Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Pacific-Basin Finance Journal is 3. 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
Banking uncertainty and cash conversion cycle280
Managerial successions and family firms' access to trade credit financing: Evidence from China262
Foreign branch and bank lending decisions: Evidence from high-risk borrowers138
Editorial Board133
Agreeing to disagree: Informativeness of sentiments in internet message boards111
Herd to repurchase104
Official visits and stock price crash risk97
China's illiquidity premium: Due to risk-taking or mispricing?95
How retail investors affect the stock market?81
Demystifying COVID-19 policy actions: The case of inflation control in ASEAN80
Does the investment-profitability correlation affect the factor premiums? Evidence from China76
Momentum investing and a tale of intraday and overnight returns: Evidence from Taiwan75
Forecasting VaRs via hybrid EVT with normal and non-normal filters: A comparative analysis from the Chinese stock market74
Share pledge lending, monetary policy, and shadow banking nexus73
Restrictive bond covenants: Evidence from family firms in China72
The conjoint effects of corporate social responsibility performance and report tone on financial constraints: Evidence from China70
Two-step price adjustments of IPO book building in Japan70
Does transition finance policies persistently fuel green innovation in brown firms? Investigating the roles of ESG rating and bank connection64
The effect of Tobin's q on investment in a bank-based financial system: Evidence from Japan63
Do multiple large shareholders matter in financial firms? Evidence from China62
Clustering effects and spillover effects in major global government bond markets during the COVID-19 pandemic61
Digital empowered business environment and enterprise innovation: Evidence from China61
Managerial discretion over initial earnings forecasts60
Is company textual innovation disclosure effective? Evidence from China59
Pricing family leadership: Evidence from audit fees59
Forecasting Chinese stock market volatility with option-implied risk aversion: Evidence from extended realized EGARCH-MIDAS approach56
Insiders' stock pledging disclosures and credit ratings: Evidence from India56
Can strengthened financial regulation reduce monopsony power in superstar firms? Evidence from China's asset management reform56
An empirical evaluation of the salience-based asset pricing model: Evidence from Australia55
Domestic liquidity of cross-listed stocks: Evidence from the ADR market55
Can Fintech development improve the financial inclusion of village and township banks? Evidence from China55
Individual defense and joint defense: A new defensive portfolio selection method based on stock network structure55
Bank credit to SMEs in Japan: Evidence from normal times, the global financial crisis, and the COVID-19 crisis54
Local urban investment bonds and the profitability of firms53
Clan culture and corporate innovation52
Collateral reuse as a direct funding mechanism in repo markets50
Is attention-based stock buying profitable? Empirical evidence from Chinese individual investors50
Editorial Board48
Ownership acceleration and the volume volatility-return link: Evidence from China48
The asymmetric innovation effects of heterogeneous government subsidies: A new perspective from GDP target deviation48
Index-tracking rigidity and arbitrage opportunities in MSCI index reconstitutions47
Digital finance and science-based innovation: Evidence from Chinese leading manufacturing firms45
Government-guided funds and the rise of corporate AI: Evidence from China45
Trend information and cross-sectional returns: The role of analysts45
The nonlinear impact of oil price uncertainty on firm innovation: Evidence from China’s listed firms45
The impact of government open data platform construction on corporate capital market performance: Evidence from stock liquidity44
The role of financial flexibility in corporate cash donations44
To fix or not to fix: The representativeness of the WM/R methodology that underpins the FX benchmark rates. A pre-registered report44
Patient capital and corporate digital transformation: Evidence from Chinese A-share listed firms43
Reexamining the impact of closing call auction on market quality: A natural experiment from the Shanghai stock exchange42
Forecast disagreement about firm-level profitability and uncertainty42
Risk factors in the Indonesian stock market41
Leverage effect in cryptocurrency markets40
The peer effects of corporate social responsibility in China: A pre-registered study40
Can convertible bond trading predict stock returns? Evidence from China40
Spillover effects of MSCI inclusion announcement: Evidence and implications from China38
Who watches what and why it matters: Attention allocation, tug-of-war, and market resiliency: A pre-registered report37
Do M&A funds create value in Chinese listed firms?37
Dealership versus continuous auction: Evidence from the JASDAQ market36
An extension analysis of Amihud's illiquidity premium: Evidence from the Taiwan stock market36
Passive investors and concentration of intraday liquidity: Evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange36
Heterogeneity in shareholder activism: Evidence from Japan36
Extreme illiquidity and stock returns: Evidence from Thailand market36
Does judicial procedure reform affect firms' access to trade credit? Evidence from China35
Do firms accumulate cash balances through financing persistent negative cash flows? Evidence from China35
Confucianism and D&O insurance demand of Chinese listed companies34
The spillover effect of delisting risk on stock price synchronicity of regional peer firms33
Market-based reforms in share issuance and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China33
Population age structure, industry return, and portfolio strategy: Capitalizing on the trend of population aging in China32
Digital merger & acquisition and corporate innovation: Evidence from China32
Linking labor with capital: How employee friendly treatment impact trade credit availability32
The role of venture capital in promoting innovation in key & core technology companies: A pre-registered study31
Paying for pollution: Air quality and executive compensation31
Price limit and stock market quality: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in the Chinese stock market31
Digital transformation and corporate capital structure: Evidence from China31
The value of family social capital in informal financial markets: Evidence from China31
Motives for environmental and social engagement and stock liquidity: The moderating role of sustainability committees30
Financial geographic density and corporate financial asset holdings: Evidence from China30
Corporate leverage and leverage speed of adjustment: Does environmental policy stringency matter?30
Executive pay restrictions, political promotion, and firm efficiency: Evidence from China29
Gender, society, and financial inclusion: Evidence from matrilineal and patriarchal societies28
How air pollution influences corporate credit spreads: A pre-registered report28
“Only children” and entrepreneurship in China: Spillover effects and mechanisms28
Watchdogs or Petdogs: The role of media freedom on banking system stability28
Corporate green transformation and bankruptcy risk: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms28
Measuring the association between short selling and price efficiency: A new stock-level analysis28
The spillover effect of dishonesty across markets: PEP fund reallocation and bond rating27
COVID-19 vaccinations and risk spillovers: Evidence from Asia-Pacific stock markets27
Does short-term momentum exist in China?27
The dynamic impact of monetary policy on financial stability in China after crises27
Illusion momentum and cross-sectional returns26
Reassessing bond pricing efficiency: The effects of deregulating mandatory bond ratings26
Before thrive, first survive: The impact of controlling shareholder pledging on corporate ESG performance26
Employee pension welfare and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from the enterprise annuity system in China26
Only the connected survive: Common ownership and corporate resilience26
Economic policy uncertainty and bank systemic risk: A cross-country analysis26
Cross-border financial risk transmission under China's bond market opening26
Financial stress and returns predictability: Fresh evidence from China26
From academia to the courtroom: Impact of academic executives on corporate litigation risk25
Does firm financialization affect optimal real investment decisions? Evidence from China25
Lead investors' insider ownership and crowd investors' agency concerns in investor-led equity crowdfunding25
Hedging financial turbulence risk with textual analysis25
Mispricing and anomalies in China25
Predicting financial fraud in Chinese listed companies: An enterprise portrait and machine learning approach25
Robot adoption and firm's capacity utilization: Evidence from China24
Does social network improve corporate financing efficiency? Evidence from China24
The journey is the reward: A study of corporate site visits and mutual fund performance24
Financial literacy and household financial behavior in Singapore24
Optimization-based spectral end-to-end deep reinforcement learning for equity portfolio management24
Corporate responses to systemic risk: Talk and action24
The impact of central environmental inspection on institutional ownership: Evidence from Chinese listed firms24
Cultural proximity and CEO remuneration23
Culture and household carbon emissions: Evidence from China23
Board gender diversity and default risk in a bank-based financial system: A pre-registered report23
Muslim CEOs, risk-taking and firm performance23
Which investor corrects mispricing around earnings announcements?23
The uncertainty of RMB exchange rate expectation and foreign investment: Evidence from Cross-border M&As in China23
On the side effects of mandatory gender diversity laws in corporate boards23
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown: Firm network status and market response to negative rumors22
Does digital finance improve household financial health? Evidence from China22
Care or fear? The link between D&O liability insurance and CSR engagement: Evidence from China22
Does cultural diversity affect trade credit provision?22
Greening through central inspection: The role of legitimacy pressure and risk-taking22
News sentiment and the cost of debt22
Involuntary political connections and private firms' tax avoidance21
Information disclosure, product market competition and payout policy21
Product network and origin of common equity factor risks21
Mood seasonality around the globe21
Not all market participants are alike when facing crisis: Evidence from the 2015 Chinese stock market turbulence20
Unlocking the power of roots: Local CEOs and corporate maturity mismatch20
Lost in excess capital: Labor market consequences of IPO oversubscription in China20
How does the COVID-19 pandemic change the disposition effect in fund investors?20
The effect of margin-trading and short-selling mechanism on left-tail risk: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China20
Ownership structure and carbon emissions reduction20
Conditional volatility targeting strategy considering jump effects: Evidence from sustainable ESG equity index20
Saving for whose pocket? Divergence between employee wages and corporate cash holdings20
Cross-industry knowledge spillovers through shared analyst coverage: Evidence from green technologies19
CEO's poverty imprints and corporate financial fraud: Evidence from China19
Research on the influence of capital market liberalization on the ESG performance of listed companies—A quasinatural experiment based on the Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connects19
The importance of speed to corporate financial asset holdings: Evidence from high-speed rail19
A sustainable approach to portfolio allocation: Incorporating market-based climate transition risk exposure19
Are Islamic banks more resilient to the crises vis-à-vis conventional banks? Evidence from the COVID-19 shock using stock market data19
Investor behaviors and heuristics based on lunar superstition beliefs: A pre-registered report19
Culture and confidence in financial knowledge testing18
The unintended consequence of local government debt: Evidence from auditors' risk perception18
Sustainable finance analysis of commercial banks in China18
Do remote meetings and board hierarchy impact the voting behavior of independent board directors?18
A study of financial market resilience in China — From a hot money shock perspective18
Reform of fiscal hierarchy and corporate innovation: Evidence from the ‘Province-Managing-County’ fiscal reform in China18
Exacerbate or alleviate? Impact of controlling shareholders' share pledging on over-investment18
Increase or decrease: Customer digital transformation and supplier cost stickiness18
Forecasting Chinese stock market volatility with high-frequency intraday and current return information17
Gender culture and cross-border mergers and acquisitions: The deals with RCEP targets17
Analysis of tail risk contagion among industry sectors in the Chinese stock market during the COVID-19 pandemic17
Efficient monitoring through debt diversity: Insights on tunneling practices in Indian listed firms17
Liquidity shock and stock returns in the Japanese equity market17
Machine learning in the Australian equity market17
High-dimensional portfolio optimization based on tree-structured factor model17
Navigating competitive pressures: The impact of banking competition on corporate short-term borrowing for long-term investment17
Do buyback anomalies explain the stock return in Japan? A pre-registered report17
Does innovative disruption impact credit markets? Evidence from China16
International stock return predictability: The role of U.S. uncertainty spillover16
Competition laws and corporate risk-taking around the world16
Latent cultural forces: Communist heritage and stock price crash risk in China16
Should managers be incentivized with stock or options? Evidence from China16
Digital financial inclusion, traditional finance system and household entrepreneurship16
Do corrupt practices lead to increased cash holdings in firms? International evidence16
Bank financing diversification, market structure, and stability in a dual-banking system16
Does the semi-mandatory dividend policy affect firm innovation? Evidence from China's capital market16
Great Chinese famine, corporate social responsibility and firm value16
Does engagement by large asset managers enhance governance of target firms?16
Exceed your duty: The substitution effect of minority investor governance on institutional site visits16
Retail investors and the behavioral component of idiosyncratic volatility16
How does the quality of institutions influence the cash conversion cycle of firms?15
Corporate financialization and investment efficiency: Evidence from China15
The nexus of peer-to-peer lending and monetary policy transmission: Evidence from the People's Republic of China15
Intellectual property rights enforcement and mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from China15
Revisiting the momentum effect in Taiwan: The role of persistency15
Foreign investor trading, local investor mimicry and stock price volatility15
Institutional investors' information access and executive pay gaps: Evidence from corporate site visits in China15
Digital economy policies and enterprise digital transformation: A quasi-natural experiment of digital economy pilot zones15
When they say ‘not affected’, what do they mean? Evidence from trade disputes15
Editorial Board15
Board diversity and the marginal value of corporate cash holdings15
Do investors' site visits affect the price of bond issues?15
Dissecting the links among profitability, the disposition effect, and trading activity15
Structural news shock, financial market uncertainty and China's business fluctuations15
Analyzing the impact of sustainable performance on working capital management: Evidence from emerging markets14
Editorial Board14
Impact of perceived unlucky years on investment performance: Evidence from Chinese cultural beliefs14
How are green stocks and monetary policy related?14
The construction of social credit system and corporate innovation: Evidence from China14
Does digital tax enforcement drive corporate digitalization? Evidence from the Golden Tax Project III in China: A pre-registered report14
Do listed companies fulfill their public commitments? Evidence from the stake-raising commitments of Chinese companies14
The influence of stock market liberalization on labor investment decisions: Evidence from China14
Pricing implications of intervention and debt management in the primary market of Japanese government bonds14
Financial mismatch on corporate debt default risk: Evidence from China14
Prospect theory and mutual fund flows: Evidence from China14
ESG performance and loan contracting in an emerging market14
A shock to CEOs' external environment: terrorist attacks and CEO pay14
Entrepreneurial finance, primary equity markets, and growth: Evidence from a macro-panel of 97 economies14
Can board refreshment mitigate managerial power: New evidence from the MENA region14
Does internal control affect firms' use of derivatives? Evidence from China14
Whac-a-mole: China's debt policies and local debt risks14
The green governance effect of retail investor attention: Evidence from China's investor interactive platforms14
Does the risk spillover in global financial markets intensify during major public health emergencies? Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis14
The impact of displaced commercial risk on the performance of Islamic banks14
Does market competition foster related party transactions? Evidence from emerging market14
Conservatism and silence: The clan premium14
Benchmarking deep reinforcement learning approaches to trade execution13
Religion vs. ethics: Tail dependence between Sukuk, green bond, Islamic Fintech, and fourth industrial revolution assets13
Green finance policy and labor demand: Evidence from China13
Factors and anomalies in the Vietnamese stock market13
Earnings management, horizon problem, and advisor posts for retiring CEOs13
Geographic disparities in bank lending: Evidence from an auto loan market13
Dual institutional shareholders and stock price volatility——Evidence from fund investors in China13
Navigating the “twin titans” of global manufacturing: The impact of US and China on industrial production forecasting in G20 nations13
How do banks price carbon risk? Evidence from India13
Social media sentiment contagion and stock price jumps and crashes13
Enterprise digital transformation and return comovement of business groups13
Does systemic risk affect fund managers' tail risk-taking?13
How do credit default swap spreads react to languages?13
RETRACTED: Mapping fear in financial markets: Insights from dynamic networks and centrality measures13
Chinese stock anomalies and investor sentiment13
Is there a time-series momentum effect in the Asian crude oil futures market?13
Bank digital transformation and risk-taking: Evidence from China13
Mainland Chinese investor attention influences on international markets: The impact of Game of Hunting on the stock returns of head-hunting companies in Hong Kong13
Return predictability of short-selling and financial distress firms: Evidence from Korean stock market13
Anti-corruption and within-firm pay gap: Evidence from China12
Supply chain digitization and corporate maturity mismatch: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment12
Relocating innovation within firms: The impact of real estate booms on innovation transfer12
CEO-CFO tenure consistency and audit fees12
Distance, information and bank lending in China12
Non-financial information uncertainty, firm growth, and market value during crisis: Evidence from China12
Economic policy uncertainty and capital flows' tail risk in China12
Does corporate ESG create value? New evidence from M&As in China12
Economies of scope in the Japanese banking industry12
Fintech revolution in banking: A double-edged sword?12
The changing face of consumer credit: Evidence from a big tech platform in China12
The role of anti-tax avoidance in tax base flow and international tax competition12
Talk less and do more: Expected strategic adjustments vs. actual changes in the Chinese firms12
Retraction notice to ‘Mapping fear in financial markets: Insights from dynamic networks and centrality measures [PACFIN, Volume 85C, 2024, 102368]’12
To outperform: Sell-in-May enhanced with bond investments12
Relative performance evaluation and investment efficiency12
COVID-19 and policy responses: Early evidence in banks and FinTech stocks12
Information asymmetry in reinsurance through various ceded contracts12
Cognitive ability and household portfolio diversification: Evidence from China12
Intelligent manufacturing and post-pandemic growth: Evidence from China12
Stock market volatility spillovers from U.S. to China: The pivotal role of Hong Kong12
Firm performance following actual share repurchases: Effects of investment crowding out and financial flexibility12
0.73421287536621