Finance Research Letters

2004 - 2026

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Volume 103, issue C, 2026

The financial crisis, Basel III, and large banks’ financial reports: a topic modeling approach

Avinoam Blum and Alon Raviv

Does market confidence drive Up prices of Chinese painting and calligraphy artworks? Evidence from the auction market

Suyu Bu and Fei Huang

Research on the evolution characteristics and driving factors of the coupling coordination degree between technological innovation and green development: Evidence from China

Chen, Yin’e, Linlin Zhu and Xuesi Zhong

Mandatory internal control and capital market information efficiency: Evidence from China’s staggered regulatory reform

Maoguo Wu and Bowen Hu

Transition and physical climate risk spillovers in Sukuk and ESG Sukuk: Frequency evidence from Malaysia

Huthaifa Alqaralleh, Chadi Baalbaki and Imad Chehade

Can AI match professional analysts? Evidence from a multi-agent system

Austin Francis and Cinder Xinde Zhang

Does digital finance revitalize the countryside? The role of ESG attention and financial depth

Ping Li, Binyan Liang and Peng Zhao

Impression management in ESG reporting: A visual salience approach to benchmarking ESG commitment shortfalls

Yaou Zhou, Yuyun Zhong, Yunsen Wang and Yang Li

From trade agreement to trade war: USMCA, tariff uncertainty, and stock market spillovers

Lorne N. Switzer, Nabil El Meslmani and Aman Bajaj

Guns’N Roses: Political assassination attempt and cryptocurrency markets

Luca Galati and Carmine Russo

More exposure, greater rationality? Evidence from media pressure and investment deviations in agricultural firms

Qingshuang Chen, Zihao Deng and Wei Chang

Do economic projection meetings reduce the information effect of monetary policy announcements? Evidence from high-frequency FOMC event windows

Charilaos Mertzanis, Naif Alsagr and Asma Houcine

Retraction notice to Unravelling systemic risk commonality across cryptocurrency groups [Finance Research Letters 65 (2024) 105633]

Molla Ramizur Rahman, Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Larisa Yarovaya and Sabyasachi Mohapatra

Amplifying noise or delivering alpha? Performance evaluation of finfluencer stock recommendations

Leon Kirschbaum, Martin Keiper, Marius Mölders and Henning Zülch

Does green factory certification affect corporate tax compliance?

Xiao Fan, Jie Jiang and Chaohong Na

Is Bitcoin fragility systematically related to global uncertainty?

Bastien Buchwalter, Messaoud Chibane and Gabriel A. Giménez Roche

Third-party bailouts and tough lenders

Fernando Anjos, Irem Demirci and Miguel Oliveira

The value of climate disclosure: Evidence from corporate bond credit spreads

Youtao Xiang and Junmei Gong

Policy attention and tourism consumption inequality: Evidence from elderly households in China

Tao Zhang, Liangliang Han and Ziqi Ye

Responsibility in the shadows: How does firms’ shadow banking reshape carbon emission performance?

Wenting Chen, Ruxing Lin and Guangcheng Ma

Asynchronous market efficiency in gold and silver markets: A local currency lens

Hafiz Muhammad Usman Rana, Fergal O'Connor, Erez Yerushalmi and Jae H. Kim

Global supply chain pressure and long-term stock–bond correlations in China

Lidong Ma, Youlin Xiong and Jun Shen

How should country risk enter the CAPM? Evidence from Sovereign CDS and international equity returns

Hakan Bal

Tracking risk transitions: ESG scores and market beta dynamics

Francesco Morelli and Marco Nicolosi

Volume 102, issue C, 2026

Government industrial guidance fund, financing constraints, and corporate innovation

Guoan Ye and Mengmeng Chen

Continuous innovation failures’ effect on intelligent transformation: Evidence from Chinese enterprises

Wenkang Yao, Yuxuan Lv and Jianzu Wu

AI-derived ESG narrative voice and the conditional evaluation of corporate governance

Yen Wen Chang, Hafezali Iqbal Hussain and Hamdan Al-Jaifi

Promote or inhibit? Director and officer liability insurance and corporate excess leverage

Huajun Ma, Tao Zhu and Xiaoyi Wang

Does AI application promote corporate brand culture innovation? Evidence from Chinese A-share listed firms

Hao Hu

Innovation capital, financial relief, and organizational resilience of enterprises

Jingshi Yan and Hua Chen

Independence under pressure: quantifying presidential influence on the federal Reserve

Yosef Bonaparte

Creditor protection and audit fees: Evidence from a quasi-experiment

Chuyue Shi, Yanran Yang and Ximeng Zhang

Global geopolitical risk, ambiguity, and emerging market returns: Evidence from China

He Ni, Xingjian Guo, Weijia Wang and Jilong Chen

Board directors with foreign experience and asset-liability maturity mismatches

Jiajie Yan, Qing Shi, Zihao Zhou and Jiapeng Liu

The spillover effect of U.S. stock market regulation on global entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Huasheng Gao and Yuxi Wang

Investor crowding

Patrizia Perras and Niklas Wagner

Trade policy uncertainty, mining costs, and bitcoin prices

Qi Liu, Ziqi Wang, Dongxi Gao and Jingzhou Yan

Correlated defaults and risk retention: Can prices be increasing in risk

David Echeverry

Music sentiment and stock returns: A structural break in sentiment dynamics

Alicia Weiberg and Jan Heldmann

FDI liberalization and firms’ span of production stages in global value chains

Qiming Liu, Jialin Xu, Jingling Wu, Zishan Zhou and Yu Guo

The impact of financial sanctions on informal employment: Evidence from 129 countries

Cuihua Zu, Weiwei Li, Teng Long and Tianwei Wu

Corporate uncertainty perception, executives' financial background, and firms' long-term performance

Zhanyang Li and Weiqi Wang

Does ESG performance mitigate corporate debt default risk? Evidence from emerging markets

Yujie Ma and Wenxiu Hu

Green preferences of financial capital and strategic green innovation: governance effects of green investor entry

Lili Jing, Chenxuan Xing, Yuanyuan Zhai and Jia Zhou

Green finance and corporate default risk

Mengjie Gao and Xiang Tan

Low-altitude economic policies and entrepreneurial activity: Policy push or market pull?

Bingyu Zhou, Yubin Gao and Jin Sheng

Artificial intelligence and the restructuring of corporate labor costs

Jie He and Jiangwei Su

The impact of supply chain finance on regional innovation quality

Xiangmei Li, Suya Zhang and Meng Li

Bank digital transformation and firms' digital investment: Evidence from micro-level loan data

Yu Wang, Ao Qin and Zheng Xue

The integration of digital cultural dissemination and green finance: A perspective on low-carbon transition along the "Belt and Road"

Muyao He and Qun Wang

How green factory certification drives corporate environmental performance

Lingli Xu and Jianmei Guo

Digital transformation of enterprises and the information content of stock prices: An analysis of the mediating effect based on accounting information quality

Qingxing Meng, Ziyan Yuan and Yan Hou

Time-varying spillover effects of China’s monetary policy on the U.S. economy: A perspective of capital account liberalization and financial structure evolution

Hao Wu and He Wu

Supply chain network complexity, financial resilience, and enterprise operational stability

Jinjuan Wang and Qing Zhang

U.S. – China tensions and global bank lending

Duy Khanh Le

Executive political connections, financing constraints, and corporate innovation performance

Yue Shan and Zhonghuai Peng

Bank-fintech investments and bank performance: A method of moments quantile regression analysis

Faisal Abdulmohsen Alfhaili

Does supply chain finance affect cost elasticity?

Yunling Song, Jialing Bai and Zhaoxue Li

Tail risk forecasting for crude oil futures under market stress: New insights from MES regression

Shaopeng Hong and Huihong Shi

Does the technology–finance pilot program promote regional economic development? evidence from china

Fei Ma

Entrepreneurship, financial deepening, and internal wage disparities in enterprises

Shuo Wang, Young-ro Kim and Cheng Ju

Government, defence-specific products, and suppliers' financial decisions. Evidence from Spain

Natalia Utrero-González

The role of early debt retirement in corporate policy

Guangzhong Li and Rongbing Xiao

Influence of fiscal transparency on government debt costs: Mediating role of credit ratings

Linghan Li and Peng Chen

The “Reservoir” effect of financial asset allocation during crises: evidence from corporate innovation sustainability in China

Meng He, Xuelian Bai and Lu Liu

Does futures trading stabilize the underlying market with short-term traders?

Binbin Chen, Denghui Wang, Qingduo Zeng and Wenyu Meng

Credit constraints and the temporal dynamics of the housing market: Evidence from Korea’s high-value mortgage ban

Jiyoon Oh

Institutional investor attention and bank risk: Evidence from basel III

You-Xun Lu, Yin-Siang Huang and Che-Chun Hsu

Accommodative monetary policy and corporate innovation: Evidence from the risk-taking channel

Tingxi Wang and Siyu Pian

Empirical study of portfolio rebalancing strategies in the Chinese ETF market

Fuxiang Yu and Yingying Wang

Mortgage subsidies and housing prices: Evidence from the Korean 85m² size eligibility

Myeonghwan Na and Cheongyeon Won

The K-affiliation advantage: Do intragroup transactions enhance subsidiary creditworthiness by the halo effect?

Jong-Hyun Kim, Dongha Lee and Seong-Min Ma

The industry spillover effect of green finance innovation policy on carbon emission: Evidence from listed companies in Pearl River Delta region

Bin Wang, Hanqi Yu, Haifeng Pan and Minxiu Yu

Informal credit enhancement in bond markets: Evidence from Chinese clan culture

Quanyi Xu, Yuting Yang, Lian Wu and Jie Jiang

Corrigendum to ‘Can machine learning uncover ESG alpha in the Chinese A-share market? An 'alpha illusion' case study’ [Finance Research Letters 91 (2026) 109462]

Borong Chen

ESG uncertainty and global investment inflows: assessing the role of governance in a dynamic panel dataset

Umar Farooq, Abdulrahman Alomair and Abdulaziz S. Al Naim

How can artificial intelligence technology empower accounting conservatism? —Empirical evidence from China

Mingda Yang, Liming Ge, Yu Cheng, Jiawen Liu and Tianen Hu

Green finance pilot zones and regional energy efficiency in China: The mediating role of industrial structure

Zehao Wang and Bin Hao

Does cybersecurity risk affect bank liquidity creation?

Md. Habibur Rahman Fuszder, Zunaidah Sulong, Mohammad Abdullah and Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah

New methods of estimation and inference for regressions that use overlapping observations

Chris Kirby