Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Economics is 9. 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
Defunding controversial industries: Can targeted credit rationing choke firms?112
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices112
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?112
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
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity61
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity61
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment61
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets60
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve60
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha56
Skill versus reliability in venture capital56
Intermediary financing without commitment56
Count (and count-like) data in finance54
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL54
Financing the litigation arms race53
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate52
Editorial Board51
Editorial Board51
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic50
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements49
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market49
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds49
Understanding the strength of the dollar48
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare48
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies47
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline46
ESG lending46
Editorial Board45
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty45
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets44
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193344
Government litigation risk and the decline in low-income mortgage lending44
Honoring Michael C. Jensen44
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans43
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates43
Rules versus discretion in capital regulation42
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market42
Inflation and Trading41
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey41
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans41
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy41
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM41
Expected idiosyncratic volatility39
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models39
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence37
Dissecting green returns36
Editorial Board36
Intellectual property protection lost and competition: An examination using large language models36
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market36
Learning by lending securities35
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models35
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks35
Financial constraints and the racial housing gap35
Taking sides on return predictability34
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing34
A quantitative analysis of bank lending relationships34
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices34
How valuable is corporate adaptation to crisis? Estimates from Covid-19 work-from-home announcements34
Editorial Board34
Patents that match your standards: Firm-level evidence on competition, innovation and growth33
Appropriated growth33
Picking partners: Manager selection in private markets33
Value creation in shareholder activism33
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios33
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data32
Editorial Board32
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing32
Editorial Board31
LTCM Redux? Hedge fund Treasury trading, funding fragility, and risk constraints30
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure30
Sequential credit markets30
Sustainable investing and market governance30
The economics of “Buy Now, Pay Later”: A merchant’s perspective30
Overvaluing simple bets: Evidence from the options market30
What moves treasury yields?29
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition29
Too Levered for Pigou: Carbon pricing, financial constraints, and leverage regulation28
Social media as a bank run catalyst28
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic28
The co-pricing factor zoo28
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?28
Global Business Networks28
Editorial Board27
The retail execution quality landscape26
The moral preferences of investors: Experimental evidence26
Do teams alleviate or exacerbate overreaction in beliefs?26
Measurement and effects of bank exit policies26
Hurdle rate buffers and bargaining power in asset acquisition26
Price ceilings, market structure, and payout policies26
Innovation spillovers across U.S. tech clusters26
On index investing25
Editorial Board25
Strategic insider trading and its consequences for outsiders: Evidence from the eighteenth century25
Investor learning about monetary-policy transmission and the stock market25
Do intermediaries improve GSE lending? Evidence from proprietary GSE data25
The effects of policy interventions to limit illegal money lending24
Volatility and informativeness24
Robo advisors and access to wealth management24
Editor’s note24
Asset pricing with return extrapolation24
Debt dynamics with fixed issuance costs23
The cross-border effects of bank capital regulation23
ESG: A panacea for market power?23
Premium for heightened uncertainty: Explaining pre-announcement market returns23
Importance of transaction costs for asset allocation in foreign exchange markets23
Operational shorting and ETF liquidity provision22
Listening in on investors’ thoughts and conversations22
Revenue collapses and the consumption of small business owners in the COVID-19 pandemic22
Editorial Board22
Editorial Board22
A credit-based theory of the currency risk premium21
Redeploying dirty assets: The impact of environmental21
Index providers: Whales behind the scenes of ETFs21
Sorting out the effect of credit supply20
Do bank CEOs learn from banking crises?20
Credit supply and house prices: Evidence from mortgage market segmentation20
Editorial Board20
Tiny trades, big questions: Fractional shares20
Overallocation and secondary market outcomes in corporate bond offerings19
Music sentiment and stock returns around the world19
Short selling efficiency19
When large traders create noise19
The impact of bank financing on municipalities’ bond issuance and the real economy19
The SOFR discount18
Editorial Board18
The global factor structure of exchange rates18
Industry asset revaluations around public and private acquisitions18
Crowdsourcing peer information to change spending behavior17
Financial constraints, cash flow timing patterns, and asset prices17
Monetary tightening and U.S. bank fragility in 2023: Mark-to-market losses and uninsured depositor runs?17
Information-based pricing in specialized lending17
Disclosing and cooling-off: An analysis of insider trading rules17
Dirty air and green investments: The impact of pollution information on portfolio allocations17
Constrained by law: The impact of fiduciary duties on portfolios and prices in US equity markets17
The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street17
Four facts about ESG beliefs and investor portfolios17
The use of asset growth in empirical asset pricing models16
The proxy advisory industry: Influencing and being influenced16
Information technology and lender competition16
Financial inclusion, economic development, and inequality: Evidence from Brazil16
Active trading and (poor) performance: The social transmission channel16
Small and vulnerable: SME productivity in the great productivity slowdown16
Editorial Board16
Token-based platform governance16
Editorial Board15
Collateral competition: Evidence from central counterparties15
Are cryptos different? Evidence from retail trading15
The benchmark greenium15
Editorial Board15
Editorial Board15
Collateral value uncertainty and mortgage credit provision15
Corrigendum to “Ripples into waves: Trade networks, economic activity, and asset prices” [Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 145, (July 2022) Pages 217–238/Article Number]15
Gradual information diffusion across commonly owned firms15
Duration-based stock valuation: Reassessing stock market performance and volatility15
Strategic fragmented markets15
Diversification driven demand for large stock15
Risk-adjusted capital allocation and misallocation15
Liquidity characteristics of market anomalies and institutional trading14
Personal finance education mandates and student loan repayment14
Charting by machines14
Financial market concentration and misallocation14
Collateral quality and intervention traps14
Firm uncertainty and households: Spending, savings, and risks14
Can FinTech reduce disparities in access to finance? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program14
Foundational processes and growth14
The retail habitat14
Have CEOs changed?14
Editorial Board14
Editorial Board13
JAQ of all trades: Job mismatch, firm productivity and managerial quality13
The risk and return of equity and credit index options13
Yield drifts when issuance comes before macro news13
International asset pricing with strategic business groups13
Policy news and stock market volatility13
Do firms with specialized M&A staff make better acquisitions?13
Fearing the Fed: How wall street reads main street13
Loan guarantees, bank underwriting policies and financial stability13
Do personal taxes affect investment decisions and stock returns?12
Siphoned apart: A portfolio perspective on order flow segmentation12
Harnessing the overconfidence of the crowd: A theory of SPACs12
Biodiversity finance12
Barking up the wrong tree: Return-chasing in 401(k) plans12
Economic uncertainty and investor attention12
Benchmarking benchmarks12
The Big Three and board gender diversity: The effectiveness of shareholder voice12
The marginal value of public pension wealth: Evidence from border house prices12
Household mobility and mortgage rate lock12
Presidential economic approval rating and the cross-section of stock returns12
Dynamics of subjective risk premia11
When can the market identify old news?11
Can everyone tap into the housing piggy bank? Racial disparities in access to home equity11
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