University of International Business and Economics

Organizational Antecedents of Restricted Funding in UK Charities

Abstract Restricted funding has become a notable feature of the nonprofit sector in many countries. While its organizational outcomes are widely debated, we know less about why some nonprofits face higher levels of restriction than others. This study examines organizational antec...

Volatility Forecasting: A Fused Filter Algorithm

ABSTRACT This paper proposes a fused filter algorithm (FFA) for volatility forecasting. The FFA extracts latent volatility by solving a penalized optimization problem, a formulation related to the HP filter and Whittaker–Henderson smoothing. To investigate the empirical performan...

Pricing RMB Policy Risk: Evidence From Onshore and Offshore FX Option Markets

ABSTRACT This paper examines how onshore and offshore RMB option markets price potential shifts in China's RMB exchange rate regime. We calibrate a regime‐switching option pricing model to USD/CNY and USD/CNH options to recover daily risk‐neutral parameters summarizing the pricin...

Not all debt is equal: Debt type, burden, and life satisfaction among urban young adults in Seoul

Young adults in rapidly growing cities face mounting financial pressures from escalating housing costs and limited access to stable employment. This study examines how different debt types and perceived debt burden are associated with life satisfaction among young adults in Seoul...

Artificial intelligence adoption and green collaborative innovation: knowledge-based channels and governance conditions

Purpose This study aims to examine whether and how firm-level artificial intelligence (AI) adoption promotes green collaborative innovation. It focuses on two knowledge-based capability channels, namely, knowledge learning capability and green governance capability, and investiga...

Leveraging E-Commerce Platform Rewards to Promote Green Consumption: How Reward Types Influence Consumers’ Sustainable Choices

Promoting sustainable consumption is essential for advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, encouraging consumers to translate sustainable intentions into green consumption remains challenging. Although e-commerce platforms increasingly implemen...

From routine jobs to algorithmic labor: a digital labor history of Generative AI and shifts in employer hiring demand in China, 2016–2024

This article treats online job advertisements as a digital archive of how firms classify skills, credentials, and tasks, thereby reconstructing the early evolution of employer demand in the context of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in China. Drawing on more than 13 mi...

Driving Sustained Green Innovation in Manufacturing: The Role of Technology Convergence Between Digital and Real Economy Industries

Advancing sustained green innovation (SGI) is essential to the green transformation of manufacturing enterprises and sustainable development. Technology convergence between digital and real economy industries (TCDR) reshapes firms’ innovation activities by integrating technologie...

What Contributes to Self‐Efficacy in Speaking Chinese as a Foreign Language: A Social Cognitive Perspective

ABSTRACT Grounded in social cognitive theory, this study investigated how high‐evidence factors jointly contribute to Chinese‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (CFL) speaking self‐efficacy. Data from 236 CFL learners in Beijing revealed a multifaceted pattern of associations. Speaking strate...

Centralized Land Supply Policy and Carbon Emissions Reduction of Listed Companies: A Green Back-Pressure Mechanism Under Land Fiscal Constraints

This paper treats the “Two Centralizations” policy for residential land supply in 22 key cities introduced by China’s Ministry of Natural Resources in 2021 as a quasi-natural experiment. Based on data of A-share non-financial listed companies from 2013 to 2023, we adopt the Diffe...

Equal or Fair: Impacts of Export on Relative Wage Distortion in China

ABSTRACT This paper studies the relative wage distortion and income inequality between high and low‐skilled workers, comparing exporters and non‐exporters in China. We develop a model featuring heterogeneity in firm productivity, worker skills, and firms' export decisions. By est...

Pursuing a sustainable economy: how does energy digitalization promote green total factor productivity?

Replication code and data for the research of “Pursuing a Sustainable Economy: How Does Energy Digitalization Promote Green Total Factor Productivity?”

Industrial robot adoption and marriage market transformation: evidence from China

This paper examines whether industrial robot adoption affects marriage formation in China. Using micro-level data from the China Family Panel Studies for 2010–2020 matched with a city-level measure of robot exposure, we find that greater robot exposure significantly reduces the p...

How firms achieve high total factor productivity in digital transformation: a dynamic configurational perspective

Purpose Total factor productivity (TFP) is a central driver of firms' high-quality development. The rapid expansion of the digital economy has fundamentally reshaped production processes and organizational structures, creating substantial potential for TFP enhancement. This study...

Open public data and stock price delay: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Stock price delay serves as a key metric of information efficiency in stock markets, and identifying its determinants is essential for promoting market information efficiency. This study examines the effect of open public data (OPD) on stock price delay. Using the staggered adopt...

Fiscal policy, monetary conditions and macroeconomic risks: evidence from China

We employ a novel structural quantile vector autoregression model to examine the effects of fiscal policy on macroeconomic risks in China and to investigate how monetary conditions shape these effects. Our results uncover that fiscal stimulus reduces output downside risk and lead...

Not all charisma is created equal: socialized vs personalized charismatic leadership and subordinates' career growth

Purpose This study aims to examine how socialized and personalized charismatic leadership differentially shape subordinates' career growth opportunities (CGO), providing new insights into leadership's role in career development. Design/methodology/approach We collected three-wave...

Breaking the 50% EfficiencyCeiling: A Tandem ElectrochemicalCycle for Efficient Singlet Oxygen Electrosynthesis

Abstract Singlet oxygen (1O2) electrosynthesis from dioxygen (O2) offers a sustainable route to value-added oxygenation reactions in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Conventional electrochemical generation, however, relies on the one-electron reduction of O2 to superoxide (O2•–) fol...

Digital and Green Transformations: Leveraging Global Value Chains in Belt and Road Initiative

ABSTRACT This study investigates the link between Global Value Chain (GVC), Digital Adoption Index, and Green Transformation Index across 89 Belt and Road (B&R) countries during 2004–2019. The study employs a multi‐regional input–output framework and the System Generalized Me...

The Externalities of Peers' Misconduct: Evidence From Corporate Social Responsibility

ABSTRACT How do innocent firms navigate negative reputational spillovers from industry peer misconduct? We propose that non‐culpable firms leverage corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a costly‐to‐fake signal of intrinsic quality to distance themselves from tainted peers. Usi...