Finance Research Letters

2004 - 2026

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Volume 88, issue C, 2026

Enabler or barrier? Evaluating the effectiveness of green financial assets in hedging against uncertainties

Meng Qin, Oana-Ramona Lobonţ, Haigang Zhou and Hsin-Pei Hsueh

Artificial intelligence technology innovation and enterprises’ shared prosperity: An analysis based on labor income share

Qianqian Ren, Fei Zhao, Zepeng Sun and Yujia Qin

Industry-specific effects of supplier payment strategies on financial performance: Evidence from Vietnam

Hieu Pham, Hoai Doan Huynh Thu, Su Ho Thi My, Long Nguyen Thi Chau and Tram Le Hoang Bao

Research on artificial intelligence enabling green development from the perspective of enterprise green innovation

Linxiao Hao, Jinyu Yuan, Siwei Deng and Zhonghe Zhi

Impact of regional trade dependence on firm internationalization

Chunxiao Bi, Wenkai Xie and Junjie Yin

Common institutional ownership and sustainable innovation

Xiaoyu Chen and Qi Luo

Do FIFA sponsors get paid? Evidence from affiliated parties

Hao Liu and Bing Bai

Incentive alignment or agency conflict? Executive incentive schemes and corporate investment efficiency

Hanyu Qiu, Shifeng Huang and Lingxiao Yang

Social security, industrial structure distortion and household economic resilience

Xiangmei Deng, Xinyi Yan, Dan Huang and Rui Tao

The dilemma of asset-light firms: How does dependence on intellectual property affect financing efficiency?

Fan Li

ICT trade index, financial support, and regional economic development level

Hua Fan and Ju Han

The inhibitory effect of Japan's shrinking labor force on financial development: A mediation analysis based on the innovation channel

Yongdong Wang and Liangliang Zhao

Green preferences of consumers and corporate green bond costs

Daiyou Xiao and Jinxia Su

Fintech, resource misallocation, and the diffusion of corporate innovation

Yuan Qi and Ying Yu

Establishment of intellectual property courts, incentive effects of corporate innovation, and development of multinational financial supply chains

Jianhua Tong and Qiang Wang

Social security levels, financial openness, and resident income gap

Lisha Wang and Guanyujie Chen

Digital intelligence transformation, patient capital, and the upgrade of corporate human capital

Jie Tu, Zhuohang Li, Zhiqing Lei, Hanyun Zhang and Sichen Liu

Directors' and officers' liability insurance, information disclosure and corporate investment efficiency

Wenping Tang, Chak Ha Yeung and Xiao Lu

The logic of media transformation under digital empowerment: How does digital marketing affect firm performance?

Weiguang Zhao and Nisha Wang

Para-social interaction and firm innovation: Does consumer attachment to brand ambassadors stimulate risky R&D investments?

Jing Kong and Jing You

Bank governance, legal supervision, and related-party transaction risks

Houze Wu, Wei Wu and Yue Yan

Financial technology legislation and enterprise innovation efficiency

Jibo Xie and Yuhang Zheng

Digital transformation, technological innovation, and employment structure change: A panel analysis of chinese cities from the perspective of new quality productive forces

Rui Liu, Runze Zhang and Muzhan Lv

Intelligent manufacturing and firm innovation performance

Bo Yu and Chiping Chen

Geopolitical risk and economic growth: Evidence from ASEAN countries

Lin Han, Depeng Ning and Shiguan Xin

Smart finance, skilled workers: The role of labor force in FinTech-Driven economic growth

Xu Du and Shuanxi Fang

Fit for ventures: how exercise participation fuels entrepreneurial entry–a dual lens of social and psychological capital

Danni Chen, Le Gong and Zhonghui He

Impact pathways of corporate social responsibility on institutional transaction costs in platform-based companies

Qi Zhang

Environmental regulatory spillovers in conglomerates: Quasi-experimental evidence on subsidiary leverage in China

Feng Wei, Huixuan Xie and Chi Man Yip

Digital economy, innovation capability, and new quality productivity

Xin Yue and Qiyu Shi

Are impact crypto assets a new emerging asset class for sustainable and impact investors?

Veronika Vinogradova and Mariya Gubareva

Cross-border ETFs and stock market synchronization

Shuai Chen, Lingyi Li and Yezhou Sha

Misreporting and risk of loan default: evidence from an online lending platform affiliated with a Rural Commercial Bank in China

Anqi Diao, Shou Chen and Yuxuan Huang

Digital economy and cultural-tourism integration: Synergistic effects of financial agglomeration

Yujia Lu, Ruolin Xu, Lingyan Shi and Wenju Ma

Population aging and pension fund risk-taking

Zhuohui Liang and Lin Du

Work stress scale for employees in private enterprises: Development and validation

Qianru Jiang and Dong Liang

CEO digital background and corporate digitalization: the role of regional policy

HanYu Zhuang, Lei Gao and Jinhuan Li

Intensity of intellectual property protection, FDI inflows, and the share of green products in international markets

Ning Wang and Xianli Xiao

Can blockchain technology reduce supply chain finance risk? The mediating role of information transparency

Tao Bi and Nijie Xu

Cross-border E-commerce reform and corporate supply chain risk perception

Yi Li and Yang Zheng

Supply chain finance, financing constraints, and corporate new quality productivity

Lele Jia and Yahui Ren

The impact of digital literacy on the effectiveness of household financial asset portfolios: Evidence from China

Kun Wu, Yuhang Zhai and Yunchen She

Labor protection and firm carbon emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Yixian Li, Xiaoran Ni, Wenpei Ouyang and Jin Xu

Do AI policy dividends alleviate employment pressure on college graduates? A comparative study across china provinces

Wenfeng Li, Shugang Wang and Yao Sun

Real estate expansion and the effectiveness of monetary policy: Evidence from China

Yuan Xu, Yudong Qi and Haoyan Tan

Does venture capital ownership suppress labor income share?

Xiuhong Guo, Qichao Hao and Qixing Huang

Investor sentiment and the crash risk of anomalies

Timothy K. Chue and Yunke Katelyn Hu

A unified analytical framework for pricing compound exchange options under quanto and stochastic volatility effects

Dávid Zoltán Szabó

Profit from analysts’ earnings forecasts consensus? Evidence from Taiwan stock market

Jerry T. Yang, Meng-Ying Lin and Jow-Ran Chang

Biodiversity reporting and Staggered Board

Sirimon Treepongkaruna, Muttanachai Suttipun and Chaiyuth Padungsaksawasdi

Impact of energy uncertainty on corporate credit risk

Rituparn Bahukhandi, Himanshu Singhal and Madhumita Chakraborty

Market reaction to blockchain news: The role of digital transformation

Boxiang Jia, Brian Lucey and Dehua Shen

Green innovation ecosystems, green finance, and economic resilience in forest resource-based cities

Jun Yao, Huajing Li, Zhiwei Cai and Changhong Li

How customer carbon risk propagates upstream: evidence from its impact on suppliers’ loan costs

Jun Li, Mei Qian, Changchun Tan and Peng Zhou

Impact of global risk aversion on real estate market returns

Omokolade Akinsomi, Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah and Chi-Chuan Lee

Bitcoin futures in the Google search arena

Sonia Arsi

Time-varying spillover of multi-scale positive and negative bubbles in stock and oil markets

Matteo Foglia, Rangan Gupta, Petre Caraiani and Vincenzo Pacelli

How critical product imports’ spillover effects drive China’s high-quality development

Kaixin Deng and Jingmei Ma

Gold vs. “digital gold”: Bitcoin’s market positioning in the Trump 2.0 era

Jiansuer Julaiti, Yujia Li and Ke Song

An extensive experimental comparison of machine and deep learning methods for credit and bank fraud detection

Edward K.Y. Yapp and Hui-Yuan Yeh

Does supply chain finance development alleviate cash flow volatility in entrepreneurially oriented firms?

Manze Yang, Yun Liao and Mingyue Li

Can the informatization of public services empower corporate carbon emission reduction? A quasi - natural experiment from “information benefits the people” pilot

Xinying Chen, Xinghua Cui, Bingwen Yu and Feifei Liu

The impact of digital finance on China-U.S. economic security relationship: A dual perspective of financial innovation and national security

Wencong Wu and Juan Wang

Government digitalisation initiatives and corporate green investment

Lu Wang and Xinting Li

Threshold effects of local government debt on economic growth: Evidence from 326 Chinese prefecture-level cities

Chaoyang Liu, Zitong Zhang, Aoyang Li and Lu Zhang

Energy poverty and physical dependency among older adults

Jianming Hou, Song Li, Yao Yao and Wenjian Zhou

Domestic labor cost shocks and global risk: Minimum wages and export market concentration in China

Ye He, Zijian Ding, Wenjing Xu and Zhixin Zhang

Digital inclusive finance, artificial intelligence investment, and total factor productivity

Huan Qi

Measuring the resilience of higher-order financial risk networks: A new interpretable multidimensional method

Zisheng Ouyang, Yaoxun Deng and Yongzeng Lai

The test of financial resilience in emerging market economies: Dual shocks from geopolitical risks and global liquidity tightening

Zhenglun Li, Pei Zhao, Chen Ma and Qiang Wang

How does green news shrink suppliers' ESG rating divergence?

YaPin Wang and JiDuo Wang

High-tech product trade, international financial openness, and global competitiveness: An empirical analysis based on country-level data

Sha Tao, Ruixia Tang and Haisheng Ke

Global expansion and investment efficiency: The impact of overseas mergers and acquisitions on eco-friendly companies

Xinglin Liu, Bo Yuan, Hongfeng Sun and Haixu Yu

Controlling shareholders’ share pledge and green innovation: Evidence from manufacturing companies

Yuqiong Fan, Min Hong, Lu Xu and Wei Yuan

Digital media communication, FinTech, and corporate reputation

Yuanfang Jiang and Xujun Zheng

Artificial intelligence and servitization transformation of manufacturing enterprises

Huanhuan Hu, Shenglong Gong, Ning Wang and Jiaxin Gao

Spatial spillover effects of ICT infrastructure development on green total factor productivity in the service sector

He Wang and Teng Tong

Research on the mechanism of the influence of social security level on regional income gap from the perspective of financial support

Mouchun Yan and Feng Yuan

Breakthrough innovation, digital transformation, and firms' long-term competitiveness

Di Lu, Xiaoming Miao and Yi Wang

Is systematic tail risk priced in China?

Shuran Zhao and Ruiqing Gao

The impact of enterprise digitization on corporate green governance performance

Boran Zeng

Tax burden, corporate innovation and supply chain resistance

Qian Niu and Yan Peng

Veiled by a green image: Corporate carbon commitments and employee lawsuits

Yutong Chen, Mei Du, Yushan Xie and Jiani Wang

Climate risk exposure and banking competition: Evidence from China’s listed banks

Miaomiao Tao, Shuai Che and Tony Klein

Does artificial intelligence reduce climate risk perception bias? Evidence from China

Wenjiao Men and Zhonglu Liu

Does the industrial internet enhance firm innovation? Evidence from China’s pilot reform

Xiaoming Zuo, Huaijie Liu and Peng Sun