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The moderating effects of CEO power and personal traits on say-on-pay effectiveness: Insights from the Anglo-Saxon economies (2022)
Journal Article
Joura, E., Xiao, Q., & Ullah, S. (2022). The moderating effects of CEO power and personal traits on say-on-pay effectiveness: Insights from the Anglo-Saxon economies. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2636

This study investigates the efficacy of say-on-pay (SOP) regulation in mitigating excessive CEO compensation and how it is affected by CEO personal traits and the power distribution inside a corporation. Using IV-GMM method and a sample of 1,931 firm... Read More about The moderating effects of CEO power and personal traits on say-on-pay effectiveness: Insights from the Anglo-Saxon economies.

Do political connections reduce earnings management? (2022)
Journal Article
Khalil, M., Harianto, S., & Guney, Y. (2022). Do political connections reduce earnings management?. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-022-01062-y

This study examines whether political connections are associated with earnings management (both accrual-based and real) and whether the association is influenced by corporate governance and external auditing qualities. Empirical evidence on the assoc... Read More about Do political connections reduce earnings management?.

Convergence in labor productivity across provinces and production sectors in China (2022)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., & Qin, W. (2022). Convergence in labor productivity across provinces and production sectors in China. Journal of economic asymmetries, 25, Article e00247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2022.e00247

Empirical evidence is found for the β and σ convergence towards the steady states of labor productivity across provinces and production sectors in China based on estimates of static, dynamic and quintile panel data models. The pattern of convergences... Read More about Convergence in labor productivity across provinces and production sectors in China.

Green shoots: Emergent systemic leadership and critical systems practice (2022)
Book Chapter
Gregory, A. J., & Atkins, J. P. (2022). Green shoots: Emergent systemic leadership and critical systems practice. In A. Taylor (Ed.), Rethinking Leadership for a Green World (176-189). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003190820-10

Climate change is recognised by many to be the defining adaptive challenge of our time. Despite such recognition, the failure of many world leaders to comprehend the scale, scope (bringing a complex mix of environmental, economic and social dimension... Read More about Green shoots: Emergent systemic leadership and critical systems practice.

Advertising Benefits from Ethical Artificial Intelligence Algorithmic Purchase Decision Pathways (2022)
Journal Article
Rodgers, W., & Nguyen, T. (2022). Advertising Benefits from Ethical Artificial Intelligence Algorithmic Purchase Decision Pathways. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05048-7

Artificial intelligence (AI) has dramatically changed the way organizations communicate, understand, and interact with their potential consumers. In the context of this trend, the ethical considerations of advertising when applying AI should be the c... Read More about Advertising Benefits from Ethical Artificial Intelligence Algorithmic Purchase Decision Pathways.

How female directors help firms to attain optimal cash holdings (2022)
Journal Article
Tosun, O. K., El Kalak, I., & Hudson, R. (2022). How female directors help firms to attain optimal cash holdings. International review of financial analysis, 80, Article 102034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102034

Is female board representation helpful for firms attaining optimal cash holdings? We address this question using data on 1163 US-listed firms for 2000‐–2017. We show that if there are more female directors on firm boards, ceteris paribus, there is no... Read More about How female directors help firms to attain optimal cash holdings.

Innovation and efficiency in financial institutions (2022)
Journal Article
Sena, V., Kenjegaliev, A., & Kenjegalieva, A. (2022). Innovation and efficiency in financial institutions. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 7, Article 805116. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2022.805116

This paper proposes a new methodology that combines standard production theory with Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods to rank banks based on their capability of using investment in new technologies to reduce the other inputs' usage,... Read More about Innovation and efficiency in financial institutions.

ESG complementarities in the US economy (2022)
Journal Article
Duygun, M., Hall, S., Kenjegalieva, A., & Kenjegaliev, A. (2022). ESG complementarities in the US economy. The European journal of finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2022.2157300

This paper investigates ESG from the perspective of changes in input elasticities of substitution and complementarity. Rather than compute these elasticities from the cost function, we compute them from the Input Distance Function (IDF). Our data are... Read More about ESG complementarities in the US economy.

CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth, and Energy Consumption in G7 and BRICS Countries (2021)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., & Brind, B. (2021). CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth, and Energy Consumption in G7 and BRICS Countries. Journal of Development Economics and Finance, 2(2),

This research set out to investigate whether economic growth has an impact on CO 2 emissions in G7 and BRICS countries, and whether the Paris Agreement has been effective in respect to CO 2 emissions by successfully analysing each of the five null hy... Read More about CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth, and Energy Consumption in G7 and BRICS Countries.

How state ownership affects corporate R&D: An inverted‐U‐shaped relationship (2021)
Journal Article
Fu, T., Jian, Z., & Li, Y. (in press). How state ownership affects corporate R&D: An inverted‐U‐shaped relationship. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2589

The existing literature provides mixed evidence about the effect of state ownership on corporate research and development (R&D). As this article hypothesizes, state ownership has a positive institutional effect on the investment environment for R&D a... Read More about How state ownership affects corporate R&D: An inverted‐U‐shaped relationship.