Finance Research Letters

2004 - 2026

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Volume 87, issue C, 2026

The dynamic impact of digital village development and inclusive finance development on the livelihood resilience of rural households

Wenjing Jiang and Siyu Yang

The impact of strong financial supervision on corporate data asset holdings

YuTong Dai and Shuai Cheng

Green consumption, financial synergy, and energy consumption efficiency

Fan Li and Xuyun Gong

Impacts of green finance policy on enterprise low-carbon transformation

Mingkhwan Nooseng and Danli Du

How does digital RMB encourage enterprises' oversea investment behaviors? Evidence from the pilot project of e-CNY

Zeyu Zhu and Xiaorong Zhou

ESG performance, media sentiment, and corporate asset mispricing

Yangyang Du and Linqi Du

FinTech as a catalyst for affiliate innovation: Insights from cross-regional innovation in China

Hanyu Lian

Spillover effect of local government debt on regional financial risk: Evidence from China

Lingjuan Xu, Yijiang Liu, Xintong Li and Xuan Zhang

Producer services agglomeration and robotics investment

Qianyue Wang, Gaowen Kong and Yuanyuan Yan

Psychological pitfalls of incentives: how performance targets drive executive misconduct

Jinghua Zhu, Yifan Lin and Min Hua

Climate risk and banks’ risk-taking behavior

Lei Zhang, Jie Chen and Chunqiao Jiang

Asymptotic pricing of short-maturity near-the-money options in stochastic volatility models

Jaehyun Kim, Cheolmin Shin and Hyungbin Park

Does the market value CEO climate activism? Evidence from the we mean business letter

John Wingender and Brian Lucey

America first, markets last? Stock market effects of 2025 U.S. tariffs in middle-income countries

Ernest N. Biktimirov and Pyemo N. Afego

Confucian culture and corporate maturity mismatch: evidence from China

Ning Zhang and Cai Liu

Patient capital and the high-quality development of manufacturing firms: the mediating role of industrial and supply chain resilience

Haoyang Du, Hanshuo Dai and Wei Bu

Rice farming culture and household financial inclusion: Evidence from rural China

Lifu Fu, Weijie Lu, Shan Tang and Yang Zhou

Criminal shadows on digital finance: Organized crime and digital finance inclusion in China

Guangliang Fang, Zizhen Wang, Jianwen Zheng and Xia Pan

The impact of old age security on rural women's labor supply: Evidence from China's new rural social pension insurance program

Jun Hu, Shihua Hu, Yongjun Hua and Hangwei Li

Global agricultural vulnerability to climate physical risks

Hao Yang, Jie Yang and Yun Feng

Population aging, financial support, and household housing expenditure

Zhonghang Gong, Jinfeng Fang and Yuhang Hu

The effects of artificial intelligence and digitalization on sustained corporate innovation

Yan Huang and JinJiang Yan

The impact of science and technology finance policy tools on regional technological innovation

Xiaona Wang and Yu Cao

Firm-level economic policy uncertainty perception and stock volatility dynamics: Evidence from a panel GARCH-MIDAS model

Yinong Liu, Yanying Li and Haohua Li

Deposit pricing under credit stress: Business-model heterogeneity and threshold effects

Jaeweon You and Yoocheol Noh

Digital infrastructure, risky financial investment, and household wealth

Lina Wang and Haiyang Zhang

Understanding how culture-tourism integration affects multidimensional poverty: The mediating mechanism and digital moderation

Yuhang Fu, Wenyu Jin and Yiyu Weng

Green finance and urban economic resilience

Xianfei Cao, Man Liu and He Du

Screening US mutual funds for social responsibility and irresponsibility

Jakob Artinger and Christian Kreuzer

Firm-level nature dependence and carbon pollution

Chien-Chiang Lee, Chih-Wei Wang, Weizheng Lin and Hsiang-Li Chan

Corporate carbon risk amidst world policy uncertainty: An international perspective

Mustafa Raza Rabbani, Madiha Kiran, Elie Bouri and Mohammad Alsharif

Chinese development finance and women’s empowerment: micro-level evidence from developing countries

Liyunpeng Zhang, Yuhang Zhuang and Wannian Ji

How does financial misallocation affect firm markups? Theoretical mechanisms and empirical evidence

Zichen Li and Xiaoyi Ma

Non-home biased individuals’ investment choices: the role of the birthplace of investors

Andrea Lippi and Laura Barbieri

Quantity or quality: How does GVC participation affect the innovation performance of Chinese firms?

Shuang Meng, Huan Yan and Jiajie Yu

Financial technology, new quality productivity, and corporate growth: Micro evidence from Chinese listed companies

Hongwei Yang, Hui Zhi and Zhiheng Wang

Cross-border e-commerce development, green finance, and rural revitalization

Huihui Xian and Yan Zheng

Exploring spatio-temporal heterogeneity in sustainable development drivers using explainable AI: Evidence from China

Qian Pan, Shanxue Gao, Shimin Lin and Chao Liu

Financing sources and new technology acquisition strategies: Microeconomic evidence from the Chinese patent survey

Dong Cheng

Digital infrastructure construction and firm violations: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Sicheng Li, Jingjing Guo and Qing Xu

Islamic finance development and climate change adaptation readiness in LMICs: The moderating role of corruption control

Abdulbaki Teniola Ubandawaki, Angie Abdel Zaher and Saheed Olanrewaju Issa

Time-varying network structure and volatility prediction in the cryptocurrency market

Fan Zhou and Wenjing Guo

Green innovation is the need of the hour: the role of regional-level framework and institutional investor types

Giuseppe Galloppo, Roberto Guida, Viktoriia Paimanova and Roberto Urbani

Financing allocation efficiency and firm productivity: Evidence from a Chinese quasi-natural experiment

Mengting Jiang, Dongmin Kong and Pu Gong

How supply chain finance impacts ESG synergy across supply chains

Xiangyu Tian and Xiaoyu Ye

Liability structure and the flight to liquidity: Evidence from Swedish banks during the great depression

Liang Zhao and Anders Ögren

Corruption and ESG Greenwashing

Hongjun Sun and Zhao Duan

Biodiversity risk as a financial threat: Evidence from AFHF sectors using QVAR networks

Jinglin Liu, Xiaoyun Xing, Guorong Chen and Yang Zhang

Does digital financial inclusion foster sustainable urban development? Evidence from carbon intensity reduction and economic spillover in China

Xiaofei Pan, Jiaheng Li, Shumei Zhu and Lingyi Kong

Impact of supply chain finance on enterprise financing efficiency: Mediating effect of information transparency

Ziyan Liu and Benlu Xin

FinTech, financial constraints and corporate new-quality productive forces

Jiaxi Shen and Shoufu Zhang

Financial regulation, corporate financialization and industrial investment

Ling Ai

Digital marketing on the sustainable performance of retail enterprises: An analysis from the perspective of intelligent investment

Yaoyushan Zhang, Jinbao Shan and Guanyu Li

The impact of fintech development and advanced industrial structure on regional criminal offenses

Tianzi Yu and Xuejing Zhang

Digital supply chain finance, manufacturing resilience, and corporate digital maturity

Dongfang Qin and Weixian Xue

Crowding-out effect of digitalized tax administration on corporate green innovation: Evidence from China’s Golden Tax Phase IV

Zizhen Huang

How data elements fuel new quality productive forces in enterprises: A perspective from digital finance

Yonghong Li, Chang Liu and Haoyue Xie

Artificial intelligence applications, regional inclusive finance development, and new quality productive

Xinyue Sun and Qiong Wu

Implementation of antitrust law, green innovation incentives, and alleviation of corporate financial constraints

Su Bu and Mengni Zhu

The impact of digital empowerment on corporate green innovation: The moderating role of environmental regulation

Weina Li and Hongchang Wang

Development of the green financial market, carbon emission trading, and corporate environmental responsibility

Chengzhang Xiao and Huihai Xiao

Construction of cross-border E-commerce demonstration zones, agricultural insurance investment, and upgrading of the agricultural industry chain

Ruolan Xu and Chuanzhong Chen

Can trade policy uncertainty facilitate industrial chain localization?

Tianxiang Wang and Peiyun Huo

How does network exposure risk affect enterprises' strategic alliances?

Yuxin Chen and Shuwang Zhao

Digital inclusive finance, digital transformation, and the sustainable development of micro and small enterprises

Qiang Zhang, Yuhong Liu and Yan Xie

Capitalization of R&D expenditure and corporate Value: From the perspective of unexpected earnings management

Yiwei Kan, Mingyang Li and Haiyan Wu

State-owned capital participation and enterprise resilience

Lihui Gao, Mengzhu Chen and Shuai Liu

Financial support, robot penetration rate, and the technological complexity of manufacturing exports

Peng Ma and Fangyuan Shi

Intellectual property litigation, financing constraints, and firms’ innovation resilience

Ke Hu and Jing Wang

Legal protection strength, shareholder activism, and investors' irrational behavior

Chunlei Sun and Haiqing Peng

The impact of green finance on economic growth and environmental quality

Jing Zhou and Yanan Guo

Digital economy, green total factor energy efficiency constraints and corporate resilience

Ziyang Liu and Baogui Yang

Cultural asset preservation, socially responsible investment, and corporate sustainable development in urban renewal

Kexin Hu and Han Wu

The hidden spillover effects behind the green curtain: government environmental concern and green technology innovation in manufacturing

Kai Zhao and Kun Wang

The impact of regional science and technology finance level on corporate green innovation

Chunying Zeng, Miding Zhang and Xiatong Wang

Financial risk supervision, corruption and embezzlement crime, and the scale of shadow banking

YiFan Wang

Beyond delta neutrality: Confidence-scaled hedging with machine learning forecasts

Boyan Li and Chongfeng Wu

Biodiversity risk, corporate governance, and firm performance: empirical evidence from China

Nasir Khan and Brian Lucey

When climate extremes shake equity markets: Evidence from multifractal analysis

Leandro S. Maciel and Eduardo K. Kayo

Can employee directors promote corporate innovation: From the perspective of employee rights protection

Jian Xu and Mengru Duan

When green turns exuberant: Bubble detection in clean-energy markets

João Pedro Malim Franco, Adriano Barasal Morales and Márcio Poletti Laurini

Who is still in line? How bank beliefs drive fragility under runs

Péter Csóka, Tamás Erb and Hubert János Kiss

Directional spillover effect and realized volatility forecasting: An extreme market regime switching model

Xueqing Wang, Ying Yuan and Yong Qu

When protection backfires: How short selling bans weaken market resiliency

Ester Félez-Viñas

A theory of balance sheet crisis

Wang Bo

Commercial paper digitisation and corporate debt default risk:Evidence and mechanism from China

Le Zhang, Longwen Shang and Min Huang