Editor's Introduction

Kou, Gang A icle Edi o 's In oduc ion Financial Inno a ion P o ided in Coope a ion wi h: Sp inge Na u e Sugges ed Ci a ion: Kou, Gang (2017) : Edi o 's In oduc ion, Financial Inno a ion, ISSN 2199-4730, Sp inge , Heidelbe g, Vol. 3, Iss. 16, pp. 1-2, h ps://doi.o g/10.1186/s40854-017-0068-7 This Ve sion is a ailable a : h ps://hdl.handle.ne /10419/176458 S anda d-Nu zungsbedingungen: Die Dokumen e au EconS o dü en zu eigenen wissenscha lichen Zwecken und zum P i a geb auch gespeiche und kopie we den. Sie dü en die Dokumen e nich ü ö en liche ode komme zielle Zwecke e iel äl igen, ö en lich auss ellen, ö en lich zugänglich machen, e eiben ode ande wei ig nu zen. So e n die Ve asse die Dokumen e un e Open-Con en -Lizenzen (insbesonde e CC-Lizenzen) zu Ve ügung ges ell haben soll en, gel en abweichend on diesen Nu zungsbedingungen die in de do genann en Lizenz gewäh en Nu zungs ech e. Te ms o use: Documen s in EconS o may be sa ed and copied o you pe sonal and schola ly pu poses. You a e no o copy documen s o public o comme cial pu poses, o exhibi he documen s publicly, o make hem publicly a ailable on he in e ne , o o dis ibu e o o he wise use he documen s in public. I he documen s ha e been made a ailable unde an Open Con en Licence (especially C ea i e Commons Licences), you may exe cise u he usage igh s as speci ied in he indica ed licence. h p://c ea i ecommons.o g/licenses/by/4.0/ EDITORIAL Open Access Edi o ’s In oduc ion Gang Kou Co espondence: [email p o ec ed] School Business Adminis a ion, Sou hwes e n Uni e si y o Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, China The se en h issue o Financial Inno a ion (FIN), Volume 3, No. 1 (2017) p esen s nine pape s con ibu ed 26 au ho s and co-au ho s om se en coun ies and a eas: Came oon, China, Ghana, India, Pakis an, Sou h A ica and UK. The i s pape , “Sho - e m and long- e m In e connec edness o s ock e u ns in Wes e n Eu ope and he global ma ke ”, by Ajaya Kuma Panda and Swaga ika Nanda, alida es a s ong long un equilib ium ela ionship be ween he e u n dis ibu ions o he s ock ma ke s wi hin 17 coun ies. The second pape , “Dyna- mics o oil p ice shocks and s ock ma ke beha io in Pakis an: e idence om he 2007 inancial c isis pe iod”, by Khalil Jeb an, Shihua Chen, Goha Saeed and Alam Zeb, sugges s ha economic policymake s and in es o s should conside he oil p ice as an impo an ac o a ec ing s ock ma ke e u ns. The hi d pape , “Baidu index and p edic abili y o Chinese s ock e u ns”, by Dehua Shen, Yongjie Zhang, Xiong Xiong and Wei Zhang, in es iga es he ela ionship be ween Baidu Index and Chinese s ock e u ns and complemen he exis ing li e a u e on he p edic abili y o Chinese s ock e u ns. The ou h pape , “In e dependence be- ween he s ock ma ke and he bond ma ke in one coun y: e idence om he subp ime c isis and he Eu opean deb c isis”, by Ke Cheng and Xiaoguang Yang, analyzes he in e dependence be ween he s ock ma ke and he go e nmen bond ma ke du ing he c isis pe iods wi h 39 coun ies used as samples. The i h pape , “Financial inno a ion and i s go e nance: Cases o wo majo inno a ions in he inancial sec o ”, by Ke en Naa Abeka A hu , concludes ha inno a ion p ocesses and hei go e nance can a y signi ican ly acco ding o di e en a eas o he inancial landscape and associa ed inno a ion con ex s. The six h pape , “A wha le els o inancial de elopmen does in o ma ion sha ing ma e ?”,by Simplice A. Asongu and Jacin a C. Nwachukwu, in es iga es how an inc ease in in o ma ion-sha ing bu eaus a ec s inancial access. The se en h pape , “The an- si ion om adi ional banking o mobile in e ne inance: an o ganiza ional inno a ion pe spec i e - a compa a i e s udy o Ci ibank and ICBC”,byZhuming Chen, Yushan Li, Yawen Wu and Junjun Luo, analyzes he s a egies, o ganiza- ions, HR sys ems, and p oduc inno a ions adop ed by Indus ial and Comme cial Bank o China (ICBC) and Ci ibank in esponse o he impac o FinTech. The eigh h pape , “Economic ou look o ice c ops in Pakis an: a ime se ies analysis (1970–2015)”, by Abdul Rehman, Luan Jingdong, Abbas Ali Chandio, Muhammad Shabbi and Im an Hussain, sugges s ha he go e nmen o Pakis an should Financia l Inno a ion © The Au ho (s). 2017 Open Access This a icle is dis ibu ed unde he e ms o he C ea i e Commons A ibu ion 4.0 In e na ional License (h p://c ea i ecommons.o g/licenses/by/4.0/), which pe mi s un es ic ed use, dis ibu ion, and ep oduc ion in any medium, p o ided you gi e app op ia e c edi o he o iginal au ho (s) and he sou ce, p o ide a link o he C ea i e Commons license, and indica e i changes we e made. Kou Financial Inno a ion (2017) 3:16 DOI 10.1186/s40854-017-0068-7 design new policies and unding schemes o de eloping and imp o ing wa e a ail- abili y. The nin h pape , “Ma ke e iciency o gold exchange- aded unds in India”, by Rupel Na gunam and N. Anu adha, p o ides e idence ha he e icien ma ke hypo hesis does no hold o he gold exchange- aded unds’ma ke in India. Managing Edi o -in-Chie . Gang Kou. Recei ed: 13 Sep embe 2017 Accep ed: 13 Sep embe 2017 Kou Financial Inno a ion (2017) 3:16 Page 2 o 2