Review of Financial Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of Financial Studies is 8. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Payment for Order Flow and Option Internalization631
Bail-Ins, Optimal Regulation, and Crisis Resolution434
Macroprudential Regulation, Quantitative Easing, and Bank Lending308
Collective Moral Hazard, Risk Sharing, and Banking Unions280
Bank Debt, Mutual Fund Equity, and Swing Pricing in Liquidity Provision195
How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets188
Valuing Financial Data176
Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Consumer Behavior and Market Efficiency in the United States173
Duration-Based Valuation of Corporate Bonds152
Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels145
Investor Memory144
Collateral Effects: The Role of FinTech in Small Business Lending144
Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Credit Chains117
Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices113
Thematic Concentration and Mutual Fund Performance109
The Broader Role of Venture Capital Due Diligence108
The Pace of Change: Socially Responsible Investing in Private Markets107
Voting Choice105
Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital102
Bond Price Fragility and the Structure of the Mutual Fund Industry101
The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data92
Human Capital Portability and Careers in Finance89
Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior81
Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India69
Factor Momentum68
Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap-and-Trade Policy68
The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition66
Should the Government Be Paying Investment Fees on $3 Trillion of Tax-Deferred Retirement Assets?63
The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach62
Who Mismanages Student Loans, and Why?61
Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle58
Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk58
Price and Volume Divergence in China’s Real Estate Markets: The Role of Local Governments58
In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle54
Nonbank Lending and Credit Cyclicality51
The Response of Mortgage Supply to Expected Flood Insurance Lapses51
Institutional Synergies and the Fragility of Loan Funds50
The Present Value of Future Market Power46
Firm Networks and Asset Returns46
Can Human Capital Explain Income-Based Disparities in Financial Services?46
Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?45
Conflicts of Interest in Municipal Bond Advising and Underwriting44
Deconstructing the Yield Curve44
Voting on Public Goods: Citizens vs Shareholders43
Holding Period Effects in Dividend Strip Returns42
Size Discount and Size Penalty: Trading Costs in Bond Markets42
Pension Liquidity Risk41
Monetary Policy through Production Networks: Evidence from the Stock Market41
Failure to Share Natural Disaster Risk39
Learning by Investing: Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Venture Capital38
Fast and Slow Arbitrage: The Predictive Power of (Persistent) Capital Flows for Factor Returns37
Smokestacks and the Swamp37
Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes37
Is Capital Structure Irrelevant with ESG Investors?35
Financial Disruptions and the Organization of Innovation: Evidence from the Great Depression35
SPACs35
The Cost of Bank Regulatory Capital34
Beliefs and Portfolios: Causal Evidence34
Cross-Subsidization of Bad Credit in a Lending Crisis34
Equity Return Expectations and Portfolios: Evidence from Large Asset Managers34
Dynamics of Asset Demands with Confidence Heterogeneity33
An Intermediation-Based Model of Exchange Rates33
Continuous-Time Fama-MacBeth Regressions33
The Financial Channel of the Exchange Rate and Global Trade33
Regulatory Intensity and Firm-Specific Exposure32
Institutional Brokerage Networks: Facilitating Liquidity Provision32
What Drives Firms’ Hiring Decisions? An Asset Pricing Perspective32
Technological Progress and Rent Seeking30
The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates30
Machine Learning and the Implementable Efficient Frontier30
Investor Sentiment and the Pricing of Characteristics-Based Factors30
Health Care Costs and Corporate Investment29
Identifying Price Informativeness29
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space28
Price Discovery on Decentralized Exchanges28
Institutional Corporate Bond Pricing28
Too Good to Be True: Look-Ahead Bias in Empirical Options Research28
Credit Cycles, Expectations, and Corporate Investment28
Political Sentiment and Innovation: Evidence from Patenters27
Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia27
Bond Market Resiliency: The Role of Insurers27
A Comprehensive 2022 Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction26
Are Analyst “Top Picks” Informative?26
Hedging, Contract Enforceability, and Competition26
Dynamic Coordination and Bankruptcy Regulations26
International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds26
Financial Crises and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Consumer Credit Markets26
Unmasking Mutual Fund Derivative Use26
Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?25
Connected Funds24
Syndicated Lending, Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation23
Proud to Not Own Stocks: How Identity Shapes Financial Decisions23
Investor-Driven Corporate Finance: Evidence from Insurance Markets23
Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle22
Income Shifting out of the United States by Foreign Multinational Firms22
Π-CAPM: The Classical CAPM with Probability Weighting and Skewed Assets22
The Psychological Externalities of Investing: Evidence from Stock Returns and Crime22
Neglected Peers in Merger Valuations21
Are All ESG Funds Created Equal? Only Some Funds Are Committed21
Mandatory Financial Disclosure and M&A Activity21
Mutual Fund Flows at Long Horizons21
Adverse Selection and Climate Risk: A Response to21
How Does Removing the Tax Benefits of Debt Affect Firms? Evidence from the 2017 U.S. Tax Reform20
Product Innovation and Credit Market Disruptions20
The Effect of Principal Reduction on Household Distress: Evidence from Mortgage Cramdown20
Earnings Extrapolation and Predictable Stock Market Returns20
The Effects of Going Public on Firm Profitability and Strategy20
Partial Equilibrium Thinking, Extrapolation, and Bubbles19
Beliefs about the Stock Market and Investment Choices: Evidence from a Survey and a Field Experiment19
Dynamic Equilibrium with Costly Short-Selling and Lending Market19
Credit Freezes, Equilibrium Multiplicity, and Optimal Bailouts in Financial Networks19
The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment19
Cooling Auction Fever: Evidence from the Housing Market19
Benchmarking Intensity19
Gold’s Value as an Investment19
Finance, Advertising, and Race18
Man versus Machine Learning: The Term Structure of Earnings Expectations and Conditional Biases18
The Labor Market Effects of Loan Guarantee Programs18
What Drives Momentum and Reversal? Evidence from Day and Night Signals18
Common Venture Capital Investors and Startup Growth18
Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities18
Digital Tokens and Platform Building18
What Problem Do Intermediaries Solve? Evidence From Real Estate Markets17
Algorithmic Pricing and Liquidity in Securities Markets17
Seller Debt in Acquisitions of Private Firms: A Security Design Approach17
Remeasuring Scale in Active Management17
The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks: Household Financial Distress Matters17
The Savings of Corporate Giants17
Option Pricing with Time-Varying Volatility Risk Aversion16
Remote Board Meetings and Board Monitoring Effectiveness: Evidence from China16
Nonbank Lending and the Transmission of Monetary Policy16
Correction to: A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards16
Cross-Selling in Bank-Household Relationships: Mechanisms and Implications for Pricing16
Intellectual Property Rights and Debt Financing16
Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments15
Excess Commitment in R&D15
Information versus Investment15
ESG Shocks in Global Supply Chains15
A Quantitative Model of Dynamic Moral Hazard15
The Intangibles Song in Takeover Announcements: Good Tempo, Hollow Tune15
A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards15
Real Consequences of Shocks to Intermediaries Supplying Corporate Hedging Instruments14
Stock Market Stimulus14
Technological Obsolescence14
Uncertainty, Contracting, and Beliefs in Organizations14
High-Yield Debt Covenants and Their Real Effects14
Machine Forecast Disagreement14
Risk Managers in Banks14
New Perspectives on Insurance14
Field of Study and Financial Problems: How Economics Reduces the Risk of Default14
Competition and Innovation Revisited: A Project-Level View14
Monetary Policy, Business Liquidity and Survival: Evidence from the Refinancing Channel13
Voting and Trading on Public Information13
When Do Low-Frequency Measures Really Measure Effective Spreads? Evidence from Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets13
News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions13
Narrative Asset Pricing: Interpretable Systematic Risk Factors from News Text13
Generative AI and Asset Management13
Banks as Liquidity Multipliers13
Liquidity Provision on Blockchain-Based Decentralized Exchanges13
Macroeconomic Expectations and Credit Card Spending13
Adjusting to Macroprudential Policies: Loan-to-Value Limits and Housing Choice13
Existence of the Wealth-Consumption Ratio in Asset Pricing Models with Recursive Preferences12
Common Factors in Equity Option Returns12
The Elasticity of Quantitative Investment12
The Structure of Leveraged Buyouts and the Free-Rider Problem12
The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Emissions: Evidence from the Swedish CO2 Tax12
The Covenant-Defeasance Option in Corporate Bonds12
Price elasticity of demand and risk-bearing capacity in sovereign bond auctions12
Steering a Ship in Illiquid Waters: Active Management of Passive Funds12
A Dynamic Model of the Racial Wealth Gap12
Societal Inequality and Bank Deposit Dynamics: Evidence from the Freedman’s Savings Bank12
From Market Making to Matchmaking: Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity?12
How Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity?11
The Persistence of Miscalibration11
Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards11
What Private Equity Does Differently: Evidence from Life Insurance11
How Financial Markets Create Superstars11
Leaky Director Networks and Innovation Herding11
The Financial Consequences of Pretrial Detention11
When Discounted Rates End: The Costs of Taking Action in the Mortgage Market11
Does the Federal Reserve Obtain Competitive and Appropriate Prices in Monetary Policy Implementation?11
Capital Investment, Equity Returns, and Aggregate Dynamics in Oligopolistic Production Economies11
What Drives Variation in Investor Portfolios? Estimating the Roles of Beliefs and Risk Preferences11
The Effect of Student Loan Payment Burdens and Nonfinancial Frictions on Borrower Outcomes10
Relative Performance Evaluation and Strategic Competition10
Financial Advisors and Investors’ Bias10
The Overnight Drift10
The Partisanship of Financial Regulators10
Pretending Ignorance Is Bliss: Competing Insurers with Heterogeneous Informational Advantages10
An Equilibrium Model of Imperfect Hedging: Transaction Costs, Heterogeneity in Risk Aversion, and Return Volatility10
The Disutility of Stock Market Losses: Evidence From Domestic Violence10
The Hedging Channel of Exchange Rate Determination10
New Frontiers in Household Finance10
Can Equity Option Returns Be Explained by a Factor Model? IPCA Says Yes10
Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N110
Measuring the Expected Effects of the Global Tax Reform10
Who Holds Sovereign Debt and Why It Matters10
Blood Money: Selling Plasma to Avoid High-Interest Loans9
Shared Destinies? Small Banks and Small Businesses9
The Gender Investment Gap over the Life Cycle9
The Dynamics of Disagreement9
Committee-Based Blockchains as Games between Opportunistic Players and Adversaries9
Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath9
Broken Relationships: Derisking by Correspondent Banks and International Trade9
Proof-of-Work versus Proof-of-Stake: A Comparative Economic Analysis9
Currency Risk Premiums Redux9
Reference Points Spillovers: Micro-Level Evidence from Real Estate9
When Do Judges Throw the Book at Companies? The Influence of Partisanship in Corporate Prosecutions9
Socially Responsible Finance: How to Optimize Impact9
Student Loans, Access to Credit, and Consumer Credit Demand8
Disloyal Managers and Shareholders’ Wealth8
The Impact of Restricting Labor Mobility on Corporate Investment and Entrepreneurship8
Fractional Trading8
Machine Learning for Continuous-Time Finance8
Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups8
A Theory of the Term Structure of Interest Rates under Limited Household Risk Sharing8
Liquidity Constraints, Consumption, and Debt Repayment: Evidence from Macroprudential Policy in Turkey8
Incentivizing Effort and Informing Investment: The Dual Role of Stock Prices8
Long-Term Investors, Demand Shifts, and Yields8
The Dynamics of Loan Sales and Lender Incentives8
How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Production in Economics and Finance?8
Correction to: Which Subjective Expectations Explain Asset Prices?8
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