Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Financial Economics is 72. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board2502
Arbitrage-based recovery915
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression883
Editorial Board807
Editorial Board597
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults489
What matters in a characteristic?451
Momentum turning points359
Expected return, volume, and mispricing333
Equity duration and predictability321
Monetary policy expectation errors220
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field192
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability188
Risk-free interest rates181
Stakes and investor behaviors180
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions178
Betting against betting against beta173
Implicit extrapolation and the beliefs channel of investment demand169
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences157
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices156
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program156
Conditional risk154
The invention of corporate governance150
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem146
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies144
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma137
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market132
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers123
Price regulation in two-sided markets: Empirical evidence from debit cards122
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching118
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums110
Finance without exotic risk109
Have risk premia vanished?108
The risk and return of impact investing funds107
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world107
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?104
Aspirational utility and investment behavior104
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices104
Defunding controversial industries: Can targeted credit rationing choke firms?99
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk98
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels98
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field97
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution96
Market efficiency in the age of big data95
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era94
Pricing and constructing international government bond portfolios93
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?92
Micro uncertainty and asset prices91
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?91
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks91
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark91
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions89
Discrimination in the payments chain88
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment87
Priced risk in corporate bonds87
Evergreening87
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability85
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?84
The value of intermediation in the stock market84
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors83
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending82
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?82
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households80
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve80
Macroeconomic drivers and the pricing of uncertainty, inflation, and bonds79
Editorial Board77
Editorial Board76
Editorial Board76
Editorial Board76
Regulatory leakage among financial advisors: Evidence from FINRA regulation of “bad” brokers75
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity74
Skill versus reliability in venture capital74
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate72
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment72
Financing the litigation arms race72
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets72
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