Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.008
Wei Feng , David Spohn , Lianfen Qian , Mohammad Kabir Hassan
This paper examines the determinants of consumer financial anxiety using data from the 2021 National Financial Capability Study (NFCS), which covers the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an ordinal logistic regression, we control for demographic variables and demonstrate that negative events, such as job loss and income reduction, significantly increase financial anxiety, whereas having precautionary savings substantially reduces it. Then, we use a partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) to study the impacts of financial literacy and financial practices on anxiety. Our findings reveal that, whereas financial literacy has a modest direct effect, positive financial behaviors, such as saving and budgeting, play a significantly greater role in alleviating financial anxiety. The empirical lessons from the study and the analytical framework that we propose extend to post-pandemic consumer financial well-being, with important implications for policy, education, and mental health interventions.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-29DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.006
Charilaos Mertzanis , Mohamed Shaker Ahmed , Rouhi Faisal , Reem Ahmed Al Suwaidi
This study examines whether financial literacy influences the adoption of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) across countries. While existing literature emphasizes technological, macroeconomic, and institutional factors, this paper introduces financial literacy as a novel determinant shaping public readiness for sovereign digital money. This work uses a unique panel dataset of 65 nations from 2020 to 2024 and nonlinear models with fixed effects to detect the causal influence, which is backed by instrumental variable estimation, propensity score matching, and robustness tests. Results indicate that higher national financial literacy significantly increases the probability of advancing in CBDC adoption stages. The effect is stronger for knowledge of inflation and risk diversification, buhed t it is moderated by internet infrastructure, financial instability, and cryptocurrency dynamics. The findings underscore the importance of financial capability in driving digital monetary innovation and suggest that enhancing financial literacy should be a strategic component of CBDC design and implementation policies across diverse national contexts.
{"title":"Does financial literacy drive digital currency innovation? cross-country evidence on CBDC adoption","authors":"Charilaos Mertzanis , Mohamed Shaker Ahmed , Rouhi Faisal , Reem Ahmed Al Suwaidi","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines whether financial literacy influences the adoption of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) across countries. While existing literature emphasizes technological, macroeconomic, and institutional factors, this paper introduces financial literacy as a novel determinant shaping public readiness for sovereign digital money. This work uses a unique panel dataset of 65 nations from 2020 to 2024 and nonlinear models with fixed effects to detect the causal influence, which is backed by instrumental variable estimation, propensity score matching, and robustness tests. Results indicate that higher national financial literacy significantly increases the probability of advancing in CBDC adoption stages. The effect is stronger for knowledge of inflation and risk diversification, buhed t it is moderated by internet infrastructure, financial instability, and cryptocurrency dynamics. The findings underscore the importance of financial capability in driving digital monetary innovation and suggest that enhancing financial literacy should be a strategic component of CBDC design and implementation policies across diverse national contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Pages 109-118"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145555431","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}
Building on social cognitive theory (SCT), consumer socialization theory (TCS), and the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study investigates the main factors that influence financial literacy among individual investors in India, an emerging market. A cross-sectional survey of 384 investors, conducted using purposive sampling and a structured questionnaire, assesses their financial behaviors, attitudes, knowledge, and nine demographic and socioeconomic variables. Our logistic regression analysis shows that gender, income, family life-cycle stage, and workplace activity significantly affect financial literacy levels. The TPB constructs, financial knowledge, behavior, and attitude, further support the model, highlighting strong links with higher financial literacy. Unlike previous research, which focuses on general or occupational groups, this study uniquely includes workplace activity as a new predictor and combines TPB with TCS to examine investor-specific dynamics. The results provide theoretical insights and practical guidance for policy makers, financial educators, and service providers seeking to enhance financial literacy among investors in India.
{"title":"Financial literacy antecedents: Testing the social cognitive, consumer socialization, and planned behavior theories with Indian investors","authors":"Sumita Jagdishprasad Shroff , Udai Lal Paliwal , Narayanage Jayantha Dewasiri","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Building on social cognitive theory (SCT), consumer socialization theory (TCS), and the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study investigates the main factors that influence financial literacy among individual investors in India, an emerging market. A cross-sectional survey of 384 investors, conducted using purposive sampling and a structured questionnaire, assesses their financial behaviors, attitudes, knowledge, and nine demographic and socioeconomic variables. Our logistic regression analysis shows that gender, income, family life-cycle stage, and workplace activity significantly affect financial literacy levels. The TPB constructs, financial knowledge, behavior, and attitude, further support the model, highlighting strong links with higher financial literacy. Unlike previous research, which focuses on general or occupational groups, this study uniquely includes workplace activity as a new predictor and combines TPB with TCS to examine investor-specific dynamics. The results provide theoretical insights and practical guidance for policy makers, financial educators, and service providers seeking to enhance financial literacy among investors in India.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Pages 128-136"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145555361","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 : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.07.010
Abdullah Kürşat Merter , Yavuz Selim Balcıoğlu
This study addresses a critical gap in understanding why financial literacy interventions often prove ineffective by examining the role of metacognitive miscalibration in financial decision-making. We investigate how individuals who systematically overestimate their financial knowledge exhibit distinct behavioral patterns that undermine financial outcomes across multiple domains. Drawing on nationally representative data from the 2021 U.S. National Financial Capability Study, we analyzed decision-making patterns among individuals exhibiting financial overconfidence compared to equally knowledgeable peers without such overconfidence. Results demonstrated that overconfident individuals significantly reduce their investment participation, retirement planning, and emergency savings behaviors. Paradoxically, these individuals reported higher financial satisfaction despite objectively poorer outcomes, creating a feedback loop that prevents corrective learning. These findings showed that misjudging one's own financial knowledge was a consistent obstacle to being financially healthy, as it leads to reduces help-seeking behavior and poor risk evaluation, clarifying why regular financial education programs often don't work well.
{"title":"Financial literacy and decision-making: The impact of knowledge gaps on financial outcomes","authors":"Abdullah Kürşat Merter , Yavuz Selim Balcıoğlu","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.07.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.07.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study addresses a critical gap in understanding why financial literacy interventions often prove ineffective by examining the role of metacognitive miscalibration in financial decision-making. We investigate how individuals who systematically overestimate their financial knowledge exhibit distinct behavioral patterns that undermine financial outcomes across multiple domains. Drawing on nationally representative data from the 2021 U.S. National Financial Capability Study, we analyzed decision-making patterns among individuals exhibiting financial overconfidence compared to equally knowledgeable peers without such overconfidence. Results demonstrated that overconfident individuals significantly reduce their investment participation, retirement planning, and emergency savings behaviors. Paradoxically, these individuals reported higher financial satisfaction despite objectively poorer outcomes, creating a feedback loop that prevents corrective learning. These findings showed that misjudging one's own financial knowledge was a consistent obstacle to being financially healthy, as it leads to reduces help-seeking behavior and poor risk evaluation, clarifying why regular financial education programs often don't work well.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Pages 101-108"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145555430","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 : 2025-06-23DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.007
Saddam A. Hazaea , Chun Cai , Saleh F.A. Khatib , Mohammed Hael
This study investigates the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on the cost of capital, using a sample of 406 non-financial companies in the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2023. We examined how ESG performance and audit quality influence the cost of equity (CoE), cost of debt (CoD), and weighted average cost of capital (WACC). The findings reveal a significant negative relationship between ESG performance and all three measures, indicating that strong ESG practices can reduce financing costs. Additionally, higher audit fees are positively associated with WACC and CoE, with a particularly pronounced effect on CoD. Engagement with Big 4 auditors moderates these relationships. Overall, the results demonstrate that ESG performance not only enhances corporate reputation and sustainability but also delivers financial advantages by lowering the cost of capital. These insights have significant implications for corporate financing decisions and provide guidance for managers, investors, policymakers, regulators, and government entities.
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The explosive growth of financial technology (Fintech) has transformed the credit and equity markets, providing small businesses with unprecedented access to capital and driving financial inclusion. However, how this financial inclusion affects the effectiveness of capital allocation remains unclear. Addressing this question, this study examines the impact of Fintech on capital allocation efficiency using data on Fintech firms from Jordan and Palestine between 2010 and 2020. Our central hypothesis is that while Fintech promotes financial inclusion, it may simultaneously lead to capital allocation inefficiencies. To measure the presence of Fintech, we use the number of Fintech firms in Jordan and Palestine. We find a striking pattern: the expansion of Fintech firms is associated reduce resource allocation to more efficient firms, suggesting systemic inefficiencies. Both the industry and corporate levels exhibit this trend. Mechanisms analysis reveals that this effect is driven by increased competition in the lending market and efficient stock swaps. Overall, we highlight how changes induced by Fintech in debt financing are the main cause of these inefficiencies. Our findings offer implications and insights for policymakers and Fintech companies by stressing the dual impacts of Fintech on financial markets in Jordan and Palestine. This underlines the necessity for a balanced approach to integrating Fintech innovations to ensure that the benefits of enhanced financial inclusion do not compromise financial efficiency and capital allocation. This study significantly contributes to the literature by delivering a comprehensive analysis of the intricate dynamics between Fintech, financial inclusion, and capital allocation efficiency in Jordan and Palestine.
{"title":"Impact of FinTech on capital allocation: Empirical evidence from Jordan and Palestine","authors":"Aladeen Hmoud , Fu'ad Magableh , Nemer Badwan , Mohammad Almashaqbeh","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The explosive growth of financial technology (Fintech) has transformed the credit and equity markets, providing small businesses with unprecedented access to capital and driving financial inclusion. However, how this financial inclusion affects the effectiveness of capital allocation remains unclear. Addressing this question, this study examines the impact of Fintech on capital allocation efficiency using data on Fintech firms from Jordan and Palestine between 2010 and 2020. Our central hypothesis is that while Fintech promotes financial inclusion, it may simultaneously lead to capital allocation inefficiencies. To measure the presence of Fintech, we use the number of Fintech firms in Jordan and Palestine. We find a striking pattern: the expansion of Fintech firms is associated reduce resource allocation to more efficient firms, suggesting systemic inefficiencies. Both the industry and corporate levels exhibit this trend. Mechanisms analysis reveals that this effect is driven by increased competition in the lending market and efficient stock swaps. Overall, we highlight how changes induced by Fintech in debt financing are the main cause of these inefficiencies. Our findings offer implications and insights for policymakers and Fintech companies by stressing the dual impacts of Fintech on financial markets in Jordan and Palestine. This underlines the necessity for a balanced approach to integrating Fintech innovations to ensure that the benefits of enhanced financial inclusion do not compromise financial efficiency and capital allocation. This study significantly contributes to the literature by delivering a comprehensive analysis of the intricate dynamics between Fintech, financial inclusion, and capital allocation efficiency in Jordan and Palestine.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 1068-1084"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895730","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 : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.003
Levent Çinko , Abdullah Kürşat Merter , Yavuz Selim Balcıoğlu , Sedat Çerez , Gökhan Alataş
This study examines the impact of financial disclosure timing on the sentiment of corporate reports within an emerging market context. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset covering quarterly reports from all firms listed on Borsa Istanbul between 2018 and 2023, we categorized firms into three groups: firms transitioning disclosures from weekdays to weekends, from weekends to weekdays, and firms maintaining consistent disclosure timing. Utilizing XLNet sentiment analysis on this extensive dataset, we uncovered robust sentiment patterns linked to disclosure timing. Our findings align with investor inattention and strategic disclosure theories, showing that managers prefer weekdays for positive announcements to maximize attention, while relegating negative news to weekends. Moreover, a comparative analysis across pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post-pandemic periods indicated that these disclosure timing effects intensified during the COVID-19 crisis. The study highlights strategic managerial behavior in disclosure timing, providing insights that are likely to be of significance for investors, stakeholders and regulators in emerging markets.
{"title":"Weekdays vs. weekends: How reporting timing influences the sentiment of annual reports","authors":"Levent Çinko , Abdullah Kürşat Merter , Yavuz Selim Balcıoğlu , Sedat Çerez , Gökhan Alataş","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of financial disclosure timing on the sentiment of corporate reports within an emerging market context. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset covering quarterly reports from all firms listed on Borsa Istanbul between 2018 and 2023, we categorized firms into three groups: firms transitioning disclosures from weekdays to weekends, from weekends to weekdays, and firms maintaining consistent disclosure timing. Utilizing XLNet sentiment analysis on this extensive dataset, we uncovered robust sentiment patterns linked to disclosure timing. Our findings align with investor inattention and strategic disclosure theories, showing that managers prefer weekdays for positive announcements to maximize attention, while relegating negative news to weekends. Moreover, a comparative analysis across pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post-pandemic periods indicated that these disclosure timing effects intensified during the COVID-19 crisis. The study highlights strategic managerial behavior in disclosure timing, providing insights that are likely to be of significance for investors, stakeholders and regulators in emerging markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 1052-1067"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895717","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 : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.005
Abdullah Alsaadi
This study investigates the interplay between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm leverage as determinants of earnings management in Saudi Arabia, a context shaped by Islamic principles and evolving corporate governance norms. Using a dataset for Saudi listed firms between 2017 and 2022, this study finds that although CSR engagement is associated with higher earnings management, suggesting strategic, rather than purely ethical motivations, low leverage is linked to lower earnings manipulation, highlighting the mitigating role of financial pressure. The interaction between CSR and leverage is negatively correlated with earnings management, indicating that these factors jointly strengthen ethical and religious imperatives in shaping financial behavior. The findings contribute to the literature by providing empirical evidence on the dual impact of CSR and leverage on earnings management. It reveals that cultural frameworks can function as informal regulatory mechanisms, reducing earnings manipulation. This research has implications for policy makers and investors seeking to align corporate governance with ethical and religious principles, emphasizing the need to consider the interplay of CSR and leverage in promoting financial reporting quality.
{"title":"Corporate social responsibility, financial leverage, and earnings management: Evidence from an emerging market","authors":"Abdullah Alsaadi","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the interplay between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm leverage as determinants of earnings management in Saudi Arabia, a context shaped by Islamic principles and evolving corporate governance norms. Using a dataset for Saudi listed firms between 2017 and 2022, this study finds that although CSR engagement is associated with higher earnings management, suggesting strategic, rather than purely ethical motivations, low leverage is linked to lower earnings manipulation, highlighting the mitigating role of financial pressure. The interaction between CSR and leverage is negatively correlated with earnings management, indicating that these factors jointly strengthen ethical and religious imperatives in shaping financial behavior. The findings contribute to the literature by providing empirical evidence on the dual impact of CSR and leverage on earnings management. It reveals that cultural frameworks can function as informal regulatory mechanisms, reducing earnings manipulation. This research has implications for policy makers and investors seeking to align corporate governance with ethical and religious principles, emphasizing the need to consider the interplay of CSR and leverage in promoting financial reporting quality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 1038-1051"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895716","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 : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.002
Burak Dogan
This study evaluates how the current Israel boycotts affect Borsa Istanbul. An event study in a 45-day window around October 7, 2023 tests abnormal returns for a value-weighted portfolio of 22 boycotted firms using four models (Market, Market-Return, Constant-Mean, CAPM). All detect a clear one-day price hit, though magnitudes vary. For longer horizons we re-create the BIST 30, BIST 100 and Participation 30 indices without the boycotted stocks and follow them to December 31, 2024. Sharpe, Sortino, Treynor and Jensen metrics drift modestly higher, and the revised indices edge ahead in cumulative return, but significance tests give mixed signals. Overall, boycott targets suffer a short-run valuation loss, while indices that exclude them record slightly better risk-adjusted performance over the next year.
{"title":"Examining the financial effects of boycotting Israel: Event-study and modern portfolio theory approaches with data from Borsa Istanbul","authors":"Burak Dogan","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study evaluates how the current Israel boycotts affect Borsa Istanbul. An event study in a 45-day window around October 7, 2023 tests abnormal returns for a value-weighted portfolio of 22 boycotted firms using four models (Market, Market-Return, Constant-Mean, CAPM). All detect a clear one-day price hit, though magnitudes vary. For longer horizons we re-create the BIST 30, BIST 100 and Participation 30 indices without the boycotted stocks and follow them to December 31, 2024. Sharpe, Sortino, Treynor and Jensen metrics drift modestly higher, and the revised indices edge ahead in cumulative return, but significance tests give mixed signals. Overall, boycott targets suffer a short-run valuation loss, while indices that exclude them record slightly better risk-adjusted performance over the next year.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 1026-1037"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895714","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 : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.001
Chengxing Xie , Liang Wu , Zhijie Tong
This study examines how carbon price uncertainty (CPU) in China's regional carbon markets shapes firms' green investment (GI) decisions, addressing a critical gap in empirical and regional research. Using granular data from eight Chinese regional carbon markets and listed firms' green expenditure records, we demonstrate that rising CPU accelerates GI commitments. It indicates that, contrary to the traditional ‘wait-and-see’ approach posited by real options theory, firms actively hedge against market-induced climate risks rather than deferring investments. This effect is amplified for firms facing lower financing constraints, operating in low-carbon industries, or located in regions with advanced green financial infrastructure. Robustness checks and instrumental variable analysis validate these results. Our analysis further establishes that internal active carbon management and external green investor participation constitute dual transmission channels through which CPU stimulates firms' commitment to financing green initiatives.
{"title":"Do firms defer or accelerate green investment under carbon price uncertainty?","authors":"Chengxing Xie , Liang Wu , Zhijie Tong","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how carbon price uncertainty (CPU) in China's regional carbon markets shapes firms' green investment (GI) decisions, addressing a critical gap in empirical and regional research. Using granular data from eight Chinese regional carbon markets and listed firms' green expenditure records, we demonstrate that rising CPU accelerates GI commitments. It indicates that, contrary to the traditional ‘wait-and-see’ approach posited by real options theory, firms actively hedge against market-induced climate risks rather than deferring investments. This effect is amplified for firms facing lower financing constraints, operating in low-carbon industries, or located in regions with advanced green financial infrastructure. Robustness checks and instrumental variable analysis validate these results. Our analysis further establishes that internal active carbon management and external green investor participation constitute dual transmission channels through which CPU stimulates firms' commitment to financing green initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 4","pages":"Pages 824-837"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144480237","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}