Journal of Empirical Finance

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Empirical Finance is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
The effect of venture capital backing on innovation in newly public firms119
Uncovered interest rate parity redux: Non-uniform effects45
Public data openness and trade credit: Evidence from China41
Characteristic-sorted portfolios and macroeconomic risks—An orthogonal decomposition41
Estimation and inference in low frequency factor model regressions with overlapping observations38
Bear factor and hedge fund performance38
Using, taming or avoiding the factor zoo? A double-shrinkage estimator for covariance matrices37
On the profitability of influential carry-trade strategies: Data-snooping bias and post-publication performance37
Dynamic relationship between Stock and Bond returns: A GAS MIDAS copula approach35
House price bubbles under the COVID-19 pandemic35
The stock return predictability of treasury bond yield in China34
Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from JGTRRA33
Persistent and transient variance components in option pricing models with variance-dependent Kernel32
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for stock investors? A regime-switching approach31
A revisit to bias-adjusted predictive regression28
High frequency online inflation and term structure of interest rates: Evidence from China26
Stock price movements: Evidence from global equity markets25
Customer–supplier relationships and non-linear financial policy response20
The stock market tips19
Changes in the electorate and firm values: Evidence from the introduction of female suffrage in Switzerland19
Editorial Board18
Tone or term: Machine-learning text analysis, featured vocabulary extraction, and evidence from bond pricing in China17
Identifying the underlying components of high-frequency data: Pure vs jump diffusion processes17
Climate change risk and green bond pricing17
The correlated trading and investment performance of individual investors16
Decision-based trades: An analysis of institutional investors’ information advantages16
Partial moments and indexation investment strategies16
Regulatory fragmentation and corporate innovation16
Smart beta, “smarter” flows14
Modeling and forecasting dynamic conditional correlations with opening, high, low, and closing prices14
Caught in the crossfire: How the threat of hedge fund activism affects creditors14
Is machine learning a necessity? A regression-based approach for stock return prediction14
Information Salience, Investor Attention, and Stock Price Crash Risk14
The commodity risk premium and neural networks13
Estimation with mixed data frequencies: A bias-correction approach13
Is idiosyncratic risk priced? The international evidence13
Equity issues, creditor control and market timing patterns: Evidence from leverage decreasing recapitalizations13
A robust latent factor model for high-dimensional portfolio selection13
Portfolio homogeneity and systemic risk of financial networks13
The anatomy of a fee change — evidence from cryptocurrency markets12
Firm-level political risk and corporate R&D investment12
Technological shocks and stock market volatility over a century12
Are stablecoins the money market mutual funds of the future?12
International comovement of r12
Margin-buying, short-selling, and stock valuation: Why is the effect reversed over time in China?12
Easy money and competitive industries’ booms and busts12
The impact of liquidity risk in the Chinese banking system on the global commodity markets12
Do fees matter? Investor’s sensitivity to active management fees12
Is gold a hedge or a safe haven against stock markets? Evidence from conditional comoments12
Managerial ability and financial statement disaggregation decisions11
Bitcoin unchained: Determinants of cryptocurrency exchange liquidity11
Depositor responses to a banking crisis: Are finance professionals special?11
City goes dark: Dark trading and adverse selection in aggregate markets11
Improving information leadership share for measuring price discovery11
Does a sudden breakdown in public information search impair analyst forecast accuracy? Evidence from China10
Forecasting financial volatility: An approach based on Parkinson volatility measure with long memory stochastic range model10
Unlocking predictive potential: The frequency-domain approach to equity premium forecasting10
Why does the Cochrane–Piazzesi model predict treasury returns?10
Social connectedness and cross-border mergers and acquisitions10
Short-term institutional investors and the diffusion of supply chain information10
Machine learning loss given default for corporate debt10
Ownership structure and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese corporate bond market10
The AH premium: A tale of “siamese twin” stocks10
Insider trading and anomalies9
What drives the TIPS–Treasury bond mispricing?9
Editorial Board9
Why Do U.S. Firms Invest Less over Time?9
Do firms use credit lines to support investment opportunities?: Evidence from success in R&D9
Editorial Board9
The influence of long-term managerial orientation on pay inequality9
Information in unexpected bonus cuts: Firm performance and CEO firings9
Peer influence and the value of cash holdings9
Certainty of uncertainty for asset pricing8
CEO personality traits and corporate value implication of acquisitions8
Managerial commitment and heterogeneity in target-date funds8
Market neutrality and beta crashes8
Mutual fund performance and flow-performance relationship under ambiguity8
Financial statement disaggregation and bank loan pricing8
Unveiling the villain: Credit supply and the debt trap8
Acute illness symptoms among investment professionals and stock market dynamics: Evidence from New York City8
Tail risks and private equity performance8
Betting on success: Unveiling the role of local gambling culture in equity crowdfunding8
Multiple testing of the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis across currencies8
Technology spillover, corporate investment, and stock returns8
Reserve holding and bank lending8
Director optimism and CEO equity compensation7
Coskewness and reversal of momentum returns: The US and international evidence7
Small is beautiful? How the introduction of mini futures contracts affects the regular contracts7
Mispricing chasing and hedge fund returns7
Effects of customer unionization on supplier relationships and supplier value7
The battle between activist hedge funds and labor unions7
An adaptive long memory conditional correlation model7
Option gamma and stock returns7
The value of risk-taking in mergers: Role of ownership and country legal institutions7
Stock return prediction: Stacking a variety of models7
Skilled active liquidity management: Evidence from shocks to fund flows7
The aftermath of covenant violations: Evidence from China's corporate debt securities7
It is not just What you say, but How you say it: Why tonality matters in central bank communication7
Strategic implications of corporate disclosure via Twitter7
Household debt overhang and bankruptcy abuse prevention7
Stochastic volatility: A tale of co-jumps, non-normality, GMM and high frequency data7
Editorial Board7
Organization capital and analyst coverage7
Forecasting realized betas using predictors indicating structural breaks and asymmetric risk effects6
Bank dividends, interest expenses, and leverage6
Equity markets volatility clustering: A multiscale analysis of intraday and overnight returns6
Endogeneity in the mutual fund flow–performance relationship: An instrumental variables solution6
Behavioral biases, information frictions and interest rate expectations6
How price limit affects the market efficiency in a short-sale constrained market? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment6
CEO neuroticism and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from CEOs’ tweets6
The economic value of equity implied volatility forecasting with machine learning6
The effects of economic uncertainty on financial volatility: A comprehensive investigation6
Can we forecast better in periods of low uncertainty? The role of technical indicators6
Local predictability of stock returns and cash flows6
Follow the leader: Index tracking with factor models6
Stock return predictability and cyclical movements in valuation ratios6
Dynamic risk management and asset comovement6
Forecasting realized volatility: Does anything beat linear models?6
Time series momentum and reversal: Intraday information from realized semivariance5
Implied local volatility models5
Option valuation via nonaffine dynamics with realized volatility5
The role of bad-news coverage and media environments in crash risk around the world5
Empirical analysis of crude oil dynamics using affine vs. non-affine jump-diffusion models5
How does bank opacity affect credit growth and return predictability?5
An empirical application of Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo to frailty correlated default models4
Limit order revisions across investor sophistication4
Macroeconomic news and price synchronicity4
Why do firms with no leverage still have leverage and volatility feedback effects?4
The informativeness of regional GDP announcements: Evidence from China4
Income, trading, and performance: Evidence from retail investors4
Media, inventors, and corporate innovation4
Policy risk and insider trading4
Big portfolio selection by graph-based conditional moments method4
Can existing corporate finance theories explain security offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic?4
Testing predictability of stock returns under possible bubbles4
Forecasting intraday market risk: A marked self-exciting point process with exogenous renewals4
Monitoring institutional ownership and corporate innovation4
Global political risk and international stock returns4
(In)Attention: distracted shareholders and corporate innovation4
The effects of banking market structure on corporate cash holdings and the value of cash4
The risk–return tradeoff among equity factors4
Credit distortions in Japanese momentum4
Industry regulation and the comovement of stock returns4
Diversity and inclusion: Evidence from corporate inventors4
Automated stock picking using random forests4
Editorial Board4
Cross-market volatility forecasting with attention-based spatial–temporal graph convolutional networks3
Development banks and the syndicate structure: Evidence from a world sample3
Income inequality, inflation and financial development3
The contribution of jump signs and activity to forecasting stock price volatility3
Combining the MGHyp distribution with nonlinear shrinkage in modeling financial asset returns3
Default-probability-implied credit ratings for Chinese firms3
Religiosity and sovereign credit quality3
A jumping index of jumping stocks? An MCMC analysis of continuous-time models for individual stocks3
Herding behavior and systemic risk in global stock markets3
Capital mobility and the long-run return–risk trade-offs of industry portfolios3
The PhD origins of finance faculty3
The contributions of betas versus characteristics to the ESG premium3
Do investors reach for yield? Evidence from corporate bond mutual fund flows3
When “time varying” volatility meets “transaction cost” in portfolio selection3
Tick size and firm financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment3
Co-illiquidity management3
Editorial Board3
US cross-listing and domestic high-frequency trading: Evidence from Canadian stocks3
A financial modeling approach to industry exchange-traded funds selection3
Enhancing betting against beta with stochastic dominance3
Horizontal mergers and heterogeneous firm investments: evidence from the United States3
Allocation of attention and the delayed reaction of stock returns to liquidity shock: Global evidence3
Jump tail risk exposure and the cross-section of stock returns3
What drives robo-advice?3
Momentum is still there conditional on volatility-amplified pessimism3
Expected returns and risk in the stock market3
US risk premia under emerging markets constraints3
The rise of venture capital and IPO quality3
Disagreement, speculation, and the idiosyncratic volatility3
The price discovery role of day traders in futures market: Evidence from different types of day traders3
Geographical proximity, cultural familiarity and financial information production3
Reinforcement learning and risk preference in equity linked notes markets3
Cross-border M&As and credit risk: Evidence from the CDS market3
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