This research intends to investigate the progress made in East Asian bond market integration thus far. Price-based measures (AAD indicator and beta-convergence measure), quantity-based measures and econometric techniques (co-integration test, error correction model based Granger causality test)...

Energy discourse research profoundly influences energy policy, public opinion, and sustainable development. Despite its complexity, this study, using CiteSpace, analyzes the recent progress and hotspots in the field. The results indicate an increasing number of publications, regional...

This paper aims to examine the effect of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance on sovereign funding costs, with a focus on emerging countries, especially in Asia. We find that better ESG performance is associated with lower default risk, and therefore lower funding costs. We...

Global uncertainty and the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly impacted the integration of emerging economies into global financial markets. Post-pandemic, the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes have drawn investor attention to relatively independent and stable currencies. This study...

Amid the faster- and wider-than-expected spread of COVID-19, which has added new twists to the global economic outlook and profoundly impacted the performance of major currencies around the world, the RMB has been performing well, and thus, its market standing has improved. However,...

This paper studied the microstructure evolution of powder in tube (PIT) Nb3Al precursor with significant variation of local Nb layer thickness, which is an ideal system for simulating the inhomogeneous element distribution effect of the long length wire during rapidly heating and quenching...