Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Financial Economics is 73. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board2418
Arbitrage-based recovery880
Editorial Board858
Editorial Board779
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability544
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults473
What matters in a characteristic?433
Momentum turning points340
Expected return, volume, and mispricing319
Equity duration and predictability311
Monetary policy expectation errors216
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression183
Risk-free interest rates178
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field176
Stakes and investor behaviors174
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program173
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem169
The invention of corporate governance167
Betting against betting against beta155
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma153
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers150
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences150
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market148
Conditional risk137
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices137
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions132
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?129
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies122
Price regulation in two-sided markets: Empirical evidence from debit cards120
Editorial Board119
Finance without exotic risk116
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices108
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?106
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching105
Aspirational utility and investment behavior104
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels104
Defunding controversial industries: Can targeted credit rationing choke firms?103
Market efficiency in the age of big data102
The risk and return of impact investing funds102
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums98
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world96
Global factor premiums96
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk95
Have risk premia vanished?94
M&A rumors about unlisted firms94
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era93
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field93
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution93
Micro uncertainty and asset prices91
Pricing and constructing international government bond portfolios88
Informed trading in government bond markets87
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?87
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark86
Core earnings: New data and evidence86
The value of intermediation in the stock market86
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?84
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks84
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment83
Priced risk in corporate bonds83
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?81
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability81
Evergreening81
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence81
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?79
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions79
Discrimination in the payments chain78
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors77
Skill versus reliability in venture capital76
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment76
Intermediary financing without commitment75
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households74
Macroeconomic drivers and the pricing of uncertainty, inflation, and bonds74
Editorial Board73
Editorial Board73
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