Finance Research Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Finance Research Letters is 91. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Repo haircuts: Market practices and the impact of minimum requirements on leverage447
Cross-country spillover effects of interest rate and credit constraint policies427
Unveiling the Yin and Yang of expansionary monetary policy: Differential impact on inequality in China based on a national-level survey397
Editorial Board342
An economic definition of ‘Fear of Missing Out’ (FOMO)335
Limit Order Book dynamics and order size modelling using Compound Hawkes Process326
Investor sentiment and corporate earnings management298
How ESG engagement shapes firm life cycle progression: Evidence from U.S. data288
Risk spillovers among energy, metals, and agriculture commodity markets: A network perspective279
Assessing the volatility of green firms274
Green gains: The impact of REITs' environmental performance on sustainability-linked loan interest rates264
Community activism, Social ties and ESG campaign success258
Corporate social anti-activism and firm stock price: Evidence from DEI program elimination256
A look across the big pond and into the abyss — Performance of earnout deals in Europe and in times of crisis226
Detecting exuberance phenomena in thematic investing218
Correlation among climate risk, climate policy uncertainty, and carbon-intensive stock markets in China217
Fintech, financial regulation and corporate financialization: Evidence from China215
Why Was There More Household Stock Market Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?213
Invest in depth or breadth? The influence of multidisciplinary practices on the valuation and legitimation of living artists210
Firm financialization: The role of policy inconsistency206
Modelling taxpayers’ behaviour based on prediction of trust using sentiment analysis189
How green screening influences risk transmission among stock-bond indices: Insight into the dependence structure185
Global value chain participation and income inequality within enterprises: An empirical study based on Chinese-listed companies178
Exploring the effect of VAT carryforward and refund policy on enhancing innovation efficiency among China's A-share listed firms176
SFDR Article 9: Is it all about impact?175
Tax incentives, financial subsidies and high-quality development of enterprises173
Demographic change and natural interest rate of China169
Does corporate social responsibility affect the performance of cross-border M&A of emerging market multinationals?164
Social governance, financial regulation, and corporate investment efficiency163
Valuing cryptocurrencies: A model of price and hashrate162
Environmental policies on the systematic risk of critical metals companies158
Small price bias in the cryptocurrency market. A cognitive bias revealed by emotions on social networks158
Financial market reaction to the end of the right-wing populist government: The case of Poland157
A complementary valuation model and exit multiples151
Legal background of corporate management and corporate audit quality150
Management equity incentives, market dynamics, and corporate R&D investment149
ESG ratings and female corporate leadership: Evidence from African firms148
Soybean futures responses to meteorological disaster risk —— Empirical evidence from the Chicago board of trade145
Unconventional, conventional monetary policies, and optimal energy supply structure in China142
Learning about unprecedented events: Agent-based modelling and the stock market impact of COVID-19141
How do Equity Investors Assess the Efficiency of Global Financial Institutions?140
The closed-form approximation to price basket options under stochastic interest rate140
Management buyouts in times of economic policy uncertainty140
Crises and changes: The impacts of CSR expenditure on loan and subsidy allocation in China's Pre- and Post-Pandemic periods138
Historical Determinants of Fintech Development: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings137
Futures, provisional sales, and earnings management in the global gold mining industry137
Effects of China’s capital controls on individual asset categories137
Does individual SREP results reveal real news?136
Editorial Board132
The impact of North Korean nuclear threat on stock market linkages in Northeast Asia: The case of South Korea, China, and Japan126
Can prospect theory explain anomalies in the Chinese stock market?126
Macroprudential policies, national culture, and bank systemic risk: A cross-country comparison126
Climate governance, CSR strategy, and corporate environmental decoupling126
Rescue one and sacrifice others? Corporate tunneling phenomenon under China's new delisting regulations125
Ecological rule of law, financial constraints, and investment in heavily polluting enterprises124
Impact of digital financial inclusion on rural revitalization123
Evaluation of the operational efficiency of internal capital markets in state-owned enterprises using big data122
Intellectual property law enforcement and regional cluster innovation efficiency122
An analysis of how work stress affects employees' proactive work behavior: The moderating role of corporate financial support120
Option pricing with a two-piece lognormal distribution118
How good are LLMs in risk profiling?116
Strategic IPO timing of technology innovation-driven enterprises: A differential game analysis of market returns, disclosure costs, and industry dynamics116
How the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) impacts FinTech: The implication of P2P lending markets116
Inspection supervision and corporate green total factor productivity115
Financial institution agglomeration and corporate labor allocation efficiency—Based on the context of government debt expansion115
Corporate credit risk and bond yield spreads: Market reactions to the spreads113
The role of gender in sales behaviour: Evidence from institutional financial brokerage111
The impact of green investment policies on the development of new energy enterprises: Analysis based on heterogeneity and threshold effects110
Foreign equity lookback options with guarantees109
Development of corporate artificial intelligence and the quality of export products108
The equity market response to climate change litigation107
Price discovery share: An order invariant measure of price discovery107
Human capital and corporate social investment: The effect of public policy106
Can old sin make new shame? Stock market reactions to the release of movies re-exposing past corporate scandals106
Effects of enterprise viability on corporate green innovation performance101
Bank efficiency and undesirable output: An analysis of non-performing loans in the Brazilian banking sector101
Community resilience and house prices: A machine learning approach101
Political appointees and firms’ long-term capital market performance: Evidence from Central European countries101
Recurrent neural network based parameter estimation of Hawkes model on high-frequency financial data101
Breaking barriers to rural entrepreneurship: How productive credit mitigates financial exclusion100
Are borrowing costs affected by audit market structure? Evidence from market concentration98
How green finance drives new-quality productivity from the perspective of Chinese modernization97
Do local innovation systems promote successful equity crowdfunding campaigns? Evidence from Italy96
Does peer-to-peer crowdfunding boost refugee entrepreneurs?96
Stepping forward with ease: Government debt governance as a catalyst for entrepreneurship96
Online public opinion and firm investment preferences95
Climate variability and catastrophe bond premiums93
Determinants of stock attention and behavioral preferences: Evidence from China's retail investors93
The effect of COVID-19 vaccine on the international financial markets92
Impact of SciTech – Finance integration policy implementation on SME innovation performance: Mediating effect of tax burden92
Can the Intensity of Environmental Regulation Enhance Corporate Risk-Taking? An Empirical Mechanism of Financial Resource Accessibility91
Value creation or political trick? An event study on anti-ESG regulations91
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