International Business & Economics Studies
International Business & Economics Studies (IBES) is an international, Refereed, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Scholink. The journal aims to provide a high-level platform for scholars and researchers all over the world to share latest findings and views in the field of Business & Economics Studies. We would welcome scholars and researchers engaging in the related field to submit your manuscripts which are complete unpublished and original works and not under review in any other journals to IBES. Both of online submission and E-mail submission (ibes@scholink.org) are acceptable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The journal includes, but is not limited to the following fields: Business Entrepreneurship Marketing Commerce Economics Financial Economics Regional Economics Economic Growth Economic Policies Economic Indicators Industrial Economics International Economics Managerial Economics Regional Development Agricultural Economics Management Finance Banking Accounting Buyer Behavior Corporate Governance Organizational Behavior Quantitative Methods and Their Applications Financial Management Decision and Risk Analysis Human Resource Management ----------------------------------------- Index/List/Archive CNKI-Scholar CrossRef WANFANGDATA LinkedIn ResearchGate ResearchBib Yahoo Google Scholar Canadiana ResearchBib Base Search CrossRef Worldcat PKP Open Archives Harvester Lockss Publons ISSN PORTAL Refereed Journal: International Business & Economics Studies is a Refereed Journal. Open access: International Business & Economics Studies is available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." Peer review: International Business & Economics Studies takes peer review policy. Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).
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Social Insurance Burden and Firms’ Outward FDI: Evidence From Chinese Enterprise Data
This study examines how the social insurance burden affects firms’ decisions to invest abroad. We construct a structural investment model to show that higher domestic labor costs induced by social insurance contributions diminish the relative profitability of local operations and consequently enhance the incentive for firms’ outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). Using panel data on Chinese listed firms from 2007 to 2022, we employ a two-way fixed effects regression to test the causal relationship between firms’ social insurance burden and their decision and scale of OFDI. The results indicate that heavier social insurance burden significantly increase firms’ OFDI activities. Furthermore, this relationship is moderated by firms’ productivity and risk preference. In addition, we find that the positive effects are more pronounced among non-state-owned firms, those operating in the manufacturing sector, and firms located in the eastern regions of the country. The results demonstrate that social insurance policies play an important role in firms’ globalization strategies. Policymakers should balance social welfare financing with measures to maintain firms’ competitiveness in international markets.
Copyright (c) 2026 Gan Lin, Ruyan Tang, Zhen Wu, Yisheng Ning http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Board Decision-making Logic, Equity Nature, and Bank Environmental Lending
This article explores the impact of bank governance on bank environmental lending, using a manually collected sample of China’s city commercial banks from 2008 to 2018. The empirical results show that government ownership can promote bank environmental lending and a board of directors with a preference for social logic can positively moderate the relationship between them. In addition, the positive moderating effect is more pronounced in banks with state-owned shareholders as the largest shareholder and banks located in provincial capital cities. This paper is beneficial for expanding the understanding of the interaction between equity nature and board decision-making process in bank governance.
Copyright (c) 2026 Yana Zhou http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0