OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Financial Economics is 76. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	2327
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability	2071
Arbitrage-based recovery	1521
Expected return, volume, and mispricing	1497
Risk-free interest rates	1387
Equity duration and predictability	830
What matters in a characteristic?	822
Momentum turning points	746
Editorial Board	499
Editorial Board	486
Monetary policy expectation errors	481
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults	474
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression	454
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field	421
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers	333
Stakes and investor behaviors	310
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions	304
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences	211
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program	175
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?	173
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market	171
Conditional risk	170
The invention of corporate governance	169
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma	169
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices	162

Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem	161
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies	150
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers	149
Betting against betting against beta	148
Defunding controversial industries: Can targeted credit rationing choke firms?	146
Price regulation in two-sided markets: Empirical evidence from debit cards	145
Editorial Board	133
Finance without exotic risk	127
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices	124
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels	124
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching	119
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk	118
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?	113
Have risk premia vanished?	111
M&A rumors about unlisted firms	111
Global factor premiums	102
Market efficiency in the age of big data	101
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world	101
Aspirational utility and investment behavior	101
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field	100
The risk and return of impact investing funds	100
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums	100
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution	99
Discrimination in the payments chain	94
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability	94
Do investors care about carbon risk?	94
Informed trading in government bond markets	93
Core earnings: New data and evidence	93
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark	92
Micro uncertainty and asset prices	90
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era	89
Pricing and constructing international government bond portfolios	87
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?	86
Evergreening	86
The value of intermediation in the stock market	85
Priced risk in corporate bonds	84
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence	83
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions	82
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?	81
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?	81
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?	80
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks	80
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment	80
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve	79
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors	79
Intermediary financing without commitment	79
Skill versus reliability in venture capital	79
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households	78
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha	78
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment	77

Macroeconomic drivers and the pricing of uncertainty, inflation, and bonds	76
Editorial Board	76
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending	76