976924000309-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140160243","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":"How does credit information sharing shape bank loans?","authors":"Celia Álvarez-Botas, Víctor M. González","doi":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper analyzes the influence of credit information sharing on how banks set the terms of bank loans and the ownership of the loans. Using a sample of 23,341 bank loans in 44 countries during the period 2005–2019 we examine how interest rates, collateral, maturity, amounts, and ownership of bank loans are influenced by the degree of penetration of credit bureaus and public credit registries. The results show that credit information sharing decreases interest rate spread for high-quality borrowers and decreases loan maturity. Moreover, the amount of credit is negatively affected by the degree of coverage by registries. Finally, we find evidence in line with credit information sharing increasing loan ownership concentration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47962,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 18-32"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1062976924000292/pdfft?md5=551440dde95d1426946135a592ecc74a&pid=1-s2.0-S1062976924000292-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140121927","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}
Walid Mensi , Salem Adel Ziadat , Abdel Razzaq Al Rababa'a , Xuan Vinh Vo , Sang Hoon Kang
{"title":"Oil, gold and international stock markets: Extreme spillovers, connectedness and its determinants","authors":"Walid Mensi , Salem Adel Ziadat , Abdel Razzaq Al Rababa'a , Xuan Vinh Vo , Sang Hoon Kang","doi":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the lower and upper return spillovers and connectedness between important commodity (crude oil and gold) and main international stock markets using the quantile connectedness approach by Ando et al. (2018). The results show stronger return spillovers during bearish and bullish market conditions. Crude oil and gold are net receivers of return spillovers irrespective of quantiles. Furthermore, an intense spillover is observed during high stress periods including COVID-19 in March 2020, and global economic slowdown and the Brexit referendum of 2016, oil price crash in 2014–2016, Tapering Tantrum in 2013, and the subprime crisis of 2008. Moreover, the spillovers in lower quantiles are stronger than in upper quantiles. The volatility uncertainty index (VIX) has a negative impact on the connectedness index at low and median quantiles. Gold and economic policy uncertainty indexes have a positive impact on lower quantile spillovers. In contrast, oil uncertainty index has a negative impact on quantile spillovers. COVID-19 crisis has a positive impact on lower, medium, and upper spillovers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47962,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140121925","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":"NFTs versus conventional cryptocurrencies: A comparative analysis of market efficiency around COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine conflict","authors":"David Iheke Okorie , Elie Bouri , Mieszko Mazur","doi":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.qref.2024.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the efficiency of the market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) against the backdrop of the market for fungible tokens (FTs) that includes Bitcoin and Ethereum. We focus on two important shocks: the outbreak of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. To this end, we employ martingale difference sequence and conditional heteroscedasticity estimation techniques. We find that the efficiency of both markets fluctuates in time and the aforementioned shocks have a profound effect on FTs and NFTs. More specifically, we find that the effect of COVID-19 is heterogeneous for both markets, whereas that of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is homogenous for NFTs but heterogeneous for FTs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47962,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 126-151"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140083521","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}