Review of Financial Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of Financial Studies is 9. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bail-Ins, Optimal Regulation, and Crisis Resolution310
Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Consumer Behavior and Market Efficiency in the United States305
The Real Effects of Secondary Market Trading Structure: Evidence from the Mortgage Market194
Valuing Financial Data194
Macroprudential Regulation, Quantitative Easing, and Bank Lending161
RETRACTED: Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters139
Duration-Based Valuation of Corporate Bonds136
How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets136
Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels135
Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Credit Chains129
Human Capital Portability and Careers in Finance123
Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior122
The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data120
Comomentum: Inferring Arbitrage Activity from Return Correlations102
Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India101
Investor Memory98
Factor Momentum96
Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital94
Bond Price Fragility and the Structure of the Mutual Fund Industry92
Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap-and-Trade Policy91
Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices87
The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach87
Group-Managed Real Options87
Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle83
Risking or Derisking: How Management Fees Affect Hedge Fund Risk-Taking Choices82
In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle81
The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition80
Counterparty Risk: Implications for Network Linkages and Asset Prices78
Should the Government Be Paying Investment Fees on $3 Trillion of Tax-Deferred Retirement Assets?76
Who Mismanages Student Loans, and Why?75
Consumption Imputation Errors in Administrative Data72
The Geography of Value Creation70
Where Has All the Data Gone?68
Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk67
Nonbank Lending and Credit Cyclicality62
Distortions and Efficiency in Production Economies with Heterogeneous Beliefs60
Public Debt, Consumption Growth, and the Slope of the Term Structure60
Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract59
Can Human Capital Explain Income-Based Disparities in Financial Services?59
Conflicts of Interest in Municipal Bond Advising and Underwriting58
Holding Period Effects in Dividend Strip Returns56
Commonality in Credit Spread Changes: Dealer Inventory and Intermediary Distress54
Simultaneous Multilateral Search53
Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?52
Efficiency of Dynamic Portfolio Choices: An Experiment50
Firm Networks and Asset Returns50
Size Discount and Size Penalty: Trading Costs in Bond Markets50
The Oligopoly Lucas Tree47
Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes47
Ratings-Driven Demand and Systematic Price Fluctuations46
Horizon Bias and the Term Structure of Equity Returns46
Is Capital Structure Irrelevant with ESG Investors?45
Deconstructing the Yield Curve45
Racial Disparities in the Auto Loan Market43
Cross-Subsidization of Bad Credit in a Lending Crisis43
The Life Cycle Effects of Corporate Takeover Defenses42
Fast and Slow Arbitrage: The Predictive Power of (Persistent) Capital Flows for Factor Returns42
Equity Return Expectations and Portfolios: Evidence from Large Asset Managers42
SPACs40
Technological Progress and Rent Seeking39
The Cost of Bank Regulatory Capital39
Financial Disruptions and the Organization of Innovation: Evidence from the Great Depression39
What Drives Firms’ Hiring Decisions? An Asset Pricing Perspective39
Macroeconomic Attention and Announcement Risk Premia38
The Incidence of Student Loan Subsidies: Evidence from the PLUS Program38
An Intermediation-Based Model of Exchange Rates38
Institutional Brokerage Networks: Facilitating Liquidity Provision38
The Party Structure of Mutual Funds38
Regulatory Intensity and Firm-Specific Exposure38
Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics38
Health Care Costs and Corporate Investment36
A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives, Peer Information, and Retirement Savings35
The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates35
Credit Cycles, Expectations, and Corporate Investment34
Do Temporary Demand Shocks Have Long-Term Effects for Startups?33
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space33
Monetary Policy Risk: Rules versus Discretion33
Political Sentiment and Innovation: Evidence from Patenters33
What Do Mutual Fund Investors Really Care About?32
Are Analyst “Top Picks” Informative?32
Trade Credit and the Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy32
International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds31
A Comprehensive 2022 Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction31
Unmasking Mutual Fund Derivative Use30
What Determines Consumer Financial Distress? Place- and Person-Based Factors30
Hedging, Contract Enforceability, and Competition29
Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?28
Can Environmental Policy Encourage Technical Change? Emissions Taxes and R&D Investment in Polluting Firms28
Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia28
Financial Crises and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Consumer Credit Markets28
Neglected Peers in Merger Valuations27
The Psychological Externalities of Investing: Evidence from Stock Returns and Crime27
Connected Funds27
The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts’ Geographic Diversity26
Syndicated Lending, Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation25
Mandatory Financial Disclosure and M&A Activity25
Income Shifting out of the United States by Foreign Multinational Firms25
Making the House a Home: The Stimulative Effect of Home Purchases on Consumption and Investment25
The Effects of Going Public on Firm Profitability and Strategy25
Digital Tokens and Platform Building24
Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle24
Adverse Selection and Climate Risk: A Response to24
Earnings Extrapolation and Predictable Stock Market Returns23
Beliefs about the Stock Market and Investment Choices: Evidence from a Survey and a Field Experiment23
Credit Freezes, Equilibrium Multiplicity, and Optimal Bailouts in Financial Networks22
Dynamic Equilibrium with Costly Short-Selling and Lending Market22
Business Restrictions and COVID-19 Fatalities22
Gold’s Value as an Investment22
Product Innovation and Credit Market Disruptions22
Common Venture Capital Investors and Startup Growth22
Man versus Machine Learning: The Term Structure of Earnings Expectations and Conditional Biases21
COVID-19 and Its Impact on Financial Markets and the Real Economy21
The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment21
Benchmarking Intensity21
The Effect of Stock Liquidity on the Firm’s Investment and Production21
Unemployment Insurance as a Subsidy to Risky Firms20
The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks: Household Financial Distress Matters20
Order Flows and Financial Investor Impacts in Commodity Futures Markets20
The Labor Market Effects of Loan Guarantee Programs19
Cross-Selling in Bank-Household Relationships: Mechanisms and Implications for Pricing19
Risk Price Variation: The Missing Half of Empirical Asset Pricing19
The Savings of Corporate Giants19
Seller Debt in Acquisitions of Private Firms: A Security Design Approach19
Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities19
Correction to: A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards18
A Quantitative Model of Dynamic Moral Hazard18
Competition Links and Stock Returns18
Intellectual Property Rights and Debt Financing18
Uncertainty, Contracting, and Beliefs in Organizations18
Information versus Investment18
When FinTech Competes for Payment Flows18
A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards18
The Distribution of Nonwage Benefits: Maternity Benefits and Gender Diversity18
Stock Market Stimulus17
Remote Board Meetings and Board Monitoring Effectiveness: Evidence from China17
Competition and Innovation Revisited: A Project-Level View17
New Perspectives on Insurance17
Quick or Broad Patents? Evidence from U.S. Startups17
Field of Study and Financial Problems: How Economics Reduces the Risk of Default16
Asset Pricing with Fading Memory16
Monetary Policy, Business Liquidity and Survival: Evidence from the Refinancing Channel16
Narrative Asset Pricing: Interpretable Systematic Risk Factors from News Text16
Real Consequences of Shocks to Intermediaries Supplying Corporate Hedging Instruments16
Mutual Fund Liquidity Transformation and Reverse Flight to Liquidity16
Banks as Liquidity Multipliers15
Markets versus Mechanisms15
Subjective Bond Returns and Belief Aggregation15
When Do Low-Frequency Measures Really Measure Effective Spreads? Evidence from Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets15
Can Shorts Predict Returns? A Global Perspective15
Adjusting to Macroprudential Policies: Loan-to-Value Limits and Housing Choice15
News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions14
Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. Insurance Industry: The Effects of Removing Capital Requirements for an Asset Class14
Existence of the Wealth-Consumption Ratio in Asset Pricing Models with Recursive Preferences14
The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Emissions: Evidence from the Swedish CO2 Tax14
Price elasticity of demand and risk-bearing capacity in sovereign bond auctions14
Corporate ESG Profiles and Banking Relationships14
From Market Making to Matchmaking: Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity?14
The Financial Consequences of Pretrial Detention13
Pretending Ignorance Is Bliss: Competing Insurers with Heterogeneous Informational Advantages13
Can Equity Option Returns Be Explained by a Factor Model? IPCA Says Yes13
How Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity?13
Option Return Predictability13
The Relationship Dilemma: Why Do Banks Differ in the Pace at Which They Adopt New Technology?13
Steering a Ship in Illiquid Waters: Active Management of Passive Funds13
Does the Federal Reserve Obtain Competitive and Appropriate Prices in Monetary Policy Implementation?13
Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards13
Acquiring Innovation under Information Frictions13
Dark Pool Trading and Information Acquisition12
What Private Equity Does Differently: Evidence from Life Insurance12
Cybersecurity Risk12
Credit Ratings and Market Information12
The Effects of Capital Requirements on Good and Bad Risk-Taking12
Blood Money: Selling Plasma to Avoid High-Interest Loans11
Capital Investment, Equity Returns, and Aggregate Dynamics in Oligopolistic Production Economies11
The Hedging Channel of Exchange Rate Determination11
An Equilibrium Model of Imperfect Hedging: Transaction Costs, Heterogeneity in Risk Aversion, and Return Volatility11
Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N111
Why Do Firms Borrow Directly from Nonbanks?11
Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry11
Measuring the Expected Effects of the Global Tax Reform10
Committee-Based Blockchains as Games between Opportunistic Players and Adversaries10
The Partisanship of Financial Regulators10
The Disutility of Stock Market Losses: Evidence From Domestic Violence10
A Model of Two Days: Discrete News and Asset Prices10
Capital Spillover, House Prices, and Consumer Spending: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from House Purchase Restrictions10
Currency Risk Premiums Redux10
Liquidity Constraints, Consumption, and Debt Repayment: Evidence from Macroprudential Policy in Turkey9
Proof-of-Work versus Proof-of-Stake: A Comparative Economic Analysis9
The Dynamics of Disagreement9
Countercyclical Labor Income Risk and Portfolio Choices over the Life Cycle9
The Impact of Restricting Labor Mobility on Corporate Investment and Entrepreneurship9
The Market Risk Premium for Unsecured Consumer Credit Risk9
Who Holds Sovereign Debt and Why It Matters9
The Overnight Drift9
The Gender Investment Gap over the Life Cycle9
Director Appointments: It Is Who You Know9
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