Journal of Corporate Finance

Article	Citations
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	365
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data	204
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?	163
Imbalanced ESG investing?	132
Product market competition with CDS	127
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	112
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	100
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	96
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance	89
Labor unions and real earnings management	88
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	86
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	85
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk	82
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	80
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	79
Economic magnitudes within reason	78
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	76
Signaling through timing of stock splits	68
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	63
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	62
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions	58
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	57
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.	57
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	57
Political uncertainty and institutional herding	56

Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts	55
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?	54
Learning and staged equity financing	53
Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme	53
Editorial Board	52
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	52
Leggso: Financing experimentation	52
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	52
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	51
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	50
Institutional voids and business group dynamics: Evidence from judicial reform in China	49
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?	49
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	48
National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance	47
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency	47
Director networks and firm value	46
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	44
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	44
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk	44
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	43
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	43
Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility	42
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct	42
The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring	42
Major customers and carbon footprints along the supply chain	41
Sunshine-induced mood and SEO pricing: Evidence from detailed investor bids in SEO auctions	40
CSR contracting and performance-induced CEO turnover	39
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic	36
May the force be with you: Investor power and company valuations	36
Macroprudential policy and intra-group dynamics: The effects of reserve requirements in Brazil	35
Dividend hibernation and future earnings: When no dividend news is good news	35
Editorial Board	35
Money isn't everything: Compensation of locally educated executives	35
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes	35
Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market	34
Polarized corporate boards	34
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings	34
Tightening monetary policy and investment dynamics in the European Monetary Union: Firm- and country-level heterogeneity	34
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?	33
The intangible shift: Redefining the dynamics of market-to-book ratios	33
Board gender diversity and responsible banking during the COVID-19 pandemic	33
Managerial incentives and trade credit: Evidence from China's EVA appraisal reform among CSOEs	33
The impact of automation on firms' reporting quality	32
Robust inference in single firm/single event analyses	32
U.S. multinationals' alternatives to paying taxes	32
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?	31
Early-stage venture financing	31
Editorial Board	31
Risk, return, and environmental and social ratings	30
Customer identity concealing and insider selling profitability: Evidence from China	30

Duration of executive compensation and maturity structure of corporate debt	30
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws	30
Debt structure and debt overhang	29
Board financial expertise and the capital decisions of US banks	29
Financing constraints and share pledges: Evidence from the share pledge reform in China	29
Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach	28
Foundation ownership and sustainability	28
Automation cost flexibility and firm value	28
(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management	28
The bright side of the internal labor market: Evidence from the labor cost stickiness of firms affiliated with privately owned business groups in China	28
Innovation beyond firm boundaries: Strategic alliances and corporate innovation	28
The Long-term effect of social disasters on stock market participation	28
Dynamic incentive contracts for ESG investing	27
Early individual stakeholders, first venture capital investment, and exit in the UK startup ecosystem	27
Executive incentives under common ownership	27
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings	27
The anatomy of corporate securitizations and contract design	27
Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance	26
Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts	26
Relationship-based debt financing of Chinese private sector firms: The role of social connections to banks versus political connections	26
Individual investors matter: The effect of investor-firm interactions on corporate earnings management	26
Outside director social network centrality and turnover before stock performance crash: A friend in need?	26
Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?	25
Female CFOs, leverage and the moderating role of board diversity and CEO power	25
The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions	24
Does commercial reform embracing digital technologies mitigate stock price crash risk?	24
Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle	24
Naïve or sophisticated? Information disclosure and investment decisions in peer to peer lending	24
A primer on oracle economics	24
Cybersecurity risk and corporate innovation	24
Innovation for promotion: The effect of executive involvement on inventors' innovation choice	24
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment	24
Does corrupt practice increase the implied cost of equity?	23
Corporate investment and growth opportunities: The role of R&D-capital complementarity	23
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups	23
Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance	23
CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics	22
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China	22
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms	22
Bankruptcy, overlapping directors, and bank loan pricing	22
Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility	22
The finance of climate change	22
R&D tax credits, technology spillovers, and firms' product convergence	21
Editorial Board	20
The informational consequences of good and bad mergers	20
The information advantage of industry common owners and its spillover effect on stock price crash risk	20
Decomposing value gains – The case of the best leveraged buy-out ever	20
Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions	20
Foreign competition and CEO risk-incentive compensation	20
Regulation and information costs of sovereign distress: Evidence from corporate lending markets	19
Are non-family successors all the same? Inside-promoted vs. outside-sourced	19
Courting innovation: The effects of litigation risk on corporate innovation	19
Labor-saving innovations and capital structure	19
The information value of M&A press releases	19
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions	19
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?	19
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis	19
Securities litigation risk and board gender diversity	19
Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers	19
Influential independent directors' reputation incentives: Impacts on CEO compensation contracts and financial reporting	19
Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit	18
Bankers’ pay and the evolving structure of US banking	18
Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure	18
Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers	18
Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination	18
The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders	17
The dark side of asset redeployability through the lens of corporate employment decisions	17
Customer orientation and stock resilience during adversity periods	17
Market pressure or regulatory pressure? U.S. small bank pre-emptive IT investment to data privacy regulation	17
Backing away from ESG? The effect of sovereign rating downgrades on corporate sustainability	17
The ripple effect: How subsidies transform firm behavior	17
Firms save from bonds but not from loans	17
The role of divestitures in horizontal mergers	17
The role of individual investment bankers in IPO pricing: Evidence from investor bidding behavior	16
Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans	16
Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs	16
Natural disasters and firm leasing: A collateral channel	16
Opioid epidemic and corporate innovation	16
Gender board diversity and the cost of bank loans	16
Managers' cultural origin and corporate response to an economic shock	16

Pricing of project finance bonds: A comparative analysis of primary market spreads	16
Can a not-for-profit minority institutional shareholder make a big difference in corporate governance? A quasi-natural experiment	16
Institutional dual ownership and voluntary greenhouse gas emission disclosure	16
The role of financial constraints in firm investment under pollution abatement regulation	16
Machine Learning for the Unlisted: Enhancing MSME Default Prediction with Public Market Signals	15
Corrigendum to “Corporate board reforms around the world and stock price crash risk” 62 (2020) 101557	15
Investor–firm interactions and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China	15
Corporate governance reforms, societal trust, and corporate financial policies	15
The long-term effects of loan guarantees on SME performance	15
Environmental regulations, supply chain relationships, and green technological innovation	15
Editorial: Ownership and corporate social and sustainable policies	15
Mandatory corporate social responsibility and foreign institutional investor preferences	14
Societal secrecy and IPO underpricing	14
CEOs' narcissism and opportunistic insider trading	14
Green credit and its obstacles: Evidence from China's green credit guidelines	14
Divided we fall: Congressional cycles, the stock market and firm performance	14
To pollute or not to pollute: Political connections and corporate environmental performance	14
The equity value implications of court ideology: Evidence from federal judge turnover	14
A shot in the arm: Economic support packages and firm performance during COVID-19	14
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	14
Why are distressed firms acquisitive?	14
Green banking illusion? The influence of “Eco-Conscious” bank shareholders on credit allocation	14
Understanding stock price behavior around external financing	14
Perceptions of corporate corruption culture and debt contracting	13
Making honest men of them: Institutional investors, financial reporting, and the appointment of female directors to all-male boards	13
The role of the end time in experimental asset markets	13
The effect of geographic proximity on corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from China	13
Governance, information flow, and stock returns	13
The impact of product market competition on workplace safety	13
Fintech, financial constraints and innovation: Evidence from China	13
How alternative finance informs central themes in corporate finance	13
Editorial Board	13
Does tax reform affect labor investment efficiency?	13
Changes in CEO stock option grants: A look at the numbers	12
Are all activists created equal? The effect of interventions by hedge funds and other private activists on long-term shareholder value	12
The influence of media slant on short sellers	12
Mutual funds' capital gains lock-in and earnings management	12
Benchmarking private equity: The direct alpha method	12
Editorial Board	12
Are family and friends the wrong investors? Evidence from U.S. start-ups	12
Underwriter incentives and IPO pricing	12
The gender gap in bank credit access	11
Innovation Success and Capital Structure	11
One false step can make a great difference: Does corporate litigation cause the exit of the controlling shareholder?	11
Corporate insider purchases and the options market: Competition among informed investors	11
Regional redistribution through SBA guaranteed loan programs	11
The role of employer learning and regulatory interventions in mitigating executive gender pay gap	11
Illuminating the murk: The effect of business complexity on voluntary disclosure	11
Does environmental and social performance affect pricing efficiency? Evidence from earnings conference call tones	11
Executive compensation and secured debt: Evidence from REITs	11
Editorial Board	11
Boards of Banks	11
Contingent convertible bonds: Optimal call strategy and the impact of refinancing	11
Stock liquidity and corporate labor investment	11
Effectiveness of monitoring, managerial entrenchment, and corporate cash holdings	11
Boardroom networks and corporate investment	11
Credit default swaps and corporate debt structure	10
Ancestral connections and corporate alliances	10
The effect of social connections on capital structure in supplier-customer relationships	10
Does gender diversity on banks' boards matter? Evidence from public bailouts	10
Callable or convertible debt? The role of debt overhang and covenants	10
JCF special issue on private equity editorial	10
Do younger CEOs really increase firm risk? Evidence from sudden CEO deaths	10
Editorial Board	10
Do investors benefit from MiFID II unbundling?	9
Do firms manage their share prices to mitigate investor short-termism?	9
Outside directors' equity incentives and strategic alliance decisions	9
Subsidizing uncertain investments: The role of production technology and imprecise learning	9
Editorial Board	9
Networks and information in credit markets	9
Punishment or deterrence? Environmental justice construction and corporate equity financing––Evidence from environmental courts	9
Editorial Board	9
Rating on a behavioral curve	9
CEO cultural heritage and corporate social responsibility	9
Industrial policy and governmental venture capital: Evidence from China	9
Gender bias, board diversity, and firm value: Evidence from a natural experiment	9
The stock market valuation of human capital creation	9
Information production in start-up firms: SPACs vs. Traditional IPOs	8
Happily ever after? Lender diversification and performance sensitivity in post-IPO loans	8
Beta estimation precision and corporate investment efficiency	8
How useful are commercial corporate governance ratings? Evidence from emerging markets	8
CEO marital status and dividend policy	8
Shareholder litigation risk and the information environment: Revisiting evidence from two natural experiments	8
Iron curtain echoes: The enduring impact of communism and crowdfunding	8
How did small business respond to unexpected shocks? Evidence from a natural experiment in China	8
Sovereign wealth funds and cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loans	8
Do CFO career concerns matter? Evidence from IPO financial reporting outcomes	8
Tunneling through trademarks	8
Patent pledgeability, trade secrecy, and corporate patenting	8
Bank liquidity creation and religious observance: Evidence from Ramadan fasting	8
Editorial Board	8
Information asymmetry, external certification, and the cost of bank debt	8
Partisan conflict and corporate credit spreads: The role of political connection	8
The signaling role of trade credit: Evidence from a counterfactual analysis	8