Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Economics is 15. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Quantifying the impact of red tape on investment: A survey data approach1493
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds1323
Unlocking clients: The importance of relationships in the financial advisory industry1037
The colour of finance words952
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market918
Disclosing and cooling-off: An analysis of insider trading rules774
Editorial Board492
Delayed crises and slow recoveries464
Motivating collusion416
The governance of director compensation330
Editorial Board330
Volatility and the cross-section of returns on FX options299
Failing to forecast rare events280
Editorial Board245
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The hidden costs of being public: Evidence from multinational firms operating in an emerging market234
Brexit and the contraction of syndicated lending219
Editorial Board215
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The diversification and welfare effects of robo-advising194
Intermediary-based equity term structure188
Crowdsourcing peer information to change spending behavior181
Modeling volatility in dynamic term structure models152
The short-termism trap: Catering to informed investors with limited horizons145
Funding liquidity shocks in a quasi-experiment: Evidence from the CDS Big Bang127
Contracting without contracting institutions: The trusted assistant loan in 19th century China125
Editorial Board123
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Capital forbearance in the bank recovery and resolution game117
A dynamic theory of multiple borrowing114
Shattered housing112
Momentum turning points111
Do low search costs facilitate like-buys-like mergers? Evidence from common bank networks110
Dominant currency debt110
Leverage108
Index option returns and generalized entropy bounds107
Editorial106
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults102
Paying for beta: Leverage demand and asset management fees101
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market100
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market96
Self-imposed liquidity constraints via voluntary debt repayment96
The Wall Street stampede: Exit as governance with interacting blockholders92
Dynamic resource allocation with hidden volatility91
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans89
Fire sale risk and expected stock returns87
What do you think about climate finance?85
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193385
From employee to entrepreneur: The role of unemployment risk84
Arbitrage-based recovery84
Real effects of climate policy: Financial constraints and spillovers80
Risk management, firm reputation, and the impact of successful cyberattacks on target firms79
Central bank communication and the yield curve79
What matters in a characteristic?77
Time-varying state variable risk premia in the ICAPM75
The global factor structure of exchange rates75
Monetary policy expectation errors74
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models74
The “7% solution” and IPO (under)pricing73
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field73
Angel investment and first impressions72
The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street71
Finance and the supply of housing quality69
What is CEO overconfidence? Evidence from executive assessments68
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability67
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans67
Broken promises, competition, and capital allocation in the mutual fund industry66
Monetary tightening and U.S. bank fragility in 2023: Mark-to-market losses and uninsured depositor runs?66
The use of asset growth in empirical asset pricing models66
The jump leverage risk premium65
Does regulatory cooperation help integrate equity markets?65
From patriarchy to partnership: Gender equality and household finance64
The SOFR discount63
Uncertainty, access to debt, and firm precautionary behavior63
Do activist hedge funds target female CEOs? The role of CEO gender in hedge fund activism63
Four facts about ESG beliefs and investor portfolios61
The impact of impact investing61
The impact of arbitrage on market liquidity60
Editorial Board60
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM60
Financial constraints, cash flow timing patterns, and asset prices59
Banks as patient lenders: Evidence from a tax reform59
Negative peer disclosure59
More informative disclosures, less informative prices? Portfolio and price formation around quarter-ends58
Financial transaction taxes and the informational efficiency of financial markets: A structural estimation58
The social signal57
Risk-free interest rates57
Optimal financing with tokens56
The cross-section of intraday and overnight returns56
Venture capital contracts55
The rate of communication55
Understanding momentum and reversal55
Long-term reversals in the corporate bond market54
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil54
Corporate flexibility in a time of crisis53
A frog in every pan: Information discreteness and the lead-lag returns puzzle53
Financing constraints, home equity and selection into entrepreneurship53
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression53
Measuring the welfare cost of asymmetric information in consumer credit markets53
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy53
The democratization of investment research and the informativeness of retail investor trading52
A theory of financial media52
Young firms, old capital52
Corporate actions and the manipulation of retail investors in China: An analysis of stock splits52
Political ideology and international capital allocation52
Ambiguity about volatility and investor behavior52
Expected return, volume, and mispricing50
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers50
Sitting bucks: Stale pricing in fixed income funds50
The effect of media-linked directors on financing and external governance50
Dissecting green returns49
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era49
Creditor rights, collateral reuse, and credit supply49
Common ownership and innovation efficiency49
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence49
Flexibility costs of debt: Danish exporters during the cartoon crisis49
Persistent government debt and aggregate risk distribution48
Do limits to arbitrage explain the benefits of volatility-managed portfolios?48
Reciprocal lending relationships in shadow banking47
Air pollution, behavioral bias, and the disposition effect in China47
Can investors time their exposure to private equity?47
What’s wrong with Pittsburgh? Delegated investors and liquidity concentration47
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates46
Intermediation frictions in debt relief: Evidence from CARES Act forbearance46
Pervasive underreaction: Evidence from high-frequency data46
The high volume return premium and economic fundamentals46
Financial inclusion, economic development, and inequality: Evidence from Brazil46
Extrapolative beliefs in the cross-section: What can we learn from the crowds?46
Benchmark interest rates when the government is risky45
Voluntary disclosure with evolving news45
The effects of disclosure and enforcement on payday lending in Texas44
Financial development and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Brazil44
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey43
Intraday arbitrage between ETFs and their underlying portfolios43
Editorial Board43
Stock return ignorance43
Partisan residential sorting on climate change risk43
The international propagation of economic downturns through multinational companies: The real economy channel43
Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE43
Limited attention to detail in financial markets: Evidence from reduced-form and structural estimation43
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices43
Cleansing by tight credit: Rational cycles and endogenous lending standards42
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data42
Editorial Board42
Small and vulnerable: SME productivity in the great productivity slowdown42
Editorial Board41
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Banks funding, leverage, and investment40
Inflation and Disintermediation40
Why are commercial loan rates so sticky? The effect of private information on loan spreads40
Does paycheck frequency matter? Evidence from micro data40
Aggregate lapsation risk40
Why does the Fed move markets so much? A model of monetary policy and time-varying risk aversion39
Editorial Board39
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios39
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?39
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Product market strategy and corporate policies38
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Asset pricing with heterogeneous agents and long-run risk37
Labor leverage, coordination failures, and aggregate risk37
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Corporate responses to stock price fragility37
Active trading and (poor) performance: The social transmission channel37
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Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices37
Feedback loops in industry trade networks and the term structure of momentum profits36
Asset pricing with index investing36
Entrepreneurship and information on past failures: A natural experiment36
The local innovation spillovers of listed firms35
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies35
Capital supply and corporate bond issuances: Evidence from mutual fund flows35
Disaster resilience and asset prices34
The distributional effects of student loan forgiveness34
Rare disaster probability and options pricing34
Demand-and-supply imbalance risk and long-term swap spreads34
Extracting extrapolative beliefs from market prices: An augmented present-value approach33
Mispricing, short-sale constraints, and the cross-section of option returns33
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks33
Good for your fiscal health? The effect of the affordable care act on healthcare borrowing costs33
Sticking to your plan: The role of present bias for credit card paydown33
The Sources of Financing Constraints33
Editorial Board33
Oil volatility risk32
When and how are rule 10b5-1 plans used for insider stock sales?32
Editorial Board31
The big bang: Stock market capitalization in the long run31
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions31
Reaching for yield and the housing market: Evidence from 18th-century Amsterdam31
Measuring macroeconomic tail risk31
Gradual information diffusion across commonly owned firms31
Factors and risk premia in individual international stock returns30
The bank as Grim Reaper: Debt composition and bankruptcy thresholds30
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing30
Value creation in shareholder activism30
The pass-through of uncertainty shocks to households30
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences30
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models30
And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital30
Information technology and lender competition29
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles29
Investment responses to tax policy under uncertainty29
Loan guarantees and credit supply29
Risk-adjusted capital allocation and misallocation29
How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?29
Inside brokers28
On the fast track: Information acquisition costs and information production28
The remarkable growth in financial economics, 1974–202028
Lifting the veil: The price formation of corporate bond offerings28
Attention triggers and investors’ risk-taking28
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing28
Investing outside the box: Evidence from alternative vehicles in private equity28
Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes28
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers27
Common shocks in stocks and bonds27
Long-term discount rates do not vary across firms27
Pricing of index options in incomplete markets27
Real-time price discovery via verbal communication: Method and application to Fedspeak27
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market26
Are cryptos different? Evidence from retail trading26
Uncertainty about what is in the price26
Conditional risk26
Token-based platform governance26
What is the impact of introducing a parallel OTC market? Theory and evidence from the chinese interbank FX market26
On the information content of credit ratings and market-based measures of default risk26
Specialization and performance in private equity: Evidence from the hotel industry26
The proxy advisory industry: Influencing and being influenced26
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program26
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem25
Trade credit and profitability in production networks25
Bank transparency and deposit flows25
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks25
Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances25
Stocks for the long run? Evidence from a broad sample of developed markets25
Spectral factor models25
Anatomy of a liquidity crisis: Corporate bonds in the COVID-19 crisis25
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma25
Treasury inconvenience yields during the COVID-19 crisis25
The impact of consumer credit access on self-employment and entrepreneurship25
A tale of two types: Generalists vs. specialists in asset management25
Betting against betting against beta24
Editorial Board24
Regulatory arbitrage or random errors? Implications of race prediction algorithms in fair lending analysis24
The effect of stock liquidity on cash holdings: The repurchase motive24
Institutional investors, the dollar, and U.S. credit conditions24
M&A rumors about unlisted firms24
Erratum to “Heterogeneous intermediary asset pricing” [Journal of Financial Economics 141/2 (2021) 505-532]24
High-cost debt and perceived creditworthiness: Evidence from the UK24
Editorial Board24
Lucky factors23
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