This timely Research Handbook investigates the radically transformative impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), addressing key questions regarding its economic, political and strategic consequences: what does the Chinese government hope to achieve with the BRI? How have recipient states...

"The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, consists of 17 goals which build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and aim to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure peace and prosperity. The 17 goals are interconnected and the success of...

They do so as a strategy for assets expansion. We find that, relative to the control group, U.S. SEO banks increased not only in their capital ratios but also deposits and assets in the years post-SEO. The newly raised funds are invested mainly in retail loans. The overall risk is increased and...

We provide cross-country evidence from microfinance institutions (MFIs) that are Sharia-compliant and their comparisons with non-Sharia-compliant MFIs. We find that, compared with non-Sharia-compliant conventional MFIs, Sharia-compliant Islamic MFIs have less credit risk but are less profitable...

Implied volatility index is a popular proxy for market fear. This paper uses the oil implied volatility index (OVX) to investigate the impact of different uncertainty measures on oil market fear. Our uncertainty measures consider multiple perspectives, specifically including climate policy...