The ongoing war in Ukraine and rising geopolitical tensions between Russia and western
countries have led several European countries to increase defense spending to historic …

Understanding sectoral dynamic dependence across equity indexes is crucial for investment
decisions and designing economic policy. This study examines the sectoral dependence …

This paper is motivated by Bitcoin's rapid ascension into mainstream finance and recent
evidence of a strong relationship between Bitcoin and US stock markets. It is also motivated …

The importance of international collaboration in the research field is well-documented, but its
impact on the number of citations received by research publications is not fully understood …

We explore whether uncertainty avoidance, an important aspect of national culture,
influences the level of informativeness of share prices about future earnings. Uncertainty …

This paper examines how journal-, article-, and author-related factors influence citation
counts in the business field using 236 journal articles collected from an AACSB medium …

We examine whether the national characteristic of Mastery affects risk composition as well
as the separate components of risk, in response to earnings quality. We find that Mastery …

We study how digital finance influences stock price synchronicity for China for the period
2011–2021. The results suggest that digital finance index, coverage breadth and use depth …

While China has signed non-legally binding Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) agreements with
more than 100 countries, the agreements' effect on cosignatory economies is unclear. We …