COVID-19 pandemic impact on banking sector: A cross-country analysis

M Shabir, P Jiang, W Wang, Ö Işık - Journal of Multinational Financial …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study examines the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on the performance and stability
of the banking sector. Our sample consists of 2073 banks in 106 countries from 2016Q1 to …

Analysing the impact of geopolitical risk and economic policy uncertainty on the environmental sustainability: evidence from BRICS countries

H Li, MSE Ali, B Ayub, I Ullah - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
This key article seeks to empirically examine the impact of geopolitical risk, economic policy
uncertainty (EPU), natural resources, and renewable energy on a country's ecological …

Heterogeneous effects of economic policy uncertainty and foreign direct investment on environmental quality: cross-country evidence

M Shabir, M Ali, SH Hashmi, S Bakhsh - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
Over the last few years, global warming and rapid climate change have become major risk
factors that pose a serious threat to global security. A key factor behind these risk factors is …

Governance perspective and the effect of economic policy uncertainty on financial stability: evidence from developed and developing economies

K Ali, H Hongbing, CY Liew, D Jianguo - Economic Change and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) research has grown in importance in today's
highly volatile and interconnected economy. This work investigates the relationship between …

Local government competition, new energy industry agglomeration and urban ecological total factor energy efficiency: A new perspective from the role of knowledge

J Yan, Y Sheng, M Yang, Q Yuan, X Gu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
The contradiction between industrial agglomeration and energy constrains the development
of cities. Government competition can affect the flow of factors for industrial agglomeration …

Geopolitical, economic uncertainty and bank risk: Do CEO power and board strength matter?

M Shabir, P Jiang, Y Shahab, P Wang - International Review of Financial …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study examines whether economic and geopolitical uncertainties affect bank risk. Using
a sample of 574 banks from 19 countries for 2009–2020, our findings show that increasing …

The role of innovation in environmental-related technologies and institutional quality to drive environmental sustainability

M Shabir, I Hussain, Ö Işık, K Razzaq… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we examine the long-run effect of environmental-related technological
innovation, institutional quality, trade openness, energy consumption, and economic growth …

Coronavirus pandemic impact on bank performance

X Xiazi, M Shabir - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This study examines the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic on the performance
of the banking sector. Our sample consists of 1,575 banks in 85 countries from 2020Q1 to …

Assessing the nexus between COVID-19 pandemic–driven economic crisis and economic policy: lesson learned and challenges

L Chang, M Mohsin, W Iqbal - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This study examines China's budgetary policy during the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of
China's insufficient ability to deal with a new crisis when the epidemic struck in March 2020 …

Non-linear nexus between economic policy uncertainty and bank lending

M Shabir, P Jiang, SH Hashmi, S Bakhsh - International Review of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our study examines the non-linear effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on bank
lending, using bank-level panel data of 19 countries for the period 2006–2018. We find that …