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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The asset growth return premium and anchoring on the 52‐week high31
Institutional herding, credit rating and overreaction in stock price25
Bond covenants and the speed of corporate capital structure adjustment: Evidence from China24
IRS Private Letter Rulings: Initial Evidence on Determinants and Consequences19
Exploring the multifaceted impacts of convertible bond issuance on stock market quality: Evidence from China18
Firm (re)valuation and payouts16
Social media and cost of debt financing: Evidence from stock forum text analysis12
Social media, high‐frequency trading, and market making after‐hours – Evidence from presidential tweets12
Short selling and options trading: A tale of two markets11
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Project risk and the bank monitored credit line11
Should lenders also advise? Evidence from project loans10
Informed trading by hedge funds10
Dividend mispricing: Evidence from all‐stock merger deals10
Ambiguity and risk factors in bank stocks10
Bailouts and the modeling of bank distress10
Does tunneling lower employee wages?9
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Market structure and price clustering: Maker‐taker versus taker‐maker7
Hostile activism: Hostile tactics or hostile hedge funds?7
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Success or failure? Managerial ability and firm emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings7
Debt financing, the pandemic, and Federal Reserve interventions7
Different momentum effects across countries: An explanation based on investors' behavior7
MIDAS and dividend growth predictability: Revisiting the excess volatility puzzle7
Fueling regional economic prosperity: The role of P2P lending in micro‐firms and small businesses7
Income and balance sheet diversification effects on banks' cost and profit efficiency: Evidence from the United States6
Capacity overhang and corporate disinvestment decisions6
Understanding the cross‐section of CDS returns using equity options6
Dividends and share repurchases during the COVID‐19 economic crisis6
Executive networks and global stock liquidity6
Price clustering and the informational efficiency of stock prices6
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Corporate social responsibility and bank liquidity creation5
Insider trading restriction enforcement, investor protection, and innovation5
Debt enforcement, financial leverage, and product failures: Evidence from China and the United States5
Bank geographic deregulation, new credit accounts, and consumer credit5
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Corporate social (ir)responsibility and firm risk: The role of corporate governance5
Character and creditworthiness: Unveiling the role of job titles in peer‐to‐peer lending4
Do earnouts create the right incentives? Earnings management around earnout‐based acquisitions4
Foreign corporations as large shareholders4
Industrial policy conflicts and their impact on analysts' forecast accuracy and behavior4
The impact of subordinate executives’ comparative confidence and competence on corporate risk‐taking4
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Social capital and managerial opportunism: Evidence from option backdating4
The impact of horizontal mergers on suppliers' cash holdings4
New ESG rating drivers in the cross‐section of European stock returns4
Social media and price discovery: The case of cross‐listed firms4
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Reference point formation: Does the market whisper in the background?4
When bubbles align: Synchronization and systemic risk in US real estate4
Personal connections, financial advisors and M&A outcomes4
Seasoned equity offerings and payout policy3
Board quality and the public purse: A study of government subsidies and corporate governance3
Corporate cash holdings and industry risk3
The role of the dual holder in mitigating underinvestment3
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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
Predicting corporate restructuring and financial distress in banks: The case of the Swiss banking industry3
CEO social media activity and insider trading3
Estimating background risk hedging demands from cross‐sectional data3
Daily entry and exit triggers for open market repurchases2
Social connections and information leakage: Evidence from target stock price run‐up in takeovers2
The pervasiveness of matching rights in merger agreements: Impact on shareholder wealth2
Do carbon prices affect stock prices?2
CEO prior uncertainty and pay–performance sensitivity2
Information absorption in stocks with short‐selling constraints2
The alphabet and idiosyncratic volatility2
Short selling ETFs and market performance2
Board structure and market performance: Does one solution fit all?2
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Local labor match and corporate investments: Evidence from new flight routes2
Intraday variation in trading costs: Evidence from the TSPP2
Common ownership and executive pay duration2
CEO–board connections and the cost of equity capital: International evidence2
Interstate migration networks and stock return comovement2
Balancing liquidity and returns through interbank markets: Endogenous interest rates and network structures2
The credit channel of monetary policy before and after the zero lower bound: Evidence from the US equity market2
Insider Trading as a Compensation Mechanism2
Permanent private equity: Market performance and transactions2
Who can see the iceberg's peak? How icebergs are used by information and liquidity traders2
ETF ownership and the transmission of monetary policy2
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Country culture and shadow banking2
Cyclicality of liquidity creation: Nonlinear evidence from US bank holding companies2
Market impacts of the 2020 short selling bans2
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Does interest rate liberalization affect corporate debt structure?2
Adverse selection in cryptocurrency markets1
Does environmental investment pay off?—portfolio analyses of the E in ESG during political conflicts and public health crises1
Economic policy uncertainty and insider trading1
The impact of changing disclosure requirements, competition, and private capital on firm exit methods and premiums1
How does the JOBS act affect the rule 144A market?1
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The role of existing shareholders in private equity placements in China1
‘And forgive us our debts’: Christian moralities and over‐indebtedness1
Active ingredients: How actively managed holdings shape target date fund performance and costs1
Managerial Opportunism and Corporate Investment Efficiency1
How smart is smart money? Evidence from mutual funds' exposure on corporate misconduct1
Institutional trading and information processing: Evidence from complicated firms and easy‐to‐analyze firms1
Homemade international diversification under economic policy uncertainty1
Economic policy uncertainty and short‐term reversals1
CEO‐employee pay ratio disclosure and dividend policy1
The efficacy of market timing and value creation1
Debt dispersion and corporate liquidity1
Managing other people's money: An agency theory in financial management industry1
Mutual fund partial liquidation and future performance1
Import competition and stock price crash risk1
De facto time‐varying indices‐based benchmarks for mutual fund returns1
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Liquidity shocks and intraday price reaction1
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The role of media connections in seasoned equity offerings1
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When attentive insider trading matters: Evidence from government investment1
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Director reputational penalties when shareholders disapprove of executive compensation1
Military independent directors and merger activity1
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CDS contract initiations: REIT board monitoring and corporate decision outcomes1
Tax‐loss selling and the January effect revisited: Evidence from municipal bond closed‐end funds and exchange‐traded funds1
A European perspective on climate change and political tensions and conflicts1
Social media sentiment, investor herding and informational efficiency1
Climate transition risk and bank lending0
The effect of the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF) on corporate short‐term borrowing costs0
Do temporary changes in earnings caused by mean reversion affect firms’ refinancing decisions?0
Firm reaction to geopolitical crises: Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine conflict0
Democracy and stock market returns0
Commodity tail risk and equity risk premia0
Import competition, credit reallocation, and small business lending0
The effects of bank mergers on listed U.S. borrowers0
Do product market threats affect the leasing decision?0
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Bond pairs and the term structure0
Short sellers and capital structure dynamics0
Bond covenants and investment policy0
The role of internal capital markets during financial crises: Evidence from Korean chaebols0
Are CSR incidents truly bad news?0
Lending discrimination and the role of community banks0
Organizational capital and private placements of common equity0
CEO inside debt compensation and the asset sale decision0
Does local economic freedom matter for the cost of corporate borrowing from the banking sector? Evidence from the US states0
Policy uncertainty and tail risk in energy futures: The role of maturity and storage capacity constraints0
Portfolio returns and consumption growth covariation in the frequency domain, real economic activity, and expected returns0
Managerial characteristics and performance of eurozone mutual funds0
Climate risk and credit ratings0
Institutional investors and mispricing of unionized firms0
Venture capital and private equity investors, governance, and success of IPOs: Evidence from India0
Is idiosyncratic asymmetry priced in commodity futures?0
The pricing of liquidity factors0
Market‐implied ratings and their divergence from credit ratings0
Academic CEOs and corporate innovation0
Deposit flows and the January effect in deposit rates0
Central Bank Purchases and Corporate Bond Issuance during the Pandemic: The Case of Japan0
Sentiment or habits: Why not both?0
Variance of deviation from optimal leverage0
Strategic technology talent acquisition and firm value: A cross‐industry examination0
Are we playing the same “research” game in business?0
The role of bank lenders in firm leverage adjustments0
Unintended consequences of discrimination litigation caps0
Time‐Series Factor Modeling and Selection0
Executive compensation, internal control quality, and corporate social responsibility in China0
Mutual fund director compensation0
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Can central banks be heard over the sound of gunfire?0
Boundary of the firm with endogenous firm structure0
Asset versus equity acquisitions by financial institutions0
Lending and risk controls for BHCs after the Dodd–Frank act0
Artificial intelligence innovation and stock price crash risk0
IPO proceeds deployment and firm performance0
Consumer stock market expectations and portfolio choice0
Modified quality, short‐term reversal, and value investing0
CEO compensation complexity: Optimal contracts or agency problems?0
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Toeholds and information quality in common‐value takeover auctions0
Treasury auction method and underpricing: Evidence from Iceland0
Improving portfolio investment performance with distance‐based portfolio‐combining algorithms0
From tension to trust: The role of corporate culture in easing labor relations0
The cost of rate caps: Evidence from Arkansas0
Distracted institutional shareholders and debt maturity0
A comparative study of bank efficiency in three Chinese regions: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao0
Local connectedness and corporate social responsibility0
Employee diversity and litigation risk: Evidence from the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act0
The discount for lack of marketability term structure0
Signaling effects of recurrent list‐price reductions on the likelihood of house sales0
Constraints on provisioning at public versus private community banks0
Board gender diversity and acquisition choices0
Topics That Matter: ESG Reports and Information Asymmetry0
Understanding the effects on corporate performance of investments in wealth management products0
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The value of social capital in small business lending: Evidence from the Small Business Administration program0
Capital gain overhang and risk–return trade‐off: An international study0
Selection effects in the births of mutual funds0
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Financial analysts' bundling across firms: Target prices and stock recommendations0
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The causal effect of local product market shocks on equity holdings: Evidence from the airline industry0
Tournament effects in equity mutual funds: Impact of economic conditions and investment styles0
Active mutual funds and their passive ETF investments0
The Psychological Cost of Debt: Evidence from Islamic Housing Mortgages0
Threats to human capital: The effect of health risk on corporate financial policy0
Do credit market accessibility and legal protection shape corporate innovation?0
The impact of labor on the performance of founder‐family firms0
The role of Cross‐Border alliances in corporate social responsibility: International evidence0
The taxonomy of tail risk0
Does the linguistic complexity of annual reports affect the corporate leasing decision?0
Synthetic long stock and option trading: Evidence from stock splits0
Political connections and regulatory efficiency: Evidence from the anti‐corruption campaign in China0
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Social connections and innovation in diversified conglomerates0
Household portfolio allocation and stock market beliefs: Evidence from Japanese households0
Hedge funds and climate news risk: Evidence from stock holdings in fossil fuel firms0
A closed‐form pricing solution for options on assets with pricing errors0
How does air pollution affect corporate information environment?0
Informed trading of out‐of‐the‐money options and market efficiency0
Model for optimizing lender's decision on dealing with collateral of defaulted mortgage0
Debt capacity and the ability to service the public debt: A discerning look at the credit quality of Uncle Sam0
Economic policy uncertainty and international corporate leasing0
Do dividends and share repurchases convey information about financial strength? An exploration of the disparities between banks and industrial firms0
The effect of liquidity and arbitrage on the price efficiency of Chinese ETFs0
VC ownership post‐IPO: When, why, and how do VCs exit?0
Why do firms strategically delay payments of corporate loans?0
Selling to buy: Asset sales, acquisition financing, and value creation0
Excess cash and equity option liquidity0
Spillover effects of creditor rights on corporate payout policy0
Impacts of firm life cycle on bond ratings and yields0
Community social capital, managerial opportunistic behavior, and information uncertainty in IPO firms0
CEO extraversion and the cost of equity capital0
Does legal protection of trade secrets reduce the cost of debt? Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine0
Economic policy uncertainty and the cost of equity capital0
Treasury return predictability and investor sentiment0
New evidence on the economic motives for bank mergers0
Unraveling the knot: Organized labor and the complexity of CEO compensation0
Cultural, trust, and transparency effects on the use of anchoring in mergers and acquisitions0
Environmental protection fee‐to‐tax and enterprise innovation path selection: Incremental innovation or breakthrough innovation?0
Sink or swim? Managerial ability and trade credit0
Valuing the speed of adjustment of capital structure0
Tax policies and agency costs0
Passive insider trading before pension freezes0
Are stress‐tested banks in the United States becoming similar? Evidence from convergence tests0
The causal impact of short‐sale constraints on the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle0
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Dual‐class share structure and innovation0
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