Currently undergraduate student and currently searching for topic that can be used. Can be related to event in the recent 5 years. If have suggestion, kindly comment. Your reply is highly appreciated
Take a top journal in Finance, for instance, Journal of Finance, Financial Economics, etc. and see what studies are "hot". Then try to think how you can improve on what you have found and understood.
I agree with above suggested topics but I want to give you a topic that is very new and not so well researched (this can in a way guarantee you lots of reads, research interest and citations)... The topic is 'application of blockchain technology in finance' (ANY aspect of finance, accounting, reporting, forecasting, payments, investing etc). Blockchain technology is not a fad but real innovation that is going to be used more and more in our lives.
You can check out my work on it if you want... regards
Article An Explorative Paper on Speculative Approaches to Smart Contracts
Article Exploratory Analysis of Blockchain Application in Trade Finance
Article Impact of Blockchain Technology on the Payment Management Sy...
I would suggest that you look at the recent articles in journals like Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Finance, etc.
Additionally, consider recent issues like impact of technology in shaping pandemic response, effect of pandemic on corporate reporting, effect of pandemic on corporate finance decisions, etc.
You may check Google Scholar, plugging the relevant keywords such as Finance and Investment.. getting the latest papers published in this regard. Then, you may check the research gaps usually mentioned at the end of these papers from which you may choose the gap (topic) you want to study.