Review of Financial Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of Financial Studies is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Real Effects of Secondary Market Trading Structure: Evidence from the Mortgage Market302
Disloyal Managers and Shareholders’ Wealth280
Publisher's Note273
Teams and Bankruptcy266
New Perspectives on Insurance261
Do Corporations Retain Too Much Cash? Evidence from a Natural Experiment186
Duration-Based Valuation of Corporate Bonds174
Corporate Capture of Blockchain Governance166
Volatility Risk Pass-Through145
Monetary Policy Risk: Rules versus Discretion129
The Leading Premium124
Erratum to: Investors’ Attention to Corporate Governance123
Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Consumer Behavior and Market Efficiency in the United States121
The Dynamics of Loan Sales and Lender Incentives121
Can Risk Be Shared across Investor Cohorts? Evidence from a Popular Savings Product121
Field of Study and Financial Problems: How Economics Reduces the Risk of Default112
Fractional Trading104
Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels99
Valuing Financial Data97
Health Care Costs and Corporate Investment94
Bail-Ins, Optimal Regulation, and Crisis Resolution93
The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates92
Noise in Expectations: Evidence from Analyst Forecasts90
High Inflation: Low Default Risk and Low Equity Valuations90
The Incidence of Student Loan Subsidies: Evidence from the PLUS Program87
Long-Term Investors, Demand Shifts, and Yields80
Real Consequences of Shocks to Intermediaries Supplying Corporate Hedging Instruments75
Competition and Innovation Revisited: A Project-Level View74
Macroprudential Regulation, Quantitative Easing, and Bank Lending73
Housing Consumption and Investment: Evidence from Shared Equity Mortgages73
A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives, Peer Information, and Retirement Savings72
A Theory of the Term Structure of Interest Rates under Limited Household Risk Sharing71
Digitalization and Retirement Contribution Behavior: Evidence from Administrative Data70
Student Loans, Access to Credit, and Consumer Credit Demand68
Designing Securities for Scrutiny68
Pay, Stay, or Delay? How to Settle a Run67
Credit Cycles, Expectations, and Corporate Investment66
How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets66
The Human Factor in Acquisitions: Cross-industry Labor Mobility and Corporate Diversification59
Labor Force Demographics and Corporate Innovation59
Gendered Prices55
Machine Learning for Continuous-Time Finance55
Illiquidity and Higher Cumulants54
The Total Return and Risk to Residential Real Estate53
Institutional Investors and Infrastructure Investing51
Stock Market Stimulus51
What Moves Stock Prices? The Roles of News, Noise, and Information51
Mutual Fund Liquidity Transformation and Reverse Flight to Liquidity51
Opioid Crisis Effects on Municipal Finance48
Asset Pricing with Fading Memory47
Trade Credit and the Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy47
OTC Intermediaries46
Narrative Asset Pricing: Interpretable Systematic Risk Factors from News Text46
Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups45
Monetary Policy, Business Liquidity and Survival: Evidence from the Refinancing Channel45
RETRACTED: Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters44
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space43
Do Temporary Demand Shocks Have Long-Term Effects for Startups?43
What Do Mutual Fund Investors Really Care About?42
Persistent Crises and Levered Asset Prices40
Import Penetration and Executive Compensation40
Bond Price Fragility and the Structure of the Mutual Fund Industry40
Markets versus Mechanisms39
Unmasking Mutual Fund Derivative Use38
Moving the Goalposts? Mutual Fund Benchmark Changes and Relative Performance Manipulation38
Banks as Liquidity Multipliers37
Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement37
House Prices and Rents36
Financial Crises and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Consumer Credit Markets36
Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. Insurance Industry: The Effects of Removing Capital Requirements for an Asset Class36
Adjusting to Macroprudential Policies: Loan-to-Value Limits and Housing Choice36
The Good, the Bad, and the Missed Boom36
Private Information, Securities Lending, and Asset Prices35
Human Capital Portability and Careers in Finance35
Short-Termism Spillovers from the Financial Industry33
Are Analyst “Top Picks” Informative?33
When Do Low-Frequency Measures Really Measure Effective Spreads? Evidence from Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets32
Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms32
Rating Agency Fees: Pay to Play in Public Finance?32
Fiscal Cyclicality and Currency Risk Premia32
International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds32
Asset Price Dynamics with Limited Attention30
Zombies at Large? Corporate Debt Overhang and the Macroeconomy30
Can Environmental Policy Encourage Technical Change? Emissions Taxes and R&D Investment in Polluting Firms28
Selection, Leverage, and Default in the Mortgage Market28
Liquidity Restrictions, Runs, and Central Bank Interventions: Evidence from Money Market Funds27
Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India27
The Market Inside the Market: Odd-Lot Quotes27
A Comprehensive 2022 Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction27
Do Wall Street Landlords Undermine Renters’ Welfare?27
The Next Chapter of Big Data in Finance27
The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data27
The Missing Homebuyers: Regional Heterogeneity and Credit Contractions26
Financial Market Ethics26
Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices25
Corporate Bond Liquidity during the COVID-19 Crisis25
How Global Is Your Mutual Fund? International Diversification from Multinationals25
Common Pricing of Decentralized Risk: A Linear Option Pricing Model25
Investor Memory25
Real Effects of Search Frictions in Consumer Credit Markets25
Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia24
Estimating General Equilibrium Spillovers of Large-Scale Shocks24
Disagreement in the Equity Options Market and Stock Returns24
What Determines Consumer Financial Distress? Place- and Person-Based Factors24
Do Investors Care about Impact?23
Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?23
Echo Chambers23
Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital23
Can Shorts Predict Returns? A Global Perspective23
Subjective Bond Returns and Belief Aggregation22
Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior22
Intermediaries and Asset Prices: International Evidence since 187022
Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Credit Chains22
News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions22
Comomentum: Inferring Arbitrage Activity from Return Correlations21
Extrapolative Bubbles and Trading Volume21
Factor Momentum21
The Impact of Risk Cycles on Business Cycles: A Historical View20
Trust and Insurance Contracts20
Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap-and-Trade Policy20
Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets20
Public Debt, Consumption Growth, and the Slope of the Term Structure19
Corporate ESG Profiles and Banking Relationships19
Who Can Tell Which Banks Will Fail?19
Risking or Derisking: How Management Fees Affect Hedge Fund Risk-Taking Choices19
The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Emissions: Evidence from the Swedish CO2 Tax19
Stock Return Extrapolation, Option Prices, and Variance Risk Premium19
Neglected Peers in Merger Valuations19
Why Did Bank Stocks Crash during COVID-19?18
The Technical Default Spread18
Money Market Disconnect18
The Equilibrium Consequences of Indexing17
Inflation and Individual Investors’ Behavior: Evidence from the German Hyperinflation17
The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach17
The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts’ Geographic Diversity16
Adverse Selection and Climate Risk: A Response to16
The Psychological Externalities of Investing: Evidence from Stock Returns and Crime16
Lest We Forget: Learn from Out-of-Sample Forecast Errors When Optimizing Portfolios16
The Bright Side of Political Uncertainty: The Case of R&D16
Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle16
Regulatory Limits to Risk Management16
Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle16
Recommendations with Feedback16
Persistent Blessings of Luck: Theory and an Application to Venture Capital15
The Role of Intermediaries in Selection Markets: Evidence from Mortgage Lending15
Do Robots Increase Wealth Dispersion?15
Short-term Momentum15
From Market Making to Matchmaking: Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity?15
Connected Funds15
Group-Managed Real Options15
Exchange-Traded Funds and Real Investment14
Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk14
Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?14
Where Has All the Data Gone?14
Who Mismanages Student Loans, and Why?14
The Imitation Game: The Imitation Game: How Encouraging Renegotiation Makes Good Borrowers Bad14
Syndicated Lending, Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation14
The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition14
War Discourse and Disaster Premium: 160 Years of Evidence from the Stock Market13
Small Bank Lending in the Era of Fintech and Shadow Banks: A Sideshow?13
Financing Infrastructure in the Shadow of Expropriation13
The Geography of Value Creation13
Existence of the Wealth-Consumption Ratio in Asset Pricing Models with Recursive Preferences13
Managing Mental Accounts: Payment Cards and Consumption Expenditures13
Which Subjective Expectations Explain Asset Prices?13
Counterparty Risk: Implications for Network Linkages and Asset Prices13
Mandatory Financial Disclosure and M&A Activity13
In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle12
Consumption Imputation Errors in Administrative Data12
Making the House a Home: The Stimulative Effect of Home Purchases on Consumption and Investment12
Should the Government Be Paying Investment Fees on $3 Trillion of Tax-Deferred Retirement Assets?12
Computational Reproducibility in Finance: Evidence from 1,000 Tests12
Get Real! Individuals Prefer More Sustainable Investments11
Biased by Choice: How Financial Constraints Can Reduce Financial Mistakes11
Learning in Financial Markets: Implications for Debt-Equity Conflicts11
Consumers as Financiers: Consumer Surplus, Crowdfunding, and Initial Coin Offerings11
Welfare Consequences of Sustainable Finance10
Socially Responsible Investing in Good and Bad Times10
Option Return Predictability with Machine Learning and Big Data10
Price elasticity of demand and risk-bearing capacity in sovereign bond auctions10
The Design of Macroprudential Stress Tests10
Creditor Control of Corporate Acquisitions10
Big Data in Finance9
Why Do Boards Exist? Governance Design in the Absence of Corporate Law9
Product Life Cycles in Corporate Finance9
Real and Private-Value Assets9
Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards9
Managing Households’ Expectations with Unconventional Policies9
Man versus Machine Learning: The Term Structure of Earnings Expectations and Conditional Biases9
Dark Pool Trading and Information Acquisition9
Local Effects of Global Capital Flows: A China Shock in the U.S. Housing Market8
Business Restrictions and COVID-19 Fatalities8
When Shareholders Disagree: Trading after Shareholder Meetings8
Does the Federal Reserve Obtain Competitive and Appropriate Prices in Monetary Policy Implementation?8
Acquiring Innovation under Information Frictions8
Distortions and Efficiency in Production Economies with Heterogeneous Beliefs8
Short Campaigns by Hedge Funds8
Dynamic Equilibrium with Costly Short-Selling and Lending Market8
Pretending Ignorance Is Bliss: Competing Insurers with Heterogeneous Informational Advantages7
The Oligopoly Lucas Tree7
Credit Ratings and Market Information7
Efficiency of Dynamic Portfolio Choices: An Experiment7
The Relationship Dilemma: Why Do Banks Differ in the Pace at Which They Adopt New Technology?7
Corporate Loan Spreads and Economic Activity7
Trendy Business Cycles and Asset Prices7
The Impact of Crisis-Period Interest Rate Declines on Distressed Borrowers7
Holding Period Effects in Dividend Strip Returns7
Crowded Trades and Tail Risk7
Effects of Credit Expansions on Stock Market Booms and Busts7
Gold’s Value as an Investment7
Product Innovation and Credit Market Disruptions7
It Takes Two to Borrow: The Effects of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act on Housing, Credit, and Labor Market Decisions of Married Couples7
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