{"title":"The Spillover Effect of U.S. Stock Market Regulation on Global Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act","authors":"Huasheng Gao, Yuxi Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.110051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110051","url":null,"abstract":"We examine how U.S. securities regulation spills over internationally through cross-border capital market integration to shape global entrepreneurship. Exploiting the Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX) as an exogenous increase in U.S. listing and compliance costs, we show that entrepreneurial activity declines significantly in countries that are more reliant on U.S. capital markets, relative to less-exposed countries. We identify an exit-based mechanism: higher IPO exit costs reduce venture-capital investment, which in turn depresses startup formation. Our findings reveal entrepreneurial entry as a real-economy margin of financial integration and highlight unintended global consequences of U.S. securities regulation.","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"43 1","pages":"110051"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147743994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relationship between digital asset impairment, credit ratings, and debt financing ability","authors":"Yemeng Sun, Peiqing Li","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.110041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110041","url":null,"abstract":"Owing to increased reliance on digital assets and rapid growth of the digital economy, understanding the financial implications of digital asset impairment has become crucial for businesses. This study yields five relevant results: (1) core digital asset impairment has a significant negative impact on corporate credit ratings, (2) the effect of core digital asset impairment on credit ratings exhibits heterogeneity between high- and nonhigh-tech enterprises, (3) core digital asset impairment significantly suppresses debt financing capabilities, (4) the impact of core digital asset impairment on high- and nonhigh-tech enterprises’ debt financing capability also displays heterogeneity, and (5) lagged period analysis indicates that the influence of core digital asset impairment on corporate financial conditions is persistent and demonstrates a lag effect. These findings contribute to the literature by providing novel empirical evidence on the financial consequences of digital asset impairment, revealing the heterogeneous effects across different industry types, and highlighting the dynamic persistence of such impairments, thereby offering valuable implications for corporate financial management and credit evaluation practices.","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"2 1","pages":"110041"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147744003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ricardo Teruel-Gutiérrez, Juan Andres Bernal Conesa, Genoveva Aparicio Serrano
{"title":"Stress selective Behavior: Asymmetric Responses of Bitcoin and Gold to Valuation and Uncertainty Shocks","authors":"Ricardo Teruel-Gutiérrez, Juan Andres Bernal Conesa, Genoveva Aparicio Serrano","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.110036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110036","url":null,"abstract":"Gold is widely viewed as a safe-haven, yet empirical evidence on Bitcoin remains mixed. A key reason is that “stress” is often treated as a single regime even though turmoil can be triggered by valuation-led equity drawdowns or by fear-driven volatility spikes. Using daily data from 2014 to 2026, stress days are classified non-parametrically into valuation-driven tails and uncertainty-driven tails, with joint/systemic days identified when both conditions hold. Evidence combines stress-conditional correlations and sign rates, rolling market betas (rolling OLS controlling for contemporaneous ΔVIX), and HAC-robust regressions of Bitcoin and gold returns on equity returns, ΔVIX, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, the OFR Financial Stress Index, inflation-adjusted money supply, and sentiment/attention proxies. Bitcoin is stress-selective: equity comovement is near zero in valuation-driven stress but increases sharply when uncertainty dominates and is strongest in joint/systemic episodes; rolling betas display pronounced right-tail realizations in uncertainty-driven regimes, with episodic maxima above 2. Regression results corroborate a direct uncertainty channel, with volatility shocks exerting a statistically significant negative effect on Bitcoin returns beyond equity movements and controls, while gold remains comparatively insulated. Findings are robust to alternative stress cut-offs (1%/99% and 10%/90%) and rolling-window lengths. Practically, stress testing and risk limits should distinguish valuation-drawdown scenarios from volatility-shock scenarios, and crypto exposure limits and margin/haircut schedules should tighten when volatility/financial-stress indicators deteriorate, whereas gold provides more reliable protection in fear-driven episodes.","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"26 1","pages":"110036"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147744006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testing characteristics importance with neural network gradients: Evidence from the China A-share market","authors":"Hongxu Wu , Zhibin Deng , Shaoze Li","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109856","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109856","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper develops a hypothesis testing framework based on neural network gradients to evaluate the importance of firm characteristics in predicting monthly excess returns in the China A-share market. Using smooth neural networks with one to five hidden layers, we find that many characteristics, including several traditionally viewed as important, are not statistically significant. Growth and valuation characteristics dominate return prediction, whereas operational and solvency characteristics have limited explanatory power. A comparison with the traditional <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-reduction approach reveals that conclusions on characteristics importance depend on the analytical method. Monte Carlo simulations confirm the robustness of the proposed discrete testing procedure. The framework offers a rigorous and interpretable approach to assessing characteristics importance, contributing to model transparency and financial forecasting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 109856"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147605684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic portfolio choice with stochastic liquidity risk: A perturbation approach","authors":"Jayden Zian Wang , Zheqi Fan , Yifan Ye","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109847","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109847","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study a dynamic portfolio choice problem under the liquidity-adjusted asset price specification proposed by Feng et al. (2014). Given the intractability of an explicit solution to this problem, we develop a perturbation method to derive a second-order approximate solution, which captures not only the frictionless benchmark and linear liquidity effects, but also nonlinear liquidity corrections Finally, a series of numerical illustrations is provided to demonstrate the sensitivity of the approximate indirect utility function and optimal portfolio strategy to key model parameters.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 109847"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147598577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Finance Research LettersPub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2026.109711
Oliver González, Benjamin Keddad
{"title":"Corrigendum to \"The Piggy Bank Index: An intuitive risk measure to assess liquidity and capital adequacy in banks\" Finance Research Letters, Volume 60, February 2024, 104846","authors":"Oliver González, Benjamin Keddad","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109711","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109711","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"95 ","pages":"Article 109711"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147448465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Citizenship and Capital Market Participation in Brazil: A Macro-Level Regional Analysis","authors":"Diogo dos Santos Damas, Gilson Brito Alves Lima, Ricardo Bordeaux Rego","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.109817","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a macro-level analysis of financial citizenship and capital market participation in Brazil using official data from 27 federative units. Unlike traditional individual-level surveys focused on stocks, we examine participation in both the stock market (B3) and public bonds (Tesouro Direto). K-means clustering identifies two regional groups (“Northern” and “Southern”), and OLS regressions with HC3 robust errors show that the Financial Education Index consistently predicts participation across regions. The Municipal Human Development Index strongly predicts participation in the South but not in the North, highlighting structural regional disparities. Results suggest financial citizenship policies should be tailored regionally.","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147464815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Finance Research LettersPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2026.109570
Xiaowei Zhang , Jiayin Liu , Fan Wang
{"title":"Impact of China’s climate-resilient city pilot policy on enterprises’ green technological innovation","authors":"Xiaowei Zhang , Jiayin Liu , Fan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109570","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109570","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using green patent data from Chinese A-share listed companies spanning 2010–2024, this study takes China’s initial 2017 climate-resilient city pilot policy implementation as a quasinatural experiment to examine the impact of the pilot policy on enterprises’ green technological innovation (GTI) and its underlying mechanism using a difference-in-differences model. Notably, the policy significantly promotes enterprises’ GTI, mainly by strengthening regional environmental regulation and alleviating enterprises’ financing constraints,with a long-term driving effect. Heterogeneity analysis demonstrates that the policy’s effect on enterprises’ GTI is primarily reflected in green invention patents. In addition, large-scale, state-owned, and high-market development enterprises and those in high-pollution industries are more affected. Our conclusions provide empirical evidence and valuable insights for China to refine the climate-resilient city pilot policy to strike a balance between adaptation and mitigation, as well as other countries to implement or improve similar policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 109570"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146075700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Finance Research LettersPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-09DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2026.109498
Hongzhou Yuan , Jianye Liang
{"title":"Can the accumulation of household financial assets and consumption upgrading enhance residents' subjective well-being?","authors":"Hongzhou Yuan , Jianye Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109498","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109498","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper employs data from the 2018, 2020, and 2022 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to examine the impact of household financial asset accumulation and consumption upgrading on residents' subjective well-being. The research findings are as follows: First, household financial asset accumulation significantly enhances residents' subjective well-being; second, consumption upgrading significantly increases residents' subjective well-being; third, consumption upgrading serves as a mediating factor in the relationship between household financial asset accumulation and residents' subjective well-being; fourth, the impact of household financial asset accumulation on residents' subjective well-being demonstrates heterogeneity between urban and rural residents; fifth, the effect of consumption upgrading on residents' subjective well-being also differs between urban and rural residents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 109498"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145973766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Finance Research LettersPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-11DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2026.109517
Yuan Xue , Dayong Zhang , Kun Guo
{"title":"From risk to resilience: Strategic responses to climate shocks in China’s energy sector","authors":"Yuan Xue , Dayong Zhang , Kun Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109517","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2026.109517","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of accelerating climate change, climate transition risk has emerged as a critical determinant of energy firms’ asset values. Drawing on a panel dataset of Chinese A-share listed energy companies from 2009 to 2023, combined with a climate transition risk index, this study first confirms that climate transition risk significantly increases the level of stranded assets, whereas the effect exhibits pronounced industry heterogeneity, with coal firms the most severely affected, followed by oil and gas, and then powever generation firms. Second, the results show that energy firms can mitigate these impacts by engaging in green finance, technological advancements, and other sustainable measures. These results underscore the need for the energy sector to adopt active strategies against climate shocks. Furthermore, this paper demonstrates that effective strategies can turn risk into resilience and secure long-term sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"91 ","pages":"Article 109517"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145973764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}