Finance Research Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Finance Research Letters is 87. 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
Unconventional, conventional monetary policies, and optimal energy supply structure in China405
Why Was There More Household Stock Market Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?399
How do Equity Investors Assess the Efficiency of Global Financial Institutions?354
Can old sin make new shame? Stock market reactions to the release of movies re-exposing past corporate scandals314
Exploring the effect of VAT carryforward and refund policy on enhancing innovation efficiency among China's A-share listed firms314
Global value chain participation and income inequality within enterprises: An empirical study based on Chinese-listed companies290
Unveiling the Yin and Yang of expansionary monetary policy: Differential impact on inequality in China based on a national-level survey258
Editorial Board250
Learning about unprecedented events: Agent-based modelling and the stock market impact of COVID-19244
Repo haircuts: Market practices and the impact of minimum requirements on leverage240
Cross-country spillover effects of interest rate and credit constraint policies237
Do local innovation systems promote successful equity crowdfunding campaigns? Evidence from Italy236
How Russian-Ukrainian geopolitical risks affect Chinese commodity and financial markets?234
The role of gender in sales behaviour: Evidence from institutional financial brokerage213
Strategic IPO timing of technology innovation-driven enterprises: A differential game analysis of market returns, disclosure costs, and industry dynamics212
Historical Determinants of Fintech Development: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings206
Assessing the volatility of green firms197
The effect of COVID-19 vaccine on the international financial markets192
Editorial Board189
Tax Authority Enforcement and Corporate Social Security Contributions: Evidence from China185
Does peer-to-peer crowdfunding boost refugee entrepreneurs?175
Management equity incentives, market dynamics, and corporate R&D investment172
The Return and Volatility Connectedness of NFT Segments and Media Coverage: Fresh Evidence Based on News About the COVID-19 Pandemic171
Dependences and dynamic spillovers across the crude oil and stock markets throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict: Evidence from the ASEAN+6167
Management buyouts in times of economic policy uncertainty161
Crises and changes: The impacts of CSR expenditure on loan and subsidy allocation in China's Pre- and Post-Pandemic periods158
International tax incentives, cross-border research and development, and corporate innovation performance157
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on IPO underpricing: Evidence from China153
Does corporate social responsibility affect the performance of cross-border M&A of emerging market multinationals?148
Community activism, Social ties and ESG campaign success145
Legal background of corporate management and corporate audit quality143
Credit availability, overinvestment, and corporate innovation capability143
Manual task intensity and male-female wage gap: Evidence from China138
Financial market reaction to the end of the right-wing populist government: The case of Poland137
Detecting exuberance phenomena in thematic investing135
Belt and Road Initiative: Driving innovation in tech enterprises through global value chains134
Can prospect theory explain anomalies in the Chinese stock market?133
Demographic change and natural interest rate of China132
Corporate credit risk and bond yield spreads: Market reactions to the spreads132
The closed-form approximation to price basket options under stochastic interest rate132
Community resilience and house prices: A machine learning approach130
Is it a matter of governance or judicial favoritism? Legal expertise at an executive level and its use in cases of corporate financial fraud129
Human capital and corporate social investment: The effect of public policy129
Regional social capital and stock price crash risk: Evidence from the US128
A complementary valuation model and exit multiples127
Peer digitalization and corporate investment decision127
Does smart transformation in manufacturing promote enterprise value chain upgrades?124
Invest in depth or breadth? The influence of multidisciplinary practices on the valuation and legitimation of living artists124
Social governance, financial regulation, and corporate investment efficiency124
The Trilogy of Ownership, Income Diversification, and Performance Nexus: Empirical Evidence from Tunisian Banks124
Firm financialization: The role of policy inconsistency122
Executives' overseas backgrounds and green innovation in manufacturing enterprises121
Macroprudential policies, national culture, and bank systemic risk: A cross-country comparison120
The impact of corporate ESG performance on buyers’ bargaining power in the industrial chain: Evidence from China119
Fintech, financial regulation and corporate financialization: Evidence from China116
How green finance drives new-quality productivity from the perspective of Chinese modernization116
Does the introduction of CSR criteria into CEO incentive pay reduce their earnings management? The case of companies listed in the SBF 120115
How green screening influences risk transmission among stock-bond indices: Insight into the dependence structure114
Corporate social responsibility and credit risk112
Prediction of market value of firms with corporate sustainability performance data using machine learning models111
VAT credit refund policy and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from China111
FinTech literature reviews: A hybrid approach109
The equity market response to climate change litigation108
Environmental policies on the systematic risk of critical metals companies107
Effects of China’s capital controls on individual asset categories105
Small price bias in the cryptocurrency market. A cognitive bias revealed by emotions on social networks104
Foreign equity lookback options with guarantees104
Stepping forward with ease: Government debt governance as a catalyst for entrepreneurship103
Modelling taxpayers’ behaviour based on prediction of trust using sentiment analysis102
Infection, invasion, and inflation: Recent lessons102
Futures, provisional sales, and earnings management in the global gold mining industry102
Does individual SREP results reveal real news?102
A look across the big pond and into the abyss — Performance of earnout deals in Europe and in times of crisis99
ESG ratings and female corporate leadership: Evidence from African firms98
Correlation among climate risk, climate policy uncertainty, and carbon-intensive stock markets in China98
Risk contagion between commodity and China's stock markets under the impact of major events98
Transmission effects of real estate risk on municipal bond spreads96
Does exposure to biodiversity risk drive firms’ digital transformation?95
Soybean futures responses to meteorological disaster risk —— Empirical evidence from the Chicago board of trade94
Recurrent neural network based parameter estimation of Hawkes model on high-frequency financial data94
Market reactions to layoff announcements during crises: Examining impacts and conditioners93
Inspection supervision and corporate green total factor productivity92
An economic definition of ‘Fear of Missing Out’ (FOMO)91
The impact of digital transformation on firm productivity: From the perspective of sustainable development89
Exploring the time-varying dependence between Bitcoin and the global stock market: Evidence from a TVP-VAR approach89
Corporate social anti-activism and firm stock price: Evidence from DEI program elimination88
Green bond and corporate environmental investment: The moderating effect of environmental concern87
Rescue one and sacrifice others? Corporate tunneling phenomenon under China's new delisting regulations87
Green gains: The impact of REITs' environmental performance on sustainability-linked loan interest rates87
Cryptocurrency market efficiency in short- and long-term horizons during COVID-19: An asymmetric multifractal analysis approach87
Firm-level perception of competition and innovation: Textual evidence from China87
The impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on market efficiency: Evidence for the developed stock market87
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