Finance Research Letters

2004 - 2025

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Volume 83, issue C, 2025

Financial literacy cognitions and optimal financial behavior

Gilad Tohar and Sagi Akron

A signaling game between retail investors and firms: ESG washing as a strategic response

Heeju Kim and Hyunjeong Yoo

Risk spillovers among energy, metals, and agriculture commodity markets: A network perspective

Zixin Liu, Renhao Zou, Shuguang Zhang and Cheng Zhang

ESG ratings and attention: The impact on stock market performance

Jingzhou Yan, Jiahao Shen, Jin Zou and Yanchi Zou

Bank levies, the money market and monetary policy operations

Mariusz Kapuściński

Asymmetric visibility of extreme past returns

Matthias Bank

Can climate risk disclosure improve corporate green innovation?

Haifeng Jia, Xinyi Huang, Yuechen Gong, Youping Liu and Hui Jiang

How ESG engagement shapes firm life cycle progression: Evidence from U.S. data

Tang-Lin Hwang and Yu-Hong Liu

Market efficiency under institutional change: A historical study of the silver interbank lending market in modern China

Huiquan Qiao, Fang Liu and Shuwen Zhang

Quantile spillover effects and sector dynamics in U.S. stock markets: Normal vs. extreme market conditions

Dong-Jun Kim, Eunjung Noh and Sun-Yong Choi

Fiscal decentralization and rural public services–a new structural economics perspective

Fengyi Zheng, Yi Bai, Ming Hu and Jennhae Liou

Configurable arbitrage and slippage in automated market making systems

Scott Condie

Impact of real estate tax reform on the security market: Evidence from a synthetic control method

Nannan Yuan, Rujian Kong and Honghao Ren

Can the carbon emissions trading policy promote the development of new quality productive forces in manufacturing enterprises?

Jianhua Zhang, Xiaodi Wang, Weihua Zhang and Lizhi Wang

Does the transition finance policy facilitate lending for heavy polluters? Insights from China

Ping Chen, Xiaoyang Yao, Jianfeng Li and Ya Wang

Asymmetric credit risk pathways in china’s green bond market: A Conjunctural analysis using modified PFM and fsQCA

Jiapei Li, Chuangbin Chen and Zhenrui Wu

The impact of environmental decentralization on corporate green innovation: Empirical evidence from local governments

Mengyuan Lu and Baozhong Yi

Online media supervision, development of digital finance, and corporate social responsibility

Yue Li, Zhengyi Li and Yingchuan Yan

The impact of regional independent innovation on the development potential of local esports industry

Wenjing Luo and Desheng Zhang

Financial literacy and resilience in IoT-driven sustainable development using fuzzy cognitive algorithms

Chuang Wang

Do board networks fuel ESG controversies?

Irfan Haider Shakri, Chune Young Chung and Doojin Ryu

Portfolio optimization using a covariance structure based on dynamic time warping

Seokjune Lee and Jaehong Jeong

A simple model for government intervention in China’s stock market

Zhong-Qiang Zhou, Ping Huang and Chee-Wooi Hooy

The impact of climate risk on sustainability performance of enterprises: Evidence from China

Liming Zhang, Cuiping Yang and Kuankuan Luo

Science and Technology Financial Policies and Enterprise Digital Technology Innovation

Xuefeng Shao, Kang Xi and Zijing Chen

New quality productivity and intellectual property protection

Yilong Ruanzhou and Rengui Guo

Social trust, financial constraints, and enterprise information disclosure

Yanming Cao, Yonggang Xue and Yichu Tan

Digital transformation and carbon reduction: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Haoliang Fu, Mao Li, Wenwei Guo and Jinbo Huang

Green credit policy and the innovation dilemma: Evidence from China

Xinkuo Xu and Qianyu Liu

IND AS 116: A paradigm shift or mere adjustment?

Divya Soni, Priya Mandleshwar, Sapna Malya and Samit Paul

Will ESG disclosure affect the green innovation level of SMEs?

Junsong Bao and Liuyi Yang

Price of climate risk: Evidence from the value of cash holdings

Jiezhen Yuan, Yaqi Wang and Wenqi Han

Government subsidies and innovation quality: The role of economic policy uncertainty and financial technology

Jianwang Liu and Weifeng Xia

Child education and parental financial outcomes: Evidence from a schooling reform

Shuang Yu, Manyi Wang and Yinhe Liang

Macro-founded machine learning models for power market price trend detection

Vittorio Carlei, Donatella Furia, Piera Cascioli and Paolo Manenti

The value of cross market volatility in improving the forecast accuracy of risk in the gold, the dollar and the oil futures markets

Basel Awartani and Aktham Maghyereh

Open public data and the establishment of non-local subsidiaries

Lu Shen, Zeyu Lin and Rongyu Lin

Skin in the game: The returns of digital assets from computer games

Felix Reichenbach

Pseudo-collusion in a centralized algorithmic financial market

Aleksei Pastushkov and Alexei Boulatov

Can ESG disclosure predict carbon risk? Evidence from machine and deep learning models

Md Abubakar Siddique and Sitara Karim

An empirical investigation into how executives' overseas backgrounds and corporate financialization influence human capital structure adjustment

Bo Zhao and QiaoSong Jing

Executive environmental experience and corporate ESG performance: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Ming Li, Xu Yang and Jade Shangguan

Classifying the direction of Robinhood’s fractional share trades

Jesse L. Glaze

Has the divergence in ESG ratings affected institutional shareholding?

Lei Liu, Hanlei Wang, Si Chen and Zhi Chen

Audit informatization, digital economy development, and corporate risk costs

Xiaoxiao Wang and Huimin Dong

Clan culture, commercial insurance, and household consumption levels: An empirical analysis based on the china family panel studies

Xiangrong Zhang, Yan Xu and Jie Zhou

Executive social networks and corporate financial performance

Jian Cao, Ying Xu and Zhuohang Li

Impact of shadow banking on Chinese banks’ efficiency: The moderating effect of ownership

Jing Chen, Fakarudin Kamarudin, Bany Ariffin Amin Noordin, Lau Wei Theng and Tim Zhou

Can registration system reform mitigate asset mispricing?

Xinrui Cao and Xianpeng Zeng

Managerial overconfidence, inefficient investment and stock price crash risk

Xin Li, Qian Zhang and Zhong Ren Fan

FinTech, risk management and banking green credit

Qiulin Wang and Lei Fu

Digital economic development, financial literacy and household cultural consumption

Xinyu Xu and Liying Lei

Digital finance, investor sentiment, and corporate inefficient investment

Yihui Wang and Xiangyu Ge

Debt financing costs, patient capital, and the resilience of real estate enterprises

Yingjun Yang, Lihong Cheng, Lin Ni and Xin Xu

How does CEO power affect the supply chain costs sharing?

Yongbo Xu, Yan Li and Na Tang

Institutional investor stability, executive equity incentives, and corporate innovation

Haoyi Jia and Weina Che

Investor sentiment and corporate earnings management

Guangxi Lu, Fuyi Ruan and Mengdi Zhou

Accounting information transparency and corporate capital turnover: the role of trade credit

Yang Sun and Xiaoling Huang

Rural revitalization and urban-rural income gap: A perspective from land transfer scale

Xianjiao Tan, Roslina Binti Kamaruddin, Siyang Hu, Lishun Peng, Youxiong Que and Wenwei Cai

Generalist CEOs and employee well-being: The moderating role of labor unions

Weijiao Li and Zhihui Gu

Supply chain shared audit, financing costs, and enterprises innovation

Jianmei Liu, Xiang Guo and Rong Fu

The enhancing effect and role path of digital finance on the resilience of agricultural industry chain

Siyuan Lin and Shuchao Miao

ESG rating disagreement and supply chain bargaining power: evidence from China

Yuxiu Si and Gongliang Wu

Impact of central bank forward guidance on corporate innovation: Perspectives from management confidence and bank credit availability

Shenfeng Tang and Na Sun

The impact of green investment policies on the development of new energy enterprises: Analysis based on heterogeneity and threshold effects

Hu Zhang and Wei Wei

Climate policy uncertainty and executives' opportunistic stock selling

Haibo Sun, Xiaoman Xu and Zhonglu Liu

Unmanaged ESG risks and corporate performance – The impact of management gaps

Dat Thanh Nguyen, Vuong Thao Tran, Dinh Hoang Bach Phan and Quang Thi Thieu Nguyen

U.S. tariffs and stock prices

Hakan Yilmazkuday

The impact of green finance reform and innovation policies on green investors in China

Jinwei Wang, Xiaofan Li, Ting Zhang, Chonghe He and Liwen Zhu

Does competition affect bank deposits?

Nikhil Srivastava, David Tripe, Mamiza Haq and Mui Kuen Yuen

How does peer firms' ESG performance affect carbon emission reductions ?

Pei Wang, Weixian Xue and Zhi Li

Optimization of human capital in management and integration with digital finance: Strategies for enhancing corporate competitiveness

Xiaoping Cui, Ke Sun and Tianrui Zhang

Local government debt transparency, investor confidence, and corporate financial risk

Wenxue Li and Fei Liu

Can artificial intelligence assist banks in improving city entrepreneurship?

Daoping Wang, Yaxi Liang and Xinyan Shen

Environmental policy orientation and corporate green transformation: A study based on information disclosure perspective

Zhihe Zhang, Zaishui Yu, Chengyu Yao and Zerui Zhang

Executives’ ESG cognition, ESG responsibility fulfillment, and corporate competitive advantage: Evidence from China

Zhaoguo Zhang, Juan Cheng and Yaqin Xu

Cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones, tax expenditures, and firm innovation

Yun Jiang and Yanru Zhang

Equity ETFs, corporate governance and stock price crash risk

Qi Wang and Sipeng Wang

Digital economy, industrial structure advancement and human capital accumulation

Bo Shao and Hongqi Wang

ESG disclosure and firm long-term value: The mediating effect of tax avoidance

Wei Yuan, Minqiang Zhang, Xiaomei Guo and Yihuo Jiang

Business cycles in Chile (2000–2023): analysing GDP and the components of aggregate demand

Cindy Gianella Tutiven-Desintonio

Effects of the shift in the offshore debt issuance regime on the performance of M&A firms

Dongjun Zhu

Digital transformation and earnings management via subsidiaries

Xueman Xiang and Biao Yi

How CEO power intensity drives the improvement of corporate green innovation performance: An in-depth analysis based on the mediating role of financing costs

Bo Yang and Xiqiao Du

Excess liquidity and risk: How economic policy uncertainty shapes corporate decisions post-crisis?

Thanh Cong Nguyen, Thai Vu Hong Nguyen, Christophe Schinckus and Thanh Tuan Chu

Does 3D printing technology promote OFDI? Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Shiyu Feng, Yining Ni and Yeqing Ma

The European tango between market risk and credit risk: A non-linear approach

Dora Almeida, Paulo Ferreira and Andreia Dionísio

Interest rate marketization and corporate social responsibility

Yao Wang, Guangfan Sun, Xu Yan and Yunmeng Zhang

Energy transition investments and carbon emissions: asymmetric and dynamic effects across developed and emerging economies

Zakaria Boulanouar, Lobna Essid and Sami Ullah

The invisible corporate tax reduction: Evidence from new industrialization

Meiying Huang, Yimeng Yuan, Yi Zhang and Yongjian Huang

Costly external finance and corporate investment: The role of marketable securities

Bektemir Ysmailov

Sci-Tech finance pilot policies, property rights protection and enterprise innovation

Yibo Cao