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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bail-Ins, Optimal Regulation, and Crisis Resolution417
Valuing Financial Data397
Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Consumer Behavior and Market Efficiency in the United States228
RETRACTED: Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters226
How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets211
Macroprudential Regulation, Quantitative Easing, and Bank Lending193
Collateral Effects: The Role of FinTech in Small Business Lending162
Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels154
Duration-Based Valuation of Corporate Bonds140
The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data138
Human Capital Portability and Careers in Finance132
Factor Momentum119
Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital116
Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior112
Bond Price Fragility and the Structure of the Mutual Fund Industry109
The Pace of Change: Socially Responsible Investing in Private Markets103
Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Credit Chains102
Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap-and-Trade Policy98
Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices94
Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India94
Investor Memory92
The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach90
Who Mismanages Student Loans, and Why?80
Nonbank Lending and Credit Cyclicality79
Should the Government Be Paying Investment Fees on $3 Trillion of Tax-Deferred Retirement Assets?77
Public Debt, Consumption Growth, and the Slope of the Term Structure77
The Geography of Value Creation75
Risking or Derisking: How Management Fees Affect Hedge Fund Risk-Taking Choices68
Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle66
In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle65
The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition62
Price and Volume Divergence in China’s Real Estate Markets: The Role of Local Governments62
Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk61
Counterparty Risk: Implications for Network Linkages and Asset Prices60
Size Discount and Size Penalty: Trading Costs in Bond Markets59
Deconstructing the Yield Curve58
Failure to Share Natural Disaster Risk55
Holding Period Effects in Dividend Strip Returns53
The Oligopoly Lucas Tree53
Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?52
Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract51
Can Human Capital Explain Income-Based Disparities in Financial Services?51
Horizon Bias and the Term Structure of Equity Returns50
Firm Networks and Asset Returns48
Simultaneous Multilateral Search47
Conflicts of Interest in Municipal Bond Advising and Underwriting47
Commonality in Credit Spread Changes: Dealer Inventory and Intermediary Distress47
Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes47
Financial Disruptions and the Organization of Innovation: Evidence from the Great Depression46
The Cost of Bank Regulatory Capital46
Racial Disparities in the Auto Loan Market46
Fast and Slow Arbitrage: The Predictive Power of (Persistent) Capital Flows for Factor Returns44
Cross-Subsidization of Bad Credit in a Lending Crisis40
SPACs38
Equity Return Expectations and Portfolios: Evidence from Large Asset Managers37
Is Capital Structure Irrelevant with ESG Investors?37
Institutional Brokerage Networks: Facilitating Liquidity Provision37
Continuous-Time Fama-MacBeth Regressions36
What Drives Firms’ Hiring Decisions? An Asset Pricing Perspective34
Technological Progress and Rent Seeking33
The Financial Channel of the Exchange Rate and Global Trade33
Macroeconomic Attention and Announcement Risk Premia33
Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics32
An Intermediation-Based Model of Exchange Rates32
The Incidence of Student Loan Subsidies: Evidence from the PLUS Program32
Regulatory Intensity and Firm-Specific Exposure32
Health Care Costs and Corporate Investment31
Identifying Price Informativeness31
Political Sentiment and Innovation: Evidence from Patenters30
Trade Credit and the Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy30
Investor Sentiment and the Pricing of Characteristics-Based Factors30
Institutional Corporate Bond Pricing29
Do Temporary Demand Shocks Have Long-Term Effects for Startups?28
Credit Cycles, Expectations, and Corporate Investment28
The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates28
Financial Crises and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Consumer Credit Markets27
Are Analyst “Top Picks” Informative?27
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space27
Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia27
Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?27
Dynamic Coordination and Bankruptcy Regulations26
International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds26
Hedging, Contract Enforceability, and Competition26
What Determines Consumer Financial Distress? Place- and Person-Based Factors25
Unmasking Mutual Fund Derivative Use25
Can Environmental Policy Encourage Technical Change? Emissions Taxes and R&D Investment in Polluting Firms25
Are All ESG Funds Created Equal? Only Some Funds Are Committed24
The Psychological Externalities of Investing: Evidence from Stock Returns and Crime24
Mandatory Financial Disclosure and M&A Activity24
A Comprehensive 2022 Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction24
Making the House a Home: The Stimulative Effect of Home Purchases on Consumption and Investment24
The Effects of Going Public on Firm Profitability and Strategy23
The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts’ Geographic Diversity23
Income Shifting out of the United States by Foreign Multinational Firms23
Adverse Selection and Climate Risk: A Response to22
Syndicated Lending, Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation21
Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle21
Π-CAPM: The Classical CAPM with Probability Weighting and Skewed Assets21
Connected Funds20
Gold’s Value as an Investment20
How Does Removing the Tax Benefits of Debt Affect Firms? Evidence from the 2017 U.S. Tax Reform20
Digital Tokens and Platform Building20
Neglected Peers in Merger Valuations20
Product Innovation and Credit Market Disruptions20
The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment20
Earnings Extrapolation and Predictable Stock Market Returns19
Dynamic Equilibrium with Costly Short-Selling and Lending Market19
Benchmarking Intensity19
Man versus Machine Learning: The Term Structure of Earnings Expectations and Conditional Biases19
Credit Freezes, Equilibrium Multiplicity, and Optimal Bailouts in Financial Networks19
Common Venture Capital Investors and Startup Growth19
The Effect of Stock Liquidity on the Firm’s Investment and Production18
Beliefs about the Stock Market and Investment Choices: Evidence from a Survey and a Field Experiment18
Seller Debt in Acquisitions of Private Firms: A Security Design Approach18
The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks: Household Financial Distress Matters17
Order Flows and Financial Investor Impacts in Commodity Futures Markets17
The Labor Market Effects of Loan Guarantee Programs17
The Savings of Corporate Giants17
Cross-Selling in Bank-Household Relationships: Mechanisms and Implications for Pricing17
Unemployment Insurance as a Subsidy to Risky Firms17
Option Pricing with Time-Varying Volatility Risk Aversion17
Intellectual Property Rights and Debt Financing16
Risk Price Variation: The Missing Half of Empirical Asset Pricing16
Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities16
What Problem Do Intermediaries Solve? Evidence From Real Estate Markets16
When FinTech Competes for Payment Flows16
Finance, Advertising, and Race16
Correction to: A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards15
A Quantitative Model of Dynamic Moral Hazard15
The Distribution of Nonwage Benefits: Maternity Benefits and Gender Diversity15
Uncertainty, Contracting, and Beliefs in Organizations15
Information versus Investment15
A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards15
Remote Board Meetings and Board Monitoring Effectiveness: Evidence from China15
Liquidity Provision on Blockchain-Based Decentralized Exchanges14
Field of Study and Financial Problems: How Economics Reduces the Risk of Default14
High-Yield Debt Covenants and Their Real Effects14
Competition Links and Stock Returns14
Technological Obsolescence14
Competition and Innovation Revisited: A Project-Level View14
Real Consequences of Shocks to Intermediaries Supplying Corporate Hedging Instruments14
New Perspectives on Insurance14
Stock Market Stimulus13
Banks as Liquidity Multipliers13
Monetary Policy, Business Liquidity and Survival: Evidence from the Refinancing Channel13
Markets versus Mechanisms13
Narrative Asset Pricing: Interpretable Systematic Risk Factors from News Text13
Mutual Fund Liquidity Transformation and Reverse Flight to Liquidity13
News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions12
When Do Low-Frequency Measures Really Measure Effective Spreads? Evidence from Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets12
Adjusting to Macroprudential Policies: Loan-to-Value Limits and Housing Choice12
Common Factors in Equity Option Returns12
The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Emissions: Evidence from the Swedish CO2 Tax11
Societal Inequality and Bank Deposit Dynamics: Evidence from the Freedman’s Savings Bank11
The Persistence of Miscalibration11
An Equilibrium Model of Imperfect Hedging: Transaction Costs, Heterogeneity in Risk Aversion, and Return Volatility11
Steering a Ship in Illiquid Waters: Active Management of Passive Funds11
Existence of the Wealth-Consumption Ratio in Asset Pricing Models with Recursive Preferences11
Leaky Director Networks and Innovation Herding11
Price elasticity of demand and risk-bearing capacity in sovereign bond auctions11
The Elasticity of Quantitative Investment11
Corporate ESG Profiles and Banking Relationships11
From Market Making to Matchmaking: Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity?11
What Private Equity Does Differently: Evidence from Life Insurance11
Capital Investment, Equity Returns, and Aggregate Dynamics in Oligopolistic Production Economies11
How Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity?10
The Effect of Student Loan Payment Burdens and Nonfinancial Frictions on Borrower Outcomes10
Credit Ratings and Market Information10
The Relationship Dilemma: Why Do Banks Differ in the Pace at Which They Adopt New Technology?10
Pretending Ignorance Is Bliss: Competing Insurers with Heterogeneous Informational Advantages10
Does the Federal Reserve Obtain Competitive and Appropriate Prices in Monetary Policy Implementation?10
The Effects of Capital Requirements on Good and Bad Risk-Taking10
Blood Money: Selling Plasma to Avoid High-Interest Loans9
Can Equity Option Returns Be Explained by a Factor Model? IPCA Says Yes9
Relative Performance Evaluation and Strategic Competition9
Why Do Firms Borrow Directly from Nonbanks?9
Cybersecurity Risk9
The Financial Consequences of Pretrial Detention9
Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N19
Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards9
Acquiring Innovation under Information Frictions9
Currency Risk Premiums Redux8
The Hedging Channel of Exchange Rate Determination8
The Disutility of Stock Market Losses: Evidence From Domestic Violence8
Socially Responsible Finance: How to Optimize Impact8
Shared Destinies? Small Banks and Small Businesses8
Reference Points Spillovers: Micro-Level Evidence from Real Estate8
The Overnight Drift8
Measuring the Expected Effects of the Global Tax Reform8
The Partisanship of Financial Regulators8
Liquidity Constraints, Consumption, and Debt Repayment: Evidence from Macroprudential Policy in Turkey8
Countercyclical Labor Income Risk and Portfolio Choices over the Life Cycle8
Proof-of-Work versus Proof-of-Stake: A Comparative Economic Analysis8
Committee-Based Blockchains as Games between Opportunistic Players and Adversaries8
Financial Advisors and Investors’ Bias8
Who Holds Sovereign Debt and Why It Matters8
The Gender Investment Gap over the Life Cycle8
The Market Risk Premium for Unsecured Consumer Credit Risk8
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