Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Financial Economics is 65. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board1075
Equity duration and predictability1021
Editorial Board944
Editorial Board919
Momentum turning points518
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression380
What matters in a characteristic?379
Arbitrage-based recovery233
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults221
The incentives of SPAC sponsors200
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability200
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field193
Retail option traders and the implied volatility surface192
Monetary policy expectation errors189
The secular decline in interest rates and the rise of shadow banks178
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices178
Did pandemic relief fraud inflate house prices?172
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions169
Conditional risk167
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program166
The invention of corporate governance145
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences143
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market135
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies134
Stakes and investor behaviors131
Implicit extrapolation and the beliefs channel of investment demand131
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma127
Have risk premia vanished?118
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers118
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk117
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels112
Finance without exotic risk112
Defunding controversial industries: Can targeted credit rationing choke firms?111
Price regulation in two-sided markets: Empirical evidence from debit cards111
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching106
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution106
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices103
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world103
Market efficiency in the age of big data103
The risk and return of impact investing funds102
Aspirational utility and investment behavior102
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?101
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field97
Editorial Board96
Evergreening94
Pricing and constructing international government bond portfolios93
Micro uncertainty and asset prices90
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment90
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era89
The value of intermediation in the stock market88
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks88
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions85
Priced risk in corporate bonds85
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability84
Manufacturing risk-free government debt80
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors75
Discrimination in the payments chain75
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?73
Financing the litigation arms race73
Macroeconomic drivers and the pricing of uncertainty, inflation, and bonds73
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment71
Editorial Board71
Editorial Board70
Editorial Board68
Editorial Board66
Regulatory leakage among financial advisors: Evidence from FINRA regulation of “bad” brokers65
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