Journal of Empirical Finance

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Empirical Finance is 2. 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
On the stability of stablecoins75
Investor sentiment and stock returns: Global evidence64
Media coverage and investment efficiency59
Retail investor attention and herding behavior49
Government Affiliation and Peer-To-Peer Lending Platforms in China36
Trading activity and price discovery in Bitcoin futures markets35
Housing market spillovers through the lens of transaction volume: A new spillover index approach34
Stock return predictability and cyclical movements in valuation ratios32
Individual investors’ trading behavior and gender difference in tolerance of sex crimes: Evidence from a natural experiment30
Drivers of economic and financial integration: A machine learning approach29
Bitcoin unchained: Determinants of cryptocurrency exchange liquidity27
Oil price shocks and the US stock market: A nonlinear approach27
Volatility timing, sentiment, and the short-term profitability of VIX-based cross-sectional trading strategies26
Cross-sectional uncertainty and expected stock returns26
Artificial Intelligence Alter Egos: Who might benefit from robo-investing?25
COVID-19, bank deposits, and lending25
Does vega-neutral options trading contain information?22
Entrepreneurship and household portfolio choice: Evidence from the China Household Finance Survey22
Cash-flow or return predictability at long horizons? The case of earnings yield21
Whose money is smart? Individual and institutional investors’ trades based on analyst recommendations21
Innovate or die: Corporate innovation and bankruptcy forecasts20
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for stock investors? A regime-switching approach19
Industry equi-correlation: A powerful predictor of stock returns18
Herding behaviour in P2P lending markets18
Volatility cascades in cryptocurrency trading18
Endogeneity in the mutual fund flow–performance relationship: An instrumental variables solution17
Do negative interest rates affect bank risk-taking?17
Dissecting the idiosyncratic volatility anomaly17
Forecasting Bitcoin realized volatility by exploiting measurement error under model uncertainty16
Salience theory in price and trading volume: Evidence from China16
Share pledging, payout policy, and the value of cash holdings16
Forecasting stock returns with large dimensional factor models15
The contributions of betas versus characteristics to the ESG premium15
What does a term structure model imply about very long-term interest rates?14
Deciphering big data in consumer credit evaluation14
Does financial reporting regulation influence the value of cash holdings?13
Household portfolio allocation, uncertainty, and risk13
Investment, idiosyncratic risk, and growth options13
Stock return prediction: Stacking a variety of models12
Income inequality, inflation and financial development12
It is not just What you say, but How you say it: Why tonality matters in central bank communication12
Forecasting volatility using double shrinkage methods12
Technology shocks and stock returns: A long-term perspective12
The valuation effect of stock dividends or splits: Evidence from a catering perspective12
Tariff uncertainty and firm innovation: Evidence from the U.S.–China Permanent Normal Trade Relation12
Housing returns, precautionary savings and consumption: Micro evidence from China11
Timing is money: The factor timing ability of hedge fund managers11
In search of retail investors: The effect of retail investor attention on odd lot trades11
Volatility forecasts, proxies and loss functions11
Forecasting realized volatility with machine learning: Panel data perspective11
Isolating momentum crashes11
Trader positions in VIX futures10
Global political risk and international stock returns10
Gender and herding9
Climate change concerns and mortgage lending9
Natural disasters and the role of regional lenders in economic recovery9
On the stability of portfolio selection models9
CEO personality traits and corporate value implication of acquisitions9
Liquidity provider incentives in fragmented securities markets8
Non-parametric momentum based on ranks and signs8
Foreign bank entry deregulation and stock market stability: Evidence from staggered regulatory changes8
Burned by leverage? Flows and fragility in bond mutual funds8
The diversification benefits and policy risks of accessing China’s stock market8
Is corporate tax avoidance related to employee treatment?8
Investment income taxes and private equity acquisition activity8
Does product market competition affect corporate governance? Evidence from corporate takeovers8
The transformed Gram Charlier distribution: Parametric properties and financial risk applications7
Modeling and forecasting dynamic conditional correlations with opening, high, low, and closing prices7
Time series momentum and reversal: Intraday information from realized semivariance7
Does program trading contribute to excess comovement of stock returns?7
From watchdog to watchman: Do independent directors monitor a CEO of their own age?7
The impact of liquidity risk in the Chinese banking system on the global commodity markets7
Tournament incentives, age diversity and firm performance7
The effect of investor attention on stock price crash risk7
Economic evaluation of asset pricing models under predictability7
Trading the foreign exchange market with technical analysis and Bayesian Statistics7
The anatomy of a fee change — evidence from cryptocurrency markets7
Geographic diversification and corporate cash holdings7
Can interest rate factors explain exchange rate fluctuations?7
Reinsurance demand and liquidity creation: A search for bicausality7
Non-marketability and one-day selling lockup6
Dynamic relationship between Stock and Bond returns: A GAS MIDAS copula approach6
The predictive power of Nelson–Siegel factor loadings for the real economy6
Executive risk-taking and the agency cost of debt6
Caught in the crossfire: How the threat of hedge fund activism affects creditors6
Investment restrictions and fund performance6
Forecasting tail risk measures for financial time series: An extreme value approach with covariates6
Do interest rate differentials drive the volatility of exchange rates? Evidence from an extended stochastic volatility model6
Machine learning loss given default for corporate debt6
Mutual fund performance: Using bespoke benchmarks to disentangle mandates, constraints and skill6
Does the executive labor market discipline? Labor market incentives and earnings management6
Testing predictability of stock returns under possible bubbles6
Using covariates to improve the efficacy of univariate bubble detection methods6
The price discovery role of day traders in futures market: Evidence from different types of day traders6
Disseminating information across connected firms — Analyst site visits can help6
Herding behavior and systemic risk in global stock markets6
Uncertainty, prospectus content, and the pricing of initial public offerings5
Is idiosyncratic risk priced? The international evidence5
Development banks and the syndicate structure: Evidence from a world sample5
Beta dispersion and market timing5
Policy risk and insider trading5
Do firms use credit lines to support investment opportunities?: Evidence from success in R&D5
Stock price fragility and the cost of bank loans5
The role of human capital: Evidence from corporate innovation5
Asymmetric effects of the limit order book on price dynamics5
Out-of-sample equity premium prediction: The role of option-implied constraints5
Time-varying Z-score measures for bank insolvency risk: Best practice5
Is gold a hedge or a safe haven against stock markets? Evidence from conditional comoments5
A corporate credit rating model with autoregressive errors5
The contribution of jump signs and activity to forecasting stock price volatility5
Financial risk-taking, religiosity and denomination heterogeneity5
The effects of economic uncertainty on financial volatility: A comprehensive investigation5
Do leveraged warrants prompt individuals to speculate on stock price reversals?4
A jumping index of jumping stocks? An MCMC analysis of continuous-time models for individual stocks4
I only fear when I hear: How media affects insider trading in takeover targets4
Diversity and inclusion: Evidence from corporate inventors4
Automated stock picking using random forests4
To be or not to be all-equity for firms that eliminate long-term debt4
Characteristic-sorted portfolios and macroeconomic risks—An orthogonal decomposition4
On the role of foreign directors: Evidence from cross-listed firms4
Portfolio homogeneity and systemic risk of financial networks4
Empirical performance of component GARCH models in pricing VIX term structure and VIX futures4
Monitoring institutional ownership and corporate innovation4
Risk optimizations on basis portfolios: The role of sorting4
Exploring risk premium factors for country equity returns4
Peer influence and the value of cash holdings4
Smoking hot portfolios? Trading behavior, investment biases, and self-control failure4
The value of risk-taking in mergers: Role of ownership and country legal institutions4
CEO networks and the labor market for directors4
Income, trading, and performance: Evidence from retail investors4
Customer–supplier relationships and non-linear financial policy response4
Organization capital and analyst coverage3
Predicting corporate policies using downside risk: A machine learning approach3
Competition and risk taking in local bank markets: Evidence from the business loans segment3
Value and momentum from investors’ perspective: Evidence from professionals’ risk-ratings3
Bank stocks, risk factors, and tail behavior3
Tracking performance of VIX futures ETPs3
New kids on the block: The effect of Generation X directors on corporate performance3
Follow the leader: Index tracking with factor models3
Say more to return less? Disclosure subsequent to successful technological innovation3
Stochastic volatility: A tale of co-jumps, non-normality, GMM and high frequency data3
Advisory firm paths to side-by-side management and mutual fund performance3
Partial moments and indexation investment strategies3
Social capital and the pricing of initial public offerings3
The effect of venture capital backing on innovation in newly public firms3
Managerial ability and financial statement disaggregation decisions3
Hedge funds and their prime broker analysts3
How price limit affects the market efficiency in a short-sale constrained market? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment3
The time-varying bond risk premia in China3
Enhancing the profitability of lottery strategies3
Improved inference for fund alphas using high-dimensional cross-sectional tests3
Mortgage credit growth for lower-income borrowers during the 2000s housing boom: Evidence and implications3
Using, taming or avoiding the factor zoo? A double-shrinkage estimator for covariance matrices3
Do connections pay off in the bitcoin market?3
Ownership structure and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese corporate bond market3
Foreign institutions, local investors and momentum trading3
Stock returns in global value chains: The role of upstreamness and downstreamness2
Technology spillover, corporate investment, and stock returns2
Legal enforcement and fintech credit: International evidence2
Religiosity and sovereign credit quality2
The pricing of jump and diffusive risks in the cross-section of cryptocurrency returns2
The commodity risk premium and neural networks2
An empirical application of Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo to frailty correlated default models2
When “time varying” volatility meets “transaction cost” in portfolio selection2
Expensive anomalies2
Coskewness and reversal of momentum returns: The US and international evidence2
Maximum likelihood estimation of the Hull–White model2
Option gamma and stock returns2
Uncovered interest rate parity redux: Non-uniform effects2
Dynamic risk management and asset comovement2
Factor momentum in the Chinese stock market2
Non-standard errors in asset pricing: Mind your sorts2
Cross-border M&As and credit risk: Evidence from the CDS market2
Do as they say or do as they do? — Uncovering the effects of inappropriate methods and unreliable data in boardroom diversity research2
Macroeconomic news and price synchronicity2
A global monetary policy factor in sovereign bond yields2
Do financial variables help predict the conditional distribution of the market portfolio?2
Coreversal: The booms and busts of arbitrage activities in China2
Limit order revisions across investor sophistication2
Uncertainty in the Black–Litterman model: Empirical estimation of the equilibrium2
How do bail-in amendments in Directive (EU) 2017/2399 affect the subordinated bond yields of EU G-SIBs?2
A toolkit for exploiting contemporaneous stock correlations2
Running a mutual fund: Performance and trading behavior of runner managers2
New evidence on Bayesian tests of global factor pricing models2
Depositor responses to a banking crisis: Are finance professionals special?2
Product competition, political connections, and the costs of high leverage2
The informativeness of regional GDP announcements: Evidence from China2
City goes dark: Dark trading and adverse selection in aggregate markets2
Forecasting realized volatility with wavelet decomposition2
A robust Glasso approach to portfolio selection in high dimensions2
Is convexity efficiently priced? Evidence from international swap markets2
Global equity market leadership positions through implied volatility measures2
Stock price movements: Evidence from global equity markets2
Long-horizon stock valuation and return forecasts based on demographic projections2
What drives the TIPS–Treasury bond mispricing?2
Forecasting earnings with combination of analyst forecasts2
The role of bad-news coverage and media environments in crash risk around the world2
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