Pub Date : 2024-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101047
Jie Liu , Zhenshan Chen , Gengyan Lin , Yinglun Zhu
This study investigates the mutual fund timing of geopolitical risk and corresponding economic consequences based on open-end active stock funds data in China from January 2005 to June 2023. Mutual funds are effective at timing geopolitical risks, evidenced by their tendency to reduce market risk exposure before periods of heightened geopolitical risk. We find that geopolitical risk timing is significantly positively associated with fund performance with persistence in mutual funds' geopolitical risk timing abilities. This effect remains robust even after controlling for market, volatility, and liquidity timing of mutual funds. The results suggest that mutual funds with superior geopolitical risk timing attract greater fund inflows, highlighting their positive market value. Fund managers with experience as macro analysts and political connections are more sophisticated in timing geopolitical risk than their counterparts.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-11DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101050
Asror Nigmonov , Syed Shams , Povilas Urbonas
The unprecedented growth of the financial sector's digital transformation opens wide areas to the scaling up of finance in innovative and knowledge-based projects. Improving risk management takes centre stage in the acceleration of this process. This study uses loan-book data from the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market to empirically investigate the determinants of default risk. Using the loan-book database covering the period from 2014 to 2020, we examine multiple factors related to the default risk of loans issued by P2P lending platforms. The results indicate that a higher interest rate and higher stock market returns increase the probability of default in the P2P lending market. Results are robust to additional tests based on endogeneity correction, the LASSO method and sampling bias. The severity of the impact of market returns and interest rates is found to be significantly different based on the levels of financial technology (FinTech) adoption and banking sector distress. Increases in the market interest rate are found to boost the sensitivity of P2P loan defaults to stock market volatility. This study contributes to existing literature on risk management models with its consideration of country-specific factors, paving the way to future best practices in the market.
{"title":"Estimating probability of default via delinquencies? Evidence from European P2P lending market","authors":"Asror Nigmonov , Syed Shams , Povilas Urbonas","doi":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101050","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101050","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The unprecedented growth of the financial sector's digital transformation opens wide areas to the scaling up of finance in innovative and knowledge-based projects. Improving risk management takes centre stage in the acceleration of this process. This study uses loan-book data from the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market to empirically investigate the determinants of default risk. Using the loan-book database covering the period from 2014 to 2020, we examine multiple factors related to the default risk of loans issued by P2P lending platforms. The results indicate that a higher interest rate and higher stock market returns increase the probability of default in the P2P lending market. Results are robust to additional tests based on endogeneity correction, the LASSO method and sampling bias. The severity of the impact of market returns and interest rates is found to be significantly different based on the levels of financial technology (FinTech) adoption and banking sector distress. Increases in the market interest rate are found to boost the sensitivity of P2P loan defaults to stock market volatility. This study contributes to existing literature on risk management models with its consideration of country-specific factors, paving the way to future best practices in the market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46907,"journal":{"name":"Global Finance Journal","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101050"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142441386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Using the deregulation of market entry barriers in China as a quasi-natural experiment, this study examines how increased entry threats affect incumbent firms' risk disclosure. We find that firms respond by increasing their market-related risk disclosures. This effect is stronger among firms facing higher economic uncertainty, lower financial constraints, greater product market competition, and higher information transparency. Mechanism analysis shows that increased risk disclosure weakens the link between deregulation of market entry barriers and new firm entry, suggesting that such disclosures can effectively deter potential competitors. Moreover, while market reactions to market risk disclosures are neutral, they are negative for operational and financial risk disclosures. Our findings suggest that firms strategically disclose market risks to mitigate entry threats, thus enhancing their resilience and adaptability in dynamic markets.
{"title":"Corporate risk disclosure in response to heightened entry threat: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China","authors":"Jingru Wang , Zhuochen Wu , Xinwei Fang , Haoxin Xiu","doi":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101049","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101049","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using the deregulation of market entry barriers in China as a quasi-natural experiment, this study examines how increased entry threats affect incumbent firms' risk disclosure. We find that firms respond by increasing their market-related risk disclosures. This effect is stronger among firms facing higher economic uncertainty, lower financial constraints, greater product market competition, and higher information transparency. Mechanism analysis shows that increased risk disclosure weakens the link between deregulation of market entry barriers and new firm entry, suggesting that such disclosures can effectively deter potential competitors. Moreover, while market reactions to market risk disclosures are neutral, they are negative for operational and financial risk disclosures. Our findings suggest that firms strategically disclose market risks to mitigate entry threats, thus enhancing their resilience and adaptability in dynamic markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46907,"journal":{"name":"Global Finance Journal","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101049"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-05DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101045
Vagner Naysinger Machado , Igor Bernardi Sonza , Wilson Toshiro Nakamura , Johnny Silva Mendes , Marco Aurélio dos Santos
Using a quasi-experimental approach, this study examines the effect of the mandatory disclosure of executive compensation on the performance and liquidity of firms in emerging markets with weak legal protection such as Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Italy, and Spain. The results of the multi-level generalized linear models suggest that executive compensation disclosure positively impacts the accounting performance of firms in countries with weak legal protection. The findings also indicate that regulating such disclosure can help reduce agency problems. However, stricter executive compensation disclosure requirements do not impact market performance, as measured by the market-to-book ratio and Tobin's Q. In addition, there is a negative relationship between the regulation of executive compensation disclosure and the amount of cash retained by firms in countries with legal origins in French civil law.
{"title":"Executive compensation disclosure in emerging markets with weak shareholder enforcement: A multi-level analysis","authors":"Vagner Naysinger Machado , Igor Bernardi Sonza , Wilson Toshiro Nakamura , Johnny Silva Mendes , Marco Aurélio dos Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101045","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101045","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using a quasi-experimental approach, this study examines the effect of the mandatory disclosure of executive compensation on the performance and liquidity of firms in emerging markets with weak legal protection such as Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Italy, and Spain. The results of the multi-level generalized linear models suggest that executive compensation disclosure positively impacts the accounting performance of firms in countries with weak legal protection. The findings also indicate that regulating such disclosure can help reduce agency problems. However, stricter executive compensation disclosure requirements do not impact market performance, as measured by the market-to-book ratio and Tobin's Q. In addition, there is a negative relationship between the regulation of executive compensation disclosure and the amount of cash retained by firms in countries with legal origins in French civil law.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46907,"journal":{"name":"Global Finance Journal","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101045"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525981","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 : 2024-10-03DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101046
Hongjun Zeng , Mohammad Zoynul Abedin , Ran Wu , Abdullahi D. Ahmed
This paper examines the relationship between the US National Financial Conditions Index (NFCI) and the clean energy industry using quantile and frequency connectedness, cross-quantile, and wavelet quantile correlation (WQC) techniques. Results reveal (a) a stronger dependence between the NFCI and clean energy under bullish market states. Moreover, the total connectedness between the NFCI and clean energy mostly exhibits time-varying characteristics. In particular, clean energy has a greater spillover effect than the NFCI. (b) Dynamic frequency total connectedness at extreme quantiles provided a more comprehensive view of structural shocks in financial markets, and major crises, such as COVID-19, significantly amplified this connectedness. Overall, the WilderHill Clean Energy Index and the NASDAQ OMX Renewable Energy Index demonstrate substantial potential for hedging financial conditions. (c) The cross-quantile correlation results revealed an asymmetric dependency, demonstrating a sustained significant positive relationship between the NFCI and clean energy index (CEI) across the relative higher quantiles and middle quantiles. The WQC showed that the NFCI and specific CEIs tended to exhibit the strongest positive correlations in nonextreme quantiles and lower frequencies. These results can be of considerable interest to various financial market participants.
{"title":"Asymmetric dependency among US national financial conditions and clean energy markets","authors":"Hongjun Zeng , Mohammad Zoynul Abedin , Ran Wu , Abdullahi D. Ahmed","doi":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101046","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the relationship between the US National Financial Conditions Index (NFCI) and the clean energy industry using quantile and frequency connectedness, cross-quantile, and wavelet quantile correlation (WQC) techniques. Results reveal (a) a stronger dependence between the NFCI and clean energy under bullish market states. Moreover, the total connectedness between the NFCI and clean energy mostly exhibits time-varying characteristics. In particular, clean energy has a greater spillover effect than the NFCI. (b) Dynamic frequency total connectedness at extreme quantiles provided a more comprehensive view of structural shocks in financial markets, and major crises, such as COVID-19, significantly amplified this connectedness. Overall, the WilderHill Clean Energy Index and the NASDAQ OMX Renewable Energy Index demonstrate substantial potential for hedging financial conditions. (c) The cross-quantile correlation results revealed an asymmetric dependency, demonstrating a sustained significant positive relationship between the NFCI and clean energy index (CEI) across the relative higher quantiles and middle quantiles. The WQC showed that the NFCI and specific CEIs tended to exhibit the strongest positive correlations in nonextreme quantiles and lower frequencies. These results can be of considerable interest to various financial market participants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46907,"journal":{"name":"Global Finance Journal","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101046"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142422740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-28DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101044
Michael D. Noel , Syed M.I. Osman
In the event of a negative reputation shock or scandal, do consumers' anger and mistrust in the scandal-affected products spill over to seemingly unrelated lines of business that the scandal did not directly reach? Our paper looks into Wells Fargo's 2016 “cross-selling” scandal to test the negative sentiment contagion effect on its mortgage business. The study finds significant negative contagion effects, but also shows that Wells Fargo was more accommodating in handling complaints, paying compensation more frequently, and successfully lowering disputes towards zero. These actions are interpreted as Wells Fargo's damage control efforts to ‘Contain the Contagion’.
{"title":"Bank scandal contagion: Evidence from the Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal","authors":"Michael D. Noel , Syed M.I. Osman","doi":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101044","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the event of a negative reputation shock or scandal, do consumers' anger and mistrust in the scandal-affected products spill over to seemingly unrelated lines of business that the scandal did not directly reach? Our paper looks into Wells Fargo's 2016 “cross-selling” scandal to test the negative sentiment contagion effect on its mortgage business. The study finds significant negative contagion effects, but also shows that Wells Fargo was more accommodating in handling complaints, paying compensation more frequently, and successfully lowering disputes towards zero. These actions are interpreted as Wells Fargo's damage control efforts to ‘Contain the Contagion’.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46907,"journal":{"name":"Global Finance Journal","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101044"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142422739","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 : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101043
Abu Chowdhury , Mika Vaihekoski , Mir Zaman
This paper investigates how and why initial public offerings (IPOs) issued on Mondays differ from those on other days. We provide evidence that Monday IPOs make a significantly larger number of filing price amendments during the road show and set offer prices that exceed the filing price range, resulting in higher positive offer price revisions. We also find that Monday IPOs receive less analyst coverage than other-day IPOs, despite their underwriting fees being the same and their total underwriter compensation being higher. Therefore, Monday IPOs are more likely to change lead underwriters in subsequent equity offerings and have a higher risk of delisting as aftermarket support and maintaining good relations with investment banks are critical for their long run survival. We also investigate why underwriters issue IPOs on Mondays. We suggest four possible explanations for Monday IPOs and find indirect evidence that supports the deliberate road show extension explanation.
{"title":"Are Mondays different? Evidence from initial public offerings","authors":"Abu Chowdhury , Mika Vaihekoski , Mir Zaman","doi":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101043","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101043","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates how and why initial public offerings (IPOs) issued on Mondays differ from those on other days. We provide evidence that Monday IPOs make a significantly larger number of filing price amendments during the road show and set offer prices that exceed the filing price range, resulting in higher positive offer price revisions. We also find that Monday IPOs receive less analyst coverage than other-day IPOs, despite their underwriting fees being the same and their total underwriter compensation being higher. Therefore, Monday IPOs are more likely to change lead underwriters in subsequent equity offerings and have a higher risk of delisting as aftermarket support and maintaining good relations with investment banks are critical for their long run survival. We also investigate why underwriters issue IPOs on Mondays. We suggest four possible explanations for Monday IPOs and find indirect evidence that supports the deliberate road show extension explanation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46907,"journal":{"name":"Global Finance Journal","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101043"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101040
Thomas Conlon , Shaen Corbet , Les Oxley
This research investigates the relationship between impending regulatory measures, specifically the introduction of European MiCa regulations, and their influence on cryptocurrency markets. Analysing stock market responses, we highlight significant shifts in liquidity, variance, and return dynamics post-MiCa-related announcements. Specifically, such announcements are associated with significant negative cryptocurrency returns and elevated liquidity. The findings reveal defined heterogeneity across different cryptocurrency sub-classes, each uniquely affected by its inherent attributes and susceptibility to regulatory changes. This work offers insights into the nature of market responses to regulatory intervention, providing an invaluable perspective on the equilibrium between cryptocurrency market behaviour and the evolving European regulatory landscape.
{"title":"The influence of European MiCa regulation on cryptocurrencies","authors":"Thomas Conlon , Shaen Corbet , Les Oxley","doi":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101040","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101040","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research investigates the relationship between impending regulatory measures, specifically the introduction of European MiCa regulations, and their influence on cryptocurrency markets. Analysing stock market responses, we highlight significant shifts in liquidity, variance, and return dynamics post-MiCa-related announcements. Specifically, such announcements are associated with significant negative cryptocurrency returns and elevated liquidity. The findings reveal defined heterogeneity across different cryptocurrency sub-classes, each uniquely affected by its inherent attributes and susceptibility to regulatory changes. This work offers insights into the nature of market responses to regulatory intervention, providing an invaluable perspective on the equilibrium between cryptocurrency market behaviour and the evolving European regulatory landscape.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46907,"journal":{"name":"Global Finance Journal","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101040"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142422738","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 : 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101042
Baizhen Zhang , Jingjing Zhang , Changrun Chen
This study identifies over 220,000 digital invention patent applications for digital invention and creates an index of enterprise-level digital technology innovations. Using an empirical analysis based on a two-way fixed-effects model, this study examines the impact of digital technology innovation on enterprise resilience. Results show that digital technology innovations improve enterprise resilience. This improvement is mainly achieved by reducing internal and external information asymmetry, reducing operating costs, improving management levels and operational efficiency, and increasing market profitability and sustainable earning capacity. Moreover, this study extracted all announcements containing phrases such as “strategic alliance,” “strategic co-operation,” and “business alliance” from 3.208 million announcements on the JUCHAO website and further filtered them to select those strategic alliances in digital technology as their content of collaboration and identified them as digital technology strategic alliances. The findings show that companies that join digital technology strategic alliances have a greater impact on improving enterprise resilience. Furthermore, this study found that digital technology innovation can significantly improve the enterprise resilience with better network infrastructure and a more comprehensive intellectual property protection system. This study expands the research scope of the microlevel effects of the digital economy and provides valuable insights for governments to optimize digital economy policies and enterprises to develop digital innovation strategies.
{"title":"Digital technology innovation and corporate resilience","authors":"Baizhen Zhang , Jingjing Zhang , Changrun Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study identifies over 220,000 digital invention patent applications for digital invention and creates an index of enterprise-level digital technology innovations. Using an empirical analysis based on a two-way fixed-effects model, this study examines the impact of digital technology innovation on enterprise resilience. Results show that digital technology innovations improve enterprise resilience. This improvement is mainly achieved by reducing internal and external information asymmetry, reducing operating costs, improving management levels and operational efficiency, and increasing market profitability and sustainable earning capacity. Moreover, this study extracted all announcements containing phrases such as “strategic alliance,” “strategic co-operation,” and “business alliance” from 3.208 million announcements on the JUCHAO website and further filtered them to select those strategic alliances in digital technology as their content of collaboration and identified them as digital technology strategic alliances. The findings show that companies that join digital technology strategic alliances have a greater impact on improving enterprise resilience. Furthermore, this study found that digital technology innovation can significantly improve the enterprise resilience with better network infrastructure and a more comprehensive intellectual property protection system. This study expands the research scope of the microlevel effects of the digital economy and provides valuable insights for governments to optimize digital economy policies and enterprises to develop digital innovation strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46907,"journal":{"name":"Global Finance Journal","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 101042"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357064","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 : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.101041
Sara Ali , Ihsan Badshah , Riza Demirer , Prasad Hegde , Lavinia Rognone
We extend the burgeoning literature on climate finance by examining the informational role of mutual fund sustainability ratings on the asset allocation decisions by investors when faced with climate risks. Utilizing data on a large sample of equity mutual funds in Australasia (Australia and New Zealand), we find that climate risk plays a significant role on the sensitivity of fund flows to past performance. We find that the sensitivity is stronger for mutual funds that enjoy high sustainability ratings, and we show that the informational value of past performance over subsequent fund flows becomes more important when investors face greater climate risks. We argue that sustainability ratings of managed funds not only complement performance but also help improve the efficiency of asset allocation decisions, more so during a heightened climate risk environment.
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