Finance Research Letters

2004 - 2025

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Volume 82, issue C, 2025

Business group finance company and member firms’ operational performance

Yongmei Tu, Jihong Liu and Degan Yu

Driving credit access through ESG performance: A European perspective

Francesco Campanella, Antonio Meles, Luana Serino and Vincenzo Verdoliva

Dual asymmetries in Bitcoin

Chikashi Tsuji

Green finance development on corporate sustainability: Evidence from china

Wan Zhang, Yuyao Zhang and Suitao Mou

Can digital economy reduce corporate executive pay stickiness?

Zirong Li, Jingbo Li and Bo Zhao

Does exposure to biodiversity risk drive firms’ digital transformation?

Libo Yin, Xiaoye Zhu and Jingtian Li

Impact of population aging on Chinese residents’ consumption: Empirical analysis based on impact of digital inclusive finance

Yuhe Chen and Kexin Zhang

Quantifying disruption in the age of AI: An AI-based approach to evaluating startup innovation and investment potential

Michael B. Imerman and Frank J. Fabozzi

Fixed versus dynamic investment: Optimal contracting with competitive entrepreneurs

Liyuan Wang, Chuan Ding, Zhiyu Wang and Siyuan Zeng

How green finance drives new-quality productivity from the perspective of Chinese modernization

Xiangjun Liu and Ding Liu

A note on ambiguity, network adoption and crypto pricing

Zhuyi Shen, Shibo Wang, Jinqiang Yang and Siqi Zhao

Modelling CSRBB under regulatory guidelines

Maxime Segal, Kristján Rúnar Kristjánsson and Björn Hrannar Björnsson

Subjective social standing, psychological well-being, and household financial behavior

Zhixiao Chen, Xinjian Wang, Qiang Dong, Suqin Wu and Yihao Ding

Asset allocation for a DC pension plan with dynamic attention

Xingchun Peng and Shiqi Fan

Stock portfolio selection based on risk appetite: Evidence from ChatGPT

Constantin J. Schneider and Yahya Yilmaz

Aging, financial coverage, and agricultural economic resilience: Nonlinear dynamics and thresholds

Peng Han, Hanfeng Liu and Yuhe Chen

Integrating climate change attention into enterprise digital transformation: A managerial perspective

Lili Zhao, Chaoxia Fu and Chen, Xiqun (Michael)

Does biodiversity attention affect risk spillover in the AFHF sectors?—Evidence from Chinese stock markets

Min Zhang, Guorong Chen and Jing Deng

Chapter 11 bankruptcy outcomes and gubernatorial election cycles

Wolfgang Breuer, Simon Haas and Andreas Knetsch

Relationship between carbon disclosure quality, green innovation and organizational performance under the background of carbon neutrality

Anmiao Ma

Innovative policies, financial mismatch, and corporate innovation performance: A Quasi-natural experiment based on the national innovative city pilot policy

Xinxia Ji, Liyan Zhang and Wei Cao

Intellectual property protection strategy, digital governance, and the upgrading of corporate human capital structure—A quasi-natural experiment based on the construction of national intellectual property model cities

RuiQi Yang and Junjie Cai

The Influence mechanism of online communication on analysts' forecast bias: Based on earnings management

Yiwan Huang and Zhanbin Feng

The impact of economic policy uncertainty on controlling shareholder tunneling behavior and governance mechanisms

Jinglong Li and Wei Dai

Exploration of credit spreads and information disclosure quality of corporate bonds under economic policy uncertainty

Xiao Lu, Ze-Jia Zhou and Chenchen Feng

Spillover effects between climate policy uncertainty, energy markets, and food markets: A time–frequency analysis

Ting Zhang, Peng-Fei Li and Wei-Xing Zhou

Going global, going green: How outward FDI enhances corporate green innovation

Huahua Ge, Zaixin Chen, Pengfei Gao and Chenbo Wang

Climate policy uncertainty and corporate environmental risk-taking

Yongwon Kim, Young Kyu Park and Doojin Ryu

Geopolitical risk and offshore corporate bond issuance in local currency

Qi Zhang, Ling Wang, Xiaoxuan Sun and Ning Lin

Energy, metals, cereals and G7 indices: Russia–Ukraine conflict and risk spillovers

Maria Leone, Alberto Manelli and Roberta Pace

The impact of sustainable cities construction on foreign divestment: Empirical evidence from low-carbon city pilot in China

Qing-rui Yu and Yan-chen Cheng

Supply chain finance and soft budget constraints: A nonlinear threshold effect perspective from China's listed companies

Rui Chen and Qiqing Huang

The attention of the Fed

Nathan Goldstein

Can green bonds enhance enterprises’ total factor productivity? The impacts of macroeconomic policy adjustment and ownership heterogeneity

Dian Ling and Xiaohong Li

Can the application of artificial intelligence in criminal investigation reduce regional criminal offences? The moderating effect of digital financial development

Xin Li, Zhihai Yu and Xiaoran Sarah Zhang

The influence mechanism of controlling shareholders' equity pledges on corporate risk-taking

Qin Guo and Yuanping Zhao

Impact and mechanisms of digital finance on corporate bond credit spreads in China

Weijing Kang

Coupling analysis of rural revitalization and talent development in disadvantaged counties in China

Yahui Lv, Siqi Zhang, Hanyue Li and Shitong Wang

War discourse predicts stock market volatility: A century of evidence

Zhiping Zhou and Kai Wang

Market access deregulation and labor force structure: A quasi-natural experiment based on the “Negative list for market access”

Yuwei Zhou, Lin Cheng and Yuhao Niu

Investment opportunities and labor mobility: Evidence from Europe

Stanley Peterburgsky

Shockwaves across borders: Did the 2023 banking crisis reshape global banking sector linkages?

Chun-Sung Huang and Ailie Charteris

Geopolitical shock and local government debt risk

Dongfa Feng, Ziteng Lu, Wei Tang and Yao Zhang

Renewable energy policy and environmental governance performance

Ye Zheng, Xuhan Bao and Shijie Zhao

Digital technology innovation, entrepreneurship and high-quality corporate development

Yuyao Pan and Xiaochuan Guo

The relationship between ESG rating adjustments and corporate financial performance

Li-Chuan Chou, (Anderson) Yan, Yun-Chia and Chung-Kai Huang

Digital transformation of enterprises and greenwashing behavior: evidence from China

Huilian Li and Yang Zhong

From alignment to crash: How CFO co-option affects stock prices

Wenqiong Liu, Chih-Chuan Yeh, Lingyu Zhang and Ho-Chuan Huang

The unintended consequences of retail investor attention: the case of the long-term use of short-term debt

Cai Liu and Xiaoxiao He

Bank competition, market concentration and innovation: Insights from China’s patent pledge financing policy

Shuang Liang

ETF ownership and corporate financialization

Qi Liu and Changying Shi

Environmental information disclosure, green finance, and corporate investment efficiency

Xiao Li, Furong Mo and Xinfang Li

Cross-border e-commerce, foreign investment and export trade resilience

Kewen Ning, Xue Chen and Ye Xiao

Cultural and tourism special bonds, fiscal revenue and expenditure ratio, and structural upgrading of the cultural and tourism industry

Zheng Qu and Jun Huang

Human capital mobility and corporate management cost

Jiawei Shi

Unpacking the black box: Board co-option and equity pledging by controlling shareholders

Ziqi Li, Zhihao Cai and Ho-Chuan Huang

Impact of carbon emissions, green energy, artificial intelligence and high-tech policy uncertainty on China’s financial market

Xilin Zhang, Guangwu Li, Ran Wu, Hongjun Zeng and Shenglin Ma

Impact of enterprise artificial intelligence development on human capital structure

Zhe Li, Huiyu Yang and Tingting Zhang

Dynamic connectedness between oil shocks and BRICS stock markets

Walid Mensi, Rim El Khoury and Sang Hoon Kang

Fintech development and corporate hypocrisy: Evidence from social responsibility decoupling

Xi Chen, Fei Ji, Dongmin Kong and Zitong Tan

Generative AI usage among investor types: The role of personality and perceptions

Ji Luo, Qingning Cao, Shuguang Zhang and Dongxiao Gu

When green turns red: Is the perception of greenwashing a barrier to individual green investment?

Syrine Gacem, Fabrice Hervé and Sylvain Marsat

Does venture capitalists’ monitoring role have spillover effect? — Evidence from valuation adjustment mechanism in mergers and acquisitions

Xiaojie Ye, Dan Yang and Ling Yu

Where to draw the line in prudential policy? Insights into banking stability and risk tolerance

Petr Jakubik and Bogdan Gabriel Moinescu

Building an index based on key SDG 12 indicators to promote the transition to a circular economy

Javier Cifuentes-Faura

Corporate credit ratings, banking fragility, and sovereign credit risk

Patricio Valenzuela

China’s financial reform and high-quality export development: A dual-margin perspective

Yuanming Ren, Xinyu Zhan and Jingyi Gao

The impact of digital inclusive finance on the allocation of agricultural resources: Micro evidence from rural China

Xiaodan He, Zixuan Yang and Shiqi Tian

The impact of industrial policy on corporate innovation

Jinquan Tang, Hsiao-Fen Hsiao and Xiangfeng Xu

Cybersecurity governance and corporate innovation: evidence from China

Jing Xu

The impact of wildfire smoke on carbon-intensive stocks

Tatiana Salikhova

How CEO donations drive stock prices: Evidence from the Trump 2024 election

Dennis Koch and Dirk Schiereck

When geopolitical risks hit the supply chain: Impacts on credit default swap market

Yin-Siang Huang

Labor protection policy and firm markup: Evidence from the implementation of the China social insurance law

Zhiwei Yang, Jiahui Yang and Wei Wang

Non-response bias in expectation surveys: Different perceptions and expectations of financial matters from “early quitters”

Ruichen Huang

Impact of inclusive innovation on firm performance

LinBai Li and BeiWei Li

Emerging trends in ESG ratings as risk factors in asset pricing

Nihal Touti, Asmâa Alaoui Taïb and Lilia Rekik

Research on the impact of digital transformation on executive compensation

Zhen Chen, Jie Gao, Fang Li and Thithuha Nguyen

How entrepreneurship drives ESG performance: The roles of data assetization and financing constraints

AnChao Wang and Abdul Saqib

Population aging, digital economy and family tourism consumption

YanLong Ji and JinYe Li

Government subsidies, investment efficiency, and corporate strategic aggressiveness

Yiru Chen and Liying Li

Risk disclosure and company valuation: Moderating effect of regulation

Fangfang Li, Yuan Yao, Pu Lu and Yan Li

Does digital financial inclusion promote intergenerational income mobility? Evidence from China

Jing Yang, Danning Lu and Jianxun Shi

Connect to certainty: Domestic trade network and trade policy uncertainty

Xiaohua Bao, Deting Gao, Yaning Wei, Wentao Wu and Jie Zhang

Does digital inclusive finance promote industrial global value chain upgrading? evidence from China’s advanced manufacturing industry

Yuanyuan Cai, Le Liang, Yi Zhang, Liangqun Qi and Chengdong Wang

The impact of digital economy on regional resource allocation efficiency: an analysis based on resource flow speed and direction

Limuge Qi, Lan Yang and Mier Ta

Digital finance, consumer convenience, and rural residents’ consumption

Wei Chen and Jiawei Li

Dialect diversity and enterprise digital transformation

Jin Yan, Zuowen Li and Yanru Li

Crowdfunding campaigns for a sustainable development: State of the art and future research agenda

Francesco Cappa, Antonello Cammarano, Francesco Fasano and Stefano Franco