Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Financial Economics is 29. 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
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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
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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
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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
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