Finance Research Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Finance Research Letters is 88. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Repo haircuts: Market practices and the impact of minimum requirements on leverage485
Cross-country spillover effects of interest rate and credit constraint policies475
Unveiling the Yin and Yang of expansionary monetary policy: Differential impact on inequality in China based on a national-level survey443
Editorial Board400
Invest in depth or breadth? The influence of multidisciplinary practices on the valuation and legitimation of living artists373
Firm financialization: The role of policy inconsistency349
How green screening influences risk transmission among stock-bond indices: Insight into the dependence structure289
Does corporate social responsibility affect the performance of cross-border M&A of emerging market multinationals?248
Does smart transformation in manufacturing promote enterprise value chain upgrades?240
Correlation impulse response functions240
Regional social capital and stock price crash risk: Evidence from the US207
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on IPO underpricing: Evidence from China199
Limit Order Book dynamics and order size modelling using Compound Hawkes Process196
Risk spillovers among energy, metals, and agriculture commodity markets: A network perspective196
Strategic IPO timing of technology innovation-driven enterprises: A differential game analysis of market returns, disclosure costs, and industry dynamics191
The equity market response to climate change litigation189
Are borrowing costs affected by audit market structure? Evidence from market concentration181
A complementary valuation model and exit multiples177
Small price bias in the cryptocurrency market. A cognitive bias revealed by emotions on social networks177
Soybean futures responses to meteorological disaster risk —— Empirical evidence from the Chicago board of trade174
Management buyouts in times of economic policy uncertainty172
Learning about unprecedented events: Agent-based modelling and the stock market impact of COVID-19172
How do Equity Investors Assess the Efficiency of Global Financial Institutions?169
Does individual SREP results reveal real news?168
Can prospect theory explain anomalies in the Chinese stock market?164
Ecological rule of law, financial constraints, and investment in heavily polluting enterprises162
Option pricing with a two-piece lognormal distribution158
Green governance: The entry of green investors and stock liquidity156
Market learning about the stand-alone value of the acquirer154
Institutional investor stability, executive equity incentives, and corporate innovation151
Demographic change and natural interest rate of China150
Human capital and corporate social investment: The effect of public policy149
Crowdsourced governance: From glassdoor insights to shareholder activism148
Management's commitment to integrity and corporate financial risk147
Does the introduction of CSR criteria into CEO incentive pay reduce their earnings management? The case of companies listed in the SBF 120145
Correlation among climate risk, climate policy uncertainty, and carbon-intensive stock markets in China144
Are gross financial inflows expansionary or contractionary? Evidence from emerging economies141
Does stepping-back from IFRS pay off? Evidence from European unlisted firms’ cost of debt140
Does 3D printing technology promote OFDI? Evidence from Chinese listed companies139
Online public opinion and firm investment preferences134
Climate variability and catastrophe bond premiums133
Determinants of stock attention and behavioral preferences: Evidence from China's retail investors127
Does tax policy affect corporate environmental investment?125
Financing allocation efficiency and firm productivity: Evidence from a Chinese quasi-natural experiment124
Belt and Road Initiative: Driving innovation in tech enterprises through global value chains122
Management equity incentives, market dynamics, and corporate R&D investment121
Investor sentiment and corporate earnings management120
Bank efficiency and undesirable output: An analysis of non-performing loans in the Brazilian banking sector120
Corporate credit risk and bond yield spreads: Market reactions to the spreads119
Effects of enterprise viability on corporate green innovation performance118
Chasing ghosts: the elusive ambiguity premium in U.S. equities116
A look across the big pond and into the abyss — Performance of earnout deals in Europe and in times of crisis115
Financial regulation, capital market stability, and occupational crime113
Inspection supervision and corporate green total factor productivity113
ESG disclosure inconsistency and tail risk112
Regulatory reforms, share buyback and institutional monitoring of insider trading: Evidence from India112
Credit availability, overinvestment, and corporate innovation capability108
Comparative analysis of precious metals as hedges for clean energy stocks106
Does managerial climate awareness affect green bond issuance? The moderating role of managerial myopia106
How host country fintech levels affect cross-border M&A by Chinese companies105
Corporate social anti-activism and firm stock price: Evidence from DEI program elimination105
The role of gender in sales behaviour: Evidence from institutional financial brokerage105
An analysis of how work stress affects employees' proactive work behavior: The moderating role of corporate financial support104
Can the level of green consumption restrain listed companies’ “greenwashing” behavior? An analysis of the moderating effect of green credit104
Financial market reaction to the end of the right-wing populist government: The case of Poland104
Superstition-driven IPO anomaly: Chinese almanac evidence102
How ESG engagement shapes firm life cycle progression: Evidence from U.S. data102
The declining explanatory power of interest rates for stock market and business cycle dynamics101
Can the intensity of environmental regulation enhance corporate risk-taking?101
Political appointees and firms’ long-term capital market performance: Evidence from Central European countries100
Evaluation of the operational efficiency of internal capital markets in state-owned enterprises using big data100
Impact of nonagricultural employment on rural households’ financial resilience: Evidence from rural China99
The governance effects of green investors: A perspective on reducing natural dependency99
ESG performance and corporate financial distress: Evidence from China98
Does customer concentration affect corporate risk-taking? Evidence from China97
Media sentiment and corporate R&D manipulation96
The impact of inclusive finance and education investment on new quality productivity: The nonlinear mediating effect of education development95
Adjustment of U.S. Treasury yields to the cointegrating relationship amid high intrapersonal uncertainty95
Dependences and dynamic spillovers across the crude oil and stock markets throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict: Evidence from the ASEAN+693
The impact of digital transformation on firm productivity: From the perspective of sustainable development92
Digital economy, green total factor energy efficiency constraints and corporate resilience92
Green gains: The impact of REITs' environmental performance on sustainability-linked loan interest rates92
Capital market openness and bank credit risk: Evidence from listed commercial banks91
Is it all about noise? Investor sentiment and risk nexus: evidence from China91
Manual task intensity and male-female wage gap: Evidence from China90
Establishment of environmental protection courts, green finance, and corporate operating performance90
Bankruptcy court establishment and corporate risk-taking89
Interconnected dynamics of sustainable cryptocurrencies: Insights from transfer entropy analysis88
Green innovation, executives’ environmental awareness, and corporate value chain upgrading88
Energy transition investments and carbon emissions: asymmetric and dynamic effects across developed and emerging economies88
International tax incentives, cross-border research and development, and corporate innovation performance88
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