Journal of Corporate Finance

Article	Citations
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	171
Imbalanced ESG investing?	149
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	105
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	105
Bank municipal bond holdings and mortgage lending standards	103
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	102
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?	86
Corporate green revenue and syndicated loan pricing	82
Greening through trade	75
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	71
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	70
Labor unions and real earnings management	70
Interest rate uncertainty and the investment/financing decisions	69
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	69
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	67
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	67
Quantifying the legacy of trauma: The long-term impact of the African slave trade on contemporary firm corruption	61
Editorial Board	60
Economic magnitudes within reason	56
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	55
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	54
Signaling through timing of stock splits	53
Real estate collateral, lender screening, and M&A performance	52
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	51
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	51

Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts	47
“Death becomes her”: Market reaction to the death of controlling inside blockholders	46
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	46
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk	45
Local peer effects and corporate investment	45
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	44
Learning and staged equity financing	43
Leggso: Financing experimentation	42
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	42
Editorial Board	41
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	41
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	41
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	40
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	40
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency	40
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?	39
Institutional voids and business group dynamics: Evidence from judicial reform in China	39
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	38
Political uncertainty and institutional herding	37
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct	37
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?	37
Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market	36
Director networks and firm value	36
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	36
Sunshine-induced mood and SEO pricing: Evidence from detailed investor bids in SEO auctions	35
Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility	35
Polarized corporate boards	33
Executive live streaming	33
Tightening monetary policy and investment dynamics in the European Monetary Union: Firm- and country-level heterogeneity	33
The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring	32
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic	32
Money isn't everything: Compensation of locally educated executives	31
The intangible shift: Redefining the dynamics of market-to-book ratios	31
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings	31
Board gender diversity and responsible banking during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?	30
When does a generalist CEO create shareholder value? The effect of managerial challenge	30
Dividend hibernation and future earnings: When no dividend news is good news	30
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes	30
Employee stock options and innovation: Evidence from an exogenous shock to employee intellectual property rights	29
Managerial incentives and trade credit: Evidence from China's EVA appraisal reform among CSOEs	29
Strategic flexibility: How rent-seeking behavior enables firms to adapt to uncertainty	29
Major customers and carbon footprints along the supply chain	29
Beneficiary investor monitoring and asset manager engagement	29
U.S. multinationals' alternatives to paying taxes	29
Financing constraints and share pledges: Evidence from the share pledge reform in China	28
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?	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
Customer identity concealing and insider selling profitability: Evidence from China	28
Competition and the value of innovation	28

Debt structure and debt overhang	28
Early-stage venture financing	27
Robust inference in single firm/single event analyses	26
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws	26
Risk, return, and environmental and social ratings	25
Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach	25
The impact of automation on firms' reporting quality	25
Innovation beyond firm boundaries: Strategic alliances and corporate innovation	24
(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management	24
Automation cost flexibility and firm value	24
Does commercial reform embracing digital technologies mitigate stock price crash risk?	23
Executive incentives under common ownership	23
Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts	22
Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle	22
Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance	22
Innovation for promotion: The effect of executive involvement on inventors' innovation choice	22
The Long-term effect of social disasters on stock market participation	22
Outside director social network centrality and turnover before stock performance crash: A friend in need?	22
Individual investors matter: The effect of investor-firm interactions on corporate earnings management	21
Early individual stakeholders, first venture capital investment, and exit in the UK startup ecosystem	21
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings	21
The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions	21
Dynamic incentive contracts for ESG investing	21
Relationship-based debt financing of Chinese private sector firms: The role of social connections to banks versus political connections	21
Monetary policy, intangible capital, and debt contracts	21
Foundation ownership and sustainability	20
Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance	20
The anatomy of corporate securitizations and contract design	20
Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?	20
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment	20
Naïve or sophisticated? Information disclosure and investment decisions in peer to peer lending	20
Cybersecurity risk and corporate innovation	20
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China	20
CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics	19
Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility	19
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups	19
“May the road ahead be smooth”: Cultural continuity and CEO succession	19
The effect of the cost of capital on private equity buyout performance	19
R&D tax credits, technology spillovers, and firms' product convergence	19
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis	18
A primer on oracle economics	18
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?	18
Editorial Board	18
Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions	18
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms	18
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions	17
The information value of M&A press releases	17
The informational consequences of good and bad mergers	17
Regulation and information costs of sovereign distress: Evidence from corporate lending markets	17
The information advantage of industry common owners and its spillover effect on stock price crash risk	17
Influential independent directors' reputation incentives: Impacts on CEO compensation contracts and financial reporting	17
Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers	17
Foreign competition and CEO risk-incentive compensation	16
Bankers’ pay and the evolving structure of US banking	16
Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination	16
Decomposing value gains – The case of the best leveraged buy-out ever	16
Labor-saving innovations and capital structure	16
Exploring the profitability in analyst collective opinions: The role of analyst crowd characteristics	15
Corporate governance reforms, societal trust, and corporate financial policies	15
Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs	15
Firms save from bonds but not from loans	15
Deregulation and bank stability: Evidence from loan-to-deposit ratio requirement in China	15
Customer orientation and stock resilience during adversity periods	15
The role of individual investment bankers in IPO pricing: Evidence from investor bidding behavior	15
Institutional dual ownership and voluntary greenhouse gas emission disclosure	15
Managers' cultural origin and corporate response to an economic shock	15
The ripple effect: How subsidies transform firm behavior	15
The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders	15
Market pressure or regulatory pressure? U.S. small bank pre-emptive IT investment to data privacy regulation	14
Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers	14
Pension fund investment and firm innovation	14
Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit	14
Opioid epidemic and corporate innovation	14
Backing away from ESG? The effect of sovereign rating downgrades on corporate sustainability	14
Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans	13
The role of financial constraints in firm investment under pollution abatement regulation	13
Pricing of project finance bonds: A comparative analysis of primary market spreads	13
The dark side of asset redeployability through the lens of corporate employment decisions	13
Natural disasters and firm leasing: A collateral channel	12
Green banking illusion? The influence of “Eco-Conscious” bank shareholders on credit allocation	12

To pollute or not to pollute: Political connections and corporate environmental performance	12
Environmental regulations, supply chain relationships, and green technological innovation	12
Corrigendum to “Corporate board reforms around the world and stock price crash risk” 62 (2020) 101557	12
Editorial: Ownership and corporate social and sustainable policies	12
Does environmental lobbying create firm value?	12
Investor–firm interactions and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China	12
Friend or foe? Bilateral political relations and the portfolio allocation of foreign institutional investors	12
Societal secrecy and IPO underpricing	12
Mandatory corporate social responsibility and foreign institutional investor preferences	11
Machine Learning for the Unlisted: Enhancing MSME Default Prediction with Public Market Signals	11
Editorial Board	11
The long-term effects of loan guarantees on SME performance	11
The double-edged sword of corporate net zero commitment on the carbon risk premium	11
Making honest men of them: Institutional investors, financial reporting, and the appointment of female directors to all-male boards	11
Green credit and its obstacles: Evidence from China's green credit guidelines	11
The equity value implications of court ideology: Evidence from federal judge turnover	11
Understanding stock price behavior around external financing	11
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
Does tax reform affect labor investment efficiency?	11
The crypto multiplier	11
Divided we fall: Congressional cycles, the stock market and firm performance	11
Mutual funds' capital gains lock-in and earnings management	10
Does environmental and social performance affect pricing efficiency? Evidence from earnings conference call tones	10
How alternative finance informs central themes in corporate finance	10
CEOs' narcissism and opportunistic insider trading	10
Editorial Board	10
Underwriter incentives and IPO pricing	10
Major government customers and corporate court outcomes: Evidence from China	10
New international flight routes and MNCs' investment	10
Changes in CEO stock option grants: A look at the numbers	10
The role of the end time in experimental asset markets	10
Benchmarking private equity: The direct alpha method	10
Boards of Banks	10
A shot in the arm: Economic support packages and firm performance during COVID-19	10
The impact of product market competition on workplace safety	10
National identity and foreign directors' access to private information	10
Networks and information in credit markets	9
Contingent convertible bonds: Optimal call strategy and the impact of refinancing	9
Illuminating the murk: The effect of business complexity on voluntary disclosure	9
Corporate insider purchases and the options market: Competition among informed investors	9
CEO cultural heritage and corporate social responsibility	9
Editorial Board	9
The effect of social connections on capital structure in supplier-customer relationships	9
Do firms manage their share prices to mitigate investor short-termism?	9
The influence of media slant on short sellers	9
Innovation Success and Capital Structure	9
Gender bias, board diversity, and firm value: Evidence from a natural experiment	9
Regional redistribution through SBA guaranteed loan programs	9
Credit default swaps and corporate debt structure	9
Effectiveness of monitoring, managerial entrenchment, and corporate cash holdings	9
JCF special issue on private equity editorial	9
Are family and friends the wrong investors? Evidence from U.S. start-ups	9
Boardroom networks and corporate investment	9
Executive compensation and secured debt: Evidence from REITs	9
Editorial Board	9
Outside directors' equity incentives and strategic alliance decisions	9
Editorial Board	8
Rookie directors and board efficacy	8
Industrial policy and governmental venture capital: Evidence from China	8
Rating on a behavioral curve	8
Sovereign wealth funds and cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loans	8
Shareholder litigation risk and the information environment: Revisiting evidence from two natural experiments	8
Patent pledgeability, trade secrecy, and corporate patenting	8
Editorial Board	8
Callable or convertible debt? The role of debt overhang and covenants	8
Do investors benefit from MiFID II unbundling?	8
Punishment or deterrence? Environmental justice construction and corporate equity financing––Evidence from environmental courts	8
Bank liquidity creation and religious observance: Evidence from Ramadan fasting	8
Happily ever after? Lender diversification and performance sensitivity in post-IPO loans	8
Editorial Board	8
Do younger CEOs really increase firm risk? Evidence from sudden CEO deaths	8
Ancestral connections and corporate alliances	8
Subsidizing uncertain investments: The role of production technology and imprecise learning	8
Iron curtain echoes: The enduring impact of communism and crowdfunding	8
Information production in start-up firms: SPACs vs. Traditional IPOs	8
Crowdfunding as gambling: Evidence from repeated natural experiments	7
Partisan conflict and corporate credit spreads: The role of political connection	7
Tunneling through trademarks	7
Do tax incentives affect investment quality?	7
Pledgeability and bank lending technology	7
CEO marital status and dividend policy	7
Beta estimation precision and corporate investment efficiency	7
The signaling role of trade credit: Evidence from a counterfactual analysis	7
How did small business respond to unexpected shocks? Evidence from a natural experiment in China	7
Clawback adoptions and institutional investment decisions	7
Shadow union in local labor markets and corporate financing policies	7
Flood, farms and credit: The role of branch banking in the era of climate change	7
How useful are commercial corporate governance ratings? Evidence from emerging markets	7
Do CFO career concerns matter? Evidence from IPO financial reporting outcomes	7
The stock market valuation of human capital creation	7
Information asymmetry, external certification, and the cost of bank debt	7
Unveiling investors' substitution behavior: Stock trading decisions in response to housing market dynamics	7
Soft going-concern capital buffer? CoCo non-calls and revealed bank distress	6
Anti-market sentiment and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from anti-Jewish pogroms	6