This paper investigates the existence of herding behavior in the Chinese mutual fund market from a time-varying perspective. We examine the relationship between the dispersion of fund returns and the fund market returns using a Markov regime switching approach, and explore the driving factors of...

This paper examines the nexus between local government debt and economic growth in China. Particularly, we investigate whether there exists a debt-threshold effect on economic growth and the long-run effect of debt increase on economic growth. We employ a panel threshold autoregressive...

Sustainable strategies like Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have become an essential requirement for the energy sector to be practiced across their business activities. Many studies addressed CSR-related strategies but did not examine their critical success factors (CSFs) on regional...