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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Characteristic-sorted portfolios and macroeconomic risks—An orthogonal decomposition101
House price bubbles under the COVID-19 pandemic98
Using, taming or avoiding the factor zoo? A double-shrinkage estimator for covariance matrices81
Persistent and transient variance components in option pricing models with variance-dependent Kernel43
Estimation and inference in low frequency factor model regressions with overlapping observations41
Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from JGTRRA39
Uncovered interest rate parity redux: Non-uniform effects36
The effect of venture capital backing on innovation in newly public firms33
Dynamic relationship between Stock and Bond returns: A GAS MIDAS copula approach33
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for stock investors? A regime-switching approach32
Timing is money: The factor timing ability of hedge fund managers31
Executive compensation and aspirational peer benchmarking30
The stock market tips29
Stock price movements: Evidence from global equity markets29
In search of retail investors: The effect of retail investor attention on odd lot trades29
Exploring risk premium factors for country equity returns27
Climate Change Risk and Green Bond Pricing25
A revisit to bias-adjusted predictive regression25
Forecasting Bitcoin realized volatility by exploiting measurement error under model uncertainty24
Customer–supplier relationships and non-linear financial policy response23
Changes in the electorate and firm values: Evidence from the introduction of female suffrage in Switzerland22
Tariff uncertainty and firm innovation: Evidence from the U.S.–China Permanent Normal Trade Relation22
Tone or term: Machine-learning text analysis, featured vocabulary extraction, and evidence from bond pricing in China20
Identifying the underlying components of high-frequency data: Pure vs jump diffusion processes19
Forecasting stock returns with large dimensional factor models19
Partial moments and indexation investment strategies18
Modeling and forecasting dynamic conditional correlations with opening, high, low, and closing prices18
Caught in the crossfire: How the threat of hedge fund activism affects creditors18
Decision-based trades: An analysis of institutional investors’ information advantages18
Is machine learning a necessity? A regression-based approach for stock return prediction16
The correlated trading and investment performance of individual investors16
Portfolio homogeneity and systemic risk of financial networks15
The commodity risk premium and neural networks15
Easy money and competitive industries’ booms and busts15
The transformed Gram Charlier distribution: Parametric properties and financial risk applications15
Estimation with mixed data frequencies: A bias-correction approach15
Diversification in lottery-like features and portfolio pricing discount: Evidence from closed-end funds15
The impact of liquidity risk in the Chinese banking system on the global commodity markets14
The anatomy of a fee change — evidence from cryptocurrency markets14
Is gold a hedge or a safe haven against stock markets? Evidence from conditional comoments13
Are stablecoins the money market mutual funds of the future?12
Firm-level political risk and corporate R&D investment12
Smart beta, “smarter” flows11
Equity issues, creditor control and market timing patterns: Evidence from leverage decreasing recapitalizations11
Is idiosyncratic risk priced? The international evidence11
Short-term institutional investors and the diffusion of supply chain information10
Technological shocks and stock market volatility over a century10
Machine learning loss given default for corporate debt10
Do fees matter? Investor’s sensitivity to active management fees10
Social connectedness and cross-border mergers and acquisitions10
Depositor responses to a banking crisis: Are finance professionals special?10
Bitcoin unchained: Determinants of cryptocurrency exchange liquidity9
Ownership structure and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese corporate bond market9
International comovement of r9
Trading activity and price discovery in Bitcoin futures markets9
City goes dark: Dark trading and adverse selection in aggregate markets9
Managerial ability and financial statement disaggregation decisions9
Margin-buying, short-selling, and stock valuation: Why is the effect reversed over time in China?9
What drives the TIPS–Treasury bond mispricing?8
Why Do U.S. Firms Invest Less over Time?8
Certainty of uncertainty for asset pricing8
Peer influence and the value of cash holdings8
Information in unexpected bonus cuts: Firm performance and CEO firings8
Editorial Board8
Betting on success: Unveiling the role of local gambling culture in equity crowdfunding8
The AH premium: A tale of “siamese twin” stocks8
Do firms use credit lines to support investment opportunities?: Evidence from success in R&D8
Editorial Board8
Deciphering big data in consumer credit evaluation8
Small is beautiful? How the introduction of mini futures contracts affects the regular contracts7
Option gamma and stock returns7
Managerial commitment and heterogeneity in target-date funds7
Financial statement disaggregation and bank loan pricing7
Acute illness symptoms among investment professionals and stock market dynamics: Evidence from New York City7
Coskewness and reversal of momentum returns: The US and international evidence7
Stock return prediction: Stacking a variety of models7
Reserve holding and bank lending7
Multiple testing of the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis across currencies7
Unveiling the villain: Credit supply and the debt trap7
Market neutrality and beta crashes7
The protective role of saving: Bayesian analysis of British panel data7
It is not just What you say, but How you say it: Why tonality matters in central bank communication7
Technology spillover, corporate investment, and stock returns7
CEO personality traits and corporate value implication of acquisitions7
Tail risks and private equity performance7
Director optimism and CEO equity compensation7
Forecasting realized betas using predictors indicating structural breaks and asymmetric risk effects6
The value of risk-taking in mergers: Role of ownership and country legal institutions6
Effects of customer unionization on supplier relationships and supplier value6
Organization capital and analyst coverage6
Volatility cascades in cryptocurrency trading6
The aftermath of covenant violations: Evidence from China's corporate debt securities6
Stochastic volatility: A tale of co-jumps, non-normality, GMM and high frequency data6
Trading the foreign exchange market with technical analysis and Bayesian Statistics6
Local predictability of stock returns and cash flows6
The battle between activist hedge funds and labor unions6
Follow the leader: Index tracking with factor models6
CEO neuroticism and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from CEOs’ tweets6
Skilled active liquidity management: Evidence from shocks to fund flows6
An adaptive long memory conditional correlation model6
Editorial Board6
Mispricing chasing and hedge fund returns6
Stock return predictability and cyclical movements in valuation ratios6
Does vega-neutral options trading contain information?6
Forecasting realized volatility: Does anything beat linear models?6
How price limit affects the market efficiency in a short-sale constrained market? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment6
Dynamic risk management and asset comovement5
The role of bad-news coverage and media environments in crash risk around the world5
Is convexity efficiently priced? Evidence from international swap markets5
Time series momentum and reversal: Intraday information from realized semivariance5
An empirical application of Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo to frailty correlated default models5
Equity markets volatility clustering: A multiscale analysis of intraday and overnight returns5
Can we forecast better in periods of low uncertainty? The role of technical indicators5
Endogeneity in the mutual fund flow–performance relationship: An instrumental variables solution5
Implied local volatility models5
The effects of banking market structure on corporate cash holdings and the value of cash5
Policy risk and insider trading5
Limit order revisions across investor sophistication5
The effects of economic uncertainty on financial volatility: A comprehensive investigation5
Option valuation via nonaffine dynamics with realized volatility5
How does bank opacity affect credit growth and return predictability?5
Whose money is smart? Individual and institutional investors’ trades based on analyst recommendations5
The risk–return tradeoff among equity factors4
Can existing corporate finance theories explain security offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic?4
Automated stock picking using random forests4
The informativeness of regional GDP announcements: Evidence from China4
Risk optimizations on basis portfolios: The role of sorting4
Testing predictability of stock returns under possible bubbles4
Why do firms with no leverage still have leverage and volatility feedback effects?4
Bank stocks, risk factors, and tail behavior4
Income, trading, and performance: Evidence from retail investors4
Combining the MGHyp distribution with nonlinear shrinkage in modeling financial asset returns4
Global political risk and international stock returns4
Forecasting intraday market risk: A marked self-exciting point process with exogenous renewals4
Editorial Board4
Big portfolio selection by graph-based conditional moments method4
Empirical analysis of crude oil dynamics using affine vs. non-affine jump-diffusion models4
Diversity and inclusion: Evidence from corporate inventors4
US risk premia under emerging markets constraints4
Enhancing betting against beta with stochastic dominance4
Monitoring institutional ownership and corporate innovation4
Editorial Board4
Industry regulation and the comovement of stock returns4
Macroeconomic news and price synchronicity4
Expected returns and risk in the stock market3
Herding behavior and systemic risk in global stock markets3
What drives robo-advice?3
The contributions of betas versus characteristics to the ESG premium3
Predicting corporate policies using downside risk: A machine learning approach3
Horizontal mergers and heterogeneous firm investments: evidence from the United States3
A financial modeling approach to industry exchange-traded funds selection3
When “time varying” volatility meets “transaction cost” in portfolio selection3
Income inequality, inflation and financial development3
Geographical proximity, cultural familiarity and financial information production3
Smoking hot portfolios? Trading behavior, investment biases, and self-control failure3
Cross-border M&As and credit risk: Evidence from the CDS market3
A jumping index of jumping stocks? An MCMC analysis of continuous-time models for individual stocks3
Co-illiquidity management3
US cross-listing and domestic high-frequency trading: Evidence from Canadian stocks3
The contribution of jump signs and activity to forecasting stock price volatility3
Disagreement, speculation, and the idiosyncratic volatility3
Development banks and the syndicate structure: Evidence from a world sample3
Reinforcement learning and risk preference in equity linked notes markets3
Household portfolio allocation, uncertainty, and risk2
Stock price fragility and the cost of bank loans2
Overlapping momentum portfolios2
Capital mobility and the long-run return–risk trade-offs of industry portfolios2
The price discovery role of day traders in futures market: Evidence from different types of day traders2
Conditional out-of-sample predictability of aggregate equity returns and aggregate equity return volatility using economic variables2
Editorial Board2
Carbon dioxide and asset pricing: Evidence from international stock markets2
Natural disasters and the role of regional lenders in economic recovery2
Running a mutual fund: Performance and trading behavior of runner managers2
Financial risk-taking, religiosity and denomination heterogeneity2
Government Affiliation and Peer-To-Peer Lending Platforms in China2
Do share repurchases facilitate movement toward target capital structure? International evidence2
Allocation of attention and the delayed reaction of stock returns to liquidity shock: Global evidence2
Religiosity and sovereign credit quality2
The 2008 short-selling ban’s impact on tail risk2
The pricing of jump and diffusive risks in the cross-section of cryptocurrency returns2
Forecasting realized volatility with wavelet decomposition2
Detecting jumps amidst prevalent zero returns: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury securities2
To be or not to be all-equity for firms that eliminate long-term debt2
Do leveraged warrants prompt individuals to speculate on stock price reversals?2
The money-inflation nexus revisited2
Jump tail risk exposure and the cross-section of stock returns2
Maximum likelihood estimation of the Hull–White model2
The PhD origins of finance faculty2
Expensive anomalies2
Factor correlation and the cross section of asset returns: A correlation-robust machine learning approach2
Forecasting earnings with combination of analyst forecasts2
The effect of investor attention on stock price crash risk2
Corporate social responsibility and excess perks2
Inverted vs maker-taker routing choice and trader information2
Product competition, political connections, and the costs of high leverage2
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