Finance Research Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Finance Research Letters is 91. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Repo haircuts: Market practices and the impact of minimum requirements on leverage423
Cross-country spillover effects of interest rate and credit constraint policies412
Unveiling the Yin and Yang of expansionary monetary policy: Differential impact on inequality in China based on a national-level survey381
Can old sin make new shame? Stock market reactions to the release of movies re-exposing past corporate scandals331
Global value chain participation and income inequality within enterprises: An empirical study based on Chinese-listed companies326
Digital finance, data elements, and artificial intelligence innovation310
Climate governance, CSR strategy, and corporate environmental decoupling283
Does stepping-back from IFRS pay off? Evidence from European unlisted firms’ cost of debt267
VAT credit refund policy and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from China266
Intellectual property law enforcement and regional cluster innovation efficiency251
Ecological rule of law, financial constraints, and investment in heavily polluting enterprises247
Impact of digital financial inclusion on rural revitalization247
Does managerial climate awareness affect green bond issuance? The moderating role of managerial myopia246
Population aging, digital divide, and household financial asset choices—An empirical study based on prefecture-level population census data218
Editorial Board212
The effect of COVID-19 vaccine on the international financial markets212
The impact of corporate ESG performance on buyers’ bargaining power in the industrial chain: Evidence from China209
Investor sentiment and corporate earnings management203
How ESG engagement shapes firm life cycle progression: Evidence from U.S. data203
Energy transition investments and carbon emissions: asymmetric and dynamic effects across developed and emerging economies197
Does 3D printing technology promote OFDI? Evidence from Chinese listed companies195
Risk spillovers among energy, metals, and agriculture commodity markets: A network perspective180
Assessing the volatility of green firms179
Green bond and corporate environmental investment: The moderating effect of environmental concern173
Value creation or political trick? An event study on anti-ESG regulations171
Green gains: The impact of REITs' environmental performance on sustainability-linked loan interest rates170
Development of corporate artificial intelligence and the quality of export products168
Community activism, Social ties and ESG campaign success165
Rescue one and sacrifice others? Corporate tunneling phenomenon under China's new delisting regulations162
Evaluation of the operational efficiency of internal capital markets in state-owned enterprises using big data158
Corporate social anti-activism and firm stock price: Evidence from DEI program elimination156
How good are LLMs in risk profiling?152
A look across the big pond and into the abyss — Performance of earnout deals in Europe and in times of crisis150
Social governance, financial regulation, and corporate investment efficiency144
Detecting exuberance phenomena in thematic investing144
Impacts of gender inequality on international trade and innovation143
How green screening influences risk transmission among stock-bond indices: Insight into the dependence structure143
Correlation among climate risk, climate policy uncertainty, and carbon-intensive stock markets in China141
The impact of green investment policies on the development of new energy enterprises: Analysis based on heterogeneity and threshold effects140
Stepping forward with ease: Government debt governance as a catalyst for entrepreneurship139
Does smart transformation in manufacturing promote enterprise value chain upgrades?138
Banks’ ESG disclosure: A new scoring model138
Exploring the effect of VAT carryforward and refund policy on enhancing innovation efficiency among China's A-share listed firms138
Bankruptcy court establishment and corporate risk-taking137
Fintech, financial regulation and corporate financialization: Evidence from China136
Focus on the impact and predictive analysis of digitalization and green finance on the transformation of mineral and energy companies135
Impact of SciTech – Finance integration policy implementation on SME innovation performance: Mediating effect of tax burden134
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on IPO underpricing: Evidence from China133
Digital transformation and corporates' green technology innovation performance–The mediating role of knowledge sharing132
Does tax policy affect corporate environmental investment?129
The impact of inclusive finance and education investment on new quality productivity: The nonlinear mediating effect of education development127
Corporate social responsibility and credit risk126
Which are the factors influencing green bonds issuance? Evidence from the European bonds market125
Why Was There More Household Stock Market Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?125
How green finance drives new-quality productivity from the perspective of Chinese modernization122
Does exposure to biodiversity risk drive firms’ digital transformation?122
Does corporate social responsibility affect the performance of cross-border M&A of emerging market multinationals?121
How digital transformation affects bank risk: Evidence from listed Chinese banks121
Digital economy policy and corporate low-carbon innovation: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China119
How Russian-Ukrainian geopolitical risks affect Chinese commodity and financial markets?119
Does ESG performance improve firm creditworthiness?117
Cryptocurrencies and the threat versus the act event of geopolitical risk117
Effects of enterprise viability on corporate green innovation performance114
Firm financialization: The role of policy inconsistency112
Invest in depth or breadth? The influence of multidisciplinary practices on the valuation and legitimation of living artists112
Do investors herd under global crises? A comparative study between Chinese and the United States stock markets111
Price discovery share: An order invariant measure of price discovery110
Executive financial background, external audit quality and shadow banking in non-financial firms109
Media sentiment and corporate R&D manipulation108
Interconnected dynamics of sustainable cryptocurrencies: Insights from transfer entropy analysis107
Credit availability, overinvestment, and corporate innovation capability104
Inspection supervision and corporate green total factor productivity103
Financial institution agglomeration and corporate labor allocation efficiency—Based on the context of government debt expansion103
How the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) impacts FinTech: The implication of P2P lending markets102
Media attention, information asymmetry and agribusiness ESG rating divergence102
Executives' overseas backgrounds and green innovation in manufacturing enterprises102
Human capital and corporate social investment: The effect of public policy101
Belt and Road Initiative: Driving innovation in tech enterprises through global value chains101
The equity market response to climate change litigation97
Small price bias in the cryptocurrency market. A cognitive bias revealed by emotions on social networks96
Environmental policies on the systematic risk of critical metals companies96
A complementary valuation model and exit multiples95
Financial market reaction to the end of the right-wing populist government: The case of Poland95
Option pricing with a two-piece lognormal distribution95
Legal background of corporate management and corporate audit quality95
An analysis of how work stress affects employees' proactive work behavior: The moderating role of corporate financial support95
ESG ratings and female corporate leadership: Evidence from African firms94
Management equity incentives, market dynamics, and corporate R&D investment94
Recurrent neural network based parameter estimation of Hawkes model on high-frequency financial data93
Transmission effects of real estate risk on municipal bond spreads92
Soybean futures responses to meteorological disaster risk —— Empirical evidence from the Chicago board of trade91
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