Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to check the impact of female directors on the board and foreign institutional investors on earnings manipulation. Design/methodology/approach: The data sample includes Chinese listed companies on the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges. The data are...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the return and volatility transmission among economic policy uncertainty (EPU), geopolitical risk (GPR), their interaction (EPGR) and five tradable precious metals: gold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium. Design/methodology/approach Applying time-varying...

The impact of countries' levels of financial sector development in influencing innovation and environmental quality cannot be overemphasized. However, studies on the tripartite relationships among financial sector development-innovation-environmental quality have produced mixed results,...

Studies on the tripartite nexuses among information and communication technology (ICT), financial development (FD), and banking sector efficiency have largely produced mixed findings. More importantly, how countries' levels of ICT advancement moderate FD-banks efficiency interlinkages need to be...