Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Financial Economics is 62. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board1159
Editorial Board1084
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression1076
What matters in a characteristic?1006
Arbitrage-based recovery543
The incentives of SPAC sponsors407
Risk-averse dealers in a risk-free market—The role of trading desk risk limits405
Equity duration and predictability253
Monetary policy expectation errors233
Retail option traders and the implied volatility surface214
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability213
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults213
Momentum turning points207
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field186
Did pandemic relief fraud inflate house prices?182
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions179
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program173
The invention of corporate governance172
Implicit extrapolation and the beliefs channel of investment demand158
Stakes and investor behaviors157
Conditional risk149
Financial literacy and financial crime: A regression discontinuity approach148
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices141
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers133
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma132
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies122
The secular decline in interest rates and the rise of shadow banks121
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market121
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences116
Have risk premia vanished?115
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels114
Finance without exotic risk114
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?112
Defunding controversial industries: Can targeted credit rationing choke firms?112
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices112
The risk and return of impact investing funds111
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field110
Aspirational utility and investment behavior109
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching107
Price regulation in two-sided markets: Empirical evidence from debit cards105
Editorial Board102
Pricing and constructing international government bond portfolios100
Manufacturing risk-free government debt99
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?96
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment94
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks91
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability91
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era89
The value of intermediation in the stock market88
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions85
Discrimination in the payments chain82
Evergreening80
Micro uncertainty and asset prices80
Priced risk in corporate bonds79
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors76
Monetary policy transmission through the exchange rate factor structure74
Macroeconomic drivers and the pricing of uncertainty, inflation, and bonds70
Editorial Board68
Editorial Board68
Editorial Board68
Editorial Board66
Regulatory leakage among financial advisors: Evidence from FINRA regulation of “bad” brokers63
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households62
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