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Journal Article

Author(s): Ayu Fitriani, Jordan van Rijn (2026)

Purpose: This study assesses the impact of remittances on Indonesian household welfare by examining dietary quality and asset ownership. It addresses prior methodological gaps by employing diverse econometric techniques to establish robust associations between remittances, food expenditure and investment behavior. This study draws on the New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) and Permanent Income

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Author(s): Kin-Yip Ho, Zhaoyong Zhang, Lanyue Zhou (2025)

Purpose: This study empirically examines how industrial diversification and partner business relatedness influence shareholder value, focusing on US multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) worldwide joint venture (JV) announcements, with particular emphasis on East Asian economies. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on theories from finance, strategic management and international business, we apply a

Journal Article

Author(s): Futie Song, Xuechen Shen (2025)

Purpose: This study examines the role of credit risk mitigation warrants (CRMWs) in reducing default risk in China's private bond market during rising default rates and tightening credit since 2018, particularly for financially distressed enterprises. Design/methodology/approach: Focusing on credit bonds issued by private enterprises in China from 2019 to 2022, this study uses a fixed-effects pane

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Author(s): Suham Cahyono, Ardianto Ardianto, Abu Hanifa Md Noman, Hadrian Geri Djajadikerta (2025)

Purpose: We examine the relationship between CEO social capital and environmental disclosures and the moderating role of board gender diversity on the basis of stakeholder theory. Design/methodology/approach: We use 937 firm-year observations from public companies, excluding the financial sector, in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand for the 2017–2023 period. A fixed-effects regression m

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Author(s): Abdullah AlGhazali, Walid Mensi, Houssem Eddine Belghouthi, Bruce Morley, Sanghoon Kang (2025)

Purpose: This study examines return spillovers between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) equity markets and key international indices, including Brent crude oil, gold, the US dollar index (DXY), US Treasury bonds (T-bonds) and the CBOE crude oil volatility index (OVX), both before and after the removal of fuel subsidies in the GCC. Design/methodology/approach: We employed the time-varying parame

Journal Article

Author(s): Chih-Chuan Yeh, Yu-Ting Ou, Ting-Hsin Hsu, Chung-Chiao Huang (2025)

Purpose: This study examines how improvements in auditor partner quality affect the stock price dynamics of client firms by focusing on synchronicity and crash risks. Synchronicity reflects how positively a firm’s stocks are consistent with market volatility, whereas crash risk captures the potential for sudden and severe declines. This study contributes to research on audit quality, market effici