Papers on “bank lending”
Research on “bank lending” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “bank lending” appeared in 1,061 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (653), economics (301) and operations research (40).
- 122 of them were published in 2025, against 80 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were European Central Bank (14), Centre for Economic Policy Research (9) and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (47), International Review of Economics & Finance (27) and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (23).
- The most-cited of them is “The Impact of Climate Change on the Cost of Bank Loans” (Journal of Corporate Finance, 2020), with 599 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 44 | 57 | 45 | 64 | 71 | 62 | 78 | 88 | 83 | 61 |
| Economics | 28 | 13 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 42 | 37 | 32 | 34 | 28 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 3 |
| Accounting | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Management | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 80 | 78 | 80 | 106 | 115 | 118 | 131 | 133 | 122 | 98 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 47 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 27 |
| 3 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 23 |
| 4 | Journal of Banking & Finance | 22 |
| 5 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 21 |
| 6 | Journal of Financial Stability | 18 |
| 7 | Research in International Business and Finance | 17 |
| 8 | Emerging Markets Review | 17 |
| 9 | Journal of International Money and Finance | 15 |
| 10 | Journal of Corporate Finance | 15 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | European Central Bank | 14 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 9 |
| 3 | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 9 |
| 4 | Xiamen University | 9 |
| 5 | Bank for International Settlements | 8 |
| 6 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 8 |
| 7 | Federal Reserve Board of Governors | 8 |
| 8 | Peking University | 8 |
| 9 | Swiss Finance Institute | 8 |
| 10 | Hunan University | 7 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 164 |
| 2 | United States | 94 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 51 |
| 4 | Italy | 38 |
| 5 | Germany | 34 |
| 6 | France | 26 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 24 |
| 8 | Australia | 20 |
| 9 | Japan | 20 |
| 10 | Canada | 17 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 38 |
| 2 | trade credit | 35 |
| 3 | information asymmetry | 31 |
| 4 | COVID-19 pandemic | 30 |
| 5 | state-owned enterprises | 30 |
| 6 | Chinese listed companies | 29 |
| 7 | financial constraints | 25 |
| 8 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 25 |
| 9 | access to credit | 23 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 599 | 7.3 | The Impact of Climate Change on the Cost of Bank Loans | Journal of Corporate Finance | 2020-01-01 | Siamak Javadi, Abdullah Al Masum |
| 2 | 556 | 8.0 | Green credit policy, credit allocation efficiency and upgrade of energy-intensive enterprises | Energy Economics | 2021-01-10 | Huwei Wen, Chien‐Chiang Lee, Fengxiu Zhou |
| 3 | 462 | 4.0 | Tracing out capital flows: How financially integrated banks respond to natural disasters | Journal of Financial Economics | 2017-04-29 | Kristle Romero Cortés, Philip E. Strahan |
| 4 | 454 | 6.3 | Green credit financing versus trade credit financing in a supply chain with carbon emission limits | European Journal of Operational Research | 2020-10-28 | Simin An, Bo Li, Dong‐Ping Song et al. |
| 5 | 425 | 4.5 | Designing Central Bank Digital Currencies | Journal of Monetary Economics | 2019-01-01 | Itai Agur, Anil Ari, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “bank lending”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bank-lending
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