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  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,100 Views
14 Pages

This study aims to test financial literacy and credit conditions in determining formal credit access to determine the performance of MSMEs. This research includes the type of associative research that is accompanied by hypothesis testing. This resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,725 Views
18 Pages

13 December 2023

In 2012, China issued the “Green Credit Guidelines” policy to guide the green transformation of companies, and at the same time, the investment and financing behaviors of heavy polluters during the green transition have received widesprea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,963 Views
16 Pages

6 December 2019

This study examines the short- and long-run effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities on the credit risk implied in credit derivative prices. Measuring the different term effects on credit risk by the slope of credit default swap (C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,740 Views
27 Pages

14 July 2025

This study examines the long-term financial sustainability of commercial banks, emphasizing the crucial role of credit risk management. Given that the core function of credit creation inherently exposes banks to credit risk, this analysis evaluates h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,518 Views
29 Pages

Undoubtedly, it is important to have an empirically effective credit risk rating method for decision-making in the financial industry, business, and even government. In our approach, for each corporate bond (CB) and its issuer, we first propose a cre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,789 Views
20 Pages

19 February 2020

The state of Arizona has created a unique water management tool in response to water scarcity and population growth. In 1994, Arizona’s state legislature authorized the creation of long-term storage credits (LTSCs) through aquifer recharge with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,725 Views
20 Pages

The purpose of this paper is to assess and predict sovereign credit risk for Egypt, Morroco and Saudi Arabia using credit default swap (CDS) spreads obtained from the DataStream database for the period from 2009 to 2022. Our approach consists of gene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,226 Views
25 Pages

27 June 2022

We apply Geometric Arbitrage Theory (GAT) to obtain results in mathematical finance for credit markets, which do not need stochastic differential geometry in their formulation. The remarkable aspect of the GAT is the gauge symmetry, which can be tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,137 Views
13 Pages

This study examines the impact of changes in the yield curve factors on the Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads of the U.S. industrial sectors. Stock returns and the crude oil-based volatility index are used in a quantile regression framework to test t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
6,578 Views
16 Pages

1 June 2020

How to promote technological innovation with green finance policy has been a focal topic in the global green finance field in recent years. Using the difference-in-difference approach model, this paper investigated the impact of the Green Credit Guid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,989 Views
18 Pages

“Green economy and sustainable development” has become the focus of contemporary world economic development. As an important part of green financial instruments, green credit has become a hot topic. This paper investigates whether the Gre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,621 Views
12 Pages

This study extracts the common factors from firm-based credit spreads of major Japanese corporate bonds and examines the predictive content of the credit spread on the real economy. Instead of employing single-maturity corporate bond spreads, we focu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,965 Views
27 Pages

RaKShA: A Trusted Explainable LSTM Model to Classify Fraud Patterns on Credit Card Transactions

  • Jay Raval,
  • Pronaya Bhattacharya,
  • Nilesh Kumar Jadav,
  • Sudeep Tanwar,
  • Gulshan Sharma,
  • Pitshou N. Bokoro,
  • Mitwalli Elmorsy,
  • Amr Tolba and
  • Maria Simona Raboaca

17 April 2023

Credit card (CC) fraud has been a persistent problem and has affected financial organizations. Traditional machine learning (ML) algorithms are ineffective owing to the increased attack space, and techniques such as long short-term memory (LSTM) have...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,129 Views
30 Pages

The Optimum Leverage Level of the Banking Sector

  • Sagara Dewasurendra,
  • Pedro Judice and
  • Qiji Zhu

1 May 2019

Banks make profits from the difference between short-term and long-term loan interest rates. To issue loans, banks raise funds from capital markets. Since the long-term loan rate is relatively stable, but short-term interest is usually variable, ther...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,258 Views
22 Pages

ECB Monetary Policy and the Term Structure of Bank Default Risk

  • Tom Beernaert,
  • Nicolas Soenen and
  • Rudi Vander Vennet

Euro Area banks have been confronted with unprecedented monetary policy actions by the ECB. Monetary policy may affect bank risk profiles, but the consequences may differ for short-term risk versus long-term or structural bank risk. We empirically in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
880 Views
15 Pages

A Mixture Model for Survival Data with Both Latent and Non-Latent Cure Fractions

  • Eduardo Yoshio Nakano,
  • Frederico Machado Almeida and
  • Marcílio Ramos Pereira Cardial

13 September 2025

One of the most popular cure rate models in the literature is the Berkson and Gage mixture model. A characteristic of this model is that it considers the cure to be a latent event. However, there are situations in which the cure is well known, and th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,189 Views
25 Pages

29 April 2025

Trade credit is a crucial component of supply chain financing, enabling businesses to manage cash flow and optimize inventory levels. This study delves into the application and implications of multiple trade credit types with different repayment peri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,484 Views
19 Pages

30 June 2022

We examined the effects of access to public debt on the corporate financing decisions in real estate investment trusts (REITs) using a difference-in-differences approach and a propensity score approach. The introduction of credit ratings by S&P a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
9,433 Views
19 Pages

Green Credit, Debt Maturity, and Corporate Investment—Evidence from China

  • Enxian Wang,
  • Xinghe Liu,
  • Jiapeng Wu and
  • Danting Cai

23 January 2019

Against the backdrop of working hard to build a beautiful country, this paper uses the promulgation of the “Green Credit Guidelines” policy in China as a quasi-natural experiment. Based on a difference-in-differences (DID) model, the resu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,106 Views
25 Pages

2 September 2017

This paper surveys the diverse effects of consumer credit on household carbon emissions (HCEs) based on consumption patterns revealed by urban Chinese survey data. Based on the foundation of existing literature, consumption patterns and influential f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
6,712 Views
18 Pages

14 January 2021

From the perspective of the policy impact effect, this paper takes green enterprises as the treatment group and polluters as the control group. Firstly, the double difference method (DID) was adopted to study the effect of green credit policy on ente...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,162 Views
25 Pages

13 July 2021

The national targets of reaching carbon peak in 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060 propose higher requirements for energy conservation and emission reduction of China’s automobile industry. As an important measure for the government, the fuel consump...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,162 Views
24 Pages

7 December 2023

Choosing appropriate environmental protection strategies is important in improving enterprises’ economic and environmental performance. Based on the data of A-share listed enterprises from 2009 to 2019 in China, this paper uses the difference-i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
491 Views
17 Pages

13 November 2025

A scientifically systematic credit evaluation system serves as a crucial safeguard mechanism for maintaining a healthy business environment in the construction market, effectively regulating industry entities’ behaviors and promoting ecosystem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,245 Views
18 Pages

19 August 2021

How to promote renewable energy investment is central to energy transformation and green development. To take China’s “green credit guidelines” policy as a quasi-natural experiment, we investigate the impacts of green credit policy on renewable energ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,592 Views
19 Pages

7 March 2021

Medium-sized Enterprises (MEs) are a limited number of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in EU-28 countries, but they contribute greatly to value added and employment. They are also key to pursuing sustainable local development in terms of gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,221 Views
15 Pages

21 September 2022

We study the relationship between green credit and ecological welfare performance, green credit’s mechanism, and future trends of ecological welfare performance in China. We aim to determine whether the green credit policy has a positive or neg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,090 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2015

The paper considers the sustainable trade credit and inventory policies with demand related to credit period and the environmental sensitivity of consumers under the carbon cap-and-trade and carbon tax regulations. First, the decision models are cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,675 Views
15 Pages

Corporate Governance, Shariah Governance, and Credit Rating: A Cross-Country Analysis from Asian Islamic Banks

  • Muhammad Mansoor,
  • Nazima Ellahi,
  • Arshad Hassan,
  • Qaisar Ali Malik,
  • Abdul Waheed and
  • Naeem Ullah

This study aimed to investigate the association between corporate governance characteristics, shariah governance characteristics, and the credit rating of Asian Islamic banks. To do so, we collected data from 22 banks during the 2006–2018 perio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,012 Views
26 Pages

Herein, an evolutionary game model involving the government and practitioners during the registration phase was constructed based on the bounded rationality assumption of prospect theory. The evolutionary stability of equilibrium points was explored...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,007 Views
23 Pages

29 May 2022

Green development is an inevitable trend of sustainable development: how does it affect green economic growth as the main channel of green project financing and the core force of building a green financial system? The present article measures the rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,161 Views
10 Pages

Cross-Country Linkages and Asymmetries of Sovereign Risk Pluralistic Investigation of CDS Spreads

  • Bikramaditya Ghosh,
  • Spyros Papathanasiou and
  • Dimitrios Kenourgios

28 October 2022

Credit Default Swap (CDS) spread is a realistic measure of credit risk. Changes in the spreads showcase changes in the underlying uncertainty or credit volatility regarding the credit risk, associated with the asset class. We use Multifractal Detrend...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,945 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2020

Rural credit is very important to the increase of farmers’ income and the development of rural economy, and it has attracted wide attention from scholars. Many scholars have paid attention to the impact of social capital on farmers’ credi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,580 Views
12 Pages

24 December 2021

In this paper, we study the valuation of power exchange options with a correlated hybrid credit risk when the underlying assets follow the jump-diffusion processes. The hybrid credit risk model is constructed using two credit risk models (the reduced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,258 Views
9 Pages

30 March 2021

The Republic of Korea is the fastest aging country in the world, and its silver market, which is the market segment broadly defined as senior citizens, began to emerge in 2008 as Korean baby boomers started to retire. Given that the assets of househo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
9,167 Views
19 Pages

The Impact of Green Credit on the Green Innovation Level of Heavy-Polluting Enterprises—Evidence from China

  • Zhifeng Zhang,
  • Hongyan Duan,
  • Shuangshuang Shan,
  • Qingzhi Liu and
  • Wenhui Geng

This article uses the “Green Credit Guidelines” promulgated in 2012 as an example to construct a quasi-natural experiment and uses the double difference method to test the impact of the implementation of the “Green Credit Guidelines...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,230 Views
15 Pages

14 January 2016

Farmers use credit from commercial credit providers to finance production activities. Commercial credit providers have to predict the financial sustainability of the enterprise to ensure that the borrower will have the ability to repay the loan. A De...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,546 Views
24 Pages

13 November 2023

Dual credit policy (DCP) is a market-based mechanism introduced by the Chinese government to promote the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry and improve energy savings in China. To offer sufficient impetus for the NEV industry while providing sufficien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,011 Views
24 Pages

This work aims to illustrate an advanced quantitative methodology for measuring the credit risk of a loan portfolio allowing for diversification effects. Also, this methodology can allocate the credit capital coherently to each counterparty in the po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,355 Views
21 Pages

5 March 2025

We investigate the impact of green credit policies on pollution-intensive enterprises from a new perspective. Empirically, we utilize the issuance of China’s green credit policy in 2012 to construct a quasi-natural experiment. The results show...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
11,537 Views
20 Pages

9 February 2018

Compared to other categories, the Energy and Atmosphere category contributes the most to the maximum obtainable points in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification system. The objective of the study was to identify the ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,430 Views
33 Pages

This study analyzes the term structures of sovereign quanto credit default swap (CDS) spreads and currency options, which are driven by anticipated currency depreciation risk following sovereign credit default (Twin Ds). We develop consistent pricing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,308 Views
17 Pages

This study examines the relationship between environmental risk and corporate bond credit ratings, and the moderating effect of market competition. We focus on Korean firms that are facing increasing risk of environmental crisis after the COVID-19 pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,818 Views
24 Pages

13 February 2023

The dual credit policy is currently the main starting point for China to achieve the green and sustainable development of the auto market. However, the policy’s impact on future market development remains unclear. It is necessary to consider th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
520 Views
31 Pages

14 July 2025

Credit supervision of practitioners in the water conservancy construction market, a vital pillar of national infrastructure development, significantly impacts project safety and the maintenance of order in the industry. From the perspective of indire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,955 Views
34 Pages

2 March 2021

All countries worldwide faced the COVID-19 pandemic and had to take actions to lower the economic shock. Financial authorities play an especially significant role in economics and can help to manage the negative consequences. This article focuses on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,923 Views
27 Pages

24 February 2025

With the proliferation of mobile devices and payment systems in modern financial services, there is an increasing need to process and analyze continuous streams of transaction data for credit risk assessment. Leveraging the inherent symmetries in fin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,433 Views
22 Pages

28 January 2025

The use of credit cards plays a crucial role in cash management and in meeting the needs for individual and commercial customers due to the spread of risks to the future by making monthly instalments instead of cash transactions. The use of credit ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,732 Views
34 Pages

Using an aggregate credit spread index, we find that it has substantial predictive power for corporate bond returns over short and long horizons. The return predictability is economically and statistically significant and robust to various controls....

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