Finance Research Letters

2004 - 2026

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Volume 91, issue C, 2026

The effect of MDB-financed infrastructure PPPs on corruption: A comparative panel data study

Joo Eun Jeung, Erdal Atukeren and Dong Sung Cho

Financing green agriculture: The role of rural financial services in enhancing eco-efficiency

Xiaoxu Zhou and Runqing Zhang

Green innovation strategy, sustainable financial inclusion, and the firms’ green transition

Rui Zhao

The heterogeneous impact of social media sentiment spread on corporate credit constraints

Yuanyi Liu, Tianyu Yuan and Chunxiao Chen

Is AI a ‘substance driver’ or a ‘fiction booster’? The impact of AI application on corporate green innovation bubbles

Kai Zhao and Xiaoxi Liu

Managerial Green Preferences and the Allocation of Patient Capital

Rumeng Liu, Chao Deng, Keyuan Chen and Huimin Deng

Confucian cultural tradition, corporate green finance preferences, and corporate credit availability

Hongliang Liu and Mei Ge

The risk transmission mechanism of zombie enterprises persistence and systemic risk in regional banks

Kaitao Tang, Jie Niu and Lin Zhao

Can the intensity of environmental regulation enhance corporate risk-taking?

Xinying Li, Huiyu Chen and Yongqian Tu

The collaborative effects of digital financial development and multi-dimensional proximity on regional tech innovation efficiency

Zhihua Zhao, Jiawei Ren, Chuang Heng and Wei Wei

Blockchain technology, big data evidence, and financial crime

Yuchi Zhang and Fupeng Duan

Green finance, business environment optimization, and the integrated development of the culture–tourism industry

Jing Xue, Jianna Huang, Xiaobei Wei and Wei Wang

Local government debt management system, digital finance, and regional economic resilience: A quasi-natural experiment

Qiaoying Ding and Yanfang Deng

Policy uncertainty effects under different ownership structures: An asymmetric analysis

Shilong Zheng, Qi Dong and Yunshi Lin

Artificial intelligence industrial policy and enterprise digital transformation

Zhiping Tu, Yujiao Chen and Yajie Liao

How do data assets enhance firm value in the digital economy: Evidence from listed tech firms

Xiaochuan Guo, Pengcheng Li and Fengzheng Wang

ESG and bank loan cost

Chih-Liang Liu and Chih-Kai Tsui

Green mergers and acquisitions: Unveiling the greenwashing motive

Xiao Jia, Ziyu Lei, Yunhao Dai and Dongmin Kong

How do social capital and information acquisition influence rural household education investment

Yanqi Guo

Investor disagreement and short-squeeze risk

Hyeonjun Kim and Doojin Ryu

Stability breeds clarity? Top management team stability and analyst forecast accuracy

Tiantian Lin and Liying Wang

Financial support for sustainability under environmental regulation: The role of patient capital

Li Liu, Miaomiao Chui and Liang Ma

Digital inclusive finance, spatial inequality, and household education investment

Guo Man and Yang Haiyan

What are the implications of geopolitical risks on travel and leisure firms?

Kang Sun, Jingnan Chi, Miaomiao Tao and Jamel Saadaoui

Hedging climate and geopolitical risks in low- and lower-middle-income economies: Exploring the role of well-known and novel safe-haven indices

Xiaohui Xu, Fahad Ali and Mohammad Alahmad

Market anticipation and intraday trading: Evidence from BOJ ETF purchases

Seongdeok Ko

Digital transformation and economic resilience in resource-based cities: A Quasi-natural experiment

Nanbo Li, Xinyang Wang and Zhu Lan

Semivariance, semicovariance matrix and lower partial moments for portfolio selection: Analytical and numerical results

Francesco Cesarone, Massimiliano Corradini, Nicolò Giunta and Lorenzo Lampariello

Chronicles of risk management practices in EU banks: A cross-country analysis

Ilanit Gavious, Orit Milo and Tzur Fenigstein

Does fiscal decentralization promote corporate green transition?

Juchao Hu and Shuguang Wang

E-commerce as a catalyst? Unpacking the link between rural revitalization and agricultural investment

Hong Zhang, Jiaxin Zhou, Haixiang Qiao and Guanjun Cui

Can innovation strengthen organizational resilience? Evidence from Chinese firms

Xue Wang, Shiqi Nie, Qian Liao and Xiaoyan Peng

How financial agglomeration shapes urban sports investment

Yao Sun and Baiqing Liu

Role of international communication in mitigating corporate financialization: Reducing information frictions and enhancing governance

Jiayuan Cheng

Government procurement and the allocation of decision-making power in enterprise Groups

Xiuxian Fu, Qinwen Zhang, Min Sun and Yuan Lu

In whom we trust? Social networks and trust in AI vs. human experts financial advice

Prince Bosompim, Richmond Essieku and Jodi Letikiewicz

Patient capital and firm green low-carbon cycle innovation

Qihui Sun, Cheng Zhang and Yangyang Yao

Superstition-driven IPO anomaly: Chinese almanac evidence

Wei Zhang, Yiling Guo, Chunxia Li and Guanying Wang

Does Digital Finance Flatten Supply Chain Risk for Manufacturing Firms

Jian Li, Wenqing Bao and Jing Luo

Unintended consequences of tax enforcement reform: Evidence from corporate social responsibility report readability

Li Meng, Jintao Zhang and Pai Pang

Patent infringement litigation, ipo underpricing, and long-term market performance: An analysis of the moderating effect of investor protection in Chinese listed companies

Yucheng Guo and Yibo Cao

Digital business model innovation, operational efficiency, and corporate financial performance

Meifang Yao and Shuangyuan Yang

Dynamic capabilities as an enabling mechanism: Top management team heterogeneity and M&A performance

Xinyi Yang, Haiqing Shao, Qiang Hao and Yue Li

Information monitoring or emotional contagion? A mechanism analysis of media attention's impact on stock price crash risk

Leqiong Gu, Chaoran Zhou and Ying Xie

When oil uncertainty shapes currencies: evidence from low- and middle-income economies

Jesús Molina-Muñoz and Pilar Soriano-Felipe

Economic impact of natural disaster shocks in Latin America and the Caribbean: The role of financial development

Michael Pedersen and Francisco G. Villarreal

The impact of short-term debt for long-term investment on corporate ESG performance

Long Tang, Jin Hu, Peter J. Stauvermann and Ziyi Xiong

How revisions in sector-specific laws affect business R&D performance

Shangyuan Huang and Xuejiao Chen

Can machine learning uncover ESG alpha in the Chinese A-share market? An 'alpha illusion' case study

Borong Chen

Digital economy and corporate labor force structure: an analysis based on labor productivity efficiency

Shu Wu and Jun Ma

Learning standardized noise for risk-neutral option pricing via Generative Adversarial Networks

Young Hoon Choi, Dongwon Ryu, Jun Young Byun, Yosep Na and Jae Wook Song

How sci-tech finance empowers china's low-altitude economy: Mechanisms and countermeasures

Yongdong Chai, Jinpeng Liu, Yuanchao Zhang and Huilei Zhang

Revisiting ESG performance: do high scores translate to higher returns? A risk-adjusted analysis of S&P 500 portfolios

Paulo V. Carvalho, Pedro F. Falcão, Carlos Manuel Pinheiro and Diogo Carrão

Recency biases and the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle

Wen-Chi Lo and Kuan-Cheng Ko

Digital economy penetration, policy finance, and agricultural technology innovation: Evidence from China’s financial deepening and development finance framework

Ying Zhang and Weiqun Han

Media attention and financial returns to ESG performance

Lei Zhang, Jie Chen and Hongrui Zeng

Does directors’ and officers’ liability insurance enhance corporate tax compliance? Evidence from Chinese a-share listed companies

Zhengfang Liao and Fangyuan Ding

Moderating role of antitrust enforcement in the relationship between legal quality and corporate governance

Yiyu Weng, Yuchen Yin, Li Yang and Pengyu Yang

Corporate corruption governance: the inhibitory effect of digital transformation on fintech

Jiahao Cheng

Green goodwill and carbon emission abatement in a monopolistic market: A dynamic game approach

Xiaoliang Li, Shuie Sun, Yuhao Cheng and Ally Quan Zhang

Climate policy uncertainty and green innovation bubbles

Wang Yang, Kun Bao and Xiaochu Wang

When transparency meets attention: environmental disclosure mandates, earnings management, and social media

Ang Li

Big data policy and corporate ESG

Yiping Li and Junlin Zhang

The role of new-quality productive forces and financial technology in promoting rural revitalization in China

MingJuan Mao and Yongsheng Lu

Retraction notice to “Datestamping the Bitcoin and Ethereum Bubbles” [Finance Research Letters 26 (2018) 81-88]

Shaen Corbet, Brian Lucey and Larisa Yarovaya

Retraction notice to “Trading volume and the predictability of return and volatility in the cryptocurrency market” [Finance Research Letters 29 (2019) 340-346]

Elie Bouri, Chi Keung Marco Lau, Brian Lucey and David Roubaud

Digital-intelligent transformation, financing constraints, and the high-quality development of tourism enterprises

Jing Wang, Xuebing Zhang and Qianhai Tian

Financial accessibility, digital skills, and family entrepreneurship: Evidence from the China family panel studies (CFPS)

Shuo Qiao, Haoran Xiong, Xiaohan Wu and Jing Zhang

Manufacturing enterprise digital transformation and financial flexibility improvement

Qiwen Jiang, Xuemei Kuang, Shue Mei and Ziyuan Zhao

Improving Marginal Expected Shortfall estimates using credibility methods

Limin Wen

Public data openness and corporate default risk: Firm-Level evidence from an emerging market

Zhi Wei, Shangpu Li and Yuzhe Huang

Go green or not? The Impact of green credit on Chinese banks' shadow cost of equity

Mingquan Zhou

Can energy commodities hedge EU emission allowance futures? Evidence from time-varying copulas using mixture marginal distributions

Song Shi and Xinyu Wang

Supply versus risk in sovereign yields: Evidence from Germany’s 500 billion fiscal shock

Sebastian Winkler and Dirk Schiereck

Cyber risk, 10-K report and audit fees

Shweta Bajpai, Jalaj Pathak and Kartik Yadav

Do ESG controversies harm firms’ low-carbon product revenues? Empirical evidence from the Carbon Disclosure Project

Yongchao Martin Ma and Zhongzhun Deng

Can the accumulation of household financial assets and consumption upgrading enhance residents' subjective well-being?

Hongzhou Yuan and Jianye Liang

Dealing with information-uncertainty

Tobias J. Herzing

Can social capital combat corporate greenwashing? evidence from China

Yicheng Kuai and Mengmeng Guo

How network structures and government incentives shape the diffusion of digital inclusive finance for the aging population

Chenxi Gong and Zehao Wang

The impact of digital finance on household financial vulnerability: Evidence from China

Xinyi Zhang and Yizhou Zhang

From risk to resilience: Strategic responses to climate shocks in China’s energy sector

Yuan Xue, Dayong Zhang and Kun Guo

Firm-level climate risk and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from a middle-income economy

Asis Kumar Sahu, Byomakesh Debata and Saumya Ranjan Dash

How does patient capital empower supply chains? An empirical investigation of spillover effects from government-guided funds

Xin Li and Xinlong Xiao

Financial patience and technological ambition: How patient capital shapes corporate AI strategy

Jiangang Zhang

Untangling the impact of Donald Trump’s speeches on AI-related cryptocurrency markets

Ali Trabelsi Karoui, Hela Nammouri, Azza Béjaoui and Ahmed Jeribi

The declining explanatory power of interest rates for stock market and business cycle dynamics

S. Geissel and D. Klein