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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
How should we measure the performance of corporate bond mutual funds? Evaluating model quality and impact on inferences296
Market discipline and regulatory arbitrage: Evidence from ABCP liquidity guarantors239
Award-winning CEOs and corporate innovation231
Leveling the playing field? The effect of disclosing fund manager activeness to individual investors151
Banks incentive pay, diversification and systemic risk150
Timing sentiment with style: Evidence from mutual funds111
Quality is our asset: The international transmission of liquidity regulation107
Supervisory stringency, payout restrictions, and bank equity prices99
Banks’ investments in fintech ventures97
Predicting stock returns of past-winner stocks and bond returns of past-loser stocks with a stock’s 52-week price anchor92
Canonical portfolios: Optimal asset and signal combination86
Dealer misconduct and price dynamics at the fix74
Trade policy sensitivity and global stock returns: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential election74
Biased risk perceptions: Evidence from the laboratory and financial markets71
Dark premonitions: Pre-bankruptcy investor attention and behavior67
Dissecting the return-predicting power of risk-neutral variance66
Demographic trends, the rent-to-price ratio, and housing market returns64
A tale of two banking regulations: Impact of regulatory overlap on the analysis of liquidity creation64
Expected and Unexpected Jumps in the Overnight Rate: Consistent Management of the Libor Transition60
Social capital, finance, and consumption: Evidence from a representative sample of Chinese households60
Financial development and wage income: Evidence from the global football market55
The case for CASE: Estimating heterogeneous systemic effects54
Political relations and media coverage50
Competition, coinsurance and moral hazard in banking50
Risk-taking incentives and risk-talking outcomes49
Human capital quality and stock returns49
Drought, water, and the valuation of hydropower assets46
A new approach to credit ratings46
Available-for-sale is available for hoarding: When nonfinancial firms hold financial assets46
Country financial development and the extension of trade credit by firms with market power45
Buy low, sell high? Do private equity fund managers have market timing abilities?45
Familiarity breeds day trade45
How free is free? Retail trading costs with zero commissions40
Religion and insider trading profits39
Variation in the value of active share across regions of investments: Evidence from global equity funds38
The dark side of bank taxes38
Do stock-level experienced returns influence security selection?37
The effect of institutional herding on stock prices: The differentiating role of credit ratings37
Impact of Price Path on Disposition Bias37
Common institutional blockholders and tail risk36
Stress tests and information disclosure: An experimental analysis36
Money market reforms:The effect on the commercial paper market36
Editorial Board35
Experiments in finance34
Gender composition and conflicts of interest in the financial industry: Evidence from analysts’ target price optimism33
Sign matters: Stock-movement-based trading decisions of individual investors32
Pension funding and the cross section of stock returns - The case of Germany32
Modeling the time-varying dynamic term structure of interest rates32
Exploiting the dynamics of commodity futures curves31
Signal strength adjustment behavior: Evidence from share repurchases31
How do experienced analysts improve price efficiency?31
Does FinTech coverage improve the pricing efficiency of capital market? Evidence from China31
Trading volume and liquidity provision in cryptocurrency markets31
Intraday momentum in the VIX futures market31
Corporate noncompliance: Do corporate violations affect bank loan contracting?31
Employment Protection and Household Mortgage Debt31
Fintech and big tech credit: Drivers of the growth of digital lending30
The gradient allocation principle based on the higher moment risk measure30
Option introduction, short-sale constraints, and stock price efficiency: New evidence from IPO lockup periods29
Lease-adjusted productivity measurement29
Heterogeneous inflation and deflation experiences and savings decisions during German industrialization29
Editorial Board29
Capital requirements, mortgage rates and house prices28
The role of CDS spreads in explaining bond recovery rates28
Market-based private equity returns27
Leveraging intellectual property: The value of harmonized enforcement regimes27
Shadow loans and regulatory arbitrage: Evidence from China26
Operational loss recoveries and the macroeconomic environment: Evidence from the U.S. banking sector26
A large creditor in contagious liquidity crises26
Complexity and the default risk of mortgage-backed securities26
A revisit to the IPO spillover effect: On the importance of technological proximity26
Cross-asset time-series momentum: Crude oil volatility and global stock markets25
Asset management with an ESG mandate25
Global weather-based trading strategies25
Good idiosyncratic volatility, bad idiosyncratic volatility, and the cross-section of stock returns23
Economic policy uncertainty and corporate bond liquidity23
Bank affiliation and timing ability of mutual funds: Evidence from China22
Natural disasters and market manipulation22
Belief dispersion in the Chinese stock market and fund flows22
Do foreign institutions avoid investing in poorly CSR-performing firms?22
Government guarantees and bank liquidity creation around the world21
Algorithmic trading and market quality: International evidence of the impact of errors in colocation dates21
Patented knowledge capital and implied equity risk premium21
Bank competition and corporate employment: Evidence from the geographic distribution of bank branches in China21
Do local investors know more? Evidence from securities class actions21
Editorial Board21
The more, the better? Predicting stock returns with local and global data21
Editorial Board21
Uncertain Text and Price Reactions to Earnings Releases20
Erratum to “Corporate voluntary disclosure via WeChat” [Journal of Banking & Finance 176 (2025)/107393]20
Can star analysts make superior coverage decisions in poor information environment?20
Impact of risk oversight functions on bank risk: Evidence from the Dodd-Frank Act20
The good, the bad, and the not-so-ugly of credit booms?: capital allocation and financial constraints20
Effects of macroprudential policy: Evidence from over 6000 estimates20
The effect of bank recapitalization policy on credit allocation, investment, and productivity: Evidence from a banking crisis in Japan20
Nudging a second after20
Does maker-taker limit order subsidy improve market outcomes? Quasi-natural experimental evidence19
The effect of labour protection laws on the relationship between leverage and wages19
Leverage constraints and investors' choice of underlyings19
Global foreign exchange volatility, ambiguity, and currency carry trades19
Inventor CEOs and financing of innovation: Evidence from IPOs19
Cross-country determinants of market efficiency: A technical analysis perspective19
Life insurance convexity19
What can we learn from firm-level jump-induced tail risk around earnings announcements?19
Central bank liquidity facilities and market making19
Social capital and the cost of bank equity: Cross-country evidence19
Does government debt impede firm innovation? Evidence from the rise of LGFVs in China18
Information spillovers and cross monitoring between the stock market and loan market18
Back to the roots of internal credit risk models: Does risk explain why banks' risk-weighted asset levels converge over time?18
A stochastic programming model for dynamic portfolio management with financial derivatives18
Information acquisition costs and credit spreads18
Option-based intermediary leverage18
Digital finance and financial literacy: Evidence from Chinese households18
Foreign bank lending during COVID-1917
Easing of borrower-based measures: Evidence from Czech loan-level data17
A bank's optimal capital ratio: A time-varying parameter model to the partial adjustment framework17
Social connections and bank deposits17
Reprint of: COVID-19, lockdowns, and the municipal bond market17
Trust in Founders17
Structural estimation of counterparty credit risk under recovery risk17
How much do boards learn about CEO ability in crises? Evidence from CEO turnover16
Non‐operating risk and cash holdings: Evidence from pension risk16
Have ratings become more accurate?16
Demand for financial advice: Evidence from a randomized choice experiment16
Can Real Options Explain the Skewness of Stock Returns?16
Industrial policy and asset prices: Evidence from the Made in China 2025 policy16
When It Rains It Drains: Psychological Distress and Household Net Worth15
Bank regulation and supervision: A symbiotic relationship15
Distressed firms, zombie firms and zombie lending: A taxonomy15
Game in another town: Geography of stock watchlists and firm valuation15
The tax shield increases the interest rate15
Board gender diversity and equity-based compensation15
A test of the Modigliani-Miller theorem, dividend policy and algorithmic arbitrage in experimental asset markets15
Artificial intelligence and systemic risk15
Blockholder board representation and debt contracting15
Fund Flows and Asset Valuations of Bond Mutual Funds: Effect of Side-by-Side Management15
Personal income tax and corporate innovation: The key role of inventors’ financial incentives15
Chasing the ESG factor15
Corporate restructuring and creditor power: Evidence from European insolvency law reforms15
Economic policy uncertainty and covenants in venture capital contracts15
Financial liberalization and house prices: Evidence from China15
Stock market experience and investor overconfidence: Do investors learn to be overconfident?14
Personal bankruptcy and post-bankruptcy liquidity constraint14
Editorial Board14
IPO underpricing and limited attention: Theory and evidence14
Do internal capital markets in business groups mitigate firms' financial constraints?14
Discretion in pay ratio estimation14
Editorial Board14
Editorial Board14
Strategic supply management and mechanism choice in government debt auctions: An empirical analysis from the Philippines14
Detecting political event risk in the option market14
When school ties meet geography: Education-province bias in mutual fund portfolios14
Banking Market Structure and Trade Shocks14
Measuring the impact of changing deposit insurance coverage levels: Findings from Colombia14
Editorial Board14
Disclosure rules, controlling shareholders, and trading activity in the new issues market14
Crowdedness, mispricing, crashes, and spikes14
Incentive contracting in the shadow of litigation risk: Evidence from universal demand laws14
Vulnerable funding in the global economy13
Reprint of: Delegated asset management and performance when some investors are unsophisticated13
How does corporate culture affect IPO price formation?13
The sources of value creation in acquisitions of intangible assets13
Economic activity and the bank credit channel13
COVID-19 and bank branch lending: The moderating effect of digitalization13
Editorial Board13
Bidder opportunism, familiarity, and the M&A payment choice13
When should retirees tap their home equity?13
Editorial Board13
The Banker’s oath and financial advice13
In Memoria Giorgio and Emilia Szegő A special issue on institutions, risk measures, and portfolio optimization13
The capital gain lock-in effect and seasoned equity offerings13
Newswire tone-overlay commodity portfolios13
Leverage and the cost of capital for U.S. banks13
Marginals versus copulas: Which account for more model risk in multivariate risk forecasting?13
Banking relationship, information reusability, and acquisition loans12
Enhanced momentum strategies12
Does regulatory and supervisory independence affect financial stability?12
What are reference rates for?12
Coherent risk measures alone are ineffective in constraining portfolio losses12
Functional distance and bank loan pricing: Evidence from the opening of high-speed railway in China12
Is lending distance really changing? Distance dynamics and loan composition in small business lending12
Editorial Board12
The up side of being down: Depression and crowdsourced forecasts12
When expectations of implicit government guarantees diminished, do retail stock investors run away?12
Longs, shorts, and the cross-section of stock returns11
Does options trading stabilize stock prices? : Evidence from a natural experiment11
Fiduciary duty and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from corporate opportunity waiver11
Modeling and pricing credit risk with a focus on recovery risk11
Forecasting Value at Risk and expected shortfall using a model with a dynamic omega ratio11
Assessing and mitigating fire sales risk under partial information11
What drives the dispersion anomaly?11
The market for corporate control and firm information environment: Evidence from five decades of data11
PayTech on BigTech platforms11
Do Hedge Funds Value Sell-Side Analysts Differently?11
Debt-stabilizing properties of GDP-linked securities: A macro-finance perspective11
CEO relative age at school entry and corporate risk-taking11
Editorial Board11
Global evidence on unspanned macro risks in dynamic term structure models11
Low interest rates and banks’ interest margins: Does belonging to a banking group matter?11
Is bank misconduct related to social capital? Evidence from U.S. banks11
Short selling and product market competition11
4/2 rough and smooth11
Financial misconduct and bank risk-taking: Evidence from US banks10
Air pollution and bank loan pricing10
Impact of sovereign credit ratings on systemic risk and the moderating role of regulatory reforms: An international investigation10
Stock valuation during the COVID-19 pandemic: An explanation using option-based discount rates10
Insider trading regulation and shorting constraints. Evaluating the joint effects of two market interventions.10
Cybercrime on the ethereum blockchain10
Political promotion incentives and banking supervision: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China10
A stochastic model for predicting the response time of green vs brown stocks to climate change news risk10
Stock market liberalization and corporate investment revisited: Evidence from China10
The value of growth: Changes in profitability and future stock returns10
How do markets react to tighter bank capital requirements?10
National culture of secrecy and firms’ access to credit10
Strategic repurchases and equity sales: Evidence from equity vesting schedules10
Optimal information production of mutual funds: Evidence from China10
Bank-specific capital requirements and capital management from 1989-2013: Further evidence from the UK10
Investor sentiment and asset prices: Evidence from the ex-day10
Household willingness to take financial risk: Stockmarket movements and life‐cycle effects10
A shadow rate without a lower bound constraint10
Sustainable finance literacy and the determinants of sustainable investing10
ESG and bond market resilience: Evidence from the Covid crisis10
The impact of managerial myopia on cybersecurity: Evidence from data breaches10
Editorial Board10
Credit derivatives and corporate default prediction10
Uncertainty premia for small and large risks10
Bank levy and household risk-aversion9
Compounding COVID-19 and climate risks: The interplay of banks’ lending and government’s policy in the shock recovery9
Motivated beliefs about stock returns9
International information flow and market quality9
A hidden cost of ETF investing: Retail demand shocks and limits to arbitrage9
Debt restructuring with multiple bank relationships9
Risk-based deposit insurance, deposit rates and bank failures: Evidence from Russia9
Investor heterogeneity and the market for fund benchmarks: Evidence from passive ETFs9
Central bank policies and financial markets: Lessons from the euro crisis9
What drives startup valuations?9
Corporate culture and M&A deals: Using text from crowdsourced employer reviews to measure cultural differences9
Geographic proximity and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from high-speed rail construction in China9
Optimal restrictiveness of a financing covenant9
Operational Risk is More Systemic than You Think: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies9
How cheap talk in climate disclosures relates to climate initiatives, corporate emissions, and reputation risk9
Editorial Board9
The demise of branch banking – Technology, consolidation, bank fragility9
Geographic deregulation and bank capital structure9
Housing booms and local capital misallocation8
Social trust distance in mergers and acquisitions8
Borrowing on the wrong side of the tracks: Evidence from mortgage loan discontinuities8
Information precision and return co-movements in private commercial real estate markets8
The evolution of bidder gains and acquisition discounts in M&A8
Why do firms issue callable convertible bonds? A critique of the “backdoor equity financing” theory8
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