Review of Financial Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of Financial Studies is 10. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Risks and Returns of Cryptocurrency366
Carbon Tail Risk365
Dissecting Characteristics Nonparametrically361
Tokenomics: Dynamic Adoption and Valuation283
Measuring Corporate Culture Using Machine Learning280
Blockchain without Waste: Proof-of-Stake259
The Macroeconomics of Epidemics246
How Valuable Is Financial Flexibility when Revenue Stops? Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis237
Bond Risk Premiums with Machine Learning176
Get Real! Individuals Prefer More Sustainable Investments166
Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools159
When Selling Becomes Viral: Disruptions in Debt Markets in the COVID-19 Crisis and the Fed’s Response152
Climate Change and Long-Run Discount Rates: Evidence from Real Estate151
Financial Constraints and Corporate Environmental Policies138
Corporate ESG Profiles and Banking Relationships131
What Do Mutual Fund Investors Really Care About?121
The Rise of Shadow Banking: Evidence from Capital Regulation114
Corporate Bond Liquidity during the COVID-19 Crisis113
A Transaction-Cost Perspective on the Multitude of Firm Characteristics112
Performance-Induced CEO Turnover112
The Deregulation of the Private Equity Markets and the Decline in IPOs96
Fintech Borrowers: Lax Screening or Cream-Skimming?91
COVID-19 and Its Impact on Financial Markets and the Real Economy90
Do Foreign Institutional Investors Improve Price Efficiency?89
The Cross-Section of Risk and Returns85
Optimal Mitigation Policies in a Pandemic: Social Distancing and Working from Home84
Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning81
Asset Pricing with Fading Memory81
Decentralizing Money: Bitcoin Prices and Blockchain Security79
Climate Risk Disclosure and Institutional Investors79
Do Index Funds Monitor?78
The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond75
The Rise of Finance Companies and FinTech Lenders in Small Business Lending72
Innovation and Informed Trading: Evidence from Industry ETFs71
Political Influence and the Renegotiation of Government Contracts70
Investors’ Attention to Corporate Governance67
Models or Stars: The Role of Asset Pricing Models and Heuristics in Investor Risk Adjustment66
Mutual Fund Liquidity Transformation and Reverse Flight to Liquidity64
How Did Depositors Respond to COVID-19?63
Big Data in Finance62
Private Equity Buyouts and Workplace Safety62
The Economics of the Fed Put60
Thousands of Alpha Tests60
Marketing Mutual Funds59
Do Minorities Pay More for Mortgages?57
Managing Households’ Expectations with Unconventional Policies57
Do Investors Care about Impact?55
Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics53
Asset Insulators52
Arbitrage Portfolios51
Does Borrower and Broker Race Affect the Cost of Mortgage Credit?51
Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters51
Option Return Predictability50
Socially Responsible Investing in Good and Bad Times47
Echo Chambers47
Cybersecurity Risk47
The Origins and Real Effects of the Gender Gap: Evidence from CEOs’ Formative Years46
The Cross-Section of Bank Value45
Review Article: Perspectives on the Future of Asset Pricing44
Social Proximity to Capital: Implications for Investors and Firms44
Liquidity Restrictions, Runs, and Central Bank Interventions: Evidence from Money Market Funds44
Macroeconomic Attention and Announcement Risk Premia43
Credit Supply and Housing Speculation43
Mutual Funds as Venture Capitalists? Evidence from Unicorns43
Illiquidity and Stock Returns II: Cross-section and Time-series Effects43
Global Portfolio Rebalancing and Exchange Rates42
Taper Tantrums: Quantitative Easing, Its Aftermath, and Emerging Market Capital Flows42
Speculators and Middlemen: The Strategy and Performance of Investors in the Housing Market42
Why Do Firms Borrow Directly from Nonbanks?42
The Costs and Benefits of Shareholder Democracy: Gadflies and Low-Cost Activism41
Kicking the Can Down the Road: Government Interventions in the European Banking Sector41
Business Restrictions and COVID-19 Fatalities39
Extrapolative Bubbles and Trading Volume39
Evaluating Firm-Level Expected-Return Proxies: Implications for Estimating Treatment Effects38
Can Environmental Policy Encourage Technical Change? Emissions Taxes and R&D Investment in Polluting Firms37
Microstructure in the Machine Age37
Does Option Trading Have a Pervasive Impact on Underlying Stock Prices?37
Break Risk36
Where Has All the Data Gone?36
Corporate Cash Shortfalls and Financing Decisions36
Missing Novelty in Drug Development36
Debt Maturity and the Dynamics of Leverage36
Asset-Level Risk and Return in Real Estate Investments36
Competition, Markups, and Predictable Returns36
When FinTech Competes for Payment Flows35
Demand for Information, Uncertainty, and the Response of U.S. Treasury Securities to News34
Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-End Mutual Funds33
Consumers as Financiers: Consumer Surplus, Crowdfunding, and Initial Coin Offerings33
Benchmarking Intensity33
A Model of Endogenous Risk Intolerance and LSAPs: Asset Prices and Aggregate Demand in a “COVID-19” Shock32
CAPM-Based Company (Mis)valuations32
Short-term Momentum31
The Total Return and Risk to Residential Real Estate31
Institutional Order Handling and Broker-Affiliated Trading Venues31
Opioid Crisis Effects on Municipal Finance31
Peer Effects in Corporate Governance Practices: Evidence from Universal Demand Laws31
Sharing the Pain? Credit Supply and Real Effects of Bank Bail-ins31
Household Portfolio Underdiversification and Probability Weighting: Evidence from the Field31
Mortgage Securitization and Shadow Bank Lending30
Mutual Fund Trading Style and Bond Market Fragility30
The Equilibrium Consequences of Indexing30
Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. Insurance Industry: The Effects of Removing Capital Requirements for an Asset Class29
Idiosyncratic Risk in Housing Markets29
Dark Pool Trading and Information Acquisition28
Can Shorts Predict Returns? A Global Perspective28
Ratings-Driven Demand and Systematic Price Fluctuations28
Methodological Variation in Empirical Corporate Finance28
The Party Structure of Mutual Funds28
The Effect of Bank Supervision and Examination on Risk Taking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment28
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space28
Corporate Money Demand27
The Rate of Return on Real Estate: Long-Run Micro-Level Evidence27
Option Return Predictability with Machine Learning and Big Data27
Racial Disparities in the Auto Loan Market27
The Collateralizability Premium26
Side Effects of Nudging: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in the Credit Card Market26
Biased by Choice: How Financial Constraints Can Reduce Financial Mistakes26
SPACs26
Paying by Donating: Corporate Donations Affiliated with Independent Directors26
Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks25
Personal Wealth, Self-Employment, and Business Ownership25
Institutional Investors and Infrastructure Investing25
Director Appointments: It Is Who You Know25
Bank Concentration and Product Market Competition25
CEO Noncompete Agreements, Job Risk, and Compensation25
Bank Lending in the Knowledge Economy24
Information Dispersion across Employees and Stock Returns24
The Return Expectations of Public Pension Funds24
Conditional Dynamics and the Multihorizon Risk-Return Trade-Off23
Countercyclical Labor Income Risk and Portfolio Choices over the Life Cycle22
Sea-Level Rise Exposure and Municipal Bond Yields22
What Moves Stock Prices? The Roles of News, Noise, and Information22
Uncertainty, Investor Sentiment, and Innovation21
Factor Momentum21
When Shareholders Disagree: Trading after Shareholder Meetings21
Gendered Prices21
The Unintended Consequences of Corporate Bond ETFs: Evidence from the Taper Tantrum20
Credit and Punishment: Are Corporate Bankers Disciplined for Risk-Taking?20
Commonality in Credit Spread Changes: Dealer Inventory and Intermediary Distress19
Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk19
Man versus Machine Learning: The Term Structure of Earnings Expectations and Conditional Biases19
Comomentum: Inferring Arbitrage Activity from Return Correlations19
How Important Are Inflation Expectations for the Nominal Yield Curve?18
When a Master Dies: Speculation and Asset Float18
How Much Information Is Incorporated into Financial Asset Prices? Experimental Evidence18
Exchange-Traded Funds and Real Investment18
International Trade and the Propagation of Merger Waves18
Incentivizing Financial Regulators18
Asset Price Dynamics with Limited Attention18
Bank Cleanups, Capitalization, and Lending: Evidence from India18
Regressive Mortgage Credit Redistribution in the Post-Crisis Era17
Exchange Competition, Entry, and Welfare17
Does Collateral Value Affect Asset Prices? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Texas17
Winners, Losers, and Regulators in a Derivatives Market Bubble17
Product Life Cycles in Corporate Finance17
Why Does Equity Capital Flow out of High Tobin’s $\boldsymbol{q}$ Industries?17
How to Talk When a Machine Is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI17
Public Market Players in the Private World: Implications for the Going-Public Process16
Real and Private-Value Assets16
Selection, Leverage, and Default in the Mortgage Market16
Intermediaries and Asset Prices: International Evidence since 187016
Demand Effects in the FX Forward Market: Micro Evidence from Banks’ Dollar Hedging16
Creditor Control of Corporate Acquisitions16
Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets16
Foreign Exchange Volume16
Covered Interest Parity Arbitrage16
Small Bank Lending in the Era of Fintech and Shadow Banks: A Sideshow?16
Zombies at Large? Corporate Debt Overhang and the Macroeconomy16
Credit Default Swaps around the World15
Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N115
Marketplace Lending, Information Aggregation, and Liquidity15
(Debt) Overhang: Evidence from Resource Extraction15
Skilled Labor Mobility and Firm Value: Evidence from Green Card Allocations15
The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts’ Geographic Diversity15
Corrigendum: Bond Risk Premiums with Machine Learning15
A Model of Two Days: Discrete News and Asset Prices15
The Effect of Stock Liquidity on the Firm’s Investment and Production15
The Skewness of the Stock Market over Long Horizons15
The Distribution of Nonwage Benefits: Maternity Benefits and Gender Diversity15
Capital Spillover, House Prices, and Consumer Spending: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from House Purchase Restrictions14
Cross-Border Bank Flows and Monetary Policy14
Lest We Forget: Learn from Out-of-Sample Forecast Errors When Optimizing Portfolios14
Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting14
ES Risks and Shareholder Voice14
Self-Fulfilling Fire Sales: Fragility of Collateralized Short-Term Debt Markets14
Who Is Afraid of BlackRock?14
Trade Credit and the Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy14
Experience Does Not Eliminate Bubbles: Experimental Evidence14
The Yield Spread and Bond Return Predictability in Expansions and Recessions14
Collateral Runs14
The Effects of a Targeted Financial Constraint on the Housing Market13
The Oligopoly Lucas Tree13
Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?13
The Momentum Gap and Return Predictability13
The Life Cycle Effects of Corporate Takeover Defenses13
Housing, Mortgages, and Self-Control13
Do Wall Street Landlords Undermine Renters’ Welfare?13
Dollar and Exports13
Horizon Bias and the Term Structure of Equity Returns13
Political Cycles in Bank Lending to the Government13
The Whack-a-Mole Game: Tobin Taxes and Trading Frenzy13
Does Household Finance Affect the Political Process? Evidence from Voter Turnout During a Housing Crisis12
The PPP View of Multihorizon Currency Risk Premiums12
What If Dividends Were Tax-Exempt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment12
Risk Price Variation: The Missing Half of Empirical Asset Pricing12
Regulatory Limits to Risk Management12
Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?12
Reconsidering Returns12
Decision Weights for Experimental Asset Prices Based on Visual Salience12
Stock Return Extrapolation, Option Prices, and Variance Risk Premium12
Inflating Away the Public Debt? An Empirical Assessment12
Information versus Investment12
Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry12
Do Neighborhoods Affect the Credit Market Decisions of Low-Income Borrowers? Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment12
Consuming Dividends11
Investor Protection and Capital Fragility: Evidence from Hedge Funds around the World11
Disagreement in the Equity Options Market and Stock Returns11
Minimum Wages and Consumer Credit: Effects on Access and Borrowing11
Best Buys and Own Brands: Investment Platforms’ Recommendations of Mutual Funds11
Overcoming Discount Window Stigma: An Experimental Investigation11
A Crisis of Missed Opportunities? Foreclosure Costs and Mortgage Modification During the Great Recession11
High Inflation: Low Default Risk and Low Equity Valuations11
Are Intermediary Constraints Priced?11
Product Innovation and Credit Market Disruptions11
How Do Consumers Fare When Dealing with Debt Collectors? Evidence from Out-of-Court Settlements11
The State Price Density Implied by Crude Oil Futures and Option Prices11
Impulsive Consumption and Financial Well-Being: Evidence from an Increase in the Availability of Alcohol10
Order Flows and Financial Investor Impacts in Commodity Futures Markets10
Watch What They Do, Not What They Say: Estimating Regulatory Costs from Revealed Preferences10
Capital Flows, Real Estate, and Local Cycles: Evidence from German Cities, Banks, and Firms10
Competition Links and Stock Returns10
The Babies of Mortgage Market Deregulation10
Activism and Takeovers10
Acquiring Innovation under Information Frictions10
Trust and Insurance Contracts10
Regulatory Intensity and Firm-Specific Exposure10
Redemption in Kind and Mutual Fund Liquidity Management10
Funding Constraints and Informational Efficiency10
Firm Characteristics and Empirical Factor Models: A Model Mining Experiment10
A Theory of Liquidity Spillover between Bond and CDS Markets10
Advising the Management: A Theory of Shareholder Engagement10
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