Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101396
Yulin Wang , Xueying Zhang , Thomas Walker , Gerrit Liedtke
This paper examines the impact of institutional ownership on the bond yield spreads of publicly traded Chinese firms. Our research results show the presence of a U-shaped, non-linear relationship between the shareholdings of institutional investors and bond yield spreads. Heterogeneity tests reveal differences in the impact of institutional ownership on yield spreads among different types of institutional investors and for firms in which members of the central government stabilization fund, commonly referred to as “national team” institutions, hold shares. Further tests indicate that corporate governance levels and firm performance serve as channels through which institutional shareholders affect bond yield spreads.
{"title":"Institutional ownership and bond pricing: Evidence from China","authors":"Yulin Wang , Xueying Zhang , Thomas Walker , Gerrit Liedtke","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101396","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101396","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the impact of institutional ownership on the bond yield spreads of publicly traded Chinese firms. Our research results show the presence of a U-shaped, non-linear relationship between the shareholdings of institutional investors and bond yield spreads. Heterogeneity tests reveal differences in the impact of institutional ownership on yield spreads among different types of institutional investors and for firms in which members of the central government stabilization fund, commonly referred to as “national team” institutions, hold shares. Further tests indicate that corporate governance levels and firm performance serve as channels through which institutional shareholders affect bond yield spreads.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101396"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145467850","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101394
Yiyao Chen , Fuwei Jiang , Huajing Zhang
We explore the role of central bank communication on green finance policy in shaping pollution premium in the Chinese stock market. To measure the focus of central bank on green development, we construct a green communication index using monetary policy implementation reports based on text analysis. We find that central bank green communication increases expected returns for highly-polluting firms. This conclusion remains valid after a series of robustness tests. Mechanism analysis reveals that central bank green communication increases polluting firms' risk exposure, tightens commercial banks' lending restrictions, and shifts investors' green preferences. Heterogeneous analysis shows that the effect is more pronounced for high-profit and low-ESG stocks. Overall, our findings indicate a positive role of central banks in enhancing the extent to which financial markets price pollution risk through central bank green communication.
{"title":"Central bank green communication and pollution premium: Evidence from China","authors":"Yiyao Chen , Fuwei Jiang , Huajing Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101394","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101394","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We explore the role of central bank communication on green finance policy in shaping pollution premium in the Chinese stock market. To measure the focus of central bank on green development, we construct a green communication index using monetary policy implementation reports based on text analysis. We find that central bank green communication increases expected returns for highly-polluting firms. This conclusion remains valid after a series of robustness tests. Mechanism analysis reveals that central bank green communication increases polluting firms' risk exposure, tightens commercial banks' lending restrictions, and shifts investors' green preferences. Heterogeneous analysis shows that the effect is more pronounced for high-profit and low-ESG stocks. Overall, our findings indicate a positive role of central banks in enhancing the extent to which financial markets price pollution risk through central bank green communication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101394"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145419440","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101404
Nanyan Dong, Jiang Zhang, Xiangbing Xu, Peiyu Ou
Using a staggered difference-in-differences approach, we find that the establishment of circuit tribunals significantly increases corporate labor investment by improving the financing environment and promoting innovation. The effect is more pronounced in provinces with lower levels of marketization and weaker legal institutions, as well as in labor-intensive industries, state-owned enterprises, and financially constrained non-state enterprises. Additionally, circuit tribunals also enhance firm valuation, with no evidence of adverse effects on labor share or labor investment efficiency. Our study highlights the institutional role of judicial independence in supporting corporate hiring, contributing to the literature on judicial reform and labor investment in emerging markets.
{"title":"Judicial Independence and corporate labor investment: Evidence from China","authors":"Nanyan Dong, Jiang Zhang, Xiangbing Xu, Peiyu Ou","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101404","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using a staggered difference-in-differences approach, we find that the establishment of circuit tribunals significantly increases corporate labor investment by improving the financing environment and promoting innovation. The effect is more pronounced in provinces with lower levels of marketization and weaker legal institutions, as well as in labor-intensive industries, state-owned enterprises, and financially constrained non-state enterprises. Additionally, circuit tribunals also enhance firm valuation, with no evidence of adverse effects on labor share or labor investment efficiency. Our study highlights the institutional role of judicial independence in supporting corporate hiring, contributing to the literature on judicial reform and labor investment in emerging markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101404"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614713","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 : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101413
Yuan Chen , Xiaogang He
Marriage can profoundly shape a chairperson's risk preferences and managerial capabilities. Drawing on social network theory and the theory of diversity cascades across organizational hierarchies, we investigate the impact of intra-country migrant marriage on family firms' research and development (R&D) investment. Analyzing panel data from Chinese family firms spanning 2008 to 2020 reveals that intra-country migrant marriage significantly increases R&D investment. However, this effect weakens under high market and policy uncertainties. Mechanism analysis supports both a direct effect through expanded social networks and an indirect effect via top management team diversity. Heterogeneity analysis further reveals that the effect weakens only when the chairperson's blood relatives are involved in the firm's management or in regions with well-developed labor markets, whereas it is more pronounced in regions characterized by advanced technology markets.
{"title":"Chairperson's intra-country migrant marriage and corporate R&D investment: Evidence from Chinese family firms","authors":"Yuan Chen , Xiaogang He","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101413","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101413","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Marriage can profoundly shape a chairperson's risk preferences and managerial capabilities. Drawing on social network theory and the theory of diversity cascades across organizational hierarchies, we investigate the impact of intra-country migrant marriage on family firms' research and development (R&D) investment. Analyzing panel data from Chinese family firms spanning 2008 to 2020 reveals that intra-country migrant marriage significantly increases R&D investment. However, this effect weakens under high market and policy uncertainties. Mechanism analysis supports both a direct effect through expanded social networks and an indirect effect via top management team diversity. Heterogeneity analysis further reveals that the effect weakens only when the chairperson's blood relatives are involved in the firm's management or in regions with well-developed labor markets, whereas it is more pronounced in regions characterized by advanced technology markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 101413"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614710","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 : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101344
Mohammed Adem
This study examines the nonlinear impact of financial regulation on stability by considering financial development and business models. Using African countries' data (2002–2019) and two-stage instrumental variable (2SIV) estimation, I find that excessive regulation beyond a certain threshold harms stability. Increasing non-interest income business models can improve the effectiveness of financial regulations and development by strengthening stability. Powerful supervision, restrictions, and entry barriers contribute to instability. Non-interest income business models can reduce the negative impact of supervision and market discipline. The past values of financial regulation, non-interest income business models, and development contain information that helps predict stability.
{"title":"Intricacies of financial liberalization, business models, and financial development on Bank stability in Africa","authors":"Mohammed Adem","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101344","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101344","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the nonlinear impact of financial regulation on stability by considering financial development and business models. Using African countries' data (2002–2019) and two-stage instrumental variable (2SIV) estimation, I find that excessive regulation beyond a certain threshold harms stability. Increasing non-interest income business models can improve the effectiveness of financial regulations and development by strengthening stability. Powerful supervision, restrictions, and entry barriers contribute to instability. Non-interest income business models can reduce the negative impact of supervision and market discipline. The past values of financial regulation, non-interest income business models, and development contain information that helps predict stability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101344"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144772863","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 : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-09-21DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101371
Xiaozhen Pan, Sabahati Aimaiti
This study empirically tests the effect of actual controllers with foreign residency rights on corporate tax avoidance using a sample of A-share private listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2013 to 2022. The results show that actual controllers with foreign residency rights increase corporate tax avoidance. Specifically, this occurs only under conditions of high tax collection intensity, low media attention, concurrent executive positions, and indirect shareholding. Further research shows that actual controllers with foreign residency rights increase the enterprise's information asymmetry and financing constraints.
{"title":"Actual controllers with foreign residency rights and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from private listed companies in China","authors":"Xiaozhen Pan, Sabahati Aimaiti","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101371","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101371","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study empirically tests the effect of actual controllers with foreign residency rights on corporate tax avoidance using a sample of A-share private listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2013 to 2022. The results show that actual controllers with foreign residency rights increase corporate tax avoidance. Specifically, this occurs only under conditions of high tax collection intensity, low media attention, concurrent executive positions, and indirect shareholding. Further research shows that actual controllers with foreign residency rights increase the enterprise's information asymmetry and financing constraints.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101371"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145108777","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 : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-08-17DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101355
Longmei Zhang , Ray Brooks , Ding Ding , Haiyan Ding , Hui He , Jing Lu , Rui C. Mano
China's national savings rate—one of the highest in the world—is at the heart of its internal/external imbalances. High savings finance elevated investment when held domestically, or led to large global imbalances when they flowed abroad. We find that high savings emanate mostly from the household sector, resulting from demographic changes induced by the one-child policy and the transformation of the social safety net and job security that occurred during the transition from centrally planned to market economy. Housing reform and rising income inequality also contributed to higher savings. Moving forward, demographic changes will put downward pressure on savings. Policy efforts in strengthening the social safety net and reducing income inequality are also needed to reduce savings further and boost consumption.
{"title":"China's high savings: Drivers, prospects, and policy implications","authors":"Longmei Zhang , Ray Brooks , Ding Ding , Haiyan Ding , Hui He , Jing Lu , Rui C. Mano","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101355","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101355","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China's national savings rate—one of the highest in the world—is at the heart of its internal/external imbalances. High savings finance elevated investment when held domestically, or led to large global imbalances when they flowed abroad. We find that high savings emanate mostly from the household sector, resulting from demographic changes induced by the one-child policy and the transformation of the social safety net and job security that occurred during the transition from centrally planned to market economy. Housing reform and rising income inequality also contributed to higher savings. Moving forward, demographic changes will put downward pressure on savings. Policy efforts in strengthening the social safety net and reducing income inequality are also needed to reduce savings further and boost consumption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101355"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144889368","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 : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-09-23DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101373
Harshit Kumar Sharma , Wasim Ahmad
Under a dynamic multivariate set-up with time-varying probabilities, we show that the Indian financial network exhibits a high degree of interconnectedness during crisis periods with banks as emitters and NBFCs as receivers of shocks. The structure of systemic risk is endogenous in nature due to the regulations and operational coverage. The dynamic interplay between systemic risk and network connectedness suggests that a sudden rise in systemic risk results in a significant increase in total connectedness, while a connectedness shock has a significant and short-term effect on systemic risk. At the institutional level, a shock to an institution's systemic risk contribution has a long-term impact on its net connectedness, while an unexpected rise in an institution's net connectedness has a persistent and decaying effect on its systemic risk contribution. The learnings are extremely helpful for regulators and banking sector investors.
{"title":"Interconnectedness and systemic risk in financial networks: Fresh evidence from India","authors":"Harshit Kumar Sharma , Wasim Ahmad","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101373","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101373","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Under a dynamic multivariate set-up with time-varying probabilities, we show that the Indian financial network exhibits a high degree of interconnectedness during crisis periods with banks as emitters and NBFCs as receivers of shocks. The structure of systemic risk is endogenous in nature due to the regulations and operational coverage. The dynamic interplay between systemic risk and network connectedness suggests that a sudden rise in systemic risk results in a significant increase in total connectedness, while a connectedness shock has a significant and short-term effect on systemic risk. At the institutional level, a shock to an institution's systemic risk contribution has a long-term impact on its net connectedness, while an unexpected rise in an institution's net connectedness has a persistent and decaying effect on its systemic risk contribution. The learnings are extremely helpful for regulators and banking sector investors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101373"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145219988","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 : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101338
Adrian Alter, Bashar Hlayhel, Thomas Kroen, Thomas Piontek
This paper assesses the state and resilience of corporate and banking sectors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in a “higher-for-longer” interest rate environment using granular micro data to conduct the first cross-country corporate and banking sector stress tests for the MENA region. The results suggest that corporate sector debt at risk may increase sizably from 13.5 in 2023 to nearly 33 % of total corporate debt by the end of 2025. Banking systems would be broadly resilient in an adverse scenario featuring higher interest rates, corporate sector stress, and rising liquidity pressures with Tier-1 capital ratios declining by 3.4 percentage points in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and 4.5 % age points in non-GCC MENA countries. In the cross-section of banks, there are pockets of vulnerabilities as banks with higher ex-ante vulnerabilities and state-owned banks suffer greater losses. While manageable, the capital losses in the adverse scenario could limit lending and adversely impact growth.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01Epub Date: 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101375
Jesús Molina-Muñoz , Andrés Mora-Valencia , Javier Perote
In this study, the dynamic volatility spillovers among emerging markets, Bitcoin, and commodities are analyzed using Diebold and Yilmaz's spillover framework. As a by-product, a total volatility spillover index among an emerging markets index, Bitcoin, gold, and oil prices is forecast using traditional methods, machine learning, and deep learning, providing a method for anticipating turbulent periods. The results support the importance of volatility in oil prices, uncertainty about U.S. economic policy, and the stability of the sovereign bonds market for the dynamics of volatility spillovers, validating the ability of machine and deep learning approaches to predict those spillovers.
{"title":"Dynamic volatility spillovers among commodities, bitcoin, and emerging markets","authors":"Jesús Molina-Muñoz , Andrés Mora-Valencia , Javier Perote","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, the dynamic volatility spillovers among emerging markets, Bitcoin, and commodities are analyzed using Diebold and Yilmaz's spillover framework. As a by-product, a total volatility spillover index among an emerging markets index, Bitcoin, gold, and oil prices is forecast using traditional methods, machine learning, and deep learning, providing a method for anticipating turbulent periods. The results support the importance of volatility in oil prices, uncertainty about U.S. economic policy, and the stability of the sovereign bonds market for the dynamics of volatility spillovers, validating the ability of machine and deep learning approaches to predict those spillovers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 101375"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145265714","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}