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Abstract Bitcoin adoption as a legal tender threatens a financial crisis because of the lack of regulatory frameworks and systems for exchanging Bitcoin into local currencies. This study analyzes monthly data from 2010 to 2022 using a structural vector autoregressive model, estimating Bitcoin’s pass-through into remittance, money multiplier, the US Dollar index, and gold price. The results show that Bitcoin prices decrease the money multiplier and gold prices in both the short and long run, while remittances moderately increase in the long run. The implication of these results suggests the potential for international business opportunities to stimulate the credit, savings, and investment monetary policy channel. The results are robust to alternative SVAR identification strategies.

This study investigates how the social connections of independent directors influence the disclosure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information. Using data from Taiwanese firms listed on the stock market between 2013 and 2019, we employ the propensity score matching (PSM) method to compare the social networks of independent directors in firms that disclose their CSR reports with those that do not. Our findings reveal that disclosing CSR reports positively affects the centrality of independent directors’ social networks. In other words, directors who participate in CSR reporting have greater influence and better access to information within their social circles. This effect is particularly pronounced for firms with more analysts following them. Additionally, our study demonstrates that having more central and well-connected independent directors, along with increased analyst coverage, leads to greater CSR disclosure by firms. These results highlight the importance of diverse and robust social capital in enhancing transparency and promoting sustainable development for organizations.