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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)
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Running a mutual fund: Performance and trading behavior of runner managers75
New evidence on Bayesian tests of global factor pricing models70
Reinsurance demand and liquidity creation: A search for bicausality63
Do leveraged warrants prompt individuals to speculate on stock price reversals?36
Uncovered interest rate parity redux: Non-uniform effects35
Investment, idiosyncratic risk, and growth options34
The effects of economic uncertainty on financial volatility: A comprehensive investigation32
Bond issuance and the funding choices of European banks: The consequences of public debt30
Intraday VaR: A copula-based approach29
Detecting jumps amidst prevalent zero returns: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury securities28
Corporate social responsibility and excess perks27
Information in unexpected bonus cuts: Firm performance and CEO firings26
Introducing article numbering to Journal of Empirical Finance26
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Equity markets volatility clustering: A multiscale analysis of intraday and overnight returns24
The role of bad-news coverage and media environments in crash risk around the world22
Can we forecast better in periods of low uncertainty? The role of technical indicators22
Factor correlation and the cross section of asset returns: A correlation-robust machine learning approach21
Do firms use credit lines to support investment opportunities?: Evidence from success in R&D19
Characteristic-sorted portfolios and macroeconomic risks—An orthogonal decomposition18
Does subsidiary bank failure affect parents’ capital decisions? Evidence from US bank holding companies18
From watchdog to watchman: Do independent directors monitor a CEO of their own age?17
Why Do U.S. Firms Invest Less over Time?17
The non-linear trade-off between return and risk and its determinants17
Dynamic risk management and asset comovement16
Using, taming or avoiding the factor zoo? A double-shrinkage estimator for covariance matrices16
Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from JGTRRA15
Estimation and inference in low frequency factor model regressions with overlapping observations15
Shadow capital in venture financing: Selection, valuation, and exit dynamic15
Do mutual funds and ETFs affect the commonality in liquidity of corporate bonds?14
Forecasting realized volatility: Does anything beat linear models?14
A portfolio-level, sum-of-the-parts approach to return predictability14
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for stock investors? A regime-switching approach13
The effect of venture capital backing on innovation in newly public firms13
House price bubbles under the COVID-19 pandemic12
Forecasting tail risk measures for financial time series: An extreme value approach with covariates12
Oil price shocks and the US stock market: A nonlinear approach12
Endogeneity in the mutual fund flow–performance relationship: An instrumental variables solution12
Dynamic relationship between Stock and Bond returns: A GAS MIDAS copula approach12
Tracking performance of VIX futures ETPs12
Peer influence and the value of cash holdings11
What drives the TIPS–Treasury bond mispricing?11
Isolating momentum crashes11
Deciphering big data in consumer credit evaluation10
Investor sentiment and stock returns: Global evidence10
Time-varying Z-score measures for bank insolvency risk: Best practice10
Timing is money: The factor timing ability of hedge fund managers10
Gold, platinum, and mutual fund flows9
Option valuation via nonaffine dynamics with realized volatility9
Persistent and transient variance components in option pricing models with variance-dependent Kernel9
Banker directors on board and corporate tax avoidance9
Time series momentum and reversal: Intraday information from realized semivariance9
Limit order revisions across investor sophistication8
The effect of investor attention on stock price crash risk8
To be or not to be all-equity for firms that eliminate long-term debt8
Macroeconomic news and price synchronicity8
Maximum likelihood estimation of the Hull–White model8
Is convexity efficiently priced? Evidence from international swap markets7
Executive compensation and aspirational peer benchmarking7
Economic evaluation of asset pricing models under predictability7
Spillover effects in managerial compensation7
Expensive anomalies7
Mortgage credit growth for lower-income borrowers during the 2000s housing boom: Evidence and implications7
Forecasting Bitcoin realized volatility by exploiting measurement error under model uncertainty7
Bank stocks, risk factors, and tail behavior7
The stock market tips7
Stock price movements: Evidence from global equity markets7
Do financial variables help predict the conditional distribution of the market portfolio?7
Predictive regression with p-lags and order-7
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Portfolio allocation over the life cycle with multiple late-in-life saving motives7
In search of retail investors: The effect of retail investor attention on odd lot trades6
Price convergence between credit default swap and put option: New evidence6
Whose money is smart? Individual and institutional investors’ trades based on analyst recommendations6
The diversification benefits and policy risks of accessing China’s stock market6
Conditional out-of-sample predictability of aggregate equity returns and aggregate equity return volatility using economic variables6
Overlapping momentum portfolios6
An empirical application of Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo to frailty correlated default models6
Tariff uncertainty and firm innovation: Evidence from the U.S.–China Permanent Normal Trade Relation6
Mutual fund (sub)advisor connections and crowds6
Value and momentum from investors’ perspective: Evidence from professionals’ risk-ratings6
The effects of banking market structure on corporate cash holdings and the value of cash6
Changes in the electorate and firm values: Evidence from the introduction of female suffrage in Switzerland6
Can interest rate factors explain exchange rate fluctuations?6
How do bail-in amendments in Directive (EU) 2017/2399 affect the subordinated bond yields of EU G-SIBs?6
Financial risk-taking, religiosity and denomination heterogeneity6
Certainty of uncertainty for asset pricing5
Multiple testing of the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis across currencies5
Climate change concerns and mortgage lending5
A revisit to bias-adjusted predictive regression5
Exploring risk premium factors for country equity returns5
Betting on success: Unveiling the role of local gambling culture in equity crowdfunding5
Do share repurchases facilitate movement toward target capital structure? International evidence5
Customer–supplier relationships and non-linear financial policy response5
Natural disasters and the role of regional lenders in economic recovery5
Policy uncertainty, bad news disclosure, and stock price crash risk5
Forecasting realized volatility with wavelet decomposition5
Corporate hedging fragility in the over-the-counter market5
Social capital and the pricing of initial public offerings5
CEO personality traits and corporate value implication of acquisitions5
Policy risk and insider trading5
The risk–return tradeoff among equity factors4
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Media coverage and investment efficiency4
Tournament incentives, age diversity and firm performance4
Global political risk and international stock returns4
Individual investors’ trading behavior and gender difference in tolerance of sex crimes: Evidence from a natural experiment4
Household portfolio allocation, uncertainty, and risk4
The 2008 short-selling ban’s impact on tail risk4
How does bank opacity affect credit growth and return predictability?4
The money-inflation nexus revisited4
Risk optimizations on basis portfolios: The role of sorting4
The pricing of jump and diffusive risks in the cross-section of cryptocurrency returns4
Implied local volatility models4
Empirical analysis of crude oil dynamics using affine vs. non-affine jump-diffusion models4
Big portfolio selection by graph-based conditional moments method4
Short-term momentum and reversals, turnover, and a stock’s price-to-52-week-high ratio4
Forecasting volatility using double shrinkage methods4
Out-of-sample equity premium prediction: The role of option-implied constraints4
Automated stock picking using random forests4
Investment restrictions and fund performance3
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Income, trading, and performance: Evidence from retail investors3
Reserve holding and bank lending3
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Forecasting intraday market risk: A marked self-exciting point process with exogenous renewals3
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Non-standard errors in asset pricing: Mind your sorts3
Managerial commitment and heterogeneity in target-date funds3
The informativeness of regional GDP announcements: Evidence from China3
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Acute illness symptoms among investment professionals and stock market dynamics: Evidence from New York City3
Term premia and short rate expectations in the euro area3
Monitoring institutional ownership and corporate innovation3
Time-dependent lottery preference and the cross-section of stock returns3
Improved inference for fund alphas using high-dimensional cross-sectional tests3
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Instantaneous volatility of the yield curve, variance risk premium and bond return predictability3
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Tail risks and private equity performance3
Industry regulation and the comovement of stock returns3
An empirical review of dynamic extreme value models for forecasting value at risk, expected shortfall and expectile3
Testing predictability of stock returns under possible bubbles3
A toolkit for exploiting contemporaneous stock correlations2
Long-horizon stock valuation and return forecasts based on demographic projections2
Partial moments and indexation investment strategies2
Financial statement disaggregation and bank loan pricing2
Housing returns, precautionary savings and consumption: Micro evidence from China2
Geographic diversification and corporate cash holdings2
Housing market spillovers through the lens of transaction volume: A new spillover index approach2
Inverted vs maker-taker routing choice and trader information2
Drivers of economic and financial integration: A machine learning approach2
Does carbon risk exposure make funds more vulnerable?2
Time-varying variance decomposition of macro-finance term structure models2
Is firm-level political risk priced in the corporate bond market?2
An adaptive long memory conditional correlation model2
The correlated trading and investment performance of individual investors2
The role of intermediaries in derivatives markets: Evidence from VIX options2
Do negative interest rates affect bank risk-taking?2
Non-marketability and one-day selling lockup2
Non-parametric momentum based on ranks and signs2
Technology spillover, corporate investment, and stock returns2
Tone or term: Machine-learning text analysis, featured vocabulary extraction, and evidence from bond pricing in China2
Forecasting stock returns with large dimensional factor models2
Using the Bayesian sampling method to estimate corporate loss given default distribution2
Forecasting earnings with combination of analyst forecasts2
CEO networks and the labor market for directors2
Local labor market and corporate investment2
Time-varying relative risk aversion: Theoretical mechanism and empirical evidence2
Stock price synchronicity and stock liquidity: International evidence2
When “time varying” volatility meets “transaction cost” in portfolio selection2
Share pledging, payout policy, and the value of cash holdings2
Pooling and winsorizing machine learning forecasts to predict stock returns with high-dimensional data2
What does a term structure model imply about very long-term interest rates?2
Can existing corporate finance theories explain security offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic?2
Why do firms with no leverage still have leverage and volatility feedback effects?2
Diversity and inclusion: Evidence from corporate inventors2
Does the executive labor market discipline? Labor market incentives and earnings management2
A comparison of factor models in China2
Global equity market leadership positions through implied volatility measures2
Burned by leverage? Flows and fragility in bond mutual funds2
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