Finance Research Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Finance Research Letters is 96. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Repo haircuts: Market practices and the impact of minimum requirements on leverage469
Cross-country spillover effects of interest rate and credit constraint policies457
Unveiling the Yin and Yang of expansionary monetary policy: Differential impact on inequality in China based on a national-level survey420
Editorial Board378
Limit Order Book dynamics and order size modelling using Compound Hawkes Process358
Risk spillovers among energy, metals, and agriculture commodity markets: A network perspective346
Detecting exuberance phenomena in thematic investing330
How Russian-Ukrainian geopolitical risks affect Chinese commodity and financial markets?324
Executives' overseas backgrounds and green innovation in manufacturing enterprises321
Global value chain participation and income inequality within enterprises: An empirical study based on Chinese-listed companies314
Impact of nonagricultural employment on rural households’ financial resilience: Evidence from rural China279
Corporate credit risk and bond yield spreads: Market reactions to the spreads270
Digital economy policy and corporate low-carbon innovation: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China245
Why Was There More Household Stock Market Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?234
The impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on market efficiency: Evidence for the developed stock market234
Climate governance, CSR strategy, and corporate environmental decoupling229
Does peer-to-peer crowdfunding boost refugee entrepreneurs?227
A look across the big pond and into the abyss — Performance of earnout deals in Europe and in times of crisis222
Adjustment of U.S. Treasury yields to the cointegrating relationship amid high intrapersonal uncertainty202
How AI adoption shapes ESG performance in manufacturing: The mediating role of digital transformation199
Market learning about the stand-alone value of the acquirer194
Energy transition investments and carbon emissions: asymmetric and dynamic effects across developed and emerging economies190
Financial literacy and fraud vulnerability in digital finance: Evidence from the 2024 NFCS190
The impact of corporate ESG performance on buyers’ bargaining power in the industrial chain: Evidence from China188
Banks’ ESG disclosure: A new scoring model186
Tax Authority Enforcement and Corporate Social Security Contributions: Evidence from China182
Sentiment changes and the Monday effect179
How does green finance policy improve urban ecological resilience? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment on green credit interest subsidies178
VAT credit refund policy and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from China170
Institutional investor stability, executive equity incentives, and corporate innovation169
Risk disclosure and stock price crash risk: Evidence from Chinese listed firms165
Infection, invasion, and inflation: Recent lessons163
Modelling taxpayers’ behaviour based on prediction of trust using sentiment analysis162
Green governance: The entry of green investors and stock liquidity161
Invest in depth or breadth? The influence of multidisciplinary practices on the valuation and legitimation of living artists160
Firm financialization: The role of policy inconsistency159
Does corporate social responsibility affect the performance of cross-border M&A of emerging market multinationals?157
How green screening influences risk transmission among stock-bond indices: Insight into the dependence structure157
Breaking barriers to rural entrepreneurship: How productive credit mitigates financial exclusion154
Are borrowing costs affected by audit market structure? Evidence from market concentration152
Institutional investors' site visits and ESG disclosure: The mediating role of environmental legitimacy pressure150
Development of corporate artificial intelligence and the quality of export products150
Social governance, financial regulation, and corporate investment efficiency148
Does customer concentration affect corporate risk-taking? Evidence from China143
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on IPO underpricing: Evidence from China143
Environmental policies on the systematic risk of critical metals companies143
Does ESG performance improve firm creditworthiness?141
Coexistence of Bitcoin, fiat money, and risk-free bonds137
Media attention, information asymmetry and agribusiness ESG rating divergence136
Does war spread the herding effect in stock markets? Evidence from emerging and developed markets during the Russia-Ukraine war134
An economic definition of ‘Fear of Missing Out’ (FOMO)134
FinTech literature reviews: A hybrid approach132
Investor sentiment and corporate earnings management131
Corporate Uncertainty Perception, Executives' Financial Background, and Firms' Long-term Performance130
Firm-level perception of competition and innovation: Textual evidence from China130
Exploring the time-varying dependence between Bitcoin and the global stock market: Evidence from a TVP-VAR approach129
Fintech, financial regulation and corporate financialization: Evidence from China129
Promote or Inhibit? Director and Officer Liability Insurance and Corporate Excess leverage129
Bankruptcy court establishment and corporate risk-taking128
Digital finance, data elements, and artificial intelligence innovation127
Effects of enterprise viability on corporate green innovation performance123
Green gains: The impact of REITs' environmental performance on sustainability-linked loan interest rates123
Chasing ghosts: the elusive ambiguity premium in U.S. equities122
Can digital regulation curb corporate leverage manipulation? Evidence from the "Golden Tax Phase III" project121
Green bond and corporate environmental investment: The moderating effect of environmental concern120
Impact of SciTech – Finance integration policy implementation on SME innovation performance: Mediating effect of tax burden120
Value creation or political trick? An event study on anti-ESG regulations119
Global geopolitical risk, ambiguity, and emerging market returns: Evidence from China119
SFDR Article 9: Is it all about impact?115
Focus on the impact and predictive analysis of digitalization and green finance on the transformation of mineral and energy companies114
Stepping forward with ease: Government debt governance as a catalyst for entrepreneurship111
To green or not to green: The influence of board characteristics on carbon emissions111
Interconnected dynamics of sustainable cryptocurrencies: Insights from transfer entropy analysis111
Climate, geopolitical, and energy market risk interconnectedness: Evidence from a new climate risk index110
Which are the factors influencing green bonds issuance? Evidence from the European bonds market110
Macroprudential policies, national culture, and bank systemic risk: A cross-country comparison105
Market reactions to layoff announcements during crises: Examining impacts and conditioners105
How digital transformation affects bank risk: Evidence from listed Chinese banks103
Using machine learning Meta-Classifiers to detect financial frauds102
Cryptocurrency market efficiency in short- and long-term horizons during COVID-19: An asymmetric multifractal analysis approach102
How green finance drives new-quality productivity from the perspective of Chinese modernization101
Capital market openness and bank credit risk: Evidence from listed commercial banks101
Bank efficiency and undesirable output: An analysis of non-performing loans in the Brazilian banking sector101
Digital transformation and corporates' green technology innovation performance–The mediating role of knowledge sharing100
Carbon prices and green bond markets: Global insights from quantile connectedness100
Effects of China’s capital controls on individual asset categories99
Tax incentives, financial subsidies and high-quality development of enterprises99
Legal background of corporate management and corporate audit quality97
A complementary valuation model and exit multiples97
Inspection supervision and corporate green total factor productivity97
Soybean futures responses to meteorological disaster risk —— Empirical evidence from the Chicago board of trade97
Small price bias in the cryptocurrency market. A cognitive bias revealed by emotions on social networks97
Does individual SREP results reveal real news?96
Management buyouts in times of economic policy uncertainty96
Crises and changes: The impacts of CSR expenditure on loan and subsidy allocation in China's Pre- and Post-Pandemic periods96
Learning about unprecedented events: Agent-based modelling and the stock market impact of COVID-1996
Can prospect theory explain anomalies in the Chinese stock market?96
How do Equity Investors Assess the Efficiency of Global Financial Institutions?96
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