Review of Financial Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of Financial Studies is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels345
Valuing Financial Data345
How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets208
Macroprudential Regulation, Quantitative Easing, and Bank Lending171
Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Consumer Behavior and Market Efficiency in the United States169
The Real Effects of Secondary Market Trading Structure: Evidence from the Mortgage Market150
RETRACTED: Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters141
Duration-Based Valuation of Corporate Bonds141
Bail-Ins, Optimal Regulation, and Crisis Resolution134
Human Capital Portability and Careers in Finance127
Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices122
Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior112
Comomentum: Inferring Arbitrage Activity from Return Correlations105
Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Credit Chains104
Bond Price Fragility and the Structure of the Mutual Fund Industry98
Factor Momentum97
Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital96
The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data93
Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India91
Investor Memory90
Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap-and-Trade Policy90
Group-Managed Real Options89
Risking or Derisking: How Management Fees Affect Hedge Fund Risk-Taking Choices88
The Geography of Value Creation88
Who Mismanages Student Loans, and Why?79
Consumption Imputation Errors in Administrative Data77
Should the Government Be Paying Investment Fees on $3 Trillion of Tax-Deferred Retirement Assets?71
Public Debt, Consumption Growth, and the Slope of the Term Structure71
Where Has All the Data Gone?69
Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk67
Counterparty Risk: Implications for Network Linkages and Asset Prices64
The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition60
Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle59
The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach59
In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle59
Nonbank Lending and Credit Cyclicality56
The Oligopoly Lucas Tree54
Commonality in Credit Spread Changes: Dealer Inventory and Intermediary Distress53
Size Discount and Size Penalty: Trading Costs in Bond Markets53
Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?53
Conflicts of Interest in Municipal Bond Advising and Underwriting52
Simultaneous Multilateral Search50
Firm Networks and Asset Returns48
Deconstructing the Yield Curve47
Holding Period Effects in Dividend Strip Returns45
Horizon Bias and the Term Structure of Equity Returns44
Can Human Capital Explain Income-Based Disparities in Financial Services?44
Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract44
Ratings-Driven Demand and Systematic Price Fluctuations43
Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes43
Financial Disruptions and the Organization of Innovation: Evidence from the Great Depression42
SPACs42
Is Capital Structure Irrelevant with ESG Investors?42
The Cost of Bank Regulatory Capital41
Fast and Slow Arbitrage: The Predictive Power of (Persistent) Capital Flows for Factor Returns41
Cross-Subsidization of Bad Credit in a Lending Crisis41
Racial Disparities in the Auto Loan Market40
Equity Return Expectations and Portfolios: Evidence from Large Asset Managers40
Technological Progress and Rent Seeking39
The Life Cycle Effects of Corporate Takeover Defenses39
Institutional Brokerage Networks: Facilitating Liquidity Provision38
What Drives Firms’ Hiring Decisions? An Asset Pricing Perspective38
Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics37
The Financial Channel of the Exchange Rate and Global Trade36
An Intermediation-Based Model of Exchange Rates36
Health Care Costs and Corporate Investment33
Regulatory Intensity and Firm-Specific Exposure33
The Incidence of Student Loan Subsidies: Evidence from the PLUS Program33
Macroeconomic Attention and Announcement Risk Premia33
Do Temporary Demand Shocks Have Long-Term Effects for Startups?32
Credit Cycles, Expectations, and Corporate Investment32
A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives, Peer Information, and Retirement Savings31
Monetary Policy Risk: Rules versus Discretion31
Trade Credit and the Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy31
The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates29
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space29
Unmasking Mutual Fund Derivative Use28
Political Sentiment and Innovation: Evidence from Patenters28
Hedging, Contract Enforceability, and Competition28
Financial Crises and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Consumer Credit Markets27
What Determines Consumer Financial Distress? Place- and Person-Based Factors27
International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds26
Are Analyst “Top Picks” Informative?26
Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?25
Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia25
Can Environmental Policy Encourage Technical Change? Emissions Taxes and R&D Investment in Polluting Firms25
Dynamic Coordination and Bankruptcy Regulations25
Syndicated Lending, Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation24
A Comprehensive 2022 Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction24
Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle23
Adverse Selection and Climate Risk: A Response to23
The Psychological Externalities of Investing: Evidence from Stock Returns and Crime23
Making the House a Home: The Stimulative Effect of Home Purchases on Consumption and Investment23
Neglected Peers in Merger Valuations22
Income Shifting out of the United States by Foreign Multinational Firms22
Π-CAPM: The Classical CAPM with Probability Weighting and Skewed Assets22
The Effects of Going Public on Firm Profitability and Strategy22
Connected Funds22
The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts’ Geographic Diversity22
COVID-19 and Its Impact on Financial Markets and the Real Economy21
Man versus Machine Learning: The Term Structure of Earnings Expectations and Conditional Biases21
Mandatory Financial Disclosure and M&A Activity21
The Effect of Stock Liquidity on the Firm’s Investment and Production21
Product Innovation and Credit Market Disruptions21
Beliefs about the Stock Market and Investment Choices: Evidence from a Survey and a Field Experiment21
The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment21
How Does Removing the Tax Benefits of Debt Affect Firms? Evidence from the 2017 U.S. Tax Reform20
Dynamic Equilibrium with Costly Short-Selling and Lending Market20
Common Venture Capital Investors and Startup Growth20
Credit Freezes, Equilibrium Multiplicity, and Optimal Bailouts in Financial Networks20
Earnings Extrapolation and Predictable Stock Market Returns20
Digital Tokens and Platform Building20
Gold’s Value as an Investment20
Benchmarking Intensity20
The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks: Household Financial Distress Matters19
When FinTech Competes for Payment Flows19
The Savings of Corporate Giants18
Risk Price Variation: The Missing Half of Empirical Asset Pricing18
Order Flows and Financial Investor Impacts in Commodity Futures Markets18
Seller Debt in Acquisitions of Private Firms: A Security Design Approach18
Unemployment Insurance as a Subsidy to Risky Firms17
The Labor Market Effects of Loan Guarantee Programs17
Cross-Selling in Bank-Household Relationships: Mechanisms and Implications for Pricing17
Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities17
Finance, Advertising, and Race17
Intellectual Property Rights and Debt Financing17
Correction to: A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards17
The Distribution of Nonwage Benefits: Maternity Benefits and Gender Diversity16
Remote Board Meetings and Board Monitoring Effectiveness: Evidence from China16
Information versus Investment16
A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards16
Competition Links and Stock Returns16
A Quantitative Model of Dynamic Moral Hazard16
Uncertainty, Contracting, and Beliefs in Organizations16
Field of Study and Financial Problems: How Economics Reduces the Risk of Default15
Narrative Asset Pricing: Interpretable Systematic Risk Factors from News Text15
Quick or Broad Patents? Evidence from U.S. Startups15
Monetary Policy, Business Liquidity and Survival: Evidence from the Refinancing Channel15
Liquidity Provision on Blockchain-Based Decentralized Exchanges15
New Perspectives on Insurance15
Asset Pricing with Fading Memory15
Mutual Fund Liquidity Transformation and Reverse Flight to Liquidity14
Banks as Liquidity Multipliers14
Competition and Innovation Revisited: A Project-Level View14
The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Emissions: Evidence from the Swedish CO2 Tax14
Real Consequences of Shocks to Intermediaries Supplying Corporate Hedging Instruments14
Stock Market Stimulus14
Markets versus Mechanisms14
When Do Low-Frequency Measures Really Measure Effective Spreads? Evidence from Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets13
Corporate ESG Profiles and Banking Relationships13
Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. Insurance Industry: The Effects of Removing Capital Requirements for an Asset Class13
Subjective Bond Returns and Belief Aggregation13
Adjusting to Macroprudential Policies: Loan-to-Value Limits and Housing Choice13
Existence of the Wealth-Consumption Ratio in Asset Pricing Models with Recursive Preferences12
News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions12
What Private Equity Does Differently: Evidence from Life Insurance11
Price elasticity of demand and risk-bearing capacity in sovereign bond auctions11
Pretending Ignorance Is Bliss: Competing Insurers with Heterogeneous Informational Advantages11
The Effects of Capital Requirements on Good and Bad Risk-Taking11
An Equilibrium Model of Imperfect Hedging: Transaction Costs, Heterogeneity in Risk Aversion, and Return Volatility11
From Market Making to Matchmaking: Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity?11
Leaky Director Networks and Innovation Herding11
Can Equity Option Returns Be Explained by a Factor Model? IPCA Says Yes11
Capital Investment, Equity Returns, and Aggregate Dynamics in Oligopolistic Production Economies11
The Elasticity of Quantitative Investment11
Steering a Ship in Illiquid Waters: Active Management of Passive Funds11
Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards11
Does the Federal Reserve Obtain Competitive and Appropriate Prices in Monetary Policy Implementation?11
Acquiring Innovation under Information Frictions10
Dark Pool Trading and Information Acquisition10
The Relationship Dilemma: Why Do Banks Differ in the Pace at Which They Adopt New Technology?10
How Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity?10
Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N110
Credit Ratings and Market Information10
Cybersecurity Risk10
Why Do Firms Borrow Directly from Nonbanks?10
The Financial Consequences of Pretrial Detention10
The Disutility of Stock Market Losses: Evidence From Domestic Violence9
Measuring the Expected Effects of the Global Tax Reform9
Committee-Based Blockchains as Games between Opportunistic Players and Adversaries9
The Partisanship of Financial Regulators9
Capital Spillover, House Prices, and Consumer Spending: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from House Purchase Restrictions9
Blood Money: Selling Plasma to Avoid High-Interest Loans9
The Overnight Drift9
Currency Risk Premiums Redux9
Who Holds Sovereign Debt and Why It Matters8
The Market Risk Premium for Unsecured Consumer Credit Risk8
Proof-of-Work versus Proof-of-Stake: A Comparative Economic Analysis8
The Impact of Restricting Labor Mobility on Corporate Investment and Entrepreneurship8
The Dynamics of Disagreement8
Reference Points Spillovers: Micro-Level Evidence from Real Estate8
Socially Responsible Finance: How to Optimize Impact8
Countercyclical Labor Income Risk and Portfolio Choices over the Life Cycle8
The Hedging Channel of Exchange Rate Determination8
Shared Destinies? Small Banks and Small Businesses8
Liquidity Constraints, Consumption, and Debt Repayment: Evidence from Macroprudential Policy in Turkey8
The Gender Investment Gap over the Life Cycle8
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