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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Macroprudential Regulation, Quantitative Easing, and Bank Lending367
Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Consumer Behavior and Market Efficiency in the United States359
The Real Effects of Secondary Market Trading Structure: Evidence from the Mortgage Market212
How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets189
Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels188
Duration-Based Valuation of Corporate Bonds167
Bail-Ins, Optimal Regulation, and Crisis Resolution144
RETRACTED: Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters139
Valuing Financial Data122
Human Capital Portability and Careers in Finance121
Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior111
Bond Price Fragility and the Structure of the Mutual Fund Industry108
Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices106
Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital105
The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data103
Investor Memory99
Comomentum: Inferring Arbitrage Activity from Return Correlations98
Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Credit Chains94
Factor Momentum94
Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India93
Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap-and-Trade Policy91
Group-Managed Real Options84
Risking or Derisking: How Management Fees Affect Hedge Fund Risk-Taking Choices83
Public Debt, Consumption Growth, and the Slope of the Term Structure82
Should the Government Be Paying Investment Fees on $3 Trillion of Tax-Deferred Retirement Assets?78
The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach74
Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle70
In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle67
Nonbank Lending and Credit Cyclicality67
The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition65
Counterparty Risk: Implications for Network Linkages and Asset Prices62
The Geography of Value Creation62
Where Has All the Data Gone?62
Who Mismanages Student Loans, and Why?56
Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk56
Commonality in Credit Spread Changes: Dealer Inventory and Intermediary Distress55
Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?55
Deconstructing the Yield Curve54
Simultaneous Multilateral Search54
Firm Networks and Asset Returns51
Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract49
Failure to Share Natural Disaster Risk48
Conflicts of Interest in Municipal Bond Advising and Underwriting48
Can Human Capital Explain Income-Based Disparities in Financial Services?48
Ratings-Driven Demand and Systematic Price Fluctuations46
Horizon Bias and the Term Structure of Equity Returns46
Size Discount and Size Penalty: Trading Costs in Bond Markets46
The Oligopoly Lucas Tree45
Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes44
The Cost of Bank Regulatory Capital44
Holding Period Effects in Dividend Strip Returns44
Fast and Slow Arbitrage: The Predictive Power of (Persistent) Capital Flows for Factor Returns44
SPACs42
Cross-Subsidization of Bad Credit in a Lending Crisis41
The Life Cycle Effects of Corporate Takeover Defenses41
Equity Return Expectations and Portfolios: Evidence from Large Asset Managers40
Is Capital Structure Irrelevant with ESG Investors?39
Racial Disparities in the Auto Loan Market39
Financial Disruptions and the Organization of Innovation: Evidence from the Great Depression39
Technological Progress and Rent Seeking37
An Intermediation-Based Model of Exchange Rates36
What Drives Firms’ Hiring Decisions? An Asset Pricing Perspective35
Institutional Brokerage Networks: Facilitating Liquidity Provision34
The Financial Channel of the Exchange Rate and Global Trade34
Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics33
Regulatory Intensity and Firm-Specific Exposure33
The Incidence of Student Loan Subsidies: Evidence from the PLUS Program33
Macroeconomic Attention and Announcement Risk Premia33
Health Care Costs and Corporate Investment32
The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates31
Credit Cycles, Expectations, and Corporate Investment31
Identifying Price Informativeness30
Political Sentiment and Innovation: Evidence from Patenters30
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space30
Trade Credit and the Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy28
Do Temporary Demand Shocks Have Long-Term Effects for Startups?27
Unmasking Mutual Fund Derivative Use27
Hedging, Contract Enforceability, and Competition26
Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?26
Financial Crises and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Consumer Credit Markets26
Are Analyst “Top Picks” Informative?26
Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia26
Dynamic Coordination and Bankruptcy Regulations26
What Determines Consumer Financial Distress? Place- and Person-Based Factors25
International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds25
Connected Funds24
Can Environmental Policy Encourage Technical Change? Emissions Taxes and R&D Investment in Polluting Firms24
Income Shifting out of the United States by Foreign Multinational Firms24
A Comprehensive 2022 Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction24
Adverse Selection and Climate Risk: A Response to23
The Effects of Going Public on Firm Profitability and Strategy23
Mandatory Financial Disclosure and M&A Activity23
Making the House a Home: The Stimulative Effect of Home Purchases on Consumption and Investment23
Syndicated Lending, Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation23
Neglected Peers in Merger Valuations23
Π-CAPM: The Classical CAPM with Probability Weighting and Skewed Assets23
Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle23
The Psychological Externalities of Investing: Evidence from Stock Returns and Crime23
Earnings Extrapolation and Predictable Stock Market Returns22
Beliefs about the Stock Market and Investment Choices: Evidence from a Survey and a Field Experiment22
The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts’ Geographic Diversity22
Product Innovation and Credit Market Disruptions22
How Does Removing the Tax Benefits of Debt Affect Firms? Evidence from the 2017 U.S. Tax Reform22
Gold’s Value as an Investment22
Digital Tokens and Platform Building21
Credit Freezes, Equilibrium Multiplicity, and Optimal Bailouts in Financial Networks21
The Effect of Stock Liquidity on the Firm’s Investment and Production21
Dynamic Equilibrium with Costly Short-Selling and Lending Market21
The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment20
Common Venture Capital Investors and Startup Growth20
Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities19
Seller Debt in Acquisitions of Private Firms: A Security Design Approach19
Intellectual Property Rights and Debt Financing19
Benchmarking Intensity19
The Savings of Corporate Giants19
Man versus Machine Learning: The Term Structure of Earnings Expectations and Conditional Biases19
Finance, Advertising, and Race18
The Labor Market Effects of Loan Guarantee Programs18
Order Flows and Financial Investor Impacts in Commodity Futures Markets18
The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks: Household Financial Distress Matters18
Cross-Selling in Bank-Household Relationships: Mechanisms and Implications for Pricing18
Option Pricing with Time-Varying Volatility Risk Aversion17
Unemployment Insurance as a Subsidy to Risky Firms17
When FinTech Competes for Payment Flows17
Risk Price Variation: The Missing Half of Empirical Asset Pricing16
A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards16
The Distribution of Nonwage Benefits: Maternity Benefits and Gender Diversity16
Correction to: A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards16
Competition Links and Stock Returns16
Uncertainty, Contracting, and Beliefs in Organizations16
Information versus Investment16
Mutual Fund Liquidity Transformation and Reverse Flight to Liquidity15
Remote Board Meetings and Board Monitoring Effectiveness: Evidence from China15
Liquidity Provision on Blockchain-Based Decentralized Exchanges15
New Perspectives on Insurance15
A Quantitative Model of Dynamic Moral Hazard15
Real Consequences of Shocks to Intermediaries Supplying Corporate Hedging Instruments15
Monetary Policy, Business Liquidity and Survival: Evidence from the Refinancing Channel15
Competition and Innovation Revisited: A Project-Level View14
Markets versus Mechanisms14
Stock Market Stimulus14
Narrative Asset Pricing: Interpretable Systematic Risk Factors from News Text14
Field of Study and Financial Problems: How Economics Reduces the Risk of Default14
Banks as Liquidity Multipliers14
News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions13
Adjusting to Macroprudential Policies: Loan-to-Value Limits and Housing Choice13
Subjective Bond Returns and Belief Aggregation13
When Do Low-Frequency Measures Really Measure Effective Spreads? Evidence from Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets13
The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Emissions: Evidence from the Swedish CO2 Tax13
Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. Insurance Industry: The Effects of Removing Capital Requirements for an Asset Class13
Existence of the Wealth-Consumption Ratio in Asset Pricing Models with Recursive Preferences12
Steering a Ship in Illiquid Waters: Active Management of Passive Funds12
The Elasticity of Quantitative Investment12
From Market Making to Matchmaking: Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity?12
Leaky Director Networks and Innovation Herding12
Corporate ESG Profiles and Banking Relationships12
Price elasticity of demand and risk-bearing capacity in sovereign bond auctions12
The Relationship Dilemma: Why Do Banks Differ in the Pace at Which They Adopt New Technology?12
The Effects of Capital Requirements on Good and Bad Risk-Taking11
Does the Federal Reserve Obtain Competitive and Appropriate Prices in Monetary Policy Implementation?11
Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards11
The Financial Consequences of Pretrial Detention11
Pretending Ignorance Is Bliss: Competing Insurers with Heterogeneous Informational Advantages11
Capital Investment, Equity Returns, and Aggregate Dynamics in Oligopolistic Production Economies11
Why Do Firms Borrow Directly from Nonbanks?11
An Equilibrium Model of Imperfect Hedging: Transaction Costs, Heterogeneity in Risk Aversion, and Return Volatility11
Credit Ratings and Market Information11
Blood Money: Selling Plasma to Avoid High-Interest Loans10
Cybersecurity Risk10
Acquiring Innovation under Information Frictions10
How Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity?10
Relative Performance Evaluation and Strategic Competition10
Can Equity Option Returns Be Explained by a Factor Model? IPCA Says Yes10
The Overnight Drift10
Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N110
What Private Equity Does Differently: Evidence from Life Insurance10
The Disutility of Stock Market Losses: Evidence From Domestic Violence9
Measuring the Expected Effects of the Global Tax Reform9
The Partisanship of Financial Regulators9
How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Production in Economics and Finance?9
Committee-Based Blockchains as Games between Opportunistic Players and Adversaries9
The Hedging Channel of Exchange Rate Determination9
Who Holds Sovereign Debt and Why It Matters9
Currency Risk Premiums Redux9
The Gender Investment Gap over the Life Cycle9
Reference Points Spillovers: Micro-Level Evidence from Real Estate8
The Market Risk Premium for Unsecured Consumer Credit Risk8
Countercyclical Labor Income Risk and Portfolio Choices over the Life Cycle8
Proof-of-Work versus Proof-of-Stake: A Comparative Economic Analysis8
Liquidity Constraints, Consumption, and Debt Repayment: Evidence from Macroprudential Policy in Turkey8
Socially Responsible Finance: How to Optimize Impact8
Student Loans, Access to Credit, and Consumer Credit Demand8
Shared Destinies? Small Banks and Small Businesses8
The Dynamics of Disagreement8
The Impact of Restricting Labor Mobility on Corporate Investment and Entrepreneurship8
Short-Term Debt and Corporate Governance8
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