American society has now been living in the wake of shareholder value capitalism for four
decades. The shareholder value movement began as an invasion of the market for …

Focusing on the advanced political economies, this article critically reviews the recent
scholarship on the evolution of top incomes over the past few decades. The existing …

Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys
a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary …

Many inequality scholars view skill-biased technological change—the computerization of
workplaces that favours high-skilled workers—as the main cause of rising wage inequality in …

It is frequently asserted that financialisation has contributed to the decline in the wage share.
This paper provides a theoretical clarification and a systematic empirical investigation. We …

There is increasing consensus that modern capitalist economies suffer from excessive rent
extraction in both financial and real economy sectors. However, scholars have yet to …

In this article, I study the impact of financialization on the rise in inequality in 18 OECD
countries from 1970 to 2011 and measure the respective roles of various forms of …

Using data from non-financial listed firms in China from 2008 to 2020, this study investigates
the effect of the new Environmental Protection Law on corporate financialization based on …

Our study sheds new light on the determinants of firms' financial investment behavior from
the perspective of local gambling culture. Using data on Chinese non-financial listed firms …

Although the green credit guidelines (GCGs) can force firms to engage in green
transformation, it is still unknown whether the GCGs inhibit or stimulate corporate …