{"title":"Vertical integration, supply chain disruptions, and corporate yield spreads","authors":"Yifei Li, Anni Wang, Qun Wu, Zejiang Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101639","url":null,"abstract":"Vertical integration can lower transaction costs and enhance a firm’s control over its supply chain, thereby mitigating supply chain risk and leading to lower yield spreads. However, it may also lead to asset specificity, which can reduce the liquidation value of assets and increase investment uncertainty, potentially resulting in higher yield spreads. We find that firms with greater vertical integration exhibit lower bond yield spreads. This effect is more pronounced for companies facing elevated supply chain risk, supporting the supply chain risk channel. Amid global supply chain disruptions such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the U.S.-China trade war, vertical integration takes on an even more important role in reducing credit spreads.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Weiwei Guo, Hossein Jahanshahloo, Laima Spokeviciute, Qingwei Wang
{"title":"The dual impact of on-chain and off-chain factors on Bitcoin market efficiency","authors":"Weiwei Guo, Hossein Jahanshahloo, Laima Spokeviciute, Qingwei Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101641","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how on-chain factors (number of active wallets, transaction fees, and transaction volume) and off-chain factors (liquidity and investor attention) impact Bitcoin market efficiency from April 2014 to April 2022. We identify three periods in Bitcoin’s market development: development, growth, and additional development stage. We propose three hypotheses: (1) increased investor attention enhances market efficiency, (2) a rise in active users improves efficiency directly and through liquidity and investor attention, and (3) higher transaction fees and on-chain volume positively impact efficiency directly and indirectly. Our findings support these hypotheses during Bitcoin’s development and growth periods. However, in the additional development stage, the total effect of active users, transaction fees, and transaction volume becomes negative when considering mediating effects, and largely insignificant when focusing on direct effects. Additionally, we find increased netflow between whales and exchanges, a proxy for institutional activity, improves efficiency. We conclude that as Bitcoin’s market develops, factors such as changing user composition and increased regulatory scrutiny alter the dynamics of on-chain factors and their influence on market efficiency.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linkage between strategy and financial performance disclosure in annual reports: A new reporting path for organizational learning","authors":"Vasiliki Athanasakou, Abdlmutaleb Boshanna","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101643","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the reporting practice of linkage between strategy disclosures (management discussion of firm strategy and the business model) and financial performance disclosures in annual reports as a path for organizational learning. For identification, we use the UK Company Law Amendment mandating a Strategic Report as a separate section of the annual report so that strategy disclosures provide sufficient context for financial statements. We confirm that the linkage between strategy and performance disclosures in annual reports increases incrementally after the amendment for firms that are more strongly affected by the Company Law Amendment. For these firms, we document an incremental rise in measures associated with organizational learning (e.g., measures of organizational changes and workforce engagement). Our study has important policy implications for the structure of textual disclosure in annual reports.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cephas Simon Peter Dak-Adzaklo, Adelaide Dak-Adzaklo
{"title":"The effect of cross-border regulatory cooperation on investment efficiency","authors":"Cephas Simon Peter Dak-Adzaklo, Adelaide Dak-Adzaklo","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101638","url":null,"abstract":"The signing of the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU) has strengthened the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) cross-border enforcement program over US-listed foreign firms through better cooperation with foreign securities regulators. Using the MMoU as a natural experiment, we examine the effect of enhanced SEC regulatory oversight on investment efficiency of US-listed foreign firms. We find that enhanced SEC regulatory oversight in the post-MMoU regime increases investment efficiency. This finding is robust to an array of sensitivity tests, including those that account for endogeneity. Cross-sectional analyses show that the effect is more pronounced for firms from countries with weaker institutions and higher levels of societal secrecy. Additional analyses reveal that the MMoU influences investment efficiency through market discipline and financing channels. These findings have important implications for regulators, policymakers, and corporate stakeholders. More importantly, by documenting the causal positive impact of the MMoU on investment efficiency, this study provides information to inform and refine the business case for securities regulators' global policy coordination efforts.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143736553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why so many coins? Examining the demand for privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies","authors":"Gbenga Ibikunle, Vito Mollica, Qiao Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101637","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the impact of anonymity and privacy-preservation on cryptocurrency use. We find that privacy coins, which deploy advanced privacy-preserving technologies to enhance trader anonymity, experience a relative increase in usage compared to non-privacy coins following regulatory interventions aimed at countering illegal activities in cryptocurrency trading and use. However, the adoption of privacy coins decreases relative to non-privacy coins after the introduction of regulations restricting the use of privacy-preserving protocols. These findings underscore the significance of privacy as a driving factor in cryptocurrency adoption.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143736554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social networks and venture capital investments around the world","authors":"Giang Nguyen, Thu Ha Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101628","url":null,"abstract":"Constructing social networks of venture capital (VC) firms using social ties of VC partners in 36 countries, we find that VC firms that are central in the networks tend to lead VC investment syndicates, and this relation is more pronounced in countries with weaker institutional environments and investor protection. We show evidence that central VC firms achieve superior performance as they obtain better access to deal flow and provide more value-added services to portfolio companies. We demonstrate that the positive value of social network centrality is not driven by the mutual existence of investment networks built upon historical investment relationships. Importantly, our results suggest that social networks are one of the key drivers of investment networks.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"34 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143736555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fintech and home bias: The power of new social capital in innovative entrepreneurial financing","authors":"Jianwei Hu, Xiuping Hua, Haolin Li, Yong Wang, Huayi Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101636","url":null,"abstract":"We identify that technology crowdfunding campaigns attracting more domestic investors have a higher probability of project success and examine the role of home bias in supporting online innovative entrepreneurial financing. The extent of the home bias effect among technology entrepreneurs varies and is notably linked to their social capital. When a technology entrepreneur has high “old” social capital, the home bias is strengthened and aligned with a preference-based interpretation. In contrast, technology entrepreneurs' excessive capabilities of creating “new” social capital help mitigate the home bias, reduce the dependence on local investors, and promote more diversified investment decisions, which supports an information-based interpretation. Evidence also reveals that technology entrepreneurs’ home country levels of financial inclusion and investor protection influence the link between home bias and crowdfunding outcomes, indicating that the economic benefits generated in fintech are heterogeneous across different countries.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143672829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring accounting academics’ views on sustainability: A Freirean dialogical pedagogic perspective","authors":"Olga Cam, Joan Ballantine","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101633","url":null,"abstract":"The emancipatory power of accounting is crucial for enabling sustainable living, placing a responsibility on accounting educators to unlock this potential. As sustainability remains an evolving global discussion, teaching it requires a shift from traditional, didactic approaches to accounting education. Paulo Freire's dialogical approach offers a valuable framework, assuming educators have the critical consciousness and pedagogical skills to co-create knowledge with learners. However, there is limited insight into educators' views on sustainability in accounting—an essential perspective for fostering critical consciousness—and their readiness for a dialogical teaching approach. These gaps present challenges to promoting sustainability through accounting education. This exploratory study adopts a phenomenographic approach to gain insights through semi-structured interviews with UK accounting academics, applying Freire's theoretical lens to deepen the analysis. The results reveal qualitatively different ways in which educators perceive sustainability in accounting, offering novel insights into accounting education and making an initial step toward fostering critical consciousness. Findings indicate that educators may lack the pedagogical skills necessary for a dialogical approach, often assuming roles as knowledge distributors rather than co-creators. This highlights the need to strengthen pedagogical capacity in order to move beyond traditional didactic teaching methods.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143672837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internationalization of equity crowdfunding platforms","authors":"Luca Farè, Silvio Vismara","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101627","url":null,"abstract":"Equity crowdfunding platforms are expanding globally, heralded for their capacity to connect entrepreneurs and investors transcending geographic boundaries. These platforms alleviate the distance-related frictions typical of traditional early-stage finance. Despite their global breadth, however, our knowledge of the internationalization of equity crowdfunding platforms remains limited. Drawing upon an international longitudinal dataset of 317 equity crowdfunding platforms observed over a 15-year period, our study investigates the impact of their internationalization on performance. Our findings reveal that international platforms outperform domestic ones as they mobilize a larger pool of investors. This result stems from their stronger engagement with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, which enhances their attractiveness to investors.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143627469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unsung guardians? Communal fraud susceptibility and complaints following mass financial adviser attrition","authors":"Natalie Y.N. Oh, Jerry T. Parwada, Eugene Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.bar.2025.101615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101615","url":null,"abstract":"This paper illustrates lesser-known positive impacts of financial advisers on communal fraud susceptibility. The analysis focuses on the unprecedented scale of adviser departures triggered by heightened educational and ethics requirements recently introduced in the Australian financial planning industry. We exploit this quasi-experimental setting of mass exits from the wealth management industry to show the removal of professional financial advice increases fraud in affected localities. Areas having proportionately more advisers with membership in professional associations register fewer cases of fraud. Other adviser heterogeneities, including higher education qualifications, do not discernibly reduce fraud pervasiveness or consumer complaints.","PeriodicalId":501001,"journal":{"name":"The British Accounting Review","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}