Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Economics is 18. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?1318
Do investors care about carbon risk?1188
Sustainable investing in equilibrium938
Corporate green bonds870
Responsible investing: The ESG-efficient frontier856
Corporate immunity to the COVID-19 pandemic734
Dissecting green returns449
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty398
Count (and count-like) data in finance374
Impact investing372
What do you think about climate finance?287
The Big Three and corporate carbon emissions around the world280
Socially responsible corporate customers260
Real effects of climate policy: Financial constraints and spillovers233
Machine learning in the Chinese stock market230
The real value of China’s stock market230
Air pollution, affect, and forecasting bias: Evidence from Chinese financial analysts218
Stock market liberalization and innovation205
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era198
Risk management, firm reputation, and the impact of successful cyberattacks on target firms190
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field181
Anatomy of a liquidity crisis: Corporate bonds in the COVID-19 crisis180
Policy uncertainty and corporate credit spreads177
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors168
Treasury inconvenience yields during the COVID-19 crisis140
Internet searching and stock price crash risk: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment139
Salience theory and stock prices: Empirical evidence125
Air pollution, behavioral bias, and the disposition effect in China118
On the fast track: Information acquisition costs and information production114
Common ownership and competition in product markets113
Corporate bond mutual funds and asset fire sales112
Retail trader sophistication and stock market quality: Evidence from brokerage outages111
Extrapolative beliefs in the cross-section: What can we learn from the crowds?109
Does common ownership really increase firm coordination?108
Lucky factors106
Token-based platform finance105
All the president's friends: Political access and firm value103
Can FinTech reduce disparities in access to finance? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program103
Bank monitoring: Evidence from syndicated loans99
Did the paycheck protection program hit the target?99
The democratization of investment research and the informativeness of retail investor trading97
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution96
Understanding momentum and reversal96
When the local newspaper leaves town: The effects of local newspaper closures on corporate misconduct96
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate94
Sophisticated investors and market efficiency: Evidence from a natural experiment94
Fund tradeoffs91
Artificial intelligence, firm growth, and product innovation91
The local innovation spillovers of listed firms89
Spillover effects in empirical corporate finance88
The price effects of liquidity shocks: A study of the SEC’s tick size experiment88
Asset pricing: A tale of night and day86
In sickness and in debt: The COVID-19 impact on sovereign credit risk85
Loan guarantees and credit supply84
Targeted monetary policy and bank lending behavior84
On the direct and indirect real effects of credit supply shocks82
Corporate actions and the manipulation of retail investors in China: An analysis of stock splits82
Risk perceptions and politics: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic77
Systematic risk, debt maturity, and the term structure of credit spreads75
Game on: Social networks and markets75
A picture is worth a thousand words: Measuring investor sentiment by combining machine learning and photos from news74
Long-term reversals in the corporate bond market74
Market efficiency in the age of big data73
Accounting for financial stability: Bank disclosure and loss recognition in the financial crisis73
Inspecting the mechanism of quantitative easing in the euro area73
Is conflicted investment advice better than no advice?72
Firm selection and corporate cash holdings71
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market71
Uncertainty, access to debt, and firm precautionary behavior69
Taming the bias zoo69
Do people feel less at risk? Evidence from disaster experience68
Subnational debt of China: The politics-finance nexus67
Temperature shocks and industry earnings news67
Venture capital contracts66
The cross-section of intraday and overnight returns66
Credit migration and covered interest rate parity66
Surprise election for Trump connections65
Does mutual fund illiquidity introduce fragility into asset prices? Evidence from the corporate bond market64
Macroprudential FX regulations: Shifting the snowbanks of FX vulnerability?63
Decomposing firm value62
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey62
It’s not so bad: Director bankruptcy experience and corporate risk-taking62
Windfall gains and stock market participation61
Music sentiment and stock returns around the world60
Access to public capital markets and employment growth60
The Sources of Financing Constraints59
Premium for heightened uncertainty: Explaining pre-announcement market returns59
Open banking: Credit market competition when borrowers own the data59
Contracts with (Social) benefits: The implementation of impact investing59
Reconstructing the yield curve58
Shielding firm value: Employment protection and process innovation58
Optimal financing with tokens57
Sticking to your plan: The role of present bias for credit card paydown56
Corporate flexibility in a time of crisis56
Is there a zero lower bound? The effects of negative policy rates on banks and firms56
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem55
It’s what you say and what you buy: A holistic evaluation of the corporate credit facilities55
Risk-free interest rates55
Common shocks in stocks and bonds55
Color and credit: Race, regulation, and the quality of financial services54
Macro news and micro news: Complements or substitutes?54
Do limits to arbitrage explain the benefits of volatility-managed portfolios?54
IPO peer effects53
The term structure of equity risk premia53
Portfolio similarity and asset liquidation in the insurance industry53
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy53
Central bank communication and the yield curve52
Asymmetric information risk in FX markets51
The effect of media-linked directors on financing and external governance51
The electronic evolution of corporate bond dealers51
Betting against betting against beta51
The micro and macro of managerial beliefs51
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence51
Factors and risk premia in individual international stock returns50
Issuance overpricing of China's corporate debt securities50
Asset pricing with return extrapolation49
And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital49
Dissecting bankruptcy frictions49
Oil volatility risk49
On index investing49
The design and transmission of central bank liquidity provisions49
Hedging macroeconomic and financial uncertainty and volatility48
Identifying and boosting “Gazelles”: Evidence from business accelerators48
Hedging demand and market intraday momentum47
Diagnostic bubbles47
Sentiment and uncertainty47
Bias in the effective bid-ask spread47
Are disagreements agreeable? Evidence from information aggregation47
Time-varying demand for lottery: Speculation ahead of earnings announcements47
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?46
Retail shareholder participation in the proxy process: Monitoring, engagement, and voting46
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies45
Intraday arbitrage between ETFs and their underlying portfolios45
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers45
CoCo issuance and bank fragility44
A factor model for option returns44
Activism and empire building44
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world44
Market expectations of a warming climate44
Global market inefficiencies44
Bank transparency and deposit flows44
Compensation disclosures and strategic commitment: Evidence from revenue-based pay43
Collateral and asymmetric information in lending markets43
The short duration premium43
Expected return, volume, and mispricing43
Portfolio choice with sustainable spending: A model of reaching for yield43
The telegraph and modern banking development, 1881–193643
The Big Three and board gender diversity: The effectiveness of shareholder voice42
Launching with a parachute: The gig economy and new business formation42
Signaling safety42
Trade credit and profitability in production networks41
Investors’ appetite for money-like assets: The MMF industry after the 2014 regulatory reform41
Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances41
Monetary policy at work: Security and credit application registers evidence41
The effect of minority veto rights on controller pay tunneling40
Mispricing, short-sale constraints, and the cross-section of option returns40
Pervasive underreaction: Evidence from high-frequency data40
Global factor premiums40
The colour of finance words40
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?40
Does the lack of financial stability impair the transmission of monetary policy?40
Do activist hedge funds target female CEOs? The role of CEO gender in hedge fund activism40
Real effects of share repurchases legalization on corporate behaviors39
Eye in the sky: Private satellites and government macro data39
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions39
Priced risk in corporate bonds39
Learning from noise: Evidence from India’s IPO lotteries38
Why does the Fed move markets so much? A model of monetary policy and time-varying risk aversion38
Spectral factor models38
Competition, profitability, and discount rates38
The impact of consumer credit access on self-employment and entrepreneurship38
Financial development and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Brazil38
Overnight returns, daytime reversals, and future stock returns38
Politicizing consumer credit38
The effect of stock liquidity on cash holdings: The repurchase motive38
Common ownership and innovation efficiency38
Who provides liquidity, and when?37
Life after LIBOR37
Pirates without borders: The propagation of cyberattacks through firms’ supply chains37
Asset prices, midterm elections, and political uncertainty37
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers36
Flying under the radar: The effects of short-sale disclosure rules on investor behavior and stock prices36
Partisan residential sorting on climate change risk35
Political ideology and international capital allocation35
GSIB surcharges and bank lending: Evidence from US corporate loan data34
Disappearing and reappearing dividends34
Rare disaster probability and options pricing34
The cross section of the monetary policy announcement premium34
Negative peer disclosure34
Does target firm insider trading signal the target's synergy potential in mergers and acquisitions?33
Do the right firms survive bankruptcy?33
What is CEO overconfidence? Evidence from executive assessments33
A BIT goes a long way: Bilateral investment treaties and cross-border mergers33
Implicit guarantees and the rise of shadow banking: The case of trust products33
Directors’ career concerns: Evidence from proxy contests and board interlocks33
Board structure, director expertise, and advisory role of outside directors33
Social interactions and households’ flood insurance decisions33
Investing outside the box: Evidence from alternative vehicles in private equity33
Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.32
Ransomware activity and blockchain congestion32
Psychological barrier and cross-firm return predictability32
Economic uncertainty and investor attention31
Sitting bucks: Stale pricing in fixed income funds31
Macro risks and the term structure of interest rates31
The missing risk premium in exchange rates31
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks31
Network risk and key players: A structural analysis of interbank liquidity30
Risk-adjusted capital allocation and misallocation30
Geographic diversification and bank lending during crises30
Family comes first: Reproductive health and the gender gap in entrepreneurship30
Death by committee? An analysis of corporate board (sub-) committees30
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?30
Calendar rotations: A new approach for studying the impact of timing using earnings announcements30
A day late and a dollar short: Liquidity and household formation among student borrowers30
Capital supply and corporate bond issuances: Evidence from mutual fund flows30
Regulatory transparency and the alignment of private and public enforcement: Evidence from the public disclosure of SEC comment letters30
Silence is safest: Information disclosure when the audience’s preferences are uncertain30
Estimating the anomaly base rate29
Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes29
What drove the 2003–2006 house price boom and subsequent collapse? Disentangling competing explanations29
Busy bankruptcy courts and the cost of credit29
Financial intermediation and capital reallocation29
Speculative dynamics of prices and volume29
Capital gains taxation and funding for start-ups29
Recovering the FOMC risk premium28
Should information be sold separately? Evidence from MiFID II28
Benchmark interest rates when the government is risky28
Cyber risk and the U.S. financial system: A pre-mortem analysis28
Learning, slowly unfolding disasters, and asset prices28
Price revelation from insider trading: Evidence from hacked earnings news28
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field28
Treasury yield implied volatility and real activity27
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence27
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL27
Mutual fund flows and fluctuations in credit and business cycles27
Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?27
Young firms, old capital27
Have risk premia vanished?26
Measuring the welfare cost of asymmetric information in consumer credit markets26
Are return seasonalities due to risk or mispricing?26
The big bang: Stock market capitalization in the long run26
Financing constraints, home equity and selection into entrepreneurship26
Engineering lemons26
Angels and venture capitalists: Substitutes or complements?26
Strategic trading and unobservable information acquisition26
Does regulatory cooperation help integrate equity markets?26
Measuring institutional trading costs and the implications for finance research: The case of tick size reductions26
Brexit and the contraction of syndicated lending25
The term structure and inflation uncertainty25
Ambiguity about volatility and investor behavior25
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