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 2022-06-01 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
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices178
The secular decline in interest rates and the rise of shadow banks178
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
Market efficiency in the age of big data103
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices103
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world103
Aspirational utility and investment behavior102
The risk and return of impact investing funds102
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
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment90
Micro uncertainty and asset prices90
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era89
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks88
The value of intermediation in the stock market88
Priced risk in corporate bonds85
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions85
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
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity64
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households64
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL62
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity62
Intermediary financing without commitment61
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets59
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha58
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve57
Skill versus reliability in venture capital57
Editorial Board54
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate54
Editorial Board54
Count (and count-like) data in finance54
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market53
Understanding the strength of the dollar53
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline52
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic51
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies51
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements51
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty49
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare49
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds48
ESG lending48
Editorial Board47
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans46
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193345
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models44
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans44
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets44
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds43
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market43
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence43
Honoring Michael C. Jensen43
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM43
Rules versus discretion in capital regulation43
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates42
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market42
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy41
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey41
Inflation and Trading40
Dissecting green returns40
Expected idiosyncratic volatility40
Editorial Board39
Patents that match your standards: Firm-level evidence on competition, innovation and growth39
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios39
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing38
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models38
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data38
Editorial Board38
How valuable is corporate adaptation to crisis? Estimates from Covid-19 work-from-home announcements38
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices37
Financial constraints and the racial housing gap35
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing35
Learning by lending securities33
Taking sides on return predictability33
Picking partners: Manager selection in private markets33
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks33
Value creation in shareholder activism33
A quantitative analysis of bank lending relationships33
Overvaluing simple bets: Evidence from the options market32
Appropriated growth32
Editorial Board32
Editorial Board32
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure31
What moves treasury yields?31
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?31
LTCM Redux? Hedge fund Treasury trading, funding fragility, and risk constraints31
How monetary policy shaped the housing boom31
Sequential credit markets31
Too Levered for Pigou: Carbon pricing, financial constraints, and leverage regulation30
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic30
Social media as a bank run catalyst30
The economics of “Buy Now, Pay Later”: A merchant’s perspective30
Global Business Networks30
Do teams alleviate or exacerbate overreaction in beliefs?29
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition29
Innovation spillovers across U.S. tech clusters29
Measurement and effects of bank exit policies29
Price ceilings, market structure, and payout policies29
Editorial Board29
The retail execution quality landscape28
The moral preferences of investors: Experimental evidence28
Hurdle rate buffers and bargaining power in asset acquisition28
Do intermediaries improve GSE lending? Evidence from proprietary GSE data27
The cross-border effects of bank capital regulation27
Silence is safest: Information disclosure when the audience’s preferences are uncertain27
Debt dynamics with fixed issuance costs27
Editorial Board27
The effects of policy interventions to limit illegal money lending27
Investor learning about monetary-policy transmission and the stock market26
Editor’s note26
Importance of transaction costs for asset allocation in foreign exchange markets26
Strategic insider trading and its consequences for outsiders: Evidence from the eighteenth century26
Asset pricing with return extrapolation25
ESG: A panacea for market power?25
Robo advisors and access to wealth management25
Do bank CEOs learn from banking crises?24
Premium for heightened uncertainty: Explaining pre-announcement market returns24
On index investing24
Time-varying risk of nominal bonds: How important are macroeconomic shocks?24
Editorial Board24
Volatility and informativeness24
Industry asset revaluations around public and private acquisitions23
Sorting out the effect of credit supply22
Revenue collapses and the consumption of small business owners in the COVID-19 pandemic22
When large traders create noise22
Tiny trades, big questions: Fractional shares22
Redeploying dirty assets: The impact of environmental22
Operational shorting and ETF liquidity provision21
A credit-based theory of the currency risk premium21
Credit supply and house prices: Evidence from mortgage market segmentation21
The impact of bank financing on municipalities’ bond issuance and the real economy21
It’s what you say and what you buy: A holistic evaluation of the corporate credit facilities21
Short selling efficiency21
Index providers: Whales behind the scenes of ETFs21
Overallocation and secondary market outcomes in corporate bond offerings21
Editorial Board21
Editorial Board20
Editorial Board20
Information-based pricing in specialized lending20
Listening in on investors’ thoughts and conversations20
The use of asset growth in empirical asset pricing models20
The SOFR discount20
Music sentiment and stock returns around the world20
The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street20
The global factor structure of exchange rates19
Financial constraints, cash flow timing patterns, and asset prices19
Disclosing and cooling-off: An analysis of insider trading rules19
Crowdsourcing peer information to change spending behavior19
Constrained by law: The impact of fiduciary duties on portfolios and prices in US equity markets19
Monetary tightening and U.S. bank fragility in 2023: Mark-to-market losses and uninsured depositor runs?18
Four facts about ESG beliefs and investor portfolios18
The proxy advisory industry: Influencing and being influenced18
Financial inclusion, economic development, and inequality: Evidence from Brazil18
Editorial Board18
Diversification driven demand for large stock17
Token-based platform governance17
Risk-adjusted capital allocation and misallocation17
The benchmark greenium17
Active trading and (poor) performance: The social transmission channel17
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]17
Collateral value uncertainty and mortgage credit provision17
Editorial Board16
Are cryptos different? Evidence from retail trading16
Editorial Board16
Gradual information diffusion across commonly owned firms16
Information technology and lender competition16
Editorial Board16
Small and vulnerable: SME productivity in the great productivity slowdown16
Is there a zero lower bound? The effects of negative policy rates on banks and firms15
The retail habitat15
Liquidity characteristics of market anomalies and institutional trading15
Collateral competition: Evidence from central counterparties15
Collateral quality and intervention traps15
Personal finance education mandates and student loan repayment15
Strategic fragmented markets15
Financial market concentration and misallocation15
Household mobility and mortgage rate lock14
Loan guarantees, bank underwriting policies and financial stability14
Foundational processes and growth14
Editorial Board14
Have CEOs changed?14
Editorial Board14
Charting by machines14
Can FinTech reduce disparities in access to finance? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program14
Yield drifts when issuance comes before macro news14
Do firms with specialized M&A staff make better acquisitions?14
Multivariate crash risk14
Duration-based stock valuation: Reassessing stock market performance and volatility14
Firm uncertainty and households: Spending, savings, and risks14
Policy news and stock market volatility13
Presidential economic approval rating and the cross-section of stock returns13
Harnessing the overconfidence of the crowd: A theory of SPACs13
Economic uncertainty and investor attention13
The risk and return of equity and credit index options13
Fearing the Fed: How wall street reads main street13
International asset pricing with strategic business groups13
Benchmarking benchmarks13
Siphoned apart: A portfolio perspective on order flow segmentation12
How costly are cultural biases? Evidence from FinTech12
Barking up the wrong tree: Return-chasing in 401(k) plans12
Implicit guarantees and the rise of shadow banking: The case of trust products12
Can everyone tap into the housing piggy bank? Racial disparities in access to home equity12
Do personal taxes affect investment decisions and stock returns?12
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