Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine whether board gender diversity reduces the agency costs of firms in the context of Chinese listed firms. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses a large sample of 23,340 firm-year observations of Chinese listed companies during...

Purpose: This study investigates the interrelationships between competitions in different banking markets and shadow banking for the Chinese banking industry over the period 2003–2017. The current study also examines the determinants of competition in different banking markets and the factors...

Energy shortage has a significant effect on businesses in developing countries. To overcome energy crises, such countries are adopting different strategies in their industrial sectors. This study contributes to the existing literature by analyzing the impact of energy crises on the profitability...

Tailoring the pathways to synthesize efficient biochars for pollutant adsorption has received extensive attention. We synthesized highly efficient exfoliated biochar having thin layered nanosheets in its structure from agricultural wastes (wheat straw) by an innovative method involving biomass...

To examine the interdependency and evolution of Pakistan's stock market, we consider the cross-correlation coefficients of daily stock returns belonging to the blue chip Karachi stock exchange (KSE-100) index. Using the minimum spanning tree network-based method, we extend the financial network...