International Journal of Emerging Markets: Volume 18 Issue 7

Blockchain technology, macroeconomic uncertainty and investment efficiency

Wanyi Chen, Kang He, Lanfang Wang

In addition to leading a new tide of global financial technology, blockchain delivers advantages in terms of risk control compared to traditional financial systems. By exploring…

Websites' hue-context congruence as a vector of trust and behavioral intentions

Lilia Khrouf, Azza Frikha

This paper aims to determine the effect of the congruence between a website's background color and its context (product category) on online trust and resulting behavioral…

Investor confidence and life insurance demand: can economic condition limit life insurance business?

Danish Ahmed, Yuantao Xie, Khelfaoui Issam

Life insurance is bought with a prior belief that promise stipulated in policy will be honored when due. Discernibly, this belief is backed by the confidence that financial…

Workplace bullying and organizational citizenship behavior: the parallel mediating effects of job satisfaction and resilience

Aparna Mendiratta, Shalini Srivastava

Upholding congruency with conservation of resources (COR) theory, the study intends to analyze the impact of workplace bullying on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) via…

Exploring panic buying behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: a developing country perspective

Gurmeet Singh, Asheefa Shaheen Aiyub, Tuma Greig, Samantha Naidu, Aarti Sewak, Shavneet Sharma

This paper aims to identify factors that influence customers' panic buying behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The impact of economic policy uncertainty, news framing and information overload on panic buying behavior in the time of COVID-19: a conceptual exploration

Abdulqadir Rahomee Ahmed Aljanabi

This conceptual paper aims to provide a further understanding of the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU), news framing and information overload on panic buying behavior…

The moderating role of donation-related predispositions on the effectiveness of price and product quality on cause-related marketing participation

Andrews Adugudaa Akolaa, John Paul Basewe Kosiba, Felix Appiah, Akua Akuffo Nyanteh

This study investigates the effect of product quality and price fairness on consumer cause-related marketing (CRM) participation and also the moderating role of donation-related…

Investigating efficiency of frontier stock markets using multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis

Faheem Aslam, Paulo Ferreira, Wahbeeah Mohti

The investigation of the fractal nature of financial data has been growing in the literature. The purpose is to investigate the multifractal behavior of frontier markets using…

Exploring the long-run relationship between financial inclusion and agricultural growth: evidence from Pakistan

Usman Farooq, Fu Gang, Zhenzhong Guan, Abdul Rauf, Abbas Ali Chandio, Faiza Ahsan

This study aims to investigate the long-run relationship between financial inclusion and agricultural growth in Pakistan for the period of 1960–2018.

Determinants of willingness to pay for traditional bundles: a study from India

Shivan Sanjay Patel, Shivendra Kumar Pandey, Dheeraj Sharma

The present research aims to identify critical antecedents of willingness to pay (WTP) for traditional bundles (those comprising only goods or services) in an emerging market…

A financial restatement, media attention and stock idiosyncratic risk in the Chinese stock market

Haiyuan Yin, Meng Sun

This paper aims to enrich the scope of the influence of media reports on the stock risk, and it also provides a path to support the research on the relationship between media…