{"title":"Interlinkage between lending and borrowing tokens and US equity sector: Implications for social finance","authors":"Shoaib Ali , Ting Zhang , Imran Yousaf","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102630","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Decentralized peer-to-peer social network-based platforms and financial products (i.e., tokens) are emerging phenomena in the area of social finance. This paper explores the return and volatility spillovers between Lending and Borrowing tokens and US equity sectors using the TVP-VAR framework. The results indicate a considerable static return and volatility spillovers between tokens and sectors. Most equity sectors are net transmitters of return and volatility spillovers, whereas tokens are more net receivers. Moreover, our findings show that dynamic return and volatility spillovers vary over time and experience a significant rise during the initial phase of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the second quarter of 2022. Finally, we explore the portfolio implication of DeFi and find that the hedge effectiveness scores are significantly greater than zero at a 1 % significant level for all optimal weights and hedge ratios of sector/token pairs, suggesting that investors and portfolio managers should consider adding tokens to their equity sector portfolios and adjust the portfolio allocations over time to achieve diversification benefits. This paper explores the association between social finance-based emerging tokens and traditional equity markets, providing insightful information to policymakers and portfolio managers regarding diversification, hedging, and risk management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 102630"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535765","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}
Muhammad Zubair Chishti , Muhammad Salam , Sorphasith Xaisongkham , Anna Min Du
{"title":"Influence of green ICT and socioeconomic factors on sustainable development: Evidence from Chinese provinces","authors":"Muhammad Zubair Chishti , Muhammad Salam , Sorphasith Xaisongkham , Anna Min Du","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102624","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102624","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the impact of green information communication technology, while considering the conditioning role of other seminal factors. Using panel quantile-quantile granger causality testing and method of moments quantile regression for Chinese provinces for 2000–2019, we find that green information communication technology promotion, human capital, and urbanization positively impact green growth, while globalization, energy intensity, and carbon emissions are not significant. Results highlight the importance of green information communication technology for sustainable development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 102624"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142432818","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":"Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification","authors":"Irene Henriques, Perry Sadorsky","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102629","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102629","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid growth in FinTech is attracting significant investor attention. There are concerns that FinTech stocks may be a source of systemic risk and this has implications for the stability of the financial sector. This study uses a TVP-VAR model to estimate the dynamic connectedness between global FinTech stocks and the stocks of large US banks, regional US banks, US insurance, and global private equity. The findings reveal that FinTech and insurance stocks are net receivers of shocks while large US banks are a major source of shocks. Thus, FinTech stocks are not a source of systemic risk but can be affected by financial contagion and systemic risk originating from large US banks. The highest connectedness was observed at the onset of the COVID-19 lockdowns illustrating the dramatic impact that a health pandemic can have on systemic risk. Systemic risk also increased during the 2023 US bank panic. Connectedness has implications for constructing investment portfolios. The equally weighted, risk parity, and risk parity connectedness portfolios have similar portfolio summary statistics, but lower risk adjusted returns than the maximum Sharpe ratio portfolio which better captures the low correlation between FinTech stocks and traditional financial stocks. These results are robust across various portfolio rebalancing periods (daily, weekly, monthly).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 102629"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142442452","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}
Yunpeng Sun , Giray Gozgor , Chi Keung Marco Lau , Alaa M. Soliman
{"title":"Inclusive finance and sustainability: The dynamic spillover effects of uncertainties on access to credit","authors":"Yunpeng Sun , Giray Gozgor , Chi Keung Marco Lau , Alaa M. Soliman","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102628","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102628","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A firm's access to domestic credit is crucial in inclusive finance for businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, to invest and grow. Sustainable and inclusive economic growth requires a healthy private sector with access to financial resources. This paper explores how uncertainty from major economies (measured by Uncertainty Spillover indices) can limit domestic credit availability in the private sector. Analysing a panel dataset encompassing 100 developed and developing economies from 1996 to 2019, the research reveals that uncertainties stemming from China and the United States significantly reduce the availability of domestic financial resources. Uncertainties surrounding other G7 economies (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom) also exhibit a negative association; however, their effects are statistically insignificant. The robustness of these findings is confirmed across various empirical models and income classifications. Possible implications for inclusive finance and sustainable economic growth are also discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 102628"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535760","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":"Small and medium-sized enterprises and sustainable transition: Role of FinTech in a country's banking ecosystem","authors":"Andrea Quintiliani","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102625","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102625","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During the sustainable transition, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) request funding to support environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments. In particular, these requests clash with information asymmetries typical of the bank–firm relationship, causing SMEs to experience credit crunch phenomena or increased loan costs. This aforementioned phenomenon prompted this study to examine whether FinTech increases banks’ ability to support the development of SMEs aimed at achieving ESG or, better yet, sustainable transition goals. The results suggest that FinTech in a country’s banking ecosystem improves the ESG performance of Italian and British SMEs by addressing adverse selection and moral hazard issues. This study also shows a more pronounced effect in the UK banking ecosystem, which has a higher level of FinTech development and diffusion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 102625"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535763","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 central bank digital currency uncertainty on international financial markets","authors":"Zheng Lü , Oguzhan Ozcelebi , Seong-Min Yoon","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102627","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102627","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Is the impact of central bank digital currency (CBDC) uncertainty on investment and financial stability significant? To address this pivotal question in the era of CBDC development, we employ a combination of models: the time-varying parameter vector autoregression with stochastic volatility (TVP-SV-VAR); the Baba, Engle, Kraft, and Kroner multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (BEKK-MGARCH) model, and wavelet quantile correlation (WQC) analysis. Based on the findings, macrofinancial variables significantly respond to CBDC uncertainty shocks, exhibiting time-varying, heterogeneous, and stage-specific characteristics. These effects are most pronounced in the short term, but diminish over the long term. Notably, the impact of CBDC uncertainty shocks on other financial variables exceeds the reverse impact. In addition, asymmetric volatility spillovers are found, suggesting complex interdependencies. The implication of the findings is that interactions between CBDC uncertainty and financial variables evolve across short-, medium-, and long-term horizons, emphasizing the need for central banks to adopt a flexible approach in CBDC design to alleviate market concerns and enhance overall financial stability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 102627"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142438323","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":"Supply chain finance and outward foreign direct investment","authors":"Kai Wang , Ning Ding , Chenbo Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study empirically examines the impact of Chinese A-share-listed companies' supply chain finance (SCF) application on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by textually analyzing SCF keywords from listed companies' announcements from 2010 to 2021. The results show that applying SCF can significantly increase OFDI. Having taken the Staggered Differences-in-Differences (DID) test, Propensity Score Matching (PSM) test, entropy balancing (EB) method, and IV test to solve potential endogeneity problems, the results remain robust. Further, alleviating financial constraints and strengthening total factor productivity are critical mechanisms of SCF on OFDI. Moreover, the location of firms in regions with higher levels of the rule of law or advanced financial technology could further amplify the positive impact of SCF on OFDI. Finally, compared with exports, firms are more likely to choose OFDI. Besides the depth and breadth of OFDI, the investment amount of OFDI is also increasing because of SCF.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 102620"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142432809","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":"A step toward the attainment of carbon neutrality and SDG-13: Role of financial depth and green technology innovation","authors":"Sunil Tiwari , Arshian Sharif , Emrah Sofuoğlu , Florian Nuta","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102631","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Following the recommendations of COP28 and Sustainable Development Goal −13 (Climate Action), the present study examines the role of financial depth and green technology innovation in carbon neutrality and climate change. This study measures the relationship between green innovation, technological innovation, ICT, financial depth, economic growth, carbon emission, and ecological footprint from 1990 to 2021 in the USA. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model examines the relationship between the above-mentioned variables and their impacts on each other. Results reveal that green innovation, technological innovation, ICT, and financial depth significantly negatively impact ecological footprint and carbon emissions in both the short and long run. In contrast, economic growth positively impacts carbon emissions and ecological footprint. Green and financial innovation-centric policies are suggested to the USA to attain net zero emission and SDG-13.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 102631"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142442454","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}
Buhari Doğan , Sami Ben Jabeur , Aviral Kumar Tiwari , Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah
{"title":"Asymmetry in returns and volatility between green financial assets, sustainable investments, clean energy, and international stock markets","authors":"Buhari Doğan , Sami Ben Jabeur , Aviral Kumar Tiwari , Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102626","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102626","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents empirical evidence on the asymmetric relationship between green investments and international stock markets. We employ the asymmetric versions of Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) and Barunik and Krehlik (2018) for time-frequency connectedness, analyzing daily returns and volatilities from June 23, 2009, to June 23, 2022. Our study reveals significant time-frequency asymmetries in returns and volatility spillovers between green investments and developed equity markets in the short and long term. Regarding net directional spillovers, the equity markets in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and France emerge as net transmitters of shocks. In contrast, green investments, notably those in sustainability and the environment, act primarily as net emitters of shocks. China and Japan are the primary recipients of these shocks. Meanwhile, green bonds generally function as net receivers of shocks, with occasional exceptions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 102626"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535759","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":"Firm-level political risk and CEO compensation","authors":"Chunmi Jeon, Seung Hun Han, Yunji Hwang","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102614","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102614","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of firm-level political risk (FLPR) on CEO compensation. Firm cash flow and CEO bargaining power are examined to ascertain whether they moderate this relationship. FLPR exposure is measured using a computational linguistic method to analyze the manuscripts of firm earnings conference calls. The findings indicate that FLPR is negatively related to CEO compensation but that firm cash flow and CEO bargaining power positively moderate this relationship. These results are consistent with endogeneity and robustness tests, including alternative measures of FLPR and CEO compensation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 102614"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142432817","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}