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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Persistent and transient variance components in option pricing models with variance-dependent Kernel112
Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from JGTRRA109
Estimation and inference in low frequency factor model regressions with overlapping observations93
House price bubbles under the COVID-19 pandemic43
Characteristic-sorted portfolios and macroeconomic risks—An orthogonal decomposition39
Bear factor and hedge fund performance37
Public data openness and trade credit: Evidence from China36
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for stock investors? A regime-switching approach35
The effect of venture capital backing on innovation in newly public firms34
Dynamic relationship between Stock and Bond returns: A GAS MIDAS copula approach32
On the profitability of influential carry-trade strategies: Data-snooping bias and post-publication performance31
Using, taming or avoiding the factor zoo? A double-shrinkage estimator for covariance matrices31
Uncovered interest rate parity redux: Non-uniform effects31
Stock price movements: Evidence from global equity markets29
The stock market tips28
High frequency online inflation and term structure of interest rates: Evidence from China28
Climate change risk and green bond pricing26
A revisit to bias-adjusted predictive regression25
Exploring risk premium factors for country equity returns24
Changes in the electorate and firm values: Evidence from the introduction of female suffrage in Switzerland24
Customer–supplier relationships and non-linear financial policy response23
Partial moments and indexation investment strategies21
Identifying the underlying components of high-frequency data: Pure vs jump diffusion processes19
Tone or term: Machine-learning text analysis, featured vocabulary extraction, and evidence from bond pricing in China19
The correlated trading and investment performance of individual investors18
Forecasting stock returns with large dimensional factor models18
Decision-based trades: An analysis of institutional investors’ information advantages17
Is machine learning a necessity? A regression-based approach for stock return prediction16
Regulatory fragmentation and corporate innovation16
Modeling and forecasting dynamic conditional correlations with opening, high, low, and closing prices15
The transformed Gram Charlier distribution: Parametric properties and financial risk applications14
Estimation with mixed data frequencies: A bias-correction approach14
Caught in the crossfire: How the threat of hedge fund activism affects creditors14
The anatomy of a fee change — evidence from cryptocurrency markets13
The impact of liquidity risk in the Chinese banking system on the global commodity markets13
Smart beta, “smarter” flows13
Is gold a hedge or a safe haven against stock markets? Evidence from conditional comoments13
Easy money and competitive industries’ booms and busts12
Firm-level political risk and corporate R&D investment12
Equity issues, creditor control and market timing patterns: Evidence from leverage decreasing recapitalizations12
Are stablecoins the money market mutual funds of the future?12
Is idiosyncratic risk priced? The international evidence12
Portfolio homogeneity and systemic risk of financial networks11
A robust latent factor model for high-dimensional portfolio selection11
Short-term institutional investors and the diffusion of supply chain information11
The commodity risk premium and neural networks11
Technological shocks and stock market volatility over a century11
Margin-buying, short-selling, and stock valuation: Why is the effect reversed over time in China?11
Social connectedness and cross-border mergers and acquisitions11
Do fees matter? Investor’s sensitivity to active management fees11
City goes dark: Dark trading and adverse selection in aggregate markets11
Forecasting financial volatility: An approach based on Parkinson volatility measure with long memory stochastic range model10
Bitcoin unchained: Determinants of cryptocurrency exchange liquidity10
Improving information leadership share for measuring price discovery10
What drives the TIPS–Treasury bond mispricing?10
International comovement of r10
Does a sudden breakdown in public information search impair analyst forecast accuracy? Evidence from China10
Peer influence and the value of cash holdings10
Machine learning loss given default for corporate debt10
Depositor responses to a banking crisis: Are finance professionals special?10
Ownership structure and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese corporate bond market10
Managerial ability and financial statement disaggregation decisions10
The AH premium: A tale of “siamese twin” stocks10
Why Do U.S. Firms Invest Less over Time?9
Information in unexpected bonus cuts: Firm performance and CEO firings9
Unlocking predictive potential: The frequency-domain approach to equity premium forecasting9
The influence of long-term managerial orientation on pay inequality9
Do firms use credit lines to support investment opportunities?: Evidence from success in R&D9
Betting on success: Unveiling the role of local gambling culture in equity crowdfunding8
Unveiling the villain: Credit supply and the debt trap8
Reserve holding and bank lending8
Editorial Board8
Multiple testing of the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis across currencies8
Acute illness symptoms among investment professionals and stock market dynamics: Evidence from New York City8
CEO personality traits and corporate value implication of acquisitions8
Editorial Board8
Certainty of uncertainty for asset pricing8
Technology spillover, corporate investment, and stock returns8
Managerial commitment and heterogeneity in target-date funds7
The value of risk-taking in mergers: Role of ownership and country legal institutions7
Stock return prediction: Stacking a variety of models7
Small is beautiful? How the introduction of mini futures contracts affects the regular contracts7
Coskewness and reversal of momentum returns: The US and international evidence7
Financial statement disaggregation and bank loan pricing7
Option gamma and stock returns7
Director optimism and CEO equity compensation7
Editorial Board7
Market neutrality and beta crashes7
Tail risks and private equity performance7
Skilled active liquidity management: Evidence from shocks to fund flows7
It is not just What you say, but How you say it: Why tonality matters in central bank communication7
Forecasting realized betas using predictors indicating structural breaks and asymmetric risk effects7
The protective role of saving: Bayesian analysis of British panel data7
An adaptive long memory conditional correlation model7
Organization capital and analyst coverage6
Strategic implications of corporate disclosure via Twitter6
Trading the foreign exchange market with technical analysis and Bayesian Statistics6
Follow the leader: Index tracking with factor models6
CEO neuroticism and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from CEOs’ tweets6
Endogeneity in the mutual fund flow–performance relationship: An instrumental variables solution6
The effects of economic uncertainty on financial volatility: A comprehensive investigation6
Mispricing chasing and hedge fund returns6
Effects of customer unionization on supplier relationships and supplier value6
The aftermath of covenant violations: Evidence from China's corporate debt securities6
Forecasting realized volatility: Does anything beat linear models?6
The economic value of equity implied volatility forecasting with machine learning6
Can we forecast better in periods of low uncertainty? The role of technical indicators6
Behavioral biases, information frictions and interest rate expectations6
Local predictability of stock returns and cash flows6
How price limit affects the market efficiency in a short-sale constrained market? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment6
The battle between activist hedge funds and labor unions6
Stochastic volatility: A tale of co-jumps, non-normality, GMM and high frequency data6
Stock return predictability and cyclical movements in valuation ratios6
Dynamic risk management and asset comovement6
Equity markets volatility clustering: A multiscale analysis of intraday and overnight returns6
Can existing corporate finance theories explain security offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic?5
Is convexity efficiently priced? Evidence from international swap markets5
Option valuation via nonaffine dynamics with realized volatility5
The role of bad-news coverage and media environments in crash risk around the world5
Macroeconomic news and price synchronicity5
The risk–return tradeoff among equity factors5
Editorial Board5
(In)Attention: distracted shareholders and corporate innovation5
Bank stocks, risk factors, and tail behavior5
Implied local volatility models5
How does bank opacity affect credit growth and return predictability?5
Time series momentum and reversal: Intraday information from realized semivariance5
An empirical application of Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo to frailty correlated default models5
Risk optimizations on basis portfolios: The role of sorting5
Policy risk and insider trading5
Empirical analysis of crude oil dynamics using affine vs. non-affine jump-diffusion models5
The effects of banking market structure on corporate cash holdings and the value of cash5
Credit distortions in Japanese momentum5
Limit order revisions across investor sophistication5
Big portfolio selection by graph-based conditional moments method5
The informativeness of regional GDP announcements: Evidence from China4
Industry regulation and the comovement of stock returns4
Why do firms with no leverage still have leverage and volatility feedback effects?4
Expected returns and risk in the stock market4
Monitoring institutional ownership and corporate innovation4
Automated stock picking using random forests4
Diversity and inclusion: Evidence from corporate inventors4
Testing predictability of stock returns under possible bubbles4
US cross-listing and domestic high-frequency trading: Evidence from Canadian stocks4
US risk premia under emerging markets constraints4
When “time varying” volatility meets “transaction cost” in portfolio selection4
Forecasting intraday market risk: A marked self-exciting point process with exogenous renewals4
Income, trading, and performance: Evidence from retail investors4
Global political risk and international stock returns4
The contribution of jump signs and activity to forecasting stock price volatility4
Combining the MGHyp distribution with nonlinear shrinkage in modeling financial asset returns4
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
Editorial Board3
Disagreement, speculation, and the idiosyncratic volatility3
Development banks and the syndicate structure: Evidence from a world sample3
Smoking hot portfolios? Trading behavior, investment biases, and self-control failure3
Horizontal mergers and heterogeneous firm investments: evidence from the United States3
Predicting corporate policies using downside risk: A machine learning approach3
Geographical proximity, cultural familiarity and financial information production3
Tick size and firm financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment3
Enhancing betting against beta with stochastic dominance3
Income inequality, inflation and financial development3
Cross-market volatility forecasting with attention-based spatial–temporal graph convolutional networks3
Capital mobility and the long-run return–risk trade-offs of industry portfolios3
Allocation of attention and the delayed reaction of stock returns to liquidity shock: Global evidence3
Default-probability-implied credit ratings for Chinese firms3
A financial modeling approach to industry exchange-traded funds selection3
Co-illiquidity management3
The rise of venture capital and IPO quality3
What drives robo-advice?3
The PhD origins of finance faculty3
Jump tail risk exposure and the cross-section of stock returns3
The contributions of betas versus characteristics to the ESG premium3
Cross-border M&As and credit risk: Evidence from the CDS market3
Financial risk-taking, religiosity and denomination heterogeneity2
Do share repurchases facilitate movement toward target capital structure? International evidence2
Factor correlation and the cross section of asset returns: A correlation-robust machine learning approach2
Detecting jumps amidst prevalent zero returns: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury securities2
Religiosity and sovereign credit quality2
The price discovery role of day traders in futures market: Evidence from different types of day traders2
The money-inflation nexus revisited2
Conditional out-of-sample predictability of aggregate equity returns and aggregate equity return volatility using economic variables2
To be or not to be all-equity for firms that eliminate long-term debt2
Maxing out short-term reversals in weekly stock returns2
Forecasting realized volatility with wavelet decomposition2
Corporate social responsibility and excess perks2
Running a mutual fund: Performance and trading behavior of runner managers2
Carbon dioxide and asset pricing: Evidence from international stock markets2
Expensive anomalies2
Do investors reach for yield? Evidence from corporate bond mutual fund flows2
The effect of investor attention on stock price crash risk2
Natural disasters and the role of regional lenders in economic recovery2
Overlapping momentum portfolios2
Household portfolio allocation, uncertainty, and risk2
Do leveraged warrants prompt individuals to speculate on stock price reversals?2
Stock price fragility and the cost of bank loans2
Reinforcement learning and risk preference in equity linked notes markets2
Product competition, political connections, and the costs of high leverage2
Maximum likelihood estimation of the Hull–White model2
The 2008 short-selling ban’s impact on tail risk2
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