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Trade credit appears on 112 recent papers, but only 3 of them carry an interest-rate or monetary-policy keyword. When bank credit gets dearer, firms lean on their suppliers and delay paying them. Does trade credit carry monetary tightening down the supply chain, and who ends up financing whom?
Papers in the last 30 days — trade credit: 3 · financial constraints: 28
Short selling and short-selling constraints appear on 56 recent papers, but only 10 of them carry a China keyword, although China restricted securities lending repeatedly in 2023 and 2024 to support prices. What did the restrictions do to price efficiency, liquidity and the overvaluation of hard-to-short stocks?
Islamic banking, Islamic finance and sukuk appear on 65 recent papers, but only 16 of them carry a green, sustainability, ESG or climate keyword. Green sukuk issuance has grown in the Gulf and Southeast Asia. Is Sharia-compliant finance a natural fit for sustainable investment, or just another label?
Bitcoin appears on 164 recent papers, and 53 crypto papers carry a hedging, safe-haven or inflation keyword, but "inflation hedging" itself appears on just 6. The 2021–2023 inflation was the first real test of the "digital gold" claim, and spot ETFs have since changed who holds Bitcoin. What did the test show?
Papers in the last 30 days — Bitcoin: 10 · cryptocurrency: 6
Institutional investors appear on 151 recent papers, almost all about stock ownership; only 6 institutional-investor papers carry a housing or rent keyword. Funds now own large numbers of single-family homes and apartments in the US, Spain and elsewhere, and several governments want to restrict them. Do they raise rents, improve maintenance, or both?
Papers in the last 30 days — institutional investors: 9 · housing market: 3
Gamification appears on only 20 recent papers, split across management, finance and accounting. Confetti on a trading app, points for saving, badges at work: the same design tricks are used to make people trade, save, learn and work more. Which uses help the people they are aimed at, and which only help the platform?
Bank competition appears on 68 recent papers, but only 19 bank-competition papers carry a fintech, digital or platform keyword. Fintech lenders and digital banks were supposed to erode banks' market power. Did loan and deposit margins actually fall where they entered, and for whom?
Papers in the last 30 days — bank competition: 6 · fintech: 11
Family business appears on 124 recent papers and generational succession on 18. The founders who built China's private firms in the 1980s and 1990s are now handing over. Do the heirs keep the firms, sell them or bring in professional managers, and what happens to performance and investment?
Papers in the last 30 days — family business: 6 · generational succession: 1
Deposit rates appear on only 31 recent papers, although the gap between policy rates and what banks paid savers was one of the largest transfers of the 2022–2024 tightening. How fast did deposit rates follow policy rates this time, and what made some banks pay more?
Papers in the last 30 days — deposit interest rates: 1 · bank deposits: 1
Shareholder activism appears on only 11 recent papers, and 8 activism papers carry a climate or ESG keyword. Activist funds have pushed oil companies in opposite directions: toward climate targets in 2021, away from renewable spending more recently. Which campaigns win, and what happens to the companies' strategies and emissions afterwards?
Papers in the last 30 days — shareholder activism: 1
Capital reallocation is a fast-rising keyword in the economics journals. After a decade of near-zero rates, interest rates rose almost everywhere, and Japan ended negative rates in 2024. Did higher rates finally clear out zombie firms and move capital to productive ones?
Papers in the last 30 days — zombie firms: 1 · capital reallocation: 3
The VIX and market liquidity are rising keywords in the finance journals, while options that expire on the day they trade have become a large share of US index options volume. Yet none of the 192 recent option and VIX papers carries a zero-day or 0DTE keyword. Do same-day options make intraday markets calmer or more fragile?
Papers in the last 30 days — VIX: 3 · retail investors: 6
Women entrepreneurs appear on 32 recent papers in the management and economics journals, and 14 of 43 such papers carry a funding, finance or credit keyword. Women-led startups still receive a small share of venture capital, and women-owned small firms pay more for loans in several studies. Is the gap demand, supply, or the way applications are read?
Papers in the last 30 days — women entrepreneurs: 2 · access to finance: 4
Annual reports, 10-K filings, narrative disclosure and readability appear on 99 recent papers in the finance and accounting journals, but only 9 of them carry a generative-AI, language-model or AI-generated keyword. If language models now draft the management discussion, do the text measures researchers rely on still mean anything?
Papers in the last 30 days — narrative disclosure: 2 · readability: 1
Initial public offerings appear on 48 recent papers, but only 7 of 91 IPO papers carry a listing-venue, cross-listing, Hong Kong, STAR Market or delisting keyword. Chinese firms have moved from New York to Hong Kong and Shanghai's STAR Market, and some have delisted from the US. Does the venue change who invests, how firms are valued and how they behave?
Papers in the last 30 days — initial public offerings: 5
Supply chain concentration and supply chain relationships are among the fastest-growing keywords across the tracked journals. Finance papers treat a dominant customer as risk; management papers treat it as dependence, through resource dependence theory. The two rarely meet. Does depending on one big customer make suppliers more innovative or more fragile?
Papers in the last 30 days — supply chain concentration: 2 · resource dependence theory: 4
Pseudo-labeling, label noise and weakly supervised learning appear on nearly 500 recent papers, almost all in AI journals, and only 7 of them concern financial, legal or business documents. Banks and auditors have millions of unlabelled contracts, invoices and filings and few labelled ones. Can weak supervision from rules and models replace hand labelling, and what errors does it introduce?
Papers in the last 30 days — weakly supervised learning: 10 · label noise: 4
Earnings calls are a staple of finance and accounting research, read almost always as transcripts. In the AI journals, multimodal fusion is one of the biggest topics. Do voice and video carry information about firms that the words miss?
Papers in the last 30 days — earnings conference calls: 5 · earnings call transcripts: 1
Venture capital is one of the fastest-growing keywords in the finance journals, and startups are a big topic in management and economics, but only 18 of these papers touch artificial intelligence. As more venture money goes to AI companies, are other startups crowded out, or does AI lower the cost of starting up?
Papers in the last 30 days — venture capital: 4 · startups: 10
Treasury yields and bonds appear on 39 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, but only 2 of them carry a liquidity, dealer, hedge-fund or market-functioning keyword. Hedge funds' leveraged basis trades and dealers' balance sheet limits have been blamed for Treasury market stress. How fragile is the market now, and would central clearing help?
Papers in the last 30 days — market liquidity: 3
Transfer learning, domain adaptation and domain generalization appear on nearly 700 recent papers, almost all in AI journals, and only 10 of them concern credit, lending, banking or markets. Lenders entering new countries, and credit bureaus in countries with little data, want to reuse models trained elsewhere. How much transfers, and what breaks?
Papers in the last 30 days — transfer learning: 9 · domain adaptation: 14
Diffusion models are among the largest topics in the AI journals, and synthetic data generation is growing with them. Yet only 6 of 119 recent synthetic-data papers carry a finance keyword. Could synthetic transaction and loan data let banks share data for research without exposing customers, and how close is it to the real thing?
Papers in the last 30 days — synthetic data generation: 3 · diffusion models: 18
Green credit and green loans appear on 58 recent papers, most of them about China's green credit policy, while sustainability-linked loans, whose interest rate moves with the borrower's ESG targets, appear on only 3. Are the targets ambitious, are they met, and does the rate step actually change behaviour?
Papers in the last 30 days — green loans: 1 · green credit: 3
Supply chain finance appears on 101 recent papers, mostly in the finance and operations research journals, but only 32 of them carry a risk, default, disclosure, accounting or fintech keyword, and reverse factoring on one. Since the Greensill collapse, firms must disclose these programmes. Who bears the risk, and does disclosure change pricing?
Papers in the last 30 days — supply chain finance: 6
Foreign investors and capital market liberalization are growing keywords in the finance journals, with 13 papers in July–September 2026 against about 7 per quarter before. More than ten years after Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect opened, has foreign ownership changed how Chinese stocks are priced, and what happened when foreign money left?
Papers in the last 30 days — foreign investors: 1
Mamba and other selective state-space models are among the most frequent new architectures in the AI journals, built for long sequences. Limit order books produce exactly such sequences. Yet only 4 of 329 recent Mamba and state-space papers carry a finance keyword, all of them in AI journals. Can these models forecast short-term price moves better, and is the gain tradable after costs?
Papers in the last 30 days — Mamba: 10 · limit order book: 1
Stablecoins and monetary policy transmission are both among the fastest-growing keywords, but the papers that join them sit only in finance journals. Now that issuers hold large amounts of Treasury bills, does policy pass through stablecoins into crypto credit, and do stablecoin flows move bill yields?
Papers in the last 30 days — stablecoins: 4 · monetary policy transmission: 10
Sovereign default and sovereign debt crises appear on 42 recent papers in the economics and finance journals, but only one of them carries a creditor, China or Common Framework keyword. Recent restructurings in Zambia, Ghana and Sri Lanka involved China as a major lender. Do defaults take longer and resolve differently when the creditors are new?
Papers in the last 30 days — sovereign default: 3 · sovereign debt crisis: 2
Knowledge distillation, model compression and small language models appear on more than 700 recent papers in AI journals, and only 12 of them concern finance, banking, legal or business tasks. Banks cannot send customer data to the largest models, and regulators want models they can inspect. How small can a model be and still do financial work, and what is lost in the shrinking?
Papers in the last 30 days — knowledge distillation: 23 · small language models: 1
Macroprudential policy and financial intermediation are both rising in the finance journals, but papers that follow credit out of the regulated banking system are rare, and none of them is in an economics journal. When regulators tighten on banks, how much lending simply moves to shadow banks and private credit funds?
Papers in the last 30 days — macroprudential policy: 13 · shadow banking: 4
Fund families now vote at thousands of shareholder meetings a year, and many follow proxy advisors' recommendations almost automatically. Yet only 9 recent papers in the archive carry a shareholder-voting or proxy-advisor keyword, none of them about funds. Does robo-voting decide close votes, and has pass-through voting changed that?
Robo-advisors appear on 12 recent papers, and the topic is fading: 1 paper in July–September 2026 against about 5 per quarter before. Meanwhile people ask chatbots for financial advice. Does conversational advice change portfolios more than the old questionnaire-based robo-advice did, and for better or worse?
Papers in the last 30 days — robo-advisors: 1 · household portfolio choice: 2
Remittances appear on 50 recent papers, mostly in economics, but only 12 of them carry a cost, fee, digital, mobile, fintech or stablecoin keyword. Instant payment systems, mobile money links and stablecoins are cutting the cost of sending money home. Does cheaper sending raise the amount received, and who switches?
Related-party transactions appear on 23 recent papers and tunneling on 17, almost all in finance journals and mostly about Chinese business groups. As rules on these transactions tighten and disclosure moves to machine-readable formats, can tunneling be detected at scale, and did the rules reduce it?
Papers in the last 30 days — related-party transactions: 1
Document understanding, table question answering and chart understanding appear on 17 recent papers, all in AI journals, with 7 in the last quarter against about 3 per quarter before. Financial information lives in tables, footnotes and charts that models still misread. How accurate are current models on real filings, and which errors would mislead an analyst?
Retrieval-augmented generation appears on 165 recent papers, 171 of 178 such papers in AI journals, and only 12 touch finance, legal, tax, accounting, audit or compliance questions. Banks, tax advisers and auditors are deploying it over filings, rules and contracts. How often does it cite the right source, and what happens when the source changes?
Papers in the last 30 days — retrieval-augmented generation: 14
Prompt injection, jailbreak attacks and LLM security appear on 37 recent papers, all in AI journals. Banks and brokers are deploying agents that read emails, documents and web pages and then act. A hidden instruction in a document can make such an agent move money or leak data. How exposed are deployed financial agents, and which defences hold?
Papers in the last 30 days — prompt injection: 1
Private equity is a small but rising keyword in the finance journals, and only 2 of 22 recent private-equity papers touch health care. Private equity firms now own a large share of nursing homes and physician practices in several countries. Do their cost cuts show up in quality of care, and who pays?
Papers in the last 30 days — private equity: 1 · nursing homes: 1
Cybersecurity risks and cyberattacks appear on 226 recent papers, mostly in AI journals, and 56 of them carry a risk-management, insurance, investment or cost keyword, with cyber insurance on 9. Insurers struggle to price a risk that is correlated across firms and shaped by the insured's own choices. What do losses look like, and does insurance change security?
Papers in the last 30 days — cybersecurity investment: 1
Political connections are a large topic across the finance, economics and management journals, and a rising one in management. Yet only 10 of 106 recent papers on them carry a corruption keyword. More than a decade after China's anti-corruption campaign began, are connections still worth anything, and to whom?
Papers in the last 30 days — political connections: 6 · anti-corruption campaign: 1
Pension funds appear on only 19 recent papers, and 2 of them touch infrastructure, private equity or illiquid assets, although pension money is the main source of capital for private markets. As defined-contribution plans are allowed to hold private assets, are the returns worth the fees and the lock-up?
Papers in the last 30 days — pension funds: 1
Price impact and fund flows are among the fastest-growing keywords in the finance journals, yet none of the price-impact papers carries a fund-flow or passive-investing keyword. Now that passive funds hold so much of the market, how much do their flows move prices, and are markets as inelastic as some theories claim?
Papers in the last 30 days — price impact: 1 · fund flows: 1
Reinsurance, catastrophe bonds and parametric insurance appear on only 25 recent papers in the finance and operations research journals, although catastrophe bond issuance has reached records and parametric covers are spreading to poorer countries. Do payouts arrive when they are needed, and who bears the basis risk?
Continuous-time models built on the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation are rising in the finance journals, while neural operators and physics-informed networks that solve such equations are growing in AI. All five recent papers that pair the two are in AI journals. Can these solvers make richer portfolio and asset-pricing models usable?
Papers in the last 30 days — Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation: 1 · physics-informed neural networks: 8
"Chinese listed companies" is the third most frequent keyword across the tracked journals over the past year, and most of these papers draw on the same few databases. Yet none of the 1,392 recent papers with such a keyword carries a replication, multiple-testing or publication-bias keyword. How many of their findings would survive a correction for everyone testing on the same data?
Papers in the last 30 days — Chinese listed companies: 56 · publication bias: 2
"Moderating effect" and "mediating effect" are among the most frequent keywords in finance and management papers, and mediation models rank high on the equation ranking. How robust are these interaction and mediation results, and what would good practice look like?
Papers in the last 30 days — moderating effect: 20 · mediating effect: 7
Financial inclusion is a large topic in the finance journals, and climate shocks a growing one in economics, but only 14 of 367 recent inclusion and payments papers carry a climate or disaster keyword. When droughts and floods hit, does mobile money bring help fast enough to keep households from selling assets or taking children out of school?
Papers in the last 30 days — mobile money: 1 · financial inclusion: 9
Mixture-of-experts models are among the fastest-growing topics in the AI journals, and regime-switching models have a long history in finance and economics. A gate that picks experts works much like a regime switch, yet no finance or economics paper in the archive carries the keyword. Can it forecast better across market regimes?
Papers in the last 30 days — mixture of experts: 11 · regime switching: 4
Non-state-owned enterprises are a rising keyword in the economics journals, and state ownership is one of the most common comparisons in research on Chinese firms. Yet "mixed ownership reform" appears on only 9 recent papers. When private investors buy into state firms, do governance and performance change, or only the shareholder list?
Papers in the last 30 days — state-owned enterprises: 21 · non-state-owned enterprises: 7
Microfinance and microcredit appear on 35 recent papers, and only 2 of them carry a regulation, digital, fintech or competition keyword. App-based lenders now compete with microfinance institutions in Africa and Asia, and several countries have capped rates. Do borrowers end up with cheaper credit, or more of it?
Papers in the last 30 days — microfinance: 1 · microfinance institutions: 1
Mergers and acquisitions appear on 228 recent papers, but only 31 of them carry a merger-control, competition-policy or enforcement keyword. Merger enforcement tightened in the US and Europe after 2021 and loosened again in places since. Did the threat of review stop deals, reshape them, or simply delay them?
Papers in the last 30 days — mergers and acquisitions: 10 · competition policy: 2
CEO and managerial overconfidence appear on 98 recent papers, mostly measured from option-exercise behaviour or press coverage, as in the 2000s. Only 6 of them carry a text, language or speech keyword, and 4 of those are in AI journals. Can a language model score overconfidence from earnings calls, and does it predict the same decisions?
Market manipulation, stock market manipulation, price manipulation and pump-and-dump schemes appear on about 20 recent papers, split between the AI and finance journals. Spoofing, wash trading and coordinated pumps now happen in milliseconds and across venues, including crypto. Can detectors trained on known cases find new ones, and what do regulators miss?
Management earnings forecasts appear on 11 recent papers in the accounting and finance journals. Firms withdrew guidance in the pandemic and again around the 2025 tariff shocks. What do investors and analysts do when guidance disappears, and does the practice recover?
Papers in the last 30 days — management earnings forecasts: 2
Soft information and relationship lending appear on 26 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, but only 5 of them carry an algorithm, machine-learning, fintech or automation keyword. As banks automate small-business lending, what is lost when the loan officer's judgment goes, and can models learn it?
Papers in the last 30 days — soft information: 1
Economic, climate, trade and monetary policy uncertainty indices appear on 423 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, almost all built from counts of newspaper words. Only 5 of them use language models, embeddings or text mining beyond word counts. Would an index that reads the articles agree with the word counts, and would it predict better?
Papers in the last 30 days — economic policy uncertainty: 5 · text mining: 1
Sustainable investment is rising across the tracked journals, and biodiversity risk has become a finance keyword. Yet few of these papers carry a keyword about returns, bonds or the cost of capital. Do markets price firms' exposure to nature loss, and has nature-related disclosure changed that?
Papers in the last 30 days — biodiversity risk: 3 · sustainable investment: 2
Financial fraud appears on 48 recent papers, but most study fraud by firms or fraud detection in transactions; only 6 carry a social-media, crypto, elderly or victim keyword, and "fraud victimization" on 5. Investment scams run through social platforms now cost households billions. Who falls for them, and what stops them?
Papers in the last 30 days — financial fraud: 1 · investor protection: 2
Interest rate risk appears on just 11 recent papers in the finance journals, only one of them in July–September 2026, although unrealized losses on bank bond holdings triggered the 2023 bank failures. Which banks still carry large unrealized losses, and does supervision now see them?
Insurance appears on more than 400 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, but only 52 of them carry a climate or disaster keyword, and property insurance barely appears. As insurers withdraw from wildfire- and hurricane-prone regions, who holds the risk, and what happens to house prices and mortgages?
Papers in the last 30 days — natural disasters: 5
Insider trading appears on 40 recent papers in the finance and accounting journals, and 17 of 45 carry a regulation or enforcement keyword, but "trading plan" appears on one. Since 2023, US executives' pre-scheduled trading plans must have cooling-off periods and be disclosed. Did the plans stop being a cover for informed trades?
Papers in the last 30 days — insider trading: 2
Agricultural and index insurance appear on 20 recent papers, split between the finance and economics journals. Weather index insurance was meant to protect smallholders cheaply, but take-up stayed low and basis risk high. With satellite data and mobile payments, is it finally working, and where?
Papers in the last 30 days — agricultural insurance: 1
Difference-in-differences is the most-mentioned method on the equation ranking, and treatment effect heterogeneity is one of the fastest-rising keywords in economics. A first check finds that about three in ten recent DiD papers with searchable full text name a heterogeneity-robust estimator. How many staggered-adoption findings would survive one?
Papers in the last 30 days — staggered difference-in-differences: 1
Household debt and borrowing appear on 53 recent papers in the economics and finance journals, but only 9 of them carry an interest-rate, tightening, variable-rate or refinancing keyword. The 2022–2024 rate rises hit households with floating-rate mortgages hard in some countries and barely at all in others. Where did consumption fall, and did defaults follow?
Papers in the last 30 days — household debt: 1 · household borrowing: 1
Greenwashing is one of the fastest-growing keywords in the finance journals, yet few papers measure it against emissions. Scored as the gap between what firms say about climate and what their emissions do, does greenwashing fool ESG raters, lenders or investors?
Papers in the last 30 days — greenwashing: 4 · ESG ratings: 9
Financial contagion and systemic risk are rising in the finance and economics journals, and graph neural networks are among the largest topics in the AI journals. The two have met in only five papers. Can a graph model learn the channels of contagion that network models fix in advance?
Papers in the last 30 days — financial contagion: 12 · systemic risk: 12
Climate risk is one of the most frequent keywords in the finance journals, yet only 5 of 82 recent mortgage papers carry a flood, climate-risk or disaster keyword. Do lenders price flood risk into mortgages, and do they pass the riskiest loans to government-backed buyers?
Papers in the last 30 days — mortgage lending: 1 · flood risk: 1
Government spending, borrowing costs and the euro area are all rising keywords in the finance journals. When governments borrow more, domestic banks often buy the bonds. Does that crowd out bank lending to firms, and which firms lose the most?
Papers in the last 30 days — government spending: 7 · euro area: 5
Contrastive learning is one of the largest topics in the AI journals, yet only 6 of 749 recent contrastive-learning papers carry a finance or firm keyword. Finance research still defines peer firms mostly by industry codes. Would firm embeddings learned contrastively from filings, returns and supply chains give better peers for valuation, benchmarking and pay?
Papers in the last 30 days — contrastive learning: 27 · peer firms: 1
Retail investors are a large topic in the finance journals, but only 8 of 139 recent papers on them carry a social-media keyword, and "finfluencers" appears on just 2. Do the trades that follow a finance influencer's post earn anything, and who profits from the audience?
Papers in the last 30 days — social media: 7
Investor sentiment and sentiment analysis appear on 490 recent papers across the AI and finance journals, but only 22 of them carry a multilingual, cross-lingual or non-English language keyword, and financial sentiment analysis on 6. Most of the world's markets are discussed in languages the standard tools were not built for. How well do the tools work there, and do they move markets?
Papers in the last 30 days — financial sentiment analysis: 1 · sentiment analysis: 6
Misinformation, fake news detection and rumor detection appear on 185 recent papers, 140 of them in AI journals, and only 10 carry a market, stock, investor or finance keyword. Fake earnings leaks, forged press releases and coordinated rumours now move prices within minutes. How much do they move, who profits, and can detection work at trading speed?
Papers in the last 30 days — misinformation: 2 · fake news detection: 6
Financial literacy is one of the largest household finance topics, on 146 recent papers, but only 7 of 161 literacy papers carry a crypto, gambling or speculation keyword. Does knowing more about finance keep people out of speculative crypto trading, or make them more confident speculators?
Papers in the last 30 days — financial literacy: 4 · cryptocurrency: 6
Federated learning, which trains one model across organizations without pooling their data, is a large topic in the AI journals, yet only 7 of 398 recent papers on it carry a finance, banking, fraud or money-laundering keyword. Money launderers spread transactions across banks precisely because no single bank sees the whole pattern. Can banks catch them together without sharing customer data?
Papers in the last 30 days — federated learning: 23 · anti-money laundering: 1
Fairness and algorithmic bias are growing in the AI journals, and credit scoring is one of the areas where AI rules are strictest. Yet only 19 of 473 recent fairness and bias papers carry a credit or lending keyword. What would an audit that lenders and regulators can both use look like, and what does fairness cost in default risk?
Papers in the last 30 days — algorithmic fairness: 2 · credit scoring: 2
The cross-section of stock returns, momentum and asset pricing anomalies appear on 210 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, but only 14 of them carry a crowding, capacity, decay, replication or out-of-sample keyword. As quantitative funds trade the same signals, do anomaly returns shrink, and can crowding be measured in time?
Papers in the last 30 days — momentum: 2 · factor models: 1
Class imbalance is one of the largest topics in the AI journals, and fraud detection is where it matters most for finance. But only 10 of 174 recent fraud papers carry a cost, profit or loss keyword; most report accuracy or F1 scores. Would ranking fraud models by the money they save change which ones win?
Papers in the last 30 days — fraud detection: 3 · class imbalance: 22
ESG investing appears on 56 recent papers in the finance journals, but only 3 of 81 papers on responsible investing carry a backlash, political or polarization keyword. Several US states now restrict ESG in public funds, and some asset managers have stopped using the label. Did fund flows, fees and holdings change?
Papers in the last 30 days — ESG investing: 8 · political polarization: 3
Profit sharing and employee ownership appear on 24 recent papers spread thinly across the tracked journals. As founders of the baby-boom generation retire, employee buyouts and ownership trusts are one way to pass on firms. Do employee-owned firms survive longer, pay better, and invest differently?
Papers in the last 30 days — profit sharing: 2
The US dollar, invoicing currency and de-dollarization appear on 67 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, and the yuan's use in trade settlement has risen since 2022. Yet only 23 of those papers connect the dollar to trade invoicing or the renminbi. Is de-dollarization happening in the currency of contracts, or only in the headlines?
Papers in the last 30 days — US dollar: 1
Information transparency and corporate disclosure are rising in the accounting journals, and language models now read filings for investors. Yet few disclosure papers mention language models or XBRL. Is disclosure written for machines changing what transparency means?
Papers in the last 30 days — information transparency: 7 · corporate disclosure: 14
Earnings management is a mainstay of the finance and accounting journals, still measured mostly with accrual regressions such as the modified Jones model. Only 4 of 156 recent papers on it carry a machine-learning or text keyword. Do learned models, including language models reading the filings, flag manipulation that accrual models miss?
Papers in the last 30 days — earnings management: 6 · accrual-based earnings management: 1
Decentralized finance is a growing topic in the finance journals, but only 11 of 54 recent papers on it carry a liquidation, leverage, collateral or stablecoin keyword. Lending protocols liquidate collateral automatically when prices fall. Do these liquidations feed on themselves, and could they reach traditional markets?
Papers in the last 30 days — decentralized finance: 4 · cryptocurrency: 6
Reinforcement learning appears on more than 700 recent papers, and 41 of them apply it to portfolios, trading or hedging, almost all in AI and operations research journals. The results are rarely reproduced and rarely compared with simple rules after costs. Which of the reported gains survive replication on new data?
Papers in the last 30 days — deep reinforcement learning: 17 · portfolio optimization: 13
Cybersecurity appears on 159 recent papers, most of them in AI journals about detection; only 22 carry a disclosure, reporting or investor keyword, and "cybersecurity disclosure" on 6. Since 2023, US firms must report material cyber incidents within four business days. What do they report, and what do markets learn?
Papers in the last 30 days — data breaches: 1 · cybersecurity risks: 4
Corporate venture capital is a small but rising keyword, with 7 papers in July–September 2026 against about 3 per quarter before. Large technology firms now invest in AI startups that also buy their cloud and chips. Is this venture investing, customer financing, or a way to buy talent without a merger?
Papers in the last 30 days — corporate venture capital: 2 · open innovation: 2
Corporate bonds appear on 54 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, but only 7 of them carry an ETF, fund or liquidity keyword. Exchange-traded funds now hold a large share of corporate bonds and trade far more than the bonds themselves. Do they add liquidity, or hide the lack of it until a stress?
Papers in the last 30 days — corporate bonds: 3 · exchange-traded funds: 2
Distribution shift, concept drift and non-stationary time series appear on 371 recent papers, almost all in AI journals, and only 27 of them concern credit, fraud, banking or markets. Credit and fraud models decay as borrowers, fraudsters and the economy change. How fast, how should it be detected, and when should a model be retrained rather than recalibrated?
Papers in the last 30 days — concept drift: 6 · distribution shift: 8
Stress testing appears on 40 recent papers in the finance journals, and climate stress testing on 12. Central banks in Europe and Asia have run climate scenarios on their banks. Did banks that fared badly in the scenarios cut lending to exposed borrowers, or only write longer reports?
Papers in the last 30 days — stress testing: 2
Local government finance is rising in the economics journals, and local government debt is a large topic in finance as China's property slump cut land revenue. In late 2024 China launched a large swap of local governments' hidden debt. Did it get suppliers paid and credit flowing, or just move risk to banks?
Papers in the last 30 days — local government debt: 3 · land finance: 1
Executive compensation appears on 114 recent papers, yet only 14 of 144 pay papers carry a disclosure, pay-ratio, say-on-pay or transparency keyword. Firms in the US and UK now publish the ratio of CEO pay to median worker pay. Did it change CEO pay, worker pay or neither?
Papers in the last 30 days — executive compensation: 7
Gold and safe-haven assets appear on 172 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, almost all about gold as a hedge for investors. Only 5 carry a central-bank, reserve or sanctions keyword. Central banks have been the largest buyers of gold since 2022. Is it insurance against sanctions, and does it move the price?
Papers in the last 30 days — gold: 2 · safe-haven assets: 3
Central bank communication is one of the rising keywords across the tracked journals, but few of those papers look at households. Language models can now rewrite a policy statement for any reader. Would households who receive such messages update their inflation expectations?
Papers in the last 30 days — central bank communication: 9 · forward guidance: 1
Central bank digital currencies appear on 56 recent papers in the finance and economics journals, but only 14 of them carry a deposit, bank-lending, bank-run or financial-stability keyword. Pilots now run in China, Europe and elsewhere. If people can hold central bank money directly, how much would leave banks, and when?
Papers in the last 30 days — central bank digital currency: 6 · bank deposits: 1
International capital flows appear on 96 recent papers, and 24 of them carry a Federal Reserve, global financial cycle or spillover keyword. The 2022–2023 tightening was the fastest in forty years, yet the sudden stops predicted for emerging markets mostly did not happen. What was different, and will it last?
Papers in the last 30 days — international capital flows: 3 · capital flows: 3
Share repurchases appear on 28 recent papers in the finance journals, and only one of all 35 buyback papers carries a tax keyword. The US has taxed buybacks at 1% since 2023, and a higher rate has been proposed. Did the tax move payouts to dividends, and did it change investment?
Papers in the last 30 days — share repurchases: 1
"Buy now, pay later" appears on just 8 recent papers across the tracked journals, although it has become one of the fastest-growing forms of consumer credit and is now being brought into credit reporting. Who uses it, does it crowd out or add to other borrowing, and does it lead to missed payments elsewhere?
Papers in the last 30 days — consumer credit: 1
Board composition is one of the fastest-growing keywords across the tracked journals, and board gender diversity is a large topic in finance, accounting and management. But only 7 of 135 such papers carry a quota, mandate or regulation keyword, just as the EU's quota directive reaches its target date. Do quotas change how boards decide, or only who sits on them?
Papers in the last 30 days — board gender diversity: 4
Corporate transparency is a rising keyword in the management journals, while beneficial ownership barely appears in the archive. In November 2022 the EU Court of Justice struck down general public access to the registers of companies' beneficial owners. Did the return of anonymity bring back shell companies and opaque property purchases?
Papers in the last 30 days — corporate transparency: 1 · anti-money laundering: 1
Deposit insurance and market discipline are rising topics after bank failures in which deposits left within hours. Yet only 3 recent papers on bank runs or deposits carry a social-media or digital-banking keyword. Does online talk now set the speed of runs, and should deposit insurance and liquidity rules change with it?
Papers in the last 30 days — bank runs: 2 · market discipline: 1
Analyst attention is rising in the finance journals, and AI tools now summarize filings and earnings calls for anyone. Only 13 of 246 recent papers on analysts carry an AI keyword. Do analysts drop the small firms that machines now summarize, or use the time saved to dig deeper?
Papers in the last 30 days — analyst attention: 1
Artificial intelligence and stock price crash risk are both rising in the finance journals, and "AI washing" has appeared as a keyword. When the AI story in disclosures runs ahead of actual AI investment, does the stock carry more crash risk?
Papers in the last 30 days — AI washing: 1 · stock price crash risk: 6
Firms spend heavily on data, software and AI models, but much of that spending is expensed and barely shows on balance sheets. Intangible assets are a steady finance topic, yet only one of 57 recent papers on them carries an AI, data or software keyword. How large is the missing AI capital, and does it distort book-based measures?
Papers in the last 30 days — intangible assets: 3 · intangible capital: 2
Overlapping-generations models are a rising tool in the economics journals, and population aging is a large topic, but few papers connect aging to asset prices. Of 239 recent papers with an aging or demographic keyword, 17 carry a keyword about stocks, interest rates or house prices. As Japan, Korea, China and Europe age, will returns and interest rates fall?
Papers in the last 30 days — population aging: 4 · overlapping generations model: 2
In the finance journals both "artificial intelligence" and "price discovery" gained papers this year, but rarely in the same paper. Do markets with more AI-assisted trading take in news faster, or just louder?
Papers in the last 30 days — artificial intelligence: 37 · price discovery: 7
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research ideas tagged “finance”. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/finance
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research ideas tagged “finance”},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/finance}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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