1. Position/Title  

Associate Professor

2. Contact Information

adnansafii@gmail.com / adnansafi@qdu.edu.cn

+86-17669471646

3. Research Interests / Research Direction

Environmental Economics, Green Finance, Behavioral Finance, Corporate Finance, Banking and Finance.

4. Education and Qualification

Ph.D. (Applied Economics- Finance), School of Economics, Qingdao University, Shandong, China.
Master's in Finance, Federal Urdu University of Arts Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance), Hazara University, KP, Pakistan.

5. Research Publications

Adnan Safi, Yingying Chen, Salman Wahab, Shahid Ali, Yi Xianrong, and Muhammad Imran. "Financial instability and consumption-based carbon emission in E-7 countries: The role of trade and economic growth." Sustainable Production and Consumption 27 (2021): 383-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2020.10.034

Adnan Safi, Yingying Chen, Liya Zheng. The impact of energy productivity and Eco-innovation on sustainable environment in Emerging-Seven (E-7) countries: Does institutional quality matter?. Frontier in Public Health, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.878243

Adnan Safi, Yingying Chen, Salman Wahab, Liya Zheng, Husam Rjoub, Does environmental taxes achieve the carbon neutrality target of G7 economies? Evaluating the importance of environmental R&D. Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 293, 1 September 2021, 112908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112908

Adnan Safi, Yingying Chen, Abdul Qayyum, Salman Wahab, Business strategy, market power, and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China. Risk Management 24, 34–54 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41283-021-00080-9

Adnan Safi, Yi Xianrong, Salman Wahab, Yingying Chen & Hassan Hassan, CEO overconfidence, firm-specific factors, and systemic risk: evidence from China. Risk Management 23, 30–47 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41283-021-00066-7

Adnan Safi, Qiu-Su Wang, Salman Wahab, Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and environment: evidence from fiscally decentralized economies. Environmental Science and pollution research (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19860-1

Adnan Safi, Salman Wahab, Faheem Zeb, Maaz Amin, Yingying Chen, Does financial stability and renewable energy promote sustainable environment in G-7 Countries? The role of income and international trade. Environmental Science and pollution research 28, 47628–47640 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13991-7

Adnan Safi & Muhammad Ismail Ramay. Corporate social responsibility and consumer behavior: A study from Pakistan. Information Management and Business Review, 5(4), 194-202.

Arshad Ahmad Khan, Jianchao Luo, Adnan Safi*, Sufyan Ullah Khan, and Muhammad Abu Sufyan Ali. "What determines volatility in natural resources? Evaluating the role of political risk index." Resources Policy 75 (2022): 102540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102540

Salman Wahab, Muhammad Iman, Adnan Safi*, Zeeshan Wahab, Dervis Kirikkaleli, Role of financial stability, technological innovation, and renewable energy in achieving sustainable development goals in BRICS countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-18810-1

Maaz Amin, Shengqi Zhou, and Adnan Safi*. "The nexus between consumption-based carbon emissions, trade, eco-innovation, and energy productivity: empirical evidence from N-11 economies." Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2022): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-18327-z

Yingying Chen, Adnan Safi*, Yasir Zeb. "How does CEO power and overconfidence affect the systemic risk of China's financial institutions?". Frontiers in Psychology (2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.847988  

Khan, Arshad Ahmad, Sufyan Ullah Khan, Muhammad Abu Sufyan Ali, Adnan Safi, Yuling Gao, Muhammad Ali, and Jianchao Luo. "Role of institutional quality and renewable energy consumption in achieving carbon neutrality: Case study of G-7 economies." Science of The Total Environment 814 (2022): 152797.

Salman Wahab, Xibao Zhang, Adnan Safi, Zeeshan Wahab, and Maaz Amin. "Does energy productivity and technological innovation limit trade-adjusted carbon emissions?." Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja 34, no. 1 (2021): 1896-1912. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1860111

Jian Zhou, Lucinda Sawyer, and Adnan Safi. "Institutional pressure and green product success: the role of green transformational leadership, green innovation, and green brand image." Frontiers in Psychology 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.704855

Zeb, Ali, Fazal Akbar, Khawar Hussain, Adnan Safi, Muhammad Rabnawaz, and Faheem Zeb. "The competing value framework model of organizational culture, innovation and performance." Business process management journal (2021).

Zeb, Ali, Nor Hazana Abdullah, Altaf Hussain, and Adnan Safi. "Authentic leadership, knowledge sharing, and employees' creativity." Management Research Review (2020).

Salman Wahab, Adnan Safi, Zeeshan Wahab, Maaz Amin, and Xibao Zhang. "China–United States trade war: Does devaluation favors China? An application NARDL." Journal of Public Affairs 21, no. 3 (2021): e2234. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2234

Wahab, Salman, Adnan Safi, Zeeshan Wahab, Nawaz Ali Shah, and Xibao Zhang. "Choice between formal and informal financing in cottage industry firm: The application of robust regression." Journal of Public Affairs 22, no. 1 (2022): e2241. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2241

Adnan Safi, Yingying Chen, Abdul Qayum, Salman Wahan, Maaz Amin. Does Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility enhance the firm's Investment efficiency and performance? Evidence from the financial sector of China. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja [Forthcoming]

6. Conference Paper

Liang Zhao, Leilei Chen, and Adnan Safi*. 2022. Blockchain Technology in Post-Covid Agriculture. In 2022 5th International Conference on Computers in Management and Business (ICCMB) (ICCMB 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 50–55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3512676.3512685

7. Other Awards

Bronze Award in the 6th China international College Students' 'Internet + 'Innovation and entrepreneurship competition 2020.

Chinese Government Scholarship, Qingdao University, China. 2018 to 2022.