Finance Research Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Finance Research Letters is 86. 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
Unconventional, conventional monetary policies, and optimal energy supply structure in China394
Why Was There More Household Stock Market Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?392
Political appointees and firms’ long-term capital market performance: Evidence from Central European countries344
How do Equity Investors Assess the Efficiency of Global Financial Institutions?306
Exploring the effect of VAT carryforward and refund policy on enhancing innovation efficiency among China's A-share listed firms304
Can old sin make new shame? Stock market reactions to the release of movies re-exposing past corporate scandals281
Global value chain participation and income inequality within enterprises: An empirical study based on Chinese-listed companies249
Unveiling the Yin and Yang of expansionary monetary policy: Differential impact on inequality in China based on a national-level survey241
Does customer concentration affect corporate risk-taking? Evidence from China233
Editorial Board232
Learning about unprecedented events: Agent-based modelling and the stock market impact of COVID-19232
Repo haircuts: Market practices and the impact of minimum requirements on leverage230
The impact of North Korean nuclear threat on stock market linkages in Northeast Asia: The case of South Korea, China, and Japan224
Cross-country spillover effects of interest rate and credit constraint policies213
How Russian-Ukrainian geopolitical risks affect Chinese commodity and financial markets?207
The role of gender in sales behaviour: Evidence from institutional financial brokerage205
Do investors herd under global crises? A comparative study between Chinese and the United States stock markets192
Strategic IPO timing of technology innovation-driven enterprises: A differential game analysis of market returns, disclosure costs, and industry dynamics187
Do local innovation systems promote successful equity crowdfunding campaigns? Evidence from Italy181
Which are the factors influencing green bonds issuance? Evidence from the European bonds market178
Green gains: The impact of REITs' environmental performance on sustainability-linked loan interest rates171
Historical Determinants of Fintech Development: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings167
Assessing the volatility of green firms166
The effect of COVID-19 vaccine on the international financial markets161
Editorial Board153
Executives' overseas backgrounds and green innovation in manufacturing enterprises151
Firm financialization: The role of policy inconsistency151
Invest in depth or breadth? The influence of multidisciplinary practices on the valuation and legitimation of living artists147
Does smart transformation in manufacturing promote enterprise value chain upgrades?147
Does gambling culture affect firms’ investment efficiency?141
Peer digitalization and corporate investment decision134
The Trilogy of Ownership, Income Diversification, and Performance Nexus: Empirical Evidence from Tunisian Banks133
Social governance, financial regulation, and corporate investment efficiency133
Population aging, digital divide, and household financial asset choices—An empirical study based on prefecture-level population census data133
A complementary valuation model and exit multiples133
Financial institution agglomeration and corporate labor allocation efficiency—Based on the context of government debt expansion131
Limit Order Book dynamics and order size modelling using Compound Hawkes Process130
Credit availability, overinvestment, and corporate innovation capability128
Manual task intensity and male-female wage gap: Evidence from China128
Detecting exuberance phenomena in thematic investing126
Financial market reaction to the end of the right-wing populist government: The case of Poland126
Belt and Road Initiative: Driving innovation in tech enterprises through global value chains126
Demographic change and natural interest rate of China124
Can prospect theory explain anomalies in the Chinese stock market?124
Corporate credit risk and bond yield spreads: Market reactions to the spreads124
The closed-form approximation to price basket options under stochastic interest rate122
Correlation impulse response functions121
Is it a matter of governance or judicial favoritism? Legal expertise at an executive level and its use in cases of corporate financial fraud120
Human capital and corporate social investment: The effect of public policy120
Community resilience and house prices: A machine learning approach120
Regional social capital and stock price crash risk: Evidence from the US119
How the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) impacts FinTech: The implication of P2P lending markets117
Management buyouts in times of economic policy uncertainty115
Are gross financial inflows expansionary or contractionary? Evidence from emerging economies114
Brand equity and the Covid-19 stock market crash: Evidence from U.S. listed firms113
Interconnected dynamics of sustainable cryptocurrencies: Insights from transfer entropy analysis111
Media sentiment and corporate R&D manipulation111
Does corporate social responsibility affect the performance of cross-border M&A of emerging market multinationals?110
Value creation or political trick? An event study on anti-ESG regulations110
Does ESG performance improve firm creditworthiness?108
International tax incentives, cross-border research and development, and corporate innovation performance106
Bank efficiency and undesirable output: An analysis of non-performing loans in the Brazilian banking sector105
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on IPO underpricing: Evidence from China105
Executive financial background, external audit quality and shadow banking in non-financial firms104
Legal background of corporate management and corporate audit quality103
Sentiment changes and the Monday effect103
Community activism, Social ties and ESG campaign success102
Tax Authority Enforcement and Corporate Social Security Contributions: Evidence from China101
Does peer-to-peer crowdfunding boost refugee entrepreneurs?99
Management equity incentives, market dynamics, and corporate R&D investment99
Dependences and dynamic spillovers across the crude oil and stock markets throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict: Evidence from the ASEAN+699
Crises and changes: The impacts of CSR expenditure on loan and subsidy allocation in China's Pre- and Post-Pandemic periods97
The Return and Volatility Connectedness of NFT Segments and Media Coverage: Fresh Evidence Based on News About the COVID-19 Pandemic97
Using machine learning Meta-Classifiers to detect financial frauds95
VAT credit refund policy and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from China95
SFDR Article 9: Is it all about impact?94
Climate, geopolitical, and energy market risk interconnectedness: Evidence from a new climate risk index94
Bankruptcy court establishment and corporate risk-taking92
Focus on the impact and predictive analysis of digitalization and green finance on the transformation of mineral and energy companies92
The equity market response to climate change litigation91
Does the introduction of CSR criteria into CEO incentive pay reduce their earnings management? The case of companies listed in the SBF 12091
Environmental policies on the systematic risk of critical metals companies90
Effects of China’s capital controls on individual asset categories89
Small price bias in the cryptocurrency market. A cognitive bias revealed by emotions on social networks87
Foreign equity lookback options with guarantees87
Rescue one and sacrifice others? Corporate tunneling phenomenon under China's new delisting regulations87
Does individual SREP results reveal real news?86
Stepping forward with ease: Government debt governance as a catalyst for entrepreneurship86
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