OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Corporate Finance is 53. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Firms and social responsibility: A review of ESG and CSR research in corporate finance	724
Do shareholders benefit from green bonds?	348
Does CSR matter in times of crisis? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	254
Fintech and access to finance	161
Navigating through economic policy uncertainty: The role of corporate cash holdings	151
Does board gender diversity affect renewable energy consumption?	134
Fintech, financial constraints and innovation: Evidence from China	130
Carbon risk and corporate capital structure	122
The impact of climate change on the cost of bank loans	121
Powerful CEOs and stock price crash risk	112
CEOs' hometown connections and access to trade credit: Evidence from China	110
Does media coverage deter firms from withholding bad news? Evidence from stock price crash risk	105
The real effect of partial privatization on corporate innovation: Evidence from China's split share structure reform	102
Digital Tulips? Returns to investors in initial coin offerings	99
Investor rewards to environmental responsibility: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis	98
Corporate board reforms around the world and stock price crash risk	97
Corporate social responsibility, product market perception, and firm value	95
Does carbon risk matter for corporate acquisition decisions?	92
Institutional investors and post-ICO performance: an empirical analysis of investor returns in initial coin offerings (ICOs)	92
Dividends and economic policy uncertainty: International evidence	90
Directors with foreign experience and corporate tax avoidance	88
CEO-director ties and labor investment efficiency	85
Does good luck make people overconfident? Evidence from a natural experiment in the stock market	82
Institutional investors' horizons and corporate employment decisions	82
CEO early-life disaster experience and stock price crash risk	81

Do employee-friendly firms invest more efficiently? Evidence from labor investment efficiency	78
Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure	78
The influence of economic policy uncertainty on corporate trade credit and firm value	75
Labor cost, government intervention, and corporate innovation: Evidence from China	75
Integrating corporate social responsibility criteria into executive compensation and firm innovation: International evidence	74
Is social capital associated with corporate innovation? Evidence from publicly listed firms in the U.S	73
Internal controls, risk management, and cash holdings	72
Twenty-five years of the Journal of Corporate Finance: A scientometric analysis	70
Corporate social responsibility versus corporate shareholder responsibility: A family firm perspective	70
Corporate governance reform and risk-taking: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in an emerging market	70
ESG government risk and international IPO underpricing	69
Climate risk: The price of drought	67
Organizational capital, corporate tax avoidance, and firm value	67
The impact of blockchain related name changes on corporate performance	65
Trust and innovation: Evidence from CEOs' early-life experience	65
Government intervention and firm investment	65
Economic policy uncertainty and short-term financing: The case of trade credit	63
CEO overconfidence and corporate cash holdings	63
Varieties in state capitalism and corporate innovation: Evidence from an emerging economy	62
Does external uncertainty matter in corporate sustainability performance?	61
CEO risk-taking incentives and corporate social responsibility	61
Capital markets, financial institutions, and corporate finance in China	59
Lead independent directors and investment efficiency	59
Annual report readability and the cost of equity capital	59
Banks and the real economy: An assessment of the research	58
Stakeholders and the stock price crash risk: What matters in corporate social performance?	55
Fiduciary duty or loyalty? Evidence from co-opted boards and corporate misconduct	55
Does gender diversity on banks' boards matter? Evidence from public bailouts	54
The future of financial fraud	53
Does national culture affect corporate innovation? International evidence	53
Business sustainability factors and stock price informativeness	53