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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bear factor and hedge fund performance46
Estimation and inference in low frequency factor model regressions with overlapping observations45
Uncovered interest rate parity redux: Non-uniform effects45
Persistent and transient variance components in option pricing models with variance-dependent Kernel45
Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from JGTRRA43
The stock return predictability of treasury bond yield in China42
Using, taming or avoiding the factor zoo? A double-shrinkage estimator for covariance matrices42
On the profitability of influential carry-trade strategies: Data-snooping bias and post-publication performance40
Public data openness and trade credit: Evidence from China40
Dynamic relationship between Stock and Bond returns: A GAS MIDAS copula approach39
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for stock investors? A regime-switching approach38
House price bubbles under the COVID-19 pandemic35
The effect of venture capital backing on innovation in newly public firms32
A revisit to bias-adjusted predictive regression27
Customer–supplier relationships and non-linear financial policy response25
High frequency online inflation and term structure of interest rates: Evidence from China25
Climate change risk and green bond pricing25
Editorial Board23
The stock market tips22
Changes in the electorate and firm values: Evidence from the introduction of female suffrage in Switzerland22
Identifying the underlying components of high-frequency data: Pure vs jump diffusion processes21
Stock price movements: Evidence from global equity markets21
Partial moments and indexation investment strategies20
Tone or term: Machine-learning text analysis, featured vocabulary extraction, and evidence from bond pricing in China20
The correlated trading and investment performance of individual investors20
Information salience, investor attention, and stock price crash risk19
Modeling and forecasting dynamic conditional correlations with opening, high, low, and closing prices18
Decision-based trades: An analysis of institutional investors’ information advantages18
Deep learning, predictability, and optimal portfolio returns17
Peer effects in financial expectations17
Realized, expected and unexpected returns in asset pricing tests17
Is this time different? Reconsidering inflation hedged portfolios through community detection and fuzzy network17
Portfolio homogeneity and systemic risk of financial networks16
Regulatory fragmentation and corporate innovation16
Easy money and competitive industries’ booms and busts16
Is machine learning a necessity? A regression-based approach for stock return prediction16
A robust latent factor model for high-dimensional portfolio selection15
Estimation with mixed data frequencies: A bias-correction approach15
Is gold a hedge or a safe haven against stock markets? Evidence from conditional comoments15
Smart beta, “smarter” flows15
The commodity risk premium and neural networks15
Equity issues, creditor control and market timing patterns: Evidence from leverage decreasing recapitalizations15
Are stablecoins the money market mutual funds of the future?14
Firm-level political risk and corporate R&D investment13
Do fees matter? Investor’s sensitivity to active management fees13
The anatomy of a fee change — evidence from cryptocurrency markets13
Depositor responses to a banking crisis: Are finance professionals special?12
Ownership structure and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese corporate bond market12
Margin-buying, short-selling, and stock valuation: Why is the effect reversed over time in China?12
Social connectedness and cross-border mergers and acquisitions12
International comovement of r12
Improving information leadership share for measuring price discovery11
Bitcoin unchained: Determinants of cryptocurrency exchange liquidity11
Forecasting financial volatility: An approach based on Parkinson volatility measure with long memory stochastic range model11
Does a sudden breakdown in public information search impair analyst forecast accuracy? Evidence from China11
Managerial ability and financial statement disaggregation decisions11
The AH premium: A tale of “siamese twin” stocks11
Why does the Cochrane–Piazzesi model predict treasury returns?11
Technological shocks and stock market volatility over a century11
Short-term institutional investors and the diffusion of supply chain information11
Peer influence and the value of cash holdings10
Information in unexpected bonus cuts: Firm performance and CEO firings10
Do firms use credit lines to support investment opportunities?: Evidence from success in R&D10
The influence of long-term managerial orientation on pay inequality10
Unlocking predictive potential: The frequency-domain approach to equity premium forecasting10
Insider trading and anomalies10
What drives the TIPS–Treasury bond mispricing?10
Editorial Board9
CEO personality traits and corporate value implication of acquisitions9
Certainty of uncertainty for asset pricing9
Multiple testing of the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis across currencies9
Betting on success: Unveiling the role of local gambling culture in equity crowdfunding9
Mutual fund performance and flow-performance relationship under ambiguity9
Why Do U.S. Firms Invest Less over Time?9
Editorial Board9
Factor pricing across asset classes9
Editorial Board8
Unveiling the villain: Credit supply and the debt trap8
Tail risks and private equity performance8
Financial statement disaggregation and bank loan pricing8
Technology spillover, corporate investment, and stock returns8
Acute illness symptoms among investment professionals and stock market dynamics: Evidence from New York City8
Don’t draw the downs apart – How to best simulate asset price drawdowns8
Reserve holding and bank lending8
Managerial commitment and heterogeneity in target-date funds8
Household debt overhang and bankruptcy abuse prevention7
Editorial Board7
It is not just What you say, but How you say it: Why tonality matters in central bank communication7
Stock return prediction: Stacking a variety of models7
Small is beautiful? How the introduction of mini futures contracts affects the regular contracts7
Director optimism and CEO equity compensation7
The value of risk-taking in mergers: Role of ownership and country legal institutions7
An adaptive long memory conditional correlation model7
Market neutrality and beta crashes7
Option gamma and stock returns7
Coskewness and reversal of momentum returns: The US and international evidence7
Forecasting realized betas using predictors indicating structural breaks and asymmetric risk effects6
How price limit affects the market efficiency in a short-sale constrained market? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment6
Editorial Board6
Skilled active liquidity management: Evidence from shocks to fund flows6
Organization capital and analyst coverage6
Mispricing chasing and hedge fund returns6
Effects of customer unionization on supplier relationships and supplier value6
Strategic implications of corporate disclosure via Twitter6
Local predictability of stock returns and cash flows6
The aftermath of covenant violations: Evidence from China's corporate debt securities6
Behavioral biases, information frictions and interest rate expectations5
Trust and momentum: International evidence5
The effects of economic uncertainty on financial volatility: A comprehensive investigation5
Equity markets volatility clustering: A multiscale analysis of intraday and overnight returns5
The battle between activist hedge funds and labor unions5
Bank dividends, interest expenses, and leverage5
Stock return predictability and cyclical movements in valuation ratios5
Forecasting realized volatility: Does anything beat linear models?5
The role of bad-news coverage and media environments in crash risk around the world5
Salience theory and cross-sectional corporate bond returns5
CEO neuroticism and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from CEOs’ tweets5
Sparse heterogeneous auto-regressive model for volatility forecasting5
The economic value of equity implied volatility forecasting with machine learning5
Dynamic risk management and asset comovement5
Big portfolio selection by graph-based conditional moments method4
Option valuation via nonaffine dynamics with realized volatility4
Can existing corporate finance theories explain security offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic?4
The risk–return tradeoff among equity factors4
Media, inventors, and corporate innovation4
The effects of banking market structure on corporate cash holdings and the value of cash4
Limit order revisions across investor sophistication4
Empirical analysis of crude oil dynamics using affine vs. non-affine jump-diffusion models4
Can we forecast better in periods of low uncertainty? The role of technical indicators4
Investors awaken: Fragility in China’s wealth management product market4
Testing predictability of stock returns under possible bubbles4
The informativeness of regional GDP announcements: Evidence from China4
Are the stylized features of stock returns the same in market downturns and upturns?4
Policy risk and insider trading4
An empirical application of Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo to frailty correlated default models4
Credit distortions in Japanese momentum4
(In)Attention: distracted shareholders and corporate innovation4
Positivity and long-lasting momentum4
Global political risk and international stock returns4
Monitoring institutional ownership and corporate innovation4
Macroeconomic news and price synchronicity4
Implied local volatility models4
Time series momentum and reversal: Intraday information from realized semivariance4
How does bank opacity affect credit growth and return predictability?4
Automated stock picking using random forests3
US risk premia under emerging markets constraints3
The contributions of betas versus characteristics to the ESG premium3
Measuring daily systemic risk with intraday data: Evidence from foreign exchange market3
Disagreement, speculation, and the idiosyncratic volatility3
Geographical proximity, cultural familiarity and financial information production3
Income inequality, inflation and financial development3
What drives retail investors’ overconfidence? The role of information acquisition costs3
Herding behavior and systemic risk in global stock markets3
Co-illiquidity management3
Why do firms with no leverage still have leverage and volatility feedback effects?3
Forecasting intraday market risk: A marked self-exciting point process with exogenous renewals3
Enhancing betting against beta with stochastic dominance3
Default-probability-implied credit ratings for Chinese firms3
The free dividend fallacy in the Chinese stock market: Evidence from stock pricing behavior around ex-dividend day3
A jumping index of jumping stocks? An MCMC analysis of continuous-time models for individual stocks3
The rise of venture capital and IPO quality3
Expected returns and risk in the stock market3
The veracity of insider trading signals in financially distressed firms3
Combining the MGHyp distribution with nonlinear shrinkage in modeling financial asset returns3
Industry regulation and the comovement of stock returns3
Momentum is still there conditional on volatility-amplified pessimism3
Unlocking stability: Corporate site visits and information disclosure3
When “time varying” volatility meets “transaction cost” in portfolio selection3
Tick size and firm financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment3
Cross-market volatility forecasting with attention-based spatial–temporal graph convolutional networks3
What drives robo-advice?3
Machine learning for realised volatility forecasting3
A financial modeling approach to industry exchange-traded funds selection3
The contribution of jump signs and activity to forecasting stock price volatility3
US cross-listing and domestic high-frequency trading: Evidence from Canadian stocks3
Editorial Board3
Carbon dioxide and asset pricing: Evidence from international stock markets2
Prospect theory and stock price behavior in retail trading booms2
The PhD origins of finance faculty2
Horizontal mergers and heterogeneous firm investments: evidence from the United States2
Economic aggregation of return signals in global markets2
The 2008 short-selling ban’s impact on tail risk2
Forecasting realized volatility with wavelet decomposition2
Religiosity and sovereign credit quality2
Capital mobility and the long-run return–risk trade-offs of industry portfolios2
Allocation of attention and the delayed reaction of stock returns to liquidity shock: Global evidence2
Running a mutual fund: Performance and trading behavior of runner managers2
Factor correlation and the cross section of asset returns: A correlation-robust machine learning approach2
Product competition, political connections, and the costs of high leverage2
Do investors reach for yield? Evidence from corporate bond mutual fund flows2
Volatility and jumps in the Chinese Yuan using Gumbel distribution during the trade war and COVID-19 pandemic2
Economic conditions and portfolio tail risk: A probability-weighted simulation approach2
Jump tail risk exposure and the cross-section of stock returns2
Detecting jumps amidst prevalent zero returns: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury securities2
Corporate social responsibility and excess perks2
The money-inflation nexus revisited2
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