Review of Financial Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Review of Financial Studies is 25. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bail-Ins, Optimal Regulation, and Crisis Resolution310
Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan’s Effects on Consumer Behavior and Market Efficiency in the United States305
Valuing Financial Data194
The Real Effects of Secondary Market Trading Structure: Evidence from the Mortgage Market194
Macroprudential Regulation, Quantitative Easing, and Bank Lending161
RETRACTED: Mortgage Finance and Climate Change: Securitization Dynamics in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters139
Duration-Based Valuation of Corporate Bonds136
How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets136
Missing Data in Asset Pricing Panels135
Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Credit Chains129
Human Capital Portability and Careers in Finance123
Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior122
The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data120
Comomentum: Inferring Arbitrage Activity from Return Correlations102
Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India101
Investor Memory98
Factor Momentum96
Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital94
Bond Price Fragility and the Structure of the Mutual Fund Industry92
Banking on Carbon: Corporate Lending and Cap-and-Trade Policy91
Group-Managed Real Options87
Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices87
The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach87
Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle83
Risking or Derisking: How Management Fees Affect Hedge Fund Risk-Taking Choices82
In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle81
The Rise of Star Firms: Intangible Capital and Competition80
Counterparty Risk: Implications for Network Linkages and Asset Prices78
Should the Government Be Paying Investment Fees on $3 Trillion of Tax-Deferred Retirement Assets?76
Who Mismanages Student Loans, and Why?75
Consumption Imputation Errors in Administrative Data72
The Geography of Value Creation70
Where Has All the Data Gone?68
Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk67
Nonbank Lending and Credit Cyclicality62
Distortions and Efficiency in Production Economies with Heterogeneous Beliefs60
Public Debt, Consumption Growth, and the Slope of the Term Structure60
Can Human Capital Explain Income-Based Disparities in Financial Services?59
Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract59
Conflicts of Interest in Municipal Bond Advising and Underwriting58
Holding Period Effects in Dividend Strip Returns56
Commonality in Credit Spread Changes: Dealer Inventory and Intermediary Distress54
Simultaneous Multilateral Search53
Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?52
Firm Networks and Asset Returns50
Size Discount and Size Penalty: Trading Costs in Bond Markets50
Efficiency of Dynamic Portfolio Choices: An Experiment50
The Oligopoly Lucas Tree47
Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes47
Horizon Bias and the Term Structure of Equity Returns46
Ratings-Driven Demand and Systematic Price Fluctuations46
Is Capital Structure Irrelevant with ESG Investors?45
Deconstructing the Yield Curve45
Cross-Subsidization of Bad Credit in a Lending Crisis43
Racial Disparities in the Auto Loan Market43
Equity Return Expectations and Portfolios: Evidence from Large Asset Managers42
The Life Cycle Effects of Corporate Takeover Defenses42
Fast and Slow Arbitrage: The Predictive Power of (Persistent) Capital Flows for Factor Returns42
SPACs40
Financial Disruptions and the Organization of Innovation: Evidence from the Great Depression39
What Drives Firms’ Hiring Decisions? An Asset Pricing Perspective39
Technological Progress and Rent Seeking39
The Cost of Bank Regulatory Capital39
The Party Structure of Mutual Funds38
Regulatory Intensity and Firm-Specific Exposure38
Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics38
Macroeconomic Attention and Announcement Risk Premia38
The Incidence of Student Loan Subsidies: Evidence from the PLUS Program38
An Intermediation-Based Model of Exchange Rates38
Institutional Brokerage Networks: Facilitating Liquidity Provision38
Health Care Costs and Corporate Investment36
The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates35
A Fistful of Dollars: Financial Incentives, Peer Information, and Retirement Savings35
Credit Cycles, Expectations, and Corporate Investment34
Competition for Attention in the ETF Space33
Monetary Policy Risk: Rules versus Discretion33
Political Sentiment and Innovation: Evidence from Patenters33
Do Temporary Demand Shocks Have Long-Term Effects for Startups?33
Are Analyst “Top Picks” Informative?32
Trade Credit and the Transmission of Unconventional Monetary Policy32
What Do Mutual Fund Investors Really Care About?32
A Comprehensive 2022 Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction31
International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds31
Unmasking Mutual Fund Derivative Use30
What Determines Consumer Financial Distress? Place- and Person-Based Factors30
Hedging, Contract Enforceability, and Competition29
Financial Crises and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Consumer Credit Markets28
Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?28
Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia28
Can Environmental Policy Encourage Technical Change? Emissions Taxes and R&D Investment in Polluting Firms28
The Psychological Externalities of Investing: Evidence from Stock Returns and Crime27
Connected Funds27
Neglected Peers in Merger Valuations27
The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts’ Geographic Diversity26
Income Shifting out of the United States by Foreign Multinational Firms25
Making the House a Home: The Stimulative Effect of Home Purchases on Consumption and Investment25
The Effects of Going Public on Firm Profitability and Strategy25
Syndicated Lending, Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation25
Mandatory Financial Disclosure and M&A Activity25
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