Journal of Risk Finance: Volume 25 Issue 5

How do green bonds promote common prosperity? Evidence from Chinese prefecture-level cities

Yang Liu, Kangyin Dong, Kun Wang, Xiaowen Fu, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of green bonds on common prosperity in China. Green bonds have gained significant attention as a means to address financial…

Stock price crash risk research: current trends and future directions

Anjali Srivastava, Rima Assaf, Dharen Kumar Pandey, Rahul Kumar

Understanding and mitigating stock price crash risk is vital for investors and regulators to ensure financial market stability. This study aims to unveil significant research…

Why do firms list their shares in the US? The role of political uncertainty

Imen Ghadhab, Hamza Nizar

This paper investigates the effect of political uncertainty on the decision to cross-list in the United States (US).

Examining the impact of market uncertainty on earnings forecasts: an empirical study from Egypt

Rania Pasha, Hayam Wahba, Hadia Y. Lasheen

This paper aims to conduct a comparative analysis of the impact of market uncertainty on the degree of accuracy and bias of analysts' earnings forecasts versus four model-based…

Bitcoin, Fintech stocks and Asian Pacific equity markets: a dependence analysis with implications for portfolio management

Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah, Nader Trabelsi, Aviral Kumar Tiwari, Samia Nasreen

This study aims to provide empirical evidence on the return and volatility spillover structures between Bitcoin, Fintech stocks and Asian-Pacific equity markets over time and…

Banking-as-a-service? American and European G-SIBs performance

Faten Ben Bouheni, Mouwafac Sidaoui, Dima Leshchinskii, Bryan Zaremba, Mousa Albashrawi

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the implementation of digital banking services (mobile applications) by globally systemically important banks (G-SIBs) affects…

The determining factors of demand for life insurance: PLS method applied to the case of OECD and MENA countries

Ines Nasri, Aida Bouzir, Mohamed Hédi Benhadj Mbarek, Saloua Benammou

This article provides a comparative analysis of the relationship between insurance and economic growth in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and…

Investor behavior in crisis: a comparative study of fear-driven downtrends and confidence-led recoveries

Fernando García-Monleón, Elena González-Rodrigo, María-Julia Bordonado-Bermejo

The purpose of this research is to investigate the differences between financial crises of fear and confidence and the differential behavior between downtrends and recovery.