Using unbalanced panel data on 3326 Chinese listed companies from 2014 to 2021, this study investigates the impact of corporate environmental performance on China's excess stock returns. The results show that stocks of companies with better environmental performance earn signifcantly higher...

This study investigates the volume-return relationship using data from the Chinese stock market. Based on the model set up by Llorente et al. (2002), we test empirically whether investors in China are hedging oriented or motivated by speculation. A two-state Markov switching model was used to...

Using the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper studies the impact of regional cooperation agreements (RCAs) on international tourism based on the Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Differences regression approach (PSM-DID). This paper also quantifies...

This paper studies the role of non-performing loans in the regulatory measures of the Chinese commercial banking system. A threshold panel regression model has been applied to the data of 87 commercial banks in China from 2006 to 2012. The empirical results suggest that a higher non-performing...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the global financial system and caused great turmoil. Facing unprecedented risks in the markets, people have increasing needs to find a safe haven for their investments. Given that the nature of this crisis is a combination of multiple problems, it is...

Systematic risks in cryptocurrency markets have recently increased and have been gaining a rising number of connections with economics and financial markets; however, in this area, climate shocks could be a new kind of impact factor. In this paper, a spillover network based on a time-varying...

This paper introduces a multi-layer network approach to explore risk contagions in a sample of top energy firms in the world. Large energy companies play a very important role in the international energy market. Mapping their responses to different types of shocks provides profound implications...

The emission trading scheme (ETS) provides a market mechanism to mitigate carbon emissions and has been introduced in many countries. Its fundamental idea is to make carbon emissions costly. Consequently, firms undertaking cross-border expansions may have to consider this extra cost when...