Journal of Banking & Finance

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Banking & Finance is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
How should we measure the performance of corporate bond mutual funds? Evaluating model quality and impact on inferences244
Quality is our asset: The international transmission of liquidity regulation229
Market discipline and regulatory arbitrage: Evidence from ABCP liquidity guarantors221
Canonical portfolios: Optimal asset and signal combination219
Supervisory stringency, payout restrictions, and bank equity prices203
Leveling the playing field? The effect of disclosing fund manager activeness to individual investors161
Financial development and wage income: Evidence from the global football market123
The case for CASE: Estimating heterogeneous systemic effects120
Demographic trends, the rent-to-price ratio, and housing market returns97
Expected and Unexpected Jumps in the Overnight Rate: Consistent Management of the Libor Transition92
Dissecting the return-predicting power of risk-neutral variance83
Biased risk perceptions: Evidence from the laboratory and financial markets82
Dark premonitions: Pre-bankruptcy investor attention and behavior80
Timing sentiment with style: Evidence from mutual funds78
Trade policy sensitivity and global stock returns: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential election77
Award-winning CEOs and corporate innovation69
Social capital, finance, and consumption: Evidence from a representative sample of Chinese households67
Common institutional ownership and corporate social responsibility64
Banks incentive pay, diversification and systemic risk63
Banks’ investments in fintech ventures63
Do banks price production process failures? Evidence from product recalls62
Does FinTech coverage improve the pricing efficiency of capital market? Evidence from China57
Competition, coinsurance and moral hazard in banking55
Political relations and media coverage52
Lease-adjusted productivity measurement51
Do stock-level experienced returns influence security selection?51
Modeling the time-varying dynamic term structure of interest rates49
Employment Protection and Household Mortgage Debt48
Stress tests and information disclosure: An experimental analysis45
Intraday momentum in the VIX futures market45
Gender composition and conflicts of interest in the financial industry: Evidence from analysts’ target price optimism44
Money market reforms:The effect on the commercial paper market44
Impact of Price Path on Disposition Bias44
Human capital quality and stock returns41
The dark side of bank taxes41
Drought, water, and the valuation of hydropower assets39
The effect of institutional herding on stock prices: The differentiating role of credit ratings38
Optimal portfolio choice for higher-order risk averters38
How do experienced analysts improve price efficiency?38
Variation in the value of active share across regions of investments: Evidence from global equity funds35
Pension funding and the cross section of stock returns - The case of Germany35
Heterogeneous beliefs in macroeconomic growth prospects and the carry risk premium34
Country financial development and the extension of trade credit by firms with market power34
Signal strength adjustment behavior: Evidence from share repurchases34
Sign matters: Stock-movement-based trading decisions of individual investors33
The illusion of oil return predictability: The choice of data matters!32
Experiments in finance32
The positive externalities of leveraged buyouts32
Exploiting the dynamics of commodity futures curves32
Stress testing and bank business patterns: A regression discontinuity study32
Special issue on green and ethical finance32
Trading volume and liquidity provision in cryptocurrency markets32
How free is free? Retail trading costs with zero commissions32
Fintech and big tech credit: Drivers of the growth of digital lending31
Risk-taking incentives and risk-talking outcomes31
Religion and insider trading profits30
A new approach to credit ratings30
Corporate noncompliance: Do corporate violations affect bank loan contracting?30
The gradient allocation principle based on the higher moment risk measure29
Available-for-sale is available for hoarding: When nonfinancial firms hold financial assets29
Buy low, sell high? Do private equity fund managers have market timing abilities?29
Common institutional blockholders and tail risk29
The pricing of carbon risk in syndicated loans: Which risks are priced and why?29
Do local investors know more? Evidence from securities class actions29
A large creditor in contagious liquidity crises28
How do investors trade R&D-intensive Stocks? Evidence from hedge funds and other institutional investors28
Leveraging intellectual property: The value of harmonized enforcement regimes27
The role of CDS spreads in explaining bond recovery rates27
Editorial Board26
Market-based private equity returns26
Heterogeneous inflation and deflation experiences and savings decisions during German industrialization26
Shadow loans and regulatory arbitrage: Evidence from China26
Shrouding and the FX trades of global custody bank26
A revisit to the IPO spillover effect: On the importance of technological proximity26
Government guarantees and bank liquidity creation around the world26
Do foreign institutions avoid investing in poorly CSR-performing firms?25
Economic policy uncertainty and corporate bond liquidity25
Bank affiliation and timing ability of mutual funds: Evidence from China25
Good idiosyncratic volatility, bad idiosyncratic volatility, and the cross-section of stock returns25
Common ownership, price informativeness, and corporate investment24
Information asymmetry and the profitability of technical analysis24
Bank competition and corporate employment: Evidence from the geographic distribution of bank branches in China24
Belief dispersion in the Chinese stock market and fund flows24
Capital requirements, mortgage rates and house prices24
Cross-asset time-series momentum: Crude oil volatility and global stock markets24
Algorithmic trading and market quality: International evidence of the impact of errors in colocation dates23
Operational loss recoveries and the macroeconomic environment: Evidence from the U.S. banking sector23
Natural disasters and market manipulation23
Complexity and the default risk of mortgage-backed securities23
Global weather-based trading strategies22
Erratum to “Corporate voluntary disclosure via WeChat” [Journal of Banking & Finance 176 (2025)/107393]22
Uncertain Text and Price Reactions to Earnings Releases21
Option-based intermediary leverage21
A stochastic programming model for dynamic portfolio management with financial derivatives21
What drives a firm's ES performance? Evidence from stock returns21
Impact of risk oversight functions on bank risk: Evidence from the Dodd-Frank Act21
Editorial Board20
Nudging a second after20
Back to the roots of internal credit risk models: Does risk explain why banks' risk-weighted asset levels converge over time?19
Central bank liquidity facilities and market making19
Complexity of global banks and the implications for bank risk: Evidence from foreign banks in Hong Kong19
The effect of bank recapitalization policy on credit allocation, investment, and productivity: Evidence from a banking crisis in Japan19
Editorial Board19
Life insurance convexity19
Leverage constraints and investors' choice of underlyings19
Does maker-taker limit order subsidy improve market outcomes? Quasi-natural experimental evidence18
Bank complexity, governance, and risk18
Global foreign exchange volatility, ambiguity, and currency carry trades18
The effect of labour protection laws on the relationship between leverage and wages18
Can star analysts make superior coverage decisions in poor information environment?18
Patented knowledge capital and implied equity risk premium18
Cross-country determinants of market efficiency: A technical analysis perspective17
Inventor CEOs and financing of innovation: Evidence from IPOs17
Does government debt impede firm innovation? Evidence from the rise of LGFVs in China17
Information spillovers and cross monitoring between the stock market and loan market17
What can we learn from firm-level jump-induced tail risk around earnings announcements?17
Environmental regulation and financial stability: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms17
Social capital and the cost of bank equity: Cross-country evidence17
Information acquisition costs and credit spreads17
The good, the bad, and the not-so-ugly of credit booms?: capital allocation and financial constraints17
Effects of macroprudential policy: Evidence from over 6000 estimates17
Digital finance and financial literacy: Evidence from Chinese households17
A bank's optimal capital ratio: A time-varying parameter model to the partial adjustment framework16
How much do boards learn about CEO ability in crises? Evidence from CEO turnover16
Demand for financial advice: Evidence from a randomized choice experiment16
Corporate restructuring and creditor power: Evidence from European insolvency law reforms16
Bank regulation and supervision: A symbiotic relationship16
Personal income tax and corporate innovation: The key role of inventors’ financial incentives16
Foreign bank lending during COVID-1916
Financial liberalization and house prices: Evidence from China16
The cost of foreign-currency lending16
Reprint of: COVID-19, lockdowns, and the municipal bond market16
Board gender diversity and equity-based compensation16
Non‐operating risk and cash holdings: Evidence from pension risk16
Structural estimation of counterparty credit risk under recovery risk16
Social connections and bank deposits15
Economic policy uncertainty and covenants in venture capital contracts15
Industrial policy and asset prices: Evidence from the Made in China 2025 policy15
Have ratings become more accurate?15
Trust in Founders15
Stock market experience and investor overconfidence: Do investors learn to be overconfident?15
Fund Flows and Asset Valuations of Bond Mutual Funds: Effect of Side-by-Side Management15
The tax shield increases the interest rate15
Easing of borrower-based measures: Evidence from Czech loan-level data15
Can Real Options Explain the Skewness of Stock Returns?15
Chasing the ESG factor15
Blockholder board representation and debt contracting14
A test of the Modigliani-Miller theorem, dividend policy and algorithmic arbitrage in experimental asset markets14
IPO underpricing and limited attention: Theory and evidence14
Measuring the impact of changing deposit insurance coverage levels: Findings from Colombia14
When It Rains It Drains: Psychological Distress and Household Net Worth14
Artificial intelligence and systemic risk14
Banking Market Structure and Trade Shocks14
Editorial Board14
Distressed firms, zombie firms and zombie lending: A taxonomy14
Game in another town: Geography of stock watchlists and firm valuation14
Disclosure rules, controlling shareholders, and trading activity in the new issues market14
Leverage and the cost of capital for U.S. banks14
Banking relationship, information reusability, and acquisition loans13
The capital gain lock-in effect and seasoned equity offerings13
Incentive contracting in the shadow of litigation risk: Evidence from universal demand laws13
Editorial Board13
Personal bankruptcy and post-bankruptcy liquidity constraint13
Do internal capital markets in business groups mitigate firms' financial constraints?13
Economic activity and the bank credit channel13
Coherent risk measures alone are ineffective in constraining portfolio losses13
Editorial Board13
When school ties meet geography: Education-province bias in mutual fund portfolios13
Detecting political event risk in the option market13
Editorial Board13
Strategic supply management and mechanism choice in government debt auctions: An empirical analysis from the Philippines13
When expectations of implicit government guarantees diminished, do retail stock investors run away?13
What are reference rates for?13
When should retirees tap their home equity?13
Discretion in pay ratio estimation13
The sources of value creation in acquisitions of intangible assets13
Editorial Board13
Crowdedness, mispricing, crashes, and spikes13
Vulnerable funding in the global economy13
Bidder opportunism, familiarity, and the M&A payment choice12
Newswire tone-overlay commodity portfolios12
The Banker’s oath and financial advice12
Editorial Board12
What drives the dispersion anomaly?12
Reprint of: Delegated asset management and performance when some investors are unsophisticated12
COVID-19 and bank branch lending: The moderating effect of digitalization12
How does corporate culture affect IPO price formation?12
Is lending distance really changing? Distance dynamics and loan composition in small business lending12
4/2 rough and smooth12
How do bank-specific characteristics affect lending? New evidence based on credit registry data from Latin America12
Editorial Board12
Post-crisis regulations, market making, and liquidity in over-the-counter markets12
In Memoria Giorgio and Emilia Szegő A special issue on institutions, risk measures, and portfolio optimization12
Do intangibles matter for corporate policies? Evidence from organization capital and corporate payout choices12
The up side of being down: Depression and crowdsourced forecasts12
Marginals versus copulas: Which account for more model risk in multivariate risk forecasting?12
Political promotion incentives and banking supervision: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China11
Supply, demand, and risk premiums in electricity markets11
Do Hedge Funds Value Sell-Side Analysts Differently?11
Modeling and pricing credit risk with a focus on recovery risk11
CEO relative age at school entry and corporate risk-taking11
Editorial Board11
Credit derivatives and corporate default prediction11
The market for corporate control and firm information environment: Evidence from five decades of data11
Forecasting Value at Risk and expected shortfall using a model with a dynamic omega ratio11
Low interest rates and banks’ interest margins: Does belonging to a banking group matter?11
Assessing and mitigating fire sales risk under partial information11
Longs, shorts, and the cross-section of stock returns11
Does Options Trading Stabilize Stock Prices? : Evidence from a Natural Experiment11
Functional distance and bank loan pricing: Evidence from the opening of high-speed railway in China11
Household willingness to take financial risk: Stockmarket movements and life‐cycle effects11
Is bank misconduct related to social capital? Evidence from U.S. banks11
PayTech on BigTech platforms11
Fiduciary duty and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from corporate opportunity waiver11
Editorial Board11
Debt-stabilizing properties of GDP-linked securities: A macro-finance perspective11
Short selling and product market competition11
Enhanced momentum strategies11
Does regulatory and supervisory independence affect financial stability?11
A shadow rate without a lower bound constraint10
Compounding COVID-19 and climate risks: The interplay of banks’ lending and government’s policy in the shock recovery10
Insider trading regulation and shorting constraints. Evaluating the joint effects of two market interventions.10
Investor sentiment and asset prices: Evidence from the ex-day10
How do markets react to tighter bank capital requirements?10
Optimal information production of mutual funds: Evidence from China10
National culture of secrecy and firms’ access to credit10
Stock valuation during the COVID-19 pandemic: An explanation using option-based discount rates10
Strategic repurchases and equity sales: Evidence from equity vesting schedules10
Financial misconduct and bank risk-taking: Evidence from US banks10
Uncertainty premia for small and large risks10
Banks’ complexity-risk nexus and the role of regulation10
The value of growth: Changes in profitability and future stock returns10
The impact of managerial myopia on cybersecurity: Evidence from data breaches10
Cybercrime on the ethereum blockchain10
Stock market liberalization and corporate investment revisited: Evidence from China10
Central bank policies and financial markets: Lessons from the euro crisis10
Bank-specific capital requirements and capital management from 1989-2013: Further evidence from the UK10
Investor heterogeneity and the market for fund benchmarks: Evidence from passive ETFs10
Does the geographical complexity of the Colombian financial conglomerates increase banks’ risk? The role of diversification, regulatory arbitrage, and funding costs10
A stochastic model for predicting the response time of green vs brown stocks to climate change news risk10
Impact of sovereign credit ratings on systemic risk and the moderating role of regulatory reforms: An international investigation10
Opening the black box – Quantile neural networks for loss given default prediction9
Editorial Board9
What drives startup valuations?9
The real effects of corruption on M&A flows: Evidence from China's anti-corruption campaign9
The demise of branch banking – Technology, consolidation, bank fragility9
Corporate investments in startups: CVC unit vs. direct investment9
Real estate security token offerings and the secondary market: Driven by crypto hype or fundamentals?9
Geographic proximity and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from high-speed rail construction in China9
The impact of public corruption on marketplace lending outcomes9
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