Sean Foley

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Sean Foley is a scholar working on Finance, Economics and Econometrics and Accounting. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Foley has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Finance, 34 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 21 papers in Accounting. Recurrent topics in Sean Foley's work include Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (43 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (18 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (17 papers). Sean Foley is often cited by papers focused on Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (43 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (18 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (17 papers). Sean Foley collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Ireland. Sean Foley's co-authors include Tālis J. Putniņš, Jonathan R. Karlsen, Jiří Švec, Anne Haubo Dyhrberg, Leqi Wang, Michael Aitken, Haoming Chen, A. Mathewson, Vinay Patel and David Michayluk and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Membrane Science.

In The Last Decade

Sean Foley

71 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Sex, Drugs, and Bitcoin: How Much Illegal Activity Is Financed through Cryptocurrencies?
    2019 536 citations Sean Foley, Jonathan R. Karlsen et al. Review of Financial Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sean Foley Australia 14 784 743 654 224 216 80 1.5k
Baozhong Yang United States 18 244 0.3× 534 0.7× 818 1.3× 361 1.6× 983 4.6× 55 1.8k
Ingo Fiedler Germany 17 435 0.6× 290 0.4× 154 0.2× 210 0.9× 100 0.5× 54 933
Florian Glaser Germany 9 654 0.8× 270 0.4× 153 0.2× 289 1.3× 57 0.3× 16 980
Hany A. Shawky United States 16 208 0.3× 442 0.6× 471 0.7× 34 0.2× 317 1.5× 54 1.0k
Fahad Saleh United States 14 750 1.0× 261 0.4× 161 0.2× 211 0.9× 29 0.1× 31 956
Frank McGroarty United Kingdom 16 192 0.2× 764 1.0× 638 1.0× 36 0.2× 107 0.5× 69 1.2k
Adam Hayes United States 12 527 0.7× 345 0.5× 148 0.2× 117 0.5× 33 0.2× 25 736
Krishnan Dandapani United States 12 149 0.2× 272 0.4× 320 0.5× 99 0.4× 121 0.6× 37 734
Hemantha S. B. Herath Canada 13 182 0.2× 235 0.3× 280 0.4× 87 0.4× 43 0.2× 33 639

Countries citing papers authored by Sean Foley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean Foley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Foley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sean Foley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sean Foley based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sean Foley. Sean Foley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Killgore, Jason P., et al.. (2025). Thermomechanical bonding between asymmetric porous membranes and polymers. Journal of Membrane Science. 723. 123931–123931.
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2024). The market risk premium in Australia: Forward‐looking evidence from the options market. Accounting and Finance. 64(4). 3951–3972. 1 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2024). Should underwriters be trusted? Reducing agency costs through primary market supervision. The British Accounting Review. 57(3). 101510–101510. 1 indexed citations
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Švec, Jiří, et al.. (2024). Revisiting the crisis: An empirical analysis of the NEM suspension. Energy Economics. 141. 107983–107983. 1 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2023). Crisis Capital: Private Placements During COVID‐19. Abacus. 60(3). 607–626. 1 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2023). Sharks in the dark: Quantifying HFT dark pool latency arbitrage. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 158. 104786–104786. 5 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2022). Not so fast: Identifying and remediating slow and imprecise cryptocurrency exchange data. Finance research letters. 51. 103401–103401. 4 indexed citations
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Dyhrberg, Anne Haubo, Sean Foley, & Jiří Švec. (2022). When Bigger is Better: The Impact of a Tiny Tick Size on Undercutting Behavior. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 58(6). 2387–2416. 12 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2021). Contagious margin calls: How COVID-19 threatened global stock market liquidity. Journal of Financial Markets. 59. 100689–100689. 27 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2020). Quote-Based manipulation of illiquid securities. Finance research letters. 39. 101556–101556. 3 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, Jonathan R. Karlsen, & Tālis J. Putniņš. (2019). Sex, Drugs, and Bitcoin: How Much Illegal Activity Is Financed through Cryptocurrencies?. Review of Financial Studies. 32(5). 1798–1853. 536 indexed citations breakdown →
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Foley, Sean, Anqi Liu, & Elvis Jarnecic. (2019). Forming an orderly line - How queue-jumping drives excessive fragmentation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Dyhrberg, Anne Haubo, Sean Foley, & Jiří Švec. (2018). The Impact of Tick Sizes on Trader Behavior: Evidence from Cryptocurrency Exchanges. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2016). Director discretion and insider trading profitability. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. 39. 28–43. 7 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2015). Time Pro‐rata Matching: Evidence of a Change in LIFFE STIR Futures. Journal of Futures Markets. 35(6). 522–541. 9 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2012). Does insider trading explain price run‐up ahead of takeover announcements?. Accounting and Finance. 54(1). 25–45. 17 indexed citations
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Foley, Sean, et al.. (2012). Does Insider Trading Explain Price Run-Up Ahead of Takeover Announcements?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Mathewson, A., P. O'Sullivan, A. Concannon, et al.. (1999). Modelling and simulation of reliability for design. Microelectronic Engineering. 49(1-2). 95–117. 9 indexed citations
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Coughlan, Jamie, Sean Foley, & A. Mathewson. (1997). Finite Element Analysis of Stress Distributions in Interconnect Structures. European Solid-State Device Research Conference. 452–455. 2 indexed citations

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