Journal of Financial Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Financial Research is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The asset growth return premium and anchoring on the 52‐week high40
IRS Private Letter Rulings: Initial Evidence on Determinants and Consequences26
Exploring the multifaceted impacts of convertible bond issuance on stock market quality: Evidence from China17
Firm (re)valuation and payouts15
Issue Information15
Social media and cost of debt financing: Evidence from stock forum text analysis13
Project risk and the bank monitored credit line13
Short selling and options trading: A tale of two markets12
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Should lenders also advise? Evidence from project loans10
Bailouts and the modeling of bank distress9
Ambiguity and risk factors in bank stocks8
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Market structure and price clustering: Maker‐taker versus taker‐maker6
MIDAS and dividend growth predictability: Revisiting the excess volatility puzzle6
Dividend mispricing: Evidence from all‐stock merger deals6
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Debt financing, the pandemic, and Federal Reserve interventions6
Informed trading by hedge funds6
Executive networks and global stock liquidity5
Capacity overhang and corporate disinvestment decisions5
Hostile activism: Hostile tactics or hostile hedge funds?5
Debt enforcement, financial leverage, and product failures: Evidence from China and the United States5
Income and balance sheet diversification effects on banks' cost and profit efficiency: Evidence from the United States5
Dividends and share repurchases during the COVID‐19 economic crisis5
Different momentum effects across countries: An explanation based on investors' behavior5
Understanding the cross‐section of CDS returns using equity options4
Foreign corporations as large shareholders4
Insider trading restriction enforcement, investor protection, and innovation4
Reference point formation: Does the market whisper in the background?4
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Social capital and managerial opportunism: Evidence from option backdating4
Periodicity of trading activity in foreign exchange markets4
Corporate social responsibility and bank liquidity creation4
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Do earnouts create the right incentives? Earnings management around earnout‐based acquisitions4
Social media and price discovery: The case of cross‐listed firms4
New ESG rating drivers in the cross‐section of European stock returns3
The impact of subordinate executives’ comparative confidence and competence on corporate risk‐taking3
Corporate cash holdings and industry risk3
Predicting corporate restructuring and financial distress in banks: The case of the Swiss banking industry3
The impact of horizontal mergers on suppliers' cash holdings3
Predictable time‐series biases in analyst target prices and stock returns3
Seasoned equity offerings and payout policy3
Personal connections, financial advisors and M&A outcomes3
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Issue Information3
Does interest rate liberalization affect corporate debt structure?2
Permanent private equity: Market performance and transactions2
Daily entry and exit triggers for open market repurchases2
Decomposing industry leverage: The special cases of real estate investment trusts and technology & hardware companies2
Social connections and information leakage: Evidence from target stock price run‐up in takeovers2
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Board structure and market performance: Does one solution fit all?2
Do carbon prices affect stock prices?2
Industry tournament incentives and corporate innovation strategies2
The role of the dual holder in mitigating underinvestment2
Intraday variation in trading costs: Evidence from the TSPP2
Interstate migration networks and stock return comovement2
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Who can see the iceberg's peak? How icebergs are used by information and liquidity traders2
Estimating background risk hedging demands from cross‐sectional data2
CEO social media activity and insider trading2
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