Purpose - This paper takes the Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect as a quasi-natural experiment and investigates the impact of capital market liberalization on the corporate debt maturity structure. It also aims to provide some policy implications for corporate debt financing and further...

Despite its growing success, open banking (OB) struggles to present a coherent identity. Indeed, despite its widespread adoption around the world, various models can be identified based on rationales, the nature of data-sharing obligations, and the standardisation process. Against this...

Purpose - This paper investigates whether financial sector development promotes economic globalization (EG) using data from 45 African countries. Design/methodology/approach - Using panel data of the selected African countries, the two-step system generalized method of moments estimation...