Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.100775
Qing Liu , Yanfeng Liu , Hosung Son
This study introduces the concept of “investor sentiment slices” to capture distinct emotional patterns within a single trading day. Using 4.41 million social media posts and natural language processing, we construct high-frequency sentiment indices representing four emotional states: adaptation, anchoring, process, and dormant sentiment. Regression analyses reveal that anchoring and process sentiments drive stock price movements by signaling market expectations, while adaptation and dormant sentiments reflect emotional buffering and accumulation. Importantly, the effects of these sentiment slices vary with market conditions: in pessimistic markets, investor behavior is dominated by emotionally anchored judgments, whereas in recovering markets, process sentiment becomes more influential, supporting rational integration of information. This temporally structured framework connects psychological theory with behavioral finance, showing how intraday sentiment dynamics affect trading and price formation. Our findings offer new insights into the sequential, condition-dependent nature of investor emotions and their role in shaping market behavior throughout the trading day.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.100773
Zhiquan Shao , Bo Yu
Building on a framework in which firms are interconnected through fire-sale spillover mechanisms, we argue that strong ESG performance acts as a protective buffer for firms with weak financial performance against stock price declines. This reduces the dispersion of asset returns, thereby reducing cross-firm heterogeneity and inadvertently strengthening systemic linkages. To empirically examine how ESG performance reshapes systemic risk, we develop a novel network-based granular instrumental variable (GIV) that weights rating shocks by agency centrality to address endogeneity concerns. Consistent with theoretical predictions, our empirical results reveal that while superior ESG performance significantly mitigates individual tail risk, it simultaneously intensifies systemic linkages among firms. These effects are amplified when the information environment enhances the perceived credibility of ESG signals. Our findings illuminate the dual nature of ESG in systemic risk dynamics: while providing firm-level protection, ESG performance may inadvertently amplify system-wide fragility through enhanced interconnectedness.
{"title":"From synchronicity to fragility: How corporate ESG performance reshapes systemic risk","authors":"Zhiquan Shao , Bo Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.100773","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.100773","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Building on a framework in which firms are interconnected through fire-sale spillover mechanisms, we argue that strong ESG performance acts as a protective buffer for firms with weak financial performance against stock price declines. This reduces the dispersion of asset returns, thereby reducing cross-firm heterogeneity and inadvertently strengthening systemic linkages. To empirically examine how ESG performance reshapes systemic risk, we develop a novel network-based granular instrumental variable (GIV) that weights rating shocks by agency centrality to address endogeneity concerns. Consistent with theoretical predictions, our empirical results reveal that while superior ESG performance significantly mitigates individual tail risk, it simultaneously intensifies systemic linkages among firms. These effects are amplified when the information environment enhances the perceived credibility of ESG signals. Our findings illuminate the dual nature of ESG in systemic risk dynamics: while providing firm-level protection, ESG performance may inadvertently amplify system-wide fragility through enhanced interconnectedness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 100773"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147418337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-04DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2026.100788
Fariha Jahan, Doojin Ryu
This study examines how geographic proximity shapes the impact of geopolitical risk on the cash-holding behavior of Korean firms. Geopolitical risks in proximate partner countries induce stronger precautionary cash responses than comparable domestic shocks. Geopolitical risks associated with inter-Korean relations also influence firms' liquidity decisions, even in the presence of limited and episodic economic integration. The semiconductor industry exhibits heightened sensitivity to foreign geopolitical risks, although the effects are not uniform across industries. Larger firms and firms with higher foreign ownership tend to hold lower cash reserves. Geopolitical risks in strategically and economically critical proximate countries emerge as a driver of firms' liquidity policies, underscoring the importance of regional risk monitoring, governance quality, and targeted financial mechanisms for exposed industries.
{"title":"Geopolitical risk, proximity, and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from Korea","authors":"Fariha Jahan, Doojin Ryu","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2026.100788","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2026.100788","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how geographic proximity shapes the impact of geopolitical risk on the cash-holding behavior of Korean firms. Geopolitical risks in proximate partner countries induce stronger precautionary cash responses than comparable domestic shocks. Geopolitical risks associated with inter-Korean relations also influence firms' liquidity decisions, even in the presence of limited and episodic economic integration. The semiconductor industry exhibits heightened sensitivity to foreign geopolitical risks, although the effects are not uniform across industries. Larger firms and firms with higher foreign ownership tend to hold lower cash reserves. Geopolitical risks in strategically and economically critical proximate countries emerge as a driver of firms' liquidity policies, underscoring the importance of regional risk monitoring, governance quality, and targeted financial mechanisms for exposed industries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 100788"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147418418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-04DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2026.100783
Murat Yaş
This study examines how Islamic religiosity influences equity crowdfunding success through messages on crowdfunding platforms in Türkiye, which lacks a sharia governance framework for financial technology (fintech). As the first empirical analysis of the role of Islamic religiosity in equity crowdfunding performance, it contributes to the literature. Using data from 95 crowdfunding campaigns conducted between 2021 and 2024 (79 Islamic and 16 conventional), we show that Islamic labeling and messaging affect campaign outcomes. Our findings reveal that Islamic equity crowdfunding campaigns attract 37.1 percent higher funding and 11.7 percent more investors, with higher success rates, than campaigns by their conventional counterparts. Explicit signals of sharia compliance though messaging enhance crowdfunding performance, as the volume of these messages is positively correlated with funding outcomes. The study demonstrates that religious signaling reduces information asymmetry and builds trust among faith-driven investors, providing crucial insights for platforms that operate in markets without a formal Islamic finance framework.
{"title":"Religious investors and equity crowdfunding success","authors":"Murat Yaş","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2026.100783","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2026.100783","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how Islamic religiosity influences equity crowdfunding success through messages on crowdfunding platforms in Türkiye, which lacks a sharia governance framework for financial technology (fintech). As the first empirical analysis of the role of Islamic religiosity in equity crowdfunding performance, it contributes to the literature. Using data from 95 crowdfunding campaigns conducted between 2021 and 2024 (79 Islamic and 16 conventional), we show that Islamic labeling and messaging affect campaign outcomes. Our findings reveal that Islamic equity crowdfunding campaigns attract 37.1 percent higher funding and 11.7 percent more investors, with higher success rates, than campaigns by their conventional counterparts. Explicit signals of sharia compliance though messaging enhance crowdfunding performance, as the volume of these messages is positively correlated with funding outcomes. The study demonstrates that religious signaling reduces information asymmetry and builds trust among faith-driven investors, providing crucial insights for platforms that operate in markets without a formal Islamic finance framework.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 100783"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147418419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-05DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2026.100785
Wenwen Jin
While firm financing constraints have been widely studied, limited attention has been paid to credit self-rationing. Based on the imprinting hypothesis and firm-level data from 30 countries, this study finds that informal experience significantly increases the likelihood of avoiding formal credit. This effect operates via structural and behavioral imprints shaped by early institutional exposure. Specifically, structural informality and weakened compliance behaviors strengthen credit self-rationing, whereas no evidence exists that cognitive imprints operate as an effective mediating channel. The effect of informal experience is more pronounced among non-female-led firms and firms operating in countries with weaker business environments. Moreover, the effect is most pronounced among firms facing severe financing obstacles, suggesting that avoidance motives outweigh optimization motives. The study provides demand-side evidence on the developmental origins of financing behavior in emerging and developing economies and offers implications for improving financial inclusion.
{"title":"Choosing not to borrow: Imprinting effects of informality on firms’ credit self-rationing","authors":"Wenwen Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2026.100785","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2026.100785","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While firm financing constraints have been widely studied, limited attention has been paid to credit self-rationing. Based on the imprinting hypothesis and firm-level data from 30 countries, this study finds that informal experience significantly increases the likelihood of avoiding formal credit. This effect operates via structural and behavioral imprints shaped by early institutional exposure. Specifically, structural informality and weakened compliance behaviors strengthen credit self-rationing, whereas no evidence exists that cognitive imprints operate as an effective mediating channel. The effect of informal experience is more pronounced among non-female-led firms and firms operating in countries with weaker business environments. Moreover, the effect is most pronounced among firms facing severe financing obstacles, suggesting that avoidance motives outweigh optimization motives. The study provides demand-side evidence on the developmental origins of financing behavior in emerging and developing economies and offers implications for improving financial inclusion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 100785"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147418414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.100774
Emel Akbal , Irfan Civcir
This study investigates the asymmetric effects of capital flows and Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads on the US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate employing the Nonlinear Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) methodology. We used a Turkish monthly dataset covering the period from 2003 to 2022. The findings indicate that capital flows exert an asymmetric impact on the exchange rate under investigation. Capital inflows and outflows exhibit notable significance in both the long and short run. Capital outflows exert a more significant impact on the exchange rate than capital inflows. Furthermore, in the long run, both capital inflows and outflows have a greater effect on the US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate than in the short term. The results also indicate that both in short-term and long-term the CDS spreads play a notably effective role in determining exchange rates.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.100780
Zhenjun Li, Zulong Su, Lijun Wei
This study examines whether insider trading is politically informative and presents some evidence to hedge against firm-level political risk. Using quarterly data on U.S. listed firms from 2002 to 2021, we find that managers increase opportunistic insider sales prior to rises in firm-level political risk, while insider purchases show no significant change. Moreover, net opportunistic insider sales are positively associated with subsequent increases in a firm's political risk. These effects are more pronounced in firms with limited political connections, weaker innovation capability, and higher financial leverage, suggesting that political ties, innovation capability, and a sound financial structure serve as effective buffers against political risk. Our main results withstand a battery of robustness and endogeneity tests. Overall, our findings suggest that insider trading is politically informative, offering valuable insights for academics, regulators, and investors in interpreting such activities.
{"title":"Is insider trading politically informative?","authors":"Zhenjun Li, Zulong Su, Lijun Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.100780","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.100780","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines whether insider trading is politically informative and presents some evidence to hedge against firm-level political risk. Using quarterly data on U.S. listed firms from 2002 to 2021, we find that managers increase opportunistic insider sales prior to rises in firm-level political risk, while insider purchases show no significant change. Moreover, net opportunistic insider sales are positively associated with subsequent increases in a firm's political risk. These effects are more pronounced in firms with limited political connections, weaker innovation capability, and higher financial leverage, suggesting that political ties, innovation capability, and a sound financial structure serve as effective buffers against political risk. Our main results withstand a battery of robustness and endogeneity tests. Overall, our findings suggest that insider trading is politically informative, offering valuable insights for academics, regulators, and investors in interpreting such activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 100780"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147418422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-04DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2026.100787
Habib Hussain Khan, Shoaib Khan, Tahir Akhtar, Ayesha Anwar, Mohammad Rais Ahmad
This study investigates the impact of the fintech environment on gender disparities in financial inclusion across 31 countries from 2013 to 2023. Utilizing gender-disaggregated data from the IMF Financial Access Survey (FAS), we construct a fintech environment index comprising five sub-indices that measure technological and institutional readiness for digital finance. We also develop a comprehensive gender disparity index based on weighted gaps across five key dimensions of financial inclusion. The empirical analysis also incorporates a range of gender-specific and macro-level country variables, including female literacy rates, female labor force participation rates, female unemployment rates, income levels, access to the internet and electricity, mobile subscriptions, and institutional quality. Our findings consistently demonstrate that a robust fintech environment significantly narrows the gender gap in financial inclusion. Higher female literacy and labor force participation further reduce disparities, whereas female unemployment and gender inequality widen the gap. Additional enabling factors, such as improved income levels, digital and financial infrastructure, and strong institutional quality, also help reduce disparities. These results remain consistent across alternative estimation methods (IV regression) and across subgroups defined by income levels, gender disparity levels, and geographical divisions.
{"title":"Fintech environment and gender disparity in financial Inclusion: Empirical evidence from emerging markets","authors":"Habib Hussain Khan, Shoaib Khan, Tahir Akhtar, Ayesha Anwar, Mohammad Rais Ahmad","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2026.100787","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2026.100787","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the impact of the fintech environment on gender disparities in financial inclusion across 31 countries from 2013 to 2023. Utilizing gender-disaggregated data from the IMF Financial Access Survey (FAS), we construct a fintech environment index comprising five sub-indices that measure technological and institutional readiness for digital finance. We also develop a comprehensive gender disparity index based on weighted gaps across five key dimensions of financial inclusion. The empirical analysis also incorporates a range of gender-specific and macro-level country variables, including female literacy rates, female labor force participation rates, female unemployment rates, income levels, access to the internet and electricity, mobile subscriptions, and institutional quality. Our findings consistently demonstrate that a robust fintech environment significantly narrows the gender gap in financial inclusion. Higher female literacy and labor force participation further reduce disparities, whereas female unemployment and gender inequality widen the gap. Additional enabling factors, such as improved income levels, digital and financial infrastructure, and strong institutional quality, also help reduce disparities. These results remain consistent across alternative estimation methods (IV regression) and across subgroups defined by income levels, gender disparity levels, and geographical divisions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 100787"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147418420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-04DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2026.100784
Laila Aladwey
This study investigates how the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) influences unethical financial practices—bribery, corruption, fraud (BCF), and tax avoidance—in the Saudi financial sector, with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance as a mediating factor. Employing the causal mediation framework of Imai et al. (2010a, Imai, Keele, & Yamamoto, 2010) and Tingley et al. (2014), the analysis uses generalized linear models (GLMs) for BCF, ordinary least squares (OLS) for tax avoidance, and a 5000-replication bootstrap procedure to enhance inferential robustness. The results reveal partial mediation: while AI adoption is associated with lower ESG performance, higher ESG scores partially mitigate AI's positive association with unethical practices. This finding implies that although ESG frameworks are effective in attenuating some of AI's adverse ethical impacts, they are insufficient alone to prevent misconduct. The findings underscore AI's dual role as a driver of ethical vulnerabilities in the absence of adequate oversight and a catalyst for improved governance when aligned with strong ESG principles. The study extends agency and stakeholder theories by illustrating how ESG serves simultaneously as a governance mechanism to reduce information asymmetry and as a legitimacy instrument to reinforce stakeholder trust in an AI-driven financial ecosystem.
{"title":"Artificial intelligence and unethical financial practices: Examining the mediating role of environmental; social; and governance (ESG) performance in the Saudi financial sector","authors":"Laila Aladwey","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2026.100784","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2026.100784","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) influences unethical financial practices—bribery, corruption, fraud (BCF), and tax avoidance—in the Saudi financial sector, with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance as a mediating factor. Employing the causal mediation framework of Imai et al. (2010a, Imai, Keele, & Yamamoto, 2010) and Tingley et al. (2014), the analysis uses generalized linear models (GLMs) for BCF, ordinary least squares (OLS) for tax avoidance, and a 5000-replication bootstrap procedure to enhance inferential robustness. The results reveal partial mediation: while AI adoption is associated with lower ESG performance, higher ESG scores partially mitigate AI's positive association with unethical practices. This finding implies that although ESG frameworks are effective in attenuating some of AI's adverse ethical impacts, they are insufficient alone to prevent misconduct. The findings underscore AI's dual role as a driver of ethical vulnerabilities in the absence of adequate oversight and a catalyst for improved governance when aligned with strong ESG principles. The study extends agency and stakeholder theories by illustrating how ESG serves simultaneously as a governance mechanism to reduce information asymmetry and as a legitimacy instrument to reinforce stakeholder trust in an AI-driven financial ecosystem.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"26 2","pages":"Article 100784"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147418421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-07DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.100769
Mingzhu Zhu, Xuyang Ma
In an increasingly complex international economic environment, preventing systemic risk requires attention to both domestic conditions and the spillover effects from global financial shocks. This study examines 42 economies to explore the global financial cycle's impact on systemic risk and its transmission mechanisms. The findings reveal that: (1) A downturn in the cycle may increase systemic risk. (2) The impact is stronger in economies with lower financial development, more open capital accounts, and less flexible exchange rate regimes. (3) The cycle induces systemic risk by reducing cross-border capital inflows and amplifying commodity price volatility, with capital flows into the banking sector identified as a key transmission channel. (4) Macroprudential measures mitigate the adverse effects of the global financial cycle on systemic risk, with institution-targeted instruments demonstrating strong effectiveness.
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