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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Consumer Behavior and Market Efficiency in the United States539
Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels355
Payment for Order Flow and Option Internalization272
Collateral Effects: The Role of FinTech in Small Business Lending255
Duration-Based Valuation of Corporate Bonds251
Valuing Financial Data243
Bank Debt, Mutual Fund Equity, and Swing Pricing in Liquidity Provision176
How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets162
Macroprudential Regulation, Quantitative Easing, and Bank Lending159
Bail-Ins, Optimal Regulation, and Crisis Resolution157
Bond Price Fragility and the Structure of the Mutual Fund Industry135
Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital133
Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Credit Chains130
Human Capital Portability and Careers in Finance126
The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data103
The Pace of Change: Socially Responsible Investing in Private Markets100
Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior96
Factor Momentum96
The Broader Role of Venture Capital Due Diligence94
Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India90
Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices89
Investor Memory86
Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap-and-Trade Policy85
In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle84
Risking or Derisking: How Management Fees Affect Hedge Fund Risk-Taking Choices77
Who Mismanages Student Loans, and Why?72
Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle72
The Response of Mortgage Supply to Expected Flood Insurance Lapses64
The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition63
Counterparty Risk: Implications for Network Linkages and Asset Prices62
The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach61
Should the Government Be Paying Investment Fees on $3 Trillion of Tax-Deferred Retirement Assets?58
Price and Volume Divergence in China’s Real Estate Markets: The Role of Local Governments57
Nonbank Lending and Credit Cyclicality56
Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk55
Firm Networks and Asset Returns55
Failure to Share Natural Disaster Risk54
Size Discount and Size Penalty: Trading Costs in Bond Markets53
The Present Value of Future Market Power52
Horizon Bias and the Term Structure of Equity Returns51
Holding Period Effects in Dividend Strip Returns50
Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract50
Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?49
Monetary Policy through Production Networks: Evidence from the Stock Market44
Deconstructing the Yield Curve44
Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes43
Conflicts of Interest in Municipal Bond Advising and Underwriting43
Fast and Slow Arbitrage: The Predictive Power of (Persistent) Capital Flows for Factor Returns42
Can Human Capital Explain Income-Based Disparities in Financial Services?42
Cross-Subsidization of Bad Credit in a Lending Crisis40
SPACs39
Is Capital Structure Irrelevant with ESG Investors?39
The Cost of Bank Regulatory Capital39
Racial Disparities in the Auto Loan Market39
Equity Return Expectations and Portfolios: Evidence from Large Asset Managers38
Smokestacks and the Swamp38
Beliefs and Portfolios: Causal Evidence38
Financial Disruptions and the Organization of Innovation: Evidence from the Great Depression36
An Intermediation-Based Model of Exchange Rates36
The Financial Channel of the Exchange Rate and Global Trade36
Institutional Brokerage Networks: Facilitating Liquidity Provision35
Technological Progress and Rent Seeking35
Continuous-Time Fama-MacBeth Regressions34
Regulatory Intensity and Firm-Specific Exposure33
What Drives Firms’ Hiring Decisions? An Asset Pricing Perspective33
Machine Learning and the Implementable Efficient Frontier33
Dynamics of Asset Demands with Confidence Heterogeneity†32
Health Care Costs and Corporate Investment31
The Incidence of Student Loan Subsidies: Evidence from the PLUS Program31
Political Sentiment and Innovation: Evidence from Patenters31
Institutional Corporate Bond Pricing30
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space30
Price Discovery on Decentralized Exchanges29
Credit Cycles, Expectations, and Corporate Investment29
Investor Sentiment and the Pricing of Characteristics-Based Factors29
Identifying Price Informativeness29
Bond Market Resiliency: The Role of Insurers29
The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates29
Financial Crises and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Consumer Credit Markets28
What Determines Consumer Financial Distress? Place- and Person-Based Factors28
Trade Credit and the Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy28
Do Temporary Demand Shocks Have Long-Term Effects for Startups?28
International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds27
Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?26
Hedging, Contract Enforceability, and Competition26
Unmasking Mutual Fund Derivative Use26
Dynamic Coordination and Bankruptcy Regulations25
Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia25
Are Analyst “Top Picks” Informative?25
A Comprehensive 2022 Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction25
The Effects of Going Public on Firm Profitability and Strategy24
Investor-Driven Corporate Finance: Evidence from Insurance Markets24
Syndicated Lending, Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation24
Neglected Peers in Merger Valuations23
Connected Funds22
Income Shifting out of the United States by Foreign Multinational Firms22
Adverse Selection and Climate Risk: A Response to22
Mandatory Financial Disclosure and M&A Activity22
The Psychological Externalities of Investing: Evidence from Stock Returns and Crime22
Are All ESG Funds Created Equal? Only Some Funds Are Committed22
Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle21
The Effect of Principal Reduction on Household Distress: Evidence from Mortgage Cramdown21
Making the House a Home: The Stimulative Effect of Home Purchases on Consumption and Investment21
Π-CAPM: The Classical CAPM with Probability Weighting and Skewed Assets21
The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts’ Geographic Diversity21
Cooling Auction Fever: Evidence from the Housing Market20
Gold’s Value as an Investment20
How Does Removing the Tax Benefits of Debt Affect Firms? Evidence from the 2017 U.S. Tax Reform20
Dynamic Equilibrium with Costly Short-Selling and Lending Market19
Man versus Machine Learning: The Term Structure of Earnings Expectations and Conditional Biases19
Digital Tokens and Platform Building19
The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment19
Credit Freezes, Equilibrium Multiplicity, and Optimal Bailouts in Financial Networks19
Beliefs about the Stock Market and Investment Choices: Evidence from a Survey and a Field Experiment18
Earnings Extrapolation and Predictable Stock Market Returns18
The Effect of Stock Liquidity on the Firm’s Investment and Production18
Common Venture Capital Investors and Startup Growth18
Finance, Advertising, and Race17
The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks: Household Financial Distress Matters17
Algorithmic Pricing and Liquidity in Securities Markets17
Benchmarking Intensity17
What Drives Momentum and Reversal? Evidence from Day and Night Signals17
Nonbank Lending and the Transmission of Monetary Policy17
Product Innovation and Credit Market Disruptions17
Seller Debt in Acquisitions of Private Firms: A Security Design Approach16
The Labor Market Effects of Loan Guarantee Programs16
Option Pricing with Time-Varying Volatility Risk Aversion16
Cross-Selling in Bank-Household Relationships: Mechanisms and Implications for Pricing16
Remeasuring Scale in Active Management16
Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities16
Intellectual Property Rights and Debt Financing16
Correction to: A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards15
The Intangibles Song in Takeover Announcements: Good Tempo, Hollow Tune15
The Savings of Corporate Giants15
A Quantitative Model of Dynamic Moral Hazard15
What Problem Do Intermediaries Solve? Evidence From Real Estate Markets15
A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards14
Remote Board Meetings and Board Monitoring Effectiveness: Evidence from China14
Technological Obsolescence14
Information versus Investment14
Excess Commitment in R&D14
Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments14
Machine Forecast Disagreement14
Uncertainty, Contracting, and Beliefs in Organizations14
ESG Shocks in Global Supply Chains14
The Distribution of Nonwage Benefits: Maternity Benefits and Gender Diversity14
Risk Managers in Banks14
Competition and Innovation Revisited: A Project-Level View13
New Perspectives on Insurance13
Stock Market Stimulus13
High-Yield Debt Covenants and Their Real Effects13
Field of Study and Financial Problems: How Economics Reduces the Risk of Default13
When Do Low-Frequency Measures Really Measure Effective Spreads? Evidence from Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets13
Liquidity Provision on Blockchain-Based Decentralized Exchanges13
Monetary Policy, Business Liquidity and Survival: Evidence from the Refinancing Channel13
Narrative Asset Pricing: Interpretable Systematic Risk Factors from News Text13
Real Consequences of Shocks to Intermediaries Supplying Corporate Hedging Instruments13
Adjusting to Macroprudential Policies: Loan-to-Value Limits and Housing Choice13
Macroeconomic Expectations and Credit Card SpendingMikhail Galashin13
Voting and Trading on Public Information12
The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Emissions: Evidence from the Swedish CO2 Tax12
The Persistence of Miscalibration11
News Diffusion in Social Networks and Stock Market Reactions11
Societal Inequality and Bank Deposit Dynamics: Evidence from the Freedman’s Savings Bank11
Price elasticity of demand and risk-bearing capacity in sovereign bond auctions11
Steering a Ship in Illiquid Waters: Active Management of Passive Funds11
Common Factors in Equity Option Returns11
Existence of the Wealth-Consumption Ratio in Asset Pricing Models with Recursive Preferences11
The Covenant-Defeasance Option in Corporate Bonds11
How Financial Markets Create Superstars11
The Structure of Leveraged Buyouts and the Free-Rider Problem11
Banks as Liquidity Multipliers11
When Discounted Rates End: The Costs of Taking Action in the Mortgage Market11
The Elasticity of Quantitative Investment11
From Market Making to Matchmaking: Does Bank Regulation Harm Market Liquidity?11
How Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity?10
The Financial Consequences of Pretrial Detention10
Relative Performance Evaluation and Strategic Competition10
Capital Investment, Equity Returns, and Aggregate Dynamics in Oligopolistic Production Economies10
Cybersecurity Risk10
The Effect of Student Loan Payment Burdens and Nonfinancial Frictions on Borrower Outcomes10
Does the Federal Reserve Obtain Competitive and Appropriate Prices in Monetary Policy Implementation?10
Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards10
The Effects of Capital Requirements on Good and Bad Risk-Taking10
Pretending Ignorance Is Bliss: Competing Insurers with Heterogeneous Informational Advantages10
Leaky Director Networks and Innovation Herding10
An Equilibrium Model of Imperfect Hedging: Transaction Costs, Heterogeneity in Risk Aversion, and Return Volatility10
Can Equity Option Returns Be Explained by a Factor Model? IPCA Says Yes10
What Private Equity Does Differently: Evidence from Life Insurance10
What Drives Variation in Investor Portfolios? Estimating the Roles of Beliefs and Risk Preferences†9
Measuring the Expected Effects of the Global Tax Reform9
Who Holds Sovereign Debt and Why It Matters9
The Disutility of Stock Market Losses: Evidence From Domestic Violence9
Currency Risk Premiums Redux9
Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N19
The Hedging Channel of Exchange Rate Determination9
New Frontiers in Household Finance9
The Overnight Drift9
Shared Destinies? Small Banks and Small Businesses9
Financial Advisors and Investors’ Bias9
Committee-Based Blockchains as Games between Opportunistic Players and Adversaries9
The Partisanship of Financial Regulators9
Blood Money: Selling Plasma to Avoid High-Interest Loans9
Reference Points Spillovers: Micro-Level Evidence from Real Estate8
Broken Relationships: Derisking by Correspondent Banks and International Trade8
Proof-of-Work versus Proof-of-Stake: A Comparative Economic Analysis8
When Do Judges Throw the Book at Companies? The Influence of Partisanship in Corporate Prosecutions8
The Impact of Restricting Labor Mobility on Corporate Investment and Entrepreneurship8
How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Production in Economics and Finance?8
Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath8
Incentivizing Effort and Informing Investment: The Dual Role of Stock Prices8
The Dynamics of Disagreement8
The Gender Investment Gap over the Life Cycle8
Liquidity Constraints, Consumption, and Debt Repayment: Evidence from Macroprudential Policy in Turkey8
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