OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Role of Corporate Culture in Bad Times: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic	143
Flattening the Illiquidity Curve: Retail Trading During the COVID-19 Lockdown	125
Shadow Banking in a Crisis: Evidence from Fintech During COVID-19	106
Investor Attention and Stock Returns	106
Social Transmission Bias and Investor Behavior	103
Who Supplies PPP Loans (and Does It Matter)? Banks, Relationships, and the COVID Crisis	68
Why Do Mutual Funds Hold Lottery Stocks?	56
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Corporate Dividend Policy	51
Social Capital, Trusting, and Trustworthiness: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending	50
Minimum Wage and Corporate Investment: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in China	49
ESG Preference, Institutional Trading, and Stock Return Patterns	42
The Geography of Information Acquisition	40
Local, Regional, or Global Asset Pricing?	38
Shareholder Litigation and Corporate Social Responsibility	36
Public Attention to Gender Equality and Board Gender Diversity	35
Zeroing In on the Expected Returns of Anomalies	34
Initial Public Offerings Chinese Style	33
Venture Capitalists and COVID-19	28
RQ Innovative Efficiency and Firm Value	28
Benchmark Discrepancies and Mutual Fund Performance Evaluation	27
Exporting Uncertainty: The Impact of Brexit on Corporate America	25
The Capital Structure Puzzle: What Are We Missing?	25
Political Uncertainty and Household Stock Market Participation	25
Is Carbon Risk Priced in the Cross Section of Corporate Bond Returns?	24
Machine Learning and the Stock Market	24

Retail Attention, Institutional Attention	23
Global Board Reforms and the Pricing of IPOs	23
Sustainability Preferences Under Stress: Evidence from COVID-19	23
Litigation Risk Management Through Corporate Payout Policy	22
Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance	21
Competition and R&D Financing: Evidence From the Biopharmaceutical Industry	21
Flooded Through the Back Door: The Role of Bank Capital in Local Shock Spillovers	21
Where Does the Predictability from Sorting on Returns of Economically Linked Firms Come From?	20
The COVID-19 Crisis and the Allocation of Capital	20
Shareholder Litigation Risk and Firms’ Choice of External Growth	20
Words Matter: The Role of Readability, Tone, and Deception Cues in Online Credit Markets	20
Buying the Vote? The Economics of Electoral Politics and Small-Business Loans	20
A Global Macroeconomic Risk Model for Value, Momentum, and Other Asset Classes	19
Does Government Spending Crowd Out R&D Investment? Evidence from Government-Dependent Firms and Their Peers	18
Small-Business Survival Capabilities and Fiscal Programs: Evidence from Oakland	18
Option-Based Estimation of the Price of Coskewness and Cokurtosis Risk	18
Measuring Firm Complexity	17
Vertical and Horizontal Agency Problems in Private Firms: Ownership Structure and Operating Performance	16
The Puzzle of Frequent and Large Issues of Debt and Equity	16
The Dark Side of Executive Compensation Duration: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions	16
Expert Advice: Industry Expertise of M&A Advisors and Acquirer Shareholder Returns	16
Do Natural Disaster Experiences Limit Stock Market Participation?	16
Crowding and Tail Risk in Momentum Returns	15
Housing Wealth as Precautionary Saving: Evidence from Urban China	15
The Bond-Pricing Implications of Rating-Based Capital Requirements	15
Cultivating Self-Control in FinTech: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Online Consumer Borrowing	14
Natural Disaster Effects on Popular Sentiment Toward Finance	14
How Does Past Experience Impact Hedge Fund Activism?	14
Do Cross-Sectional Predictors Contain Systematic Information?	14
Inferring Stock Duration Around FOMC Surprises: Estimates and Implications	14
Do Alpha Males Deliver Alpha? Facial Width-to-Height Ratio and Hedge Funds	14
Hot-Stove Effects: The Impact of CEO Past Corporate Experiences on Dividend Policy	13
Deleting Unreported Innovation	13
How Does Acquisition Experience Affect Managerial Career Outcomes?	13
The Digital Credit Divide: Marketplace Lending and Entrepreneurship	13
Where Do Shareholder Gains in Hedge Fund Activism Come From? Evidence From Employee Pension Plans	13
Proactive Capital Structure Adjustments: Evidence from Corporate Filings	13
Corporate R&D and Stock Returns: International Evidence	13
Do Private Equity Managers Have Superior Information on Public Markets?	12
Speculation Sentiment	12
Actively Keeping Secrets From Creditors: Evidence From the Uniform Trade Secrets Act	12
Gender, Credit, and Firm Outcomes	12
Better Kept in the Dark? Portfolio Disclosure and Agency Problems in Mutual Funds	12
Selection Bias in Mutual Fund Fire Sales	12
Lender Forbearance	12
Investor Behavior at the 52-Week High	11
Workforce Policies and Operational Risk: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies	11
Resolving a Paradox: Retail Trades Positively Predict Returns but Are Not Profitable	11
Does Securitization Weaken Screening Incentives?	11
Do FinTech Mortgage Lenders Fill the Credit Gap? Evidence from Natural Disasters	11

Maturity Driven Mispricing of Options	11
Corporate Hiring Under COVID-19: Financial Constraints and the Nature of New Jobs	11
Do Funding Conditions Explain the Relation Between Cash Holdings and Stock Returns?	11
Media Partisanship and Fundamental Corporate Decisions	11
Investing in Low-Trust Countries: On the Role of Social Trust in the Global Mutual Fund Industry	11
Political Uncertainty and Firm Investment: Project-Level Evidence from M&A Activity	11
Short-Selling Equity Exchange Traded Funds and Its Effect on Stock Market Liquidity	11
Inter-Firm Inventor Collaboration and Path-Breaking Innovation: Evidence From Inventor Teams Post-Merger	10
The Economics of Supranational Bank Supervision	10
Liability Structure and Risk Taking: Evidence from the Money Market Fund Industry	10
Ex Post Bargaining, Corporate Cash Holdings, and Executive Compensation	9
Credit Ratings and Corporate Information Production: Evidence from Sovereign Downgrades	9
Financial Costs of Judicial Inexperience: Evidence From Corporate Bankruptcies	9
Options Trading and Stock Price Informativeness	9
Government Stock Purchase Undermines Price Informativeness: Evidence from China’s “National Team”	9
The Informational Role of Ownership Networks in Bank Lending	9
Moment Risk Premia and Stock Return Predictability	9
Deposit-Lending Synergies: Evidence from Chinese Students at U.S. Universities	9
How Do Board Reforms Affect Debt Financing Costs Around the World?	9
Do Capital Requirements Make Banks Safer? Evidence From a Quasinatural Experiment	9
Language Skills and Stock Market Participation: Evidence From Immigrants	9
Naïve Style-Level Feedback Trading in Passive Funds	9
Consolidating Product Lines via Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence From the USPTO Trademark Data	9
Eyes on the Prize: Do Industry Tournament Incentives Shape the Structure of Executive Compensation?	9
The Role of Creditor Protection in Lending and Tax Avoidance	8
Cash Holdings, Capital Structure, and Financing Risk	8
Recovery with Applications to Forecasting Equity Disaster Probability and Testing the Spanning Hypothesis in the Treasury Market	8
An Empirical Assessment of Empirical Corporate Finance	8
State Controlling Shareholders and Payout Policy	8
To Securitize or to Price Credit Risk?	7
Bringing Innovation to Fruition: Insights From New Trademarks	7
Board Governance and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price: International Evidence	7
Network Centrality and Managerial Market-Timing Ability	7
Do Private Equity Managers Raise Funds on (Sur)real Returns? Evidence from Deal-Level Data	7
Indirect Insider Trading	7
International Yield Comovements	7
Analyst Coverage and Corporate Environmental Policies	7
Measuring and Improving Stakeholder Welfare Is Easier Said than Done	7
Active Technological Similarity and Mutual Fund Performance	7
Dividend Smoothing and Firm Valuation	7
Mining the Short Side: Institutional Investors and Stock Market Anomalies	7
Skin in the Game: Operating Growth, Firm Performance, and Future Stock Returns	7
Does CEO Succession Planning (Disclosure) Create Shareholder Value?	7
Does Central Bank Tone Move Asset Prices?	7
The China Syndrome Affects Banks: The Credit Supply Channel of Foreign Import Competition	7
Deep Learning in Characteristics-Sorted Factor Models	7
Supranational Rules, National Discretion: Increasing Versus Inflating Regulatory Bank Capital?	7
Activist-Appointed Directors	7