Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of audit client importance on future bank risk and systemic risk in US-listed commercial banks. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use archival research method. Findings: The authors mainly find that client importance is...

Purpose: Given a product or service, the number of its installed user base has a significant positive effect on the existing users’ loyalty and new users’ conversion. This effect is conceptualized as network externalities in economics. Network externalities are supposed to be particularly...

Purpose: This paper investigates the impact of credit risk shocks on the evolution of banking efficiency in China. Design/methodology/approach: This paper introduces credit risk as a bad output into a bootstrap data envelopment analysis (bootstrap-DEA) model. Findings: During a credit risk...

Purpose: This paper aimed to explore the influence of envy on impulsive consumption from aspects of the internal psychological mechanism and boundary conditions. Design/methodology/approach: Based on social comparison theory, four studies were conducted in this research: The first study...

Abstract Mediation analysis has been used in many disciplines to explain the mechanism or process that underlies an observed relationship between an exposure variable and an outcome variable via the inclusion of mediators. Decompositions of the total effect (TE) of an exposure variable into...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors (including conservation payments) that influence household decisions to participate in off-farm work and estimate the impact of participation on household welfare under the auspices of the Grain for Green (GfG) program....