Finance Research Letters

2004 - 2026

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Volume 109, issue C, 2026

Robinhood: Simple app simple stocks

Gao, Ruixue (Rachel), George J. Jiang and Mario G. Reyes

The hidden cost of smart tools: How does generative AI affect corporate risk-taking?

Haiyue Pan, Zhaoqi Li and Hong Chen

Dealer-inventory frictions in SPX options: Evidence from LETF rebalancing

Aditya Goel

Executive directors' overseas background, risk-taking level, and cross-border firms' overseas investment efficiency

Zhiqing Dai and Peng Tang

Sponsor Co‑investment and risk compensation: evidence from unique IPO underwriting contract

Cao Aochen, Shang Wei and Wang Yinxiao

Entrepreneurship and political stability: The link between lower interest payments and startup growth

Yosef Bonaparte, Fang Wan, Linlin Jin and Juanjuan Zhang

Measuring firm-level macro-policy alignment with large language models: evidence from China

Renfeng Wang, Jiawen Feng, Yuheng Li and Wenyu Zhou

Policy interest rate expectations and the behavior of the interbank money market

Piero Garcia, Jorge Pozo and Rafael Velarde

Financial development and economic growth nexus: Evidence from emerging markets using dynamic panel analysis

Ruxiao Li, Yanming Liu and Liu Yan

Crypto pricing with hidden factors

Matthew Brigida

Does green finance reform spur corporate AI innovation? evidence from China

Xueyu Rui, Xiaoran Hou and Yu Hao

Fast catastrophe bond valuation with neural-network surrogates

Julian Sester and Huansang Xu

Household financial asset allocation and unemployment anxiety

Hong Li, Xingjian Gao, Yongqian Tu and Yongxiang Wang

When greenwashing appears to work: Opposite risk–return effects in the UK and India

Bhagya Bhutani and Sonali Jain

Active but Hasty? CEO age, ownership structure, and the quantity–quality trade-off in investment

Yojiro Ito and Daisuke Miyakawa

Temperature Anomalies, Inflation Expectations, and Treasury Inconvenience

Wassim Rajhi

How do household savings influence firm forms? Evidence from the chinese accounting industry

Peiyuan Zhu

An empirical study of digital and financial literacy in shaping FinTech engagement

Tsung-ming Yeh

Dynamic spillovers between climate risks and agricultural commodity markets: New insights into quantile-on-quantile connectedness approach

Xiaoyu Yao and Zhining Zhang

The nonlinear impact of data asset information disclosure divergence on IPO underpricing

Xinwei Tang and Zhengyi Zhou

Pathways to gender equality in inventions across countries

Linh Thi My Nguyen and Phong Thanh Nguyen

Can digital marketing drive the innovative performance of commercial trade enterprises? The mediating role and heterogeneity of patient capital

Haiyan Yang, Xiaoxiu Song and Zhigang Chang

How financial technology drives regional economic growth through sports event investment

Xinxin Li, Jinglong Geng and Jing Wang

Product retirement and delayed price discovery in a collectible asset market: evidence from LEGO sets

Ao Shu

Corporate litigation risk, financing constraints, and capital market pricing efficiency

Xia Wei, Zhiyu Xia and Linyi Xiao

How social environment governance participation affects corporate financial Soundness: Green consumption culture as a mediator

Yixuan Zhu and Fengjiao Shan

Delayed 10-K filings and discretionary revenue activity

Dan L. Shaw and Dallin O. Smith

Irrationality in skewness preferences

Damján Miklós

Asymmetric reserve demand and interest rate control in the U.S. corridor system

Tarron Khemraj and Sherry Yu

Data elements and service-oriented manufacturing

Xiaoyu Guo, Xinyu Li and Zichu Ma

Nonlinear spillovers between tourism, consumption, transportation, and catering markets: Evidence from China’s financial market

Xueyun Rong, Ding Gu and Xiaodan Zhu

Purchasing for transformation: The driving effect of government digital procurement on corporate data assetization

Yarong Hou, Boyi Su and Xianwei Chen

Impact of digital leadership on corporate cybersecurity governance

Yanrui Wang

Sports culture and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from marathon events

Qinshuo Zhang and Xiaoguang Zhang

Too much or too little? Financial and digital literacy and IPO underpricing in Europe

Ricardo Emanuel-Correia and Sónia R. Bentes

Seeing Is Believing? Visual–textual consistency in ESG reports and the cost of green bonds

Zhenhan Hong, Yue Pan and Xiangyang Zhao

The dual effects of green credit policy: Corporate green innovation and pollution transfer

Xinqin Zhang and Edward Renyi Chung

Supply chain transparency and corporate financialization: A perspective based on supplier and customer information disclosure

Weijing Wang, Shunyu Yang, Tong Meng, Yue Shi, Xiaoyan Gu, Hui Cui and Qilong Sun

Credit enhancing in a contract-farming supply chain

Wen Ding, Wei Jin, Qiang Yan and Ying Chen

Green-experienced controlling persons and corporate carbon emissions: Evidence from China

Shuiquan Jiang, Yi Yao, Mingjun Gao, Yinying Chen and Bing Zhou

ESG rating disagreement and bond default risk: How investor confidence mitigates financial vulnerability

Weiqing Dai and Pengcheng Zhong

Impact of the coordination between industrial policy and patient capital on investment efficiency in high-end manufacturing

Qingjuan Sun and Lianxiang Cui

How does digital marketing alleviate the financing constraints faced by enterprises? From the perspective of brand awareness

Shufen Liang, Jingjing Zhao and Shuli Wang

Pay restrictions and employee litigation

Tingting Huang and Junyi Li

Merchant guild culture, tone manipulation, and commercial credit financing

Guocang Yang and Yafang Ding

Does sentiment lead prices? Evidence from individual stock price discovery

Yinze Ji, Lu Zong and Yi Cao

Term structure of interest rates and local government bonds: evidence from China

Lizhengbo Yang and Xue Li

Artificial Intelligence and financial distress prediction in manufacturing firms

Frederik Rech, Fanchen Meng, Hussam Musa and Siele Jean Tuo

AI labor and vendor customer concentration: Evidence on the rise of superstar firms

Sang Mook Lee, Pornsit Jiraporn and Hyeongsop Shim

Navigating the digital storm: Cross-sectoral connectedness of higher-order risks

Haiqian Ke, Tong Su and Penghu Zhu

Cyber liquidity risk in the digital banking era: evidence from transaction-deposit reallocation

Masayoshi Chida, Seohyun Kim and Naoyuki Yoshino

Bitcoin’s diversification benefits in the ETF era: The role of liquidity and ETF net flows

Zhonghe Yuan

The dark side of green justice: environmental court and corporate green innovation bubbles

Yi Liu, Yanxu Guo and Yuye Wang

Exchange rate volatility, employment elasticity of exporting firms, and wage stability

Wei Wei, Fengjiao Shan and Qiong Li

Financial digital management, capital allocation efficiency, and corporate green sustainable growth: Moderation effects and mechanism testing

Shuhang Li, Lin Qiao, Xianying Zhang and Qi Cheng

Digital inclusive finance, the digital divide, and rural household income

Mu He and Yi Xu

The impact of the establishment of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones on firms' financing capacity

Kaijun Yang, Xinyi Zhu, Mei Gao and Rui Shi

The influence mechanism of strategic aggressiveness on stock price crash risk: Moderation of working capital management efficiency and mediation of internal control quality

Lina Hao and Xiaofeng Li

Auditor’ response to customer carbon-washing behavior: From the perspective of audit pricing

Sheng Yao, Junjie Zhang and Yawen Qi

Financial agglomeration, urbanization level, and regional corruption crimes

Wei Liu, Jinpeng Li and Luming Pan

Financial innovation and FinTech development as drivers of corporate innovation: robust empirical evidence from China

Ang Li, Zhikang Xie, Kengcheng Zheng and Feng Liu

Digital governance, executives’ digital background, and corporate governance financing effectiveness

Jie Yang, Guoqiang Shi and Ying Zhang

The mere urgency effect in household financial decisions: evidence from a high-inflation economy

Ece Kozol

Merchant-guild culture and corporate multiple-bank borrowing: Evidence from China

Lianhuang Sun and Yuchen Han

Corporate tax contribution and local judicial protection

Xuebing Wu

Employee representation on boards of directors and corporate long-term orientation

Hong Kee Sul, Chune Young Chung, Hanh-Hong Le and Huy Pham

How does financial literacy inhibit financial fraud? From the perspective of household risk preference

Jingjing Wang and Yiman Xu

When ESG fails: Corporate greenwashing following negative ESG events

Yin-Hua Yeh and Chen-Chieh Liao

Financing a sustainable future: Impact of credit term structure on carbon emissions in China

Yicheng Zhou, Wenjie Ouyang, Mengxue Zhao and Malin Song

Good portfolios from bad forecasts: The anatomy of LLM volatility estimates

Anjana Yatawara

Can digital industry development enhance urban economic resilience? Evidence from financial resource allocation

Guanchen Lv, Pan Gu, Weidong Li and Ling Wang

Measuring economic tail resilience to geoeconomic fragmentation shocks

Tongshuai Qiao

Artificial intelligence technology, intellectual property protection, and financing constraints of technology firms

Xuanhao Zhang, Yixuan Wang and Xiwen Yin

Does equity underpricing affect voluntary disclosure?

Jonathan Berkovitch and Lucia Pierini

Sentiment-driven extreme price fluctuations and portfolio performance: Evidence via the joint Poisson mixed model

Ziyu Xue, Sha Zhu and Shuangqi Li

Public data openness and bank liquidity creation: Evidence from Chinese regional banks

Zhen Li, Liyan Han and Yanping Li

Direct and indirect social ties in corporate venture capital: Implications for startup innovation

Yuanni Mu, Ye Yang and Yi Tan

Navigating economic policy uncertainty with gold-backed and traditional cryptocurrencies: A wavelet quantile-based analysis

Moslem Ansarinasab and Christian Urom

Substitute or complement? How regulatory intensity shapes market signaling: Evidence from the MENA fintech ecosystem

Elwaleed Ahmed Talha and Faisal Abdulmohsen Alfhaili

Freedom of speech and debt choice: Evidence from state-level anti-SLAPP laws

Esther Ofosua and Emmanuel Ofosu

Energy exposure, ESG scores, and stock market resilience to geopolitical energy Shocks

Raymond Kwong

Diversity and risk-taking in mutual fund teams

Hae Mi Choi, Richard Fu and Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee