OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Corporate Finance is 44. 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.)

Article	Citations
The internal labor markets of business groups	297
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data	289
Product market competition with CDS	277
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	167
Peer-level analyst transitions	161
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	157
Which buy-side institutions participate in public earnings conference calls? Implications for capital markets and sell-side coverage	142
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	131
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	130
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	120
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk	104
Managerial liability and corporate innovation: Evidence from a legal shock	103
Labor unions and real earnings management	95
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance	95
Borrowing from government owned banks & firm's liquidation risk	89
Does an anti-corruption campaign increase analyst earnings forecast optimism?	87
The dark side of CEO social capital: Evidence from real earnings management and future operating performance	87
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	84
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	82
Signaling through timing of stock splits	80
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	78
Customer concentration and M&A performance	73
Credit ratings and acquisitions	73
The evolution of pay premiums for managerial attributes	71
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions	71

Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	67
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	62
Industry informational interactions and corporate fraud	61
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	60
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	59
Local product market competition and bank loans	59
Economic magnitudes within reason	57
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	57
What determines the composition of a firm's cash reserves?	57
How common are credit-less recoveries? Firm-level evidence on the role of financial markets in crisis recovery	56
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.	54
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	52
Director networks and firm value	50
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	50
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	48
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	48
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct	47
Leggso: Financing experimentation	46
Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme	45
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	44