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Responsible Banking Under Twin Transition: FinTech M&As, ESG Strategy, and Bank Performance
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how banking innovation strategies, namely FinTech M&As and ESG practices, affect bank performance under rising competitive pressures and regulatory complexity. Using a unique dataset of 543 listed banks across 49 countries from 2000 to 2023, we analyse whether these strategic investments enhance banks' profitability ...
G. B. Ferilli, Y. Altunbas, E. Palmieri
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien +5 more
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examined the critical challenges facing the international monetary system, arguing that they have created conditions for a shift from a neoliberal framework to a pluralist multipolar financial order. Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends international law and international relations, the paper provides an analysis of the ...
Jiangyu Wang
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De‐Dollarization Is a Plausible Outcome of the New Washington Consensus
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A trend towards de‐dollarization of the global economy in which the US dollar ceases to be used as the world's reserve currency for international transactions confronts some of the existing structures of international economic law, built upon the rules set out by US‐led organizations like the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. This article will
David Collins
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Geofinance and Fragmentation: Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), especially wholesale ones, were initially hailed as tools for frictionless global financial flows. Paradoxically, however, they are contributing to the fragmentation of the international financial system through the emergence of minilateral blocs of ‘friendly’ jurisdictions that have established, or ...
Lucia Quaglia, Amy Verdun
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Anti‐corruption as a Form of Governance? Balancing Growth and Risk in China's Financial Markets
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how anti‐corruption campaigns function as unconventional instruments for regulating financial markets in emerging economies, where rapid market expansion often creates opportunities for dubious financial practices. Drawing on an original dataset of 393 investigations into alleged misconduct by personnel in China's ...
Yingyao Wang
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Following the global financial crisis, European financial authorities introduced a host of new initiatives intended to advance market integration, improve the quality of bank oversight and enhance both economic stability and prospects for growth.
Dóra Piroska, Rachel A. Epstein
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"Market-specific and Currency-specific Risk during the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Interbank Markets in Tokyo and London" [PDF]
This paper explores how international money markets reflected credit and liquidity risks during the global financial crisis. After matching the currency denomination, we investigate how the Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate (TIBOR) was synchronized with the ...
Shin-ichi Fukuda
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Borrower‐lender political homophily and loan characteristics
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates political homophily between the top executives of borrowers and lenders. We observe a high level of political homophily between borrowers' and lenders' management teams, with a one‐standard‐deviation increase in homophily associated with an increase in spreads of approximately 126 basis points.
Abdulaziz A. Alshamrani +2 more
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