Finance Research Letters

2004 - 2026

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Volume 98, issue C, 2026

Digital finance, talent aggregation, and urban economic resilience

Li Huang and Lihong Zhao

Judicial effectiveness and debt default

Yue Li, Haoyan Zhang and Weicheng Wang

Technological innovation, financial constraints, and supply chain resilience

Yu Xin and Xiaochuan Guo

Noise or signal? ESG rating disagreement and stock price crash risk

Cunzhi Guo, Yifei Jin and Qinyuan Xue

How internet judicial construction affects corporate labor employment: Evidence from AI attention in the digital economy

Yanying Su, Kewei Zhao, Congwen Cheng and Xugao Ao

Labor cost stickiness and corporate investment efficiency

Zhang, Xin’ai, Wenjing Luo, Yiyang Qin, Jianjun Li and Yongting He

Asymmetric effects on asymmetry: The resilience of ESG indices

Inés Jiménez, Andrés Mora-Valencia and Javier Perote

When portfolios speak: Identity signaling in congressional trading

Young Jae Choi and Xiang Gao

The impact of the pilot policy for commercial pension insurance on household savings and consumption in China's aging society

Yingjie Wan and Chunmei Tang

Intelligent manufacturing policy, credit availability, and sustainable development of listed manufacturing firms

Dongfang Dai, Jing Sun and Songyi Zhang

Urban-rural financial disparities and family investment in education

Kuang Jia and Ting Deng

Asymmetric connectivity between climate risk and critical metals in Latin America

Boris Pastén-Henríquez and Pablo Tapia-Griñen

The convenience yield channel of monetary policy and international stock prices

M. Jahangir Alam, Md. Rashedur Rahman Sardar and Matthew Schaffer

Can digital inclusive finance narrow the urban-rural income gap? an empirical analysis of the "Taobao villages" in China

Nuo Shi, Sai Qiu and Jing Zhang

Rural cultural festivals and household cultural capital: evidence from the Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival

Ming Zhao, Wei Li and Jinsong Liu

Waste management and cost of debt

Souad Brinette, Zineb Abidi Perier and Pinar Sener Tournus

Financing green innovation: When digitalization amplifies green finance

Li Jia and Qingcai Meng

Does digital inclusive finance promote corporate charitable donations?

Yacheng Li and Shuang Liu

Cryptocurrency regulation and stock market performance

Xiaoya Wang and Yuchuan Wang

The impact of local government debt on economic resilience: Evidence from 283 cities in China

Fei Wang, Jieqiong Wang, Zheming Liang and Runqi Guo

Employee compensation and firm performance: An empirical study from the perspective of human capital in listed companies

Boyang Yang and Yinuo Wang

Trading on delay: Information frictions and cross-market arbitrage in index futures

Anand Krishnan V․k․,, Sony Thomas and S.S.S. Kumar

A first-touch approach to American option valuation with piecewise linear boundaries

Hangsuck Lee, Byungdoo Kong, Minha Lee and Hongjun Ha

Can natural gas as a bridge fuel catalyze the low-carbon transition? Evidence from an NK-E-DSGE model

Jianzhong Xiao, Shengzhe Ruan, Xing Hu, Sisi Xie and Xinzhu Zhang

Illiquidity in portfolio rebalancing: Evidence from the German covered bond market

Christian Koziol and Tobias Fauß

Financing frictions and investment smoothing: Online governance of tax-induced spikes

Yinchao Liao and Qi Yue

Corporate climate risk: Do female CEOs matter?

Tom Aabo, Nanna Dahlgren Garbers, Lau Holgersen and Julie Glud Jørgensen

Optimism and the variance risk premium

Mehran Azimi, Soroush Ghazi, Mark Schneider and Jack Strauss

Private equity acquisitions under innovation ambiguity and risky exit conditions

Charlotte Sun Clausen-Jørgensen and Christian Riis Flor

Analyst research report and company digital transformation: Evidence from text information

Tingchun Li, Qicheng Zhao and Changyu Hu

Cybersecurity exposure and stock price crash risk

Weiqiang Ning, Han Bao and Jinghan Guo

Central bank digital currency and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China’s digital yuan (e-CNY) pilot

Yan Han, Zifang Chen, Xing Liu and Kedi Wang

Geopolitical risk and the volatility–activity trade-off: A thermodynamic analogy

F.Xavier Alvarez and Hector Sala

Establishment of supercomputing centers and corporate innovation: Evidence from Chinese A-share listed companies

Xin Liu

Impact of digital finance and E-commerce development on agricultural income growth

Jian Luo, Yinan Zhang, Ruonan Yuan and Xiaodi Fan

FinTech lending and regional economic resilience: The role of SME growth

Fan Yang, Bing Xiao, Muxi Lin, Vivian W.Y. Tam, Clyde Zhengdao Li and Xiaocong Ren

Green finance mismatch and innovation efficiency

Bowen Xue, Zongxian Feng and Honggang Xue

Static signal definitions and momentum crash risk: Evidence from state-conditional momentum

Hawon Na and Younghoon Kim

Leverage as an implicit tournament: Capital constraints and return decoupling in futures markets

Weihong Tan

Revisiting Lerner: market power in a value-based framework

Kenneth Baldwin

Decoupling from nature: Climate risk perception, cost of capital, and firm value

Meirong Liao, Shouchao He and Min Gao

Avoiding weak-factor selection in sPCA-based factor-augmented regression: An all subset-averaging perspective

Qitong Chen, Xingyi Chen and Zhenrui Chen

Science education expenditure, rural finance, and agricultural modernization

Qiaoqiao Kong and Lili Yang

Technological diversity, digital finance, and corporate sustainable development performance

Jianghan Gu and Yang Duan

Dialect diversity and corporate financial sustainability

Zhaorui Xie, Jiahui Yang and Xintong Zhou

Firm-level political risk and innovation strategy: Exploring green innovation through pollution prevention and control patents

Triet Le

The role of supply chain finance and carbon trading in asset allocation decisions of transportation enterprises

Hua Chen and Chengxi Qi

Digital media supervision, CEO green experience, and corporate digital transformation

Aiping Li, Xiaopeng Niu and Yuwei Guo

Entrepreneurial spirit and regional talent dividends: The inhibitory effect of financial misallocation

Anbang Hu and Shuting Liao

Cross-regional operations and firm innovation performance: Boundary effects

Shuqi Li

Impact of China’s climate-resilient city policy on corporate environmental information disclosure

Jiangyan Zhou, Fan Wang and Jingyan Cheng

The impact of AI washing on enterprises’ access to bank loans: From the perspective of external governance

Weiqi Liu and Meifang Li

Transition-induced financial volatility in Asian countries: Evidence from clean energy finance and portfolio flows

Abdul Khaliq and Omar Farooq

Impact of perceived unlucky years on corporate debt maturity: Evidence from Chinese “Zodiac Year”

Gang Liu, Xinxuan Liu, Min Zhao, Ying Hao and Kexin Shen

Valuation and spillover effects of large bank mergers: Evidence from Japan

Haibo Wang and Takeshi Tsuyuguchi

Institutional learning and volatility transmission in ASEAN equity markets: A network-integrated regime-dependent approach

Junlin Yang

How to balance corporate financing and customer investment sentiment? From the perspective of external environmental shocks

Hongbing Ouyang, Yuhan Wang and Zhuo Chen

Dissuading excessive risk-taking: An agency model of optimal managerial compensation

Gino Loyola and Yolanda Portilla

Does distance still matter? Geographical dispersion within venture capital syndicates and IPO earnings management in China

Honglin Li, Elaine Yen Nee Oon and Ervina Alfan