Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Economics is 14. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board2132
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Arbitrage-based recovery1290
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression762
Finance and the supply of housing quality748
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults679
Momentum turning points464
What matters in a characteristic?451
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability444
Risk-free interest rates416
Monetary policy expectation errors399
Expected return, volume, and mispricing388
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field310
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers289
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The invention of corporate governance234
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices195
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences166
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?163
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market162
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies162
Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances159
Conditional risk152
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program150
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma148
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem141
Betting against betting against beta136
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions136
And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital132
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers130
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices126
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching117
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?113
Global factor premiums111
Entangled risks in incomplete FX markets110
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Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels108
Aspirational utility and investment behavior107
Have risk premia vanished?106
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world105
The risk and return of impact investing funds103
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk97
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums97
M&A rumors about unlisted firms96
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution95
Market efficiency in the age of big data94
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field91
Do investors care about carbon risk?91
Informed trading in government bond markets89
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence89
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era89
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?87
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks87
Discrimination in the payments chain86
Micro uncertainty and asset prices86
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability85
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark85
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions85
The value of intermediation in the stock market84
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?84
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?83
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors81
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?80
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment79
Core earnings: New data and evidence78
Priced risk in corporate bonds77
Network risk and key players: A structural analysis of interbank liquidity76
Evergreening76
Editorial Board75
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Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity75
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Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment73
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households73
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve73
Financing the litigation arms race73
Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?73
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending72
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate72
Intermediary financing without commitment72
Skill versus reliability in venture capital72
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets71
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL71
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity70
Count (and count-like) data in finance70
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha70
Editorial Board68
Understanding the strength of the dollar67
Peak-Bust rental spreads67
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements67
Keeping options open: What motivates entrepreneurs?66
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare66
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic65
Dynastic control without ownership: Evidence from post-war Japan63
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market62
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline62
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies62
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds62
Patent quality, firm value, and investor underreaction: Evidence from patent examiner busyness61
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market61
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty61
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil60
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International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates58
Honoring Michael C. Jensen58
Rules versus discretion in capital regulation58
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets57
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market57
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193356
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds56
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models56
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans55
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans55
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market55
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM55
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy54
Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE54
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era54
Expected idiosyncratic volatility53
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence53
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey52
Dissecting green returns52
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Venture capital contracts51
Erratum to “Heterogeneous intermediary asset pricing” [Journal of Financial Economics 141/2 (2021) 505-532]50
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A quantitative analysis of bank lending relationships49
Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes48
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks48
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing48
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data48
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models48
Anatomy of a liquidity crisis: Corporate bonds in the COVID-19 crisis47
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing47
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks46
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles46
Common shocks in stocks and bonds46
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices45
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios45
Value creation in shareholder activism45
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Long-term discount rates do not vary across firms44
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure44
Lifting the veil: The price formation of corporate bond offerings44
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic43
Do the right firms survive bankruptcy?43
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?43
The economics of “Buy Now, Pay Later”: A merchant’s perspective42
Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.42
In sickness and in debt: The COVID-19 impact on sovereign credit risk42
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LTCM Redux? Hedge fund Treasury trading, funding fragility, and risk constraints42
What moves treasury yields?42
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition41
Social interactions and households’ flood insurance decisions41
Global Business Networks41
How monetary policy shaped the housing boom40
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Geographic clustering of institutional investors39
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Risk perceptions and politics: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic38
Silence is safest: Information disclosure when the audience’s preferences are uncertain38
The moral preferences of investors: Experimental evidence38
The retail execution quality landscape37
The benchmark inclusion subsidy37
The rise of dual-class stock IPOs37
Time-varying risk of nominal bonds: How important are macroeconomic shocks?36
Strategic insider trading and its consequences for outsiders: Evidence from the eighteenth century36
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Editor’s note36
Asset pricing with return extrapolation36
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Volatility and informativeness36
Do intermediaries improve GSE lending? Evidence from proprietary GSE data36
Price ceilings, market structure, and payout policies36
Debt dynamics with fixed issuance costs35
The role of high-skilled foreign labor in startup performance: Evidence from two natural experiments35
Robo advisors and access to wealth management35
On index investing35
ESG: A panacea for market power?35
Hedging macroeconomic and financial uncertainty and volatility35
The effects of policy interventions to limit illegal money lending35
Importance of transaction costs for asset allocation in foreign exchange markets35
The cross-border effects of bank capital regulation35
Do bank CEOs learn from banking crises?34
The Big Three and corporate carbon emissions around the world34
Subnational debt of China: The politics-finance nexus34
The short duration premium34
Premium for heightened uncertainty: Explaining pre-announcement market returns34
Overallocation and secondary market outcomes in corporate bond offerings33
It’s what you say and what you buy: A holistic evaluation of the corporate credit facilities33
Sorting out the effect of credit supply33
The impact of bank financing on municipalities’ bond issuance and the real economy33
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Short selling efficiency33
Listening in on investors’ thoughts and conversations33
Revenue collapses and the consumption of small business owners in the COVID-19 pandemic32
Network effects in corporate financial policies32
Industry asset revaluations around public and private acquisitions32
Index providers: Whales behind the scenes of ETFs32
Tiny trades, big questions: Fractional shares32
Redeploying dirty assets: The impact of environmental32
Credit supply and house prices: Evidence from mortgage market segmentation32
A credit-based theory of the currency risk premium32
Investment, capital stock, and replacement cost of assets when economic depreciation is non-geometric31
Music sentiment and stock returns around the world31
When large traders create noise31
The dynamics of concealment31
Disclosing and cooling-off: An analysis of insider trading rules30
Corporate green bonds30
The impact of arbitrage on market liquidity30
The SOFR discount30
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Optimal financing with tokens29
The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street29
Crowdsourcing peer information to change spending behavior29
Monetary tightening and U.S. bank fragility in 2023: Mark-to-market losses and uninsured depositor runs?29
Failing to forecast rare events29
Financial constraints, cash flow timing patterns, and asset prices29
The global factor structure of exchange rates29
The use of asset growth in empirical asset pricing models29
The Wall Street stampede: Exit as governance with interacting blockholders29
The proxy advisory industry: Influencing and being influenced28
Four facts about ESG beliefs and investor portfolios28
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Financial inclusion, economic development, and inequality: Evidence from Brazil28
Pricing of index options in incomplete markets27
Inside brokers27
Risk-adjusted capital allocation and misallocation27
Collateral value uncertainty and mortgage credit provision27
Token-based platform governance27
Does paycheck frequency matter? Evidence from micro data27
Information technology and lender competition27
Real-time price discovery via verbal communication: Method and application to Fedspeak26
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Are cryptos different? Evidence from retail trading26
Gradual information diffusion across commonly owned firms26
Active trading and (poor) performance: The social transmission channel26
Small and vulnerable: SME productivity in the great productivity slowdown26
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Collateral quality and intervention traps25
Searching for the equity premium24
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Strategic fragmented markets24
Personal finance education mandates and student loan repayment24
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