Journal of Financial Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Research is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Firm (re)valuation and payouts36
Exploring the multifaceted impacts of convertible bond issuance on stock market quality: Evidence from China21
The asset growth return premium and anchoring on the 52‐week high16
IRS Private Letter Rulings: Initial Evidence on Determinants and Consequences14
Issue Information13
Social media and cost of debt financing: Evidence from stock forum text analysis12
Project risk and the bank monitored credit line12
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When it rains, it pours: Multifactor asset management in good and bad times10
Should lenders also advise? Evidence from project loans9
Informed trading by hedge funds8
Bailouts and the modeling of bank distress8
Ambiguity and risk factors in bank stocks7
Dividend mispricing: Evidence from all‐stock merger deals7
Executive networks and global stock liquidity6
Short selling and options trading: A tale of two markets6
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Income and balance sheet diversification effects on banks' cost and profit efficiency: Evidence from the United States5
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Market structure and price clustering: Maker‐taker versus taker‐maker5
MIDAS and dividend growth predictability: Revisiting the excess volatility puzzle5
Hostile activism: Hostile tactics or hostile hedge funds?4
Capacity overhang and corporate disinvestment decisions4
Understanding the cross‐section of CDS returns using equity options4
The impact of horizontal mergers on suppliers' cash holdings4
Insider trading restriction enforcement, investor protection, and innovation4
Reference point formation: Does the market whisper in the background?4
Social connections and information leakage: Evidence from target stock price run‐up in takeovers4
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Debt financing, the pandemic, and Federal Reserve interventions4
Corporate social responsibility and bank liquidity creation4
It's the tone, stupid! Soft information in credit rating reports and financial markets4
Foreign corporations as large shareholders4
New ESG rating drivers in the cross‐section of European stock returns4
Personal connections, financial advisors and M&A outcomes4
Social media and price discovery: The case of cross‐listed firms4
Different momentum effects across countries: An explanation based on investors' behavior4
Dividends and share repurchases during the COVID‐19 economic crisis4
Debt enforcement, financial leverage, and product failures: Evidence from China and the United States4
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Social capital and managerial opportunism: Evidence from option backdating4
Periodicity of trading activity in foreign exchange markets4
Predicting corporate restructuring and financial distress in banks: The case of the Swiss banking industry4
Seasoned equity offerings and payout policy3
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Estimating background risk hedging demands from cross‐sectional data3
Corporate cash holdings and industry risk3
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Decomposing industry leverage: The special cases of real estate investment trusts and technology & hardware companies3
Predictable time‐series biases in analyst target prices and stock returns3
Industry tournament incentives and corporate innovation strategies2
Does interest rate liberalization affect corporate debt structure?2
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Information absorption in stocks with short‐selling constraints2
Who can see the iceberg's peak? How icebergs are used by information and liquidity traders2
Board structure and market performance: Does one solution fit all?2
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Intraday variation in trading costs: Evidence from the TSPP2
The pervasiveness of matching rights in merger agreements: Impact on shareholder wealth2
The role of the dual holder in mitigating underinvestment2
Interstate migration networks and stock return comovement2
Permanent private equity: Market performance and transactions2
Local labor match and corporate investments: Evidence from new flight routes2
The real effects of earnout contracts in M&As1
Tax‐loss selling and the January effect revisited: Evidence from municipal bond closed‐end funds and exchange‐traded funds1
Market impacts of the 2020 short selling bans1
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Managing other people's money: An agency theory in financial management industry1
CEO–board connections and the cost of equity capital: International evidence1
Does environmental investment pay off?—portfolio analyses of the E in ESG during political conflicts and public health crises1
Debt dispersion and corporate liquidity1
The role of existing shareholders in private equity placements in China1
How does the JOBS act affect the rule 144A market?1
Import competition and stock price crash risk1
Bank size and performance: An analysis of the industry in the United States in the post‐financial‐crisis era1
Director reputational penalties when shareholders disapprove of executive compensation1
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Cyclicality of liquidity creation: Nonlinear evidence from US bank holding companies1
The impact of changing disclosure requirements, competition, and private capital on firm exit methods and premiums1
CEO overconfidence and debt covenant violations1
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The efficacy of market timing and value creation1
The credit channel of monetary policy before and after the zero lower bound: Evidence from the US equity market1
CEO prior uncertainty and pay–performance sensitivity1
De facto time‐varying indices‐based benchmarks for mutual fund returns1
Military independent directors and merger activity1
Which economic uncertainty measure matters for households' portfolio decision?1
Negative bubbles and the market for “dreams”: “Lemons” in the looking glass1
Homemade international diversification under economic policy uncertainty1
Balancing liquidity and returns through interbank markets: Endogenous interest rates and network structures1
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The alphabet and idiosyncratic volatility1
CDS contract initiations: REIT board monitoring and corporate decision outcomes1
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Mutual fund performance and changes in factor exposure1
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Comoment risk in corporate bond yields and returns1
Economic policy uncertainty and insider trading1
Mutual fund partial liquidation and future performance1
Adverse selection in cryptocurrency markets1
‘And forgive us our debts’: Christian moralities and over‐indebtedness1
Economic policy uncertainty and short‐term reversals1
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Treasury return predictability and investor sentiment0
CEO compensation complexity: Optimal contracts or agency problems?0
Bond covenants and investment policy0
Lending discrimination and the role of community banks0
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Distracted institutional shareholders and debt maturity0
Commodity tail risk and equity risk premia0
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Community social capital, managerial opportunistic behavior, and information uncertainty in IPO firms0
How does air pollution affect corporate information environment?0
Threats to human capital: The effect of health risk on corporate financial policy0
The threat of voiced shareholder disapproval and the value of voting0
Capital gain overhang and risk–return trade‐off: An international study0
A comparative study of bank efficiency in three Chinese regions: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao0
Variance of deviation from optimal leverage0
Treasury auction method and underpricing: Evidence from Iceland0
Short sellers and capital structure dynamics0
The causal effect of corporate governance on employee satisfaction0
Information‐driven stock price comovement0
On regulation and excess reserves: The case of Basel III0
Executive compensation, internal control quality, and corporate social responsibility in China0
Preopening price indications and market quality: Evidence from NYSE Rule 480
Democracy and stock market returns0
How smart is smart money? Evidence from mutual funds' exposure on corporate misconduct0
Hedge funds and climate news risk: Evidence from stock holdings in fossil fuel firms0
Religious differences and households' investment decisions0
VC ownership post‐IPO: When, why, and how do VCs exit?0
Bond pairs and the term structure0
Do more active funds still earn higher performance? Evidence from Active Share over time0
Local connectedness and corporate social responsibility0
Tax policies and agency costs0
The determinants of stock–bond return correlations0
Is idiosyncratic asymmetry priced in commodity futures?0
The value of social capital in small business lending: Evidence from the Small Business Administration program0
Sentiment or habits: Why not both?0
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Policy uncertainty and cash dynamics0
Model for optimizing lender's decision on dealing with collateral of defaulted mortgage0
The role of bank lenders in firm leverage adjustments0
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The discount for lack of marketability term structure0
The factor market spillover effects of shareholder activism0
Unintended consequences of discrimination litigation caps0
Bank–client cross‐ownership of bank stocks: A network analysis0
Hedging uncertainty with cryptocurrencies: Is bitcoin your best bet?0
Lending and risk controls for BHCs after the Dodd–Frank act0
The relative number of anti‐takeover provisions and the market for corporate control0
The cost of rate caps: Evidence from Arkansas0
Selection effects in the births of mutual funds0
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Do traders overweight experience from first movers?0
Time‐Series Factor Modeling and Selection0
Venture capital and private equity investors, governance, and success of IPOs: Evidence from India0
Organizational capital and private placements of common equity0
Can central banks be heard over the sound of gunfire?0
Signaling effects of recurrent list‐price reductions on the likelihood of house sales0
Blockholder mutual fund participation in private in‐house meetings0
Do dividends and share repurchases convey information about financial strength? An exploration of the disparities between banks and industrial firms0
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Active mutual funds and their passive ETF investments0
The effect of the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF) on corporate short‐term borrowing costs0
Artificial intelligence innovation and stock price crash risk0
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Valuing the speed of adjustment of capital structure0
Investment horizon for private‐value assets: Evidence from the art market0
The taxonomy of tail risk0
A European perspective on climate change and political tensions and conflicts0
Economic policy uncertainty and the cost of equity capital0
Are stress‐tested banks in the United States becoming similar? Evidence from convergence tests0
Toeholds and information quality in common‐value takeover auctions0
Inequality, autocracy, and sovereign funds as determinants of foreign portfolio equity flows0
Board gender diversity and acquisition choices0
Managerial characteristics and performance of eurozone mutual funds0
Import competition, credit reallocation, and small business lending0
CEO extraversion and the cost of equity capital0
Deposit flows and the January effect in deposit rates0
Climate transition risk and bank lending0
Author Index of Volume XLIV, 20210
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Do temporary changes in earnings caused by mean reversion affect firms’ refinancing decisions?0
Swap variance hedging and efficiency: The role of high moments0
Round‐number biases on trading time: Evidence from international markets0
IPO proceeds deployment and firm performance0
The effect of liquidity and arbitrage on the price efficiency of Chinese ETFs0
Interbank borrowing and bank liquidity risk0
Portfolio returns and consumption growth covariation in the frequency domain, real economic activity, and expected returns0
Asset versus equity acquisitions by financial institutions0
Liquidity risk and the beta premium0
Does amortization matter? Evidence from the syndicated loan market0
Cash flow growth and stock returns0
Excess cash and equity option liquidity0
Do bank managers signal through cash flow statements?0
Do credit market accessibility and legal protection shape corporate innovation?0
The role of Cross‐Border alliances in corporate social responsibility: International evidence0
Constraints on provisioning at public versus private community banks0
Informed trading of out‐of‐the‐money options and market efficiency0
Does legal protection of trade secrets reduce the cost of debt? Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine0
Cultural, trust, and transparency effects on the use of anchoring in mergers and acquisitions0
The effect of investor attention on fraud discovery and value loss in securities class action litigation0
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Are we playing the same “research” game in business?0
European equity markets volatility spillover: Destabilizing energy risk is the new normal0
The causal effect of local product market shocks on equity holdings: Evidence from the airline industry0
The benefit of being public: Evidence from survival analysis of corporate financing0
Market‐implied ratings and their divergence from credit ratings0
Tweets versus broadsheets: Sentiment impact on stock markets around the world0
Social connections and innovation in diversified conglomerates0
Institutional trading and information processing: Evidence from complicated firms and easy‐to‐analyze firms0
Financial analysts' bundling across firms: Target prices and stock recommendations0
Boundary of the firm with endogenous firm structure0
Climate risk and credit ratings0
Liquidity shocks and intraday price reaction0
The U.S. syndicated loan market: Matching data0
Synthetic long stock and option trading: Evidence from stock splits0
The effects of bank mergers on listed U.S. borrowers0
The role of media connections in seasoned equity offerings0
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Dual‐class share structure and innovation0
The role of internal capital markets during financial crises: Evidence from Korean chaebols0
Improving portfolio investment performance with distance‐based portfolio‐combining algorithms0
Trump's tweets: Sentiment, stock market volatility, and jumps0
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Active share: A blessing and a curse0
Performance and diversification benefits of IPO‐focused mutual funds0
Sink or swim? Managerial ability and trade credit0
Firm reaction to geopolitical crises: Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine conflict0
Dependence matters! Investor sentiment and stock returns: A sliced inverse regression approach0
Institutional investors and mispricing of unionized firms0
New institutional investors in the IPO secondary market: Sentiment or fundamentals?0
Passive insider trading before pension freezes0
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Impacts of firm life cycle on bond ratings and yields0
The impact of labor on the performance of founder‐family firms0
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