Journal of Corporate Finance

Article	Citations
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?	187
Corporate green revenue and syndicated loan pricing	123
Bank municipal bond holdings and mortgage lending standards	109
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	107
Imbalanced ESG investing?	107
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	107
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	103
Greening through trade	85
The role of growth strategies in acquisitions	82
Social interactions in investment decisions: Evidence from fund managers' common site visits	81
Editorial Board	78
Labor unions and real earnings management	76
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	75
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	74
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	74
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	68
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	67
Signaling through timing of stock splits	66
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	62
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	62
Quantifying the legacy of trauma: The long-term impact of the African slave trade on contemporary firm corruption	61
Real estate collateral, lender screening, and M&A performance	59
Interest rate uncertainty and the investment/financing decisions	58
Editorial Board	57
Do director ownership plans change director behavior?	55

Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	54
Economic magnitudes within reason	52
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	52
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	49
Do creditor rights reduce tunneling? Evidence from India’s bankruptcy law reforms	47
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	46
Editorial Board	46
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	46
Local peer effects and corporate investment	45
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	45
“Death becomes her”: Market reaction to the death of controlling inside blockholders	45
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	45
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk	44
Institutional voids and business group dynamics: Evidence from judicial reform in China	43
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	43
Political uncertainty and institutional herding	42
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts	42
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	42
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?	41
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct	40
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	40
Leggso: Financing experimentation	40
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency	39
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	39
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes	38
Director networks and firm value	38
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	38
Sunshine-induced mood and SEO pricing: Evidence from detailed investor bids in SEO auctions	37
Executive live streaming	37
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings	36
Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market	36
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic	36
The intangible shift: Redefining the dynamics of market-to-book ratios	35
Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility	35
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?	35
Dividend hibernation and future earnings: When no dividend news is good news	35
When does a generalist CEO create shareholder value? The effect of managerial challenge	34
Polarized corporate boards	34
Tightening monetary policy and investment dynamics in the European Monetary Union: Firm- and country-level heterogeneity	34
The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring	33
Major customers and carbon footprints along the supply chain	32
The impact of automation on firms' reporting quality	32
U.S. multinationals' alternatives to paying taxes	32
Age demographics and stock return comovement	32
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?	31
Political network and muted insider trading	31
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws	30
Employee stock options and innovation: Evidence from an exogenous shock to employee intellectual property rights	30
Strategic flexibility: How rent-seeking behavior enables firms to adapt to uncertainty	29
Customer identity concealing and insider selling profitability: Evidence from China	29

Beneficiary investor monitoring and asset manager engagement	29
Managerial incentives and trade credit: Evidence from China's EVA appraisal reform among CSOEs	29
Early-stage venture financing	29
Competition and the value of innovation	28
Innovation beyond firm boundaries: Strategic alliances and corporate innovation	27
The bright side of the internal labor market: Evidence from the labor cost stickiness of firms affiliated with privately owned business groups in China	27
(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management	27
Risk, return, and environmental and social ratings	27
Robust inference in single firm/single event analyses	27
Financing constraints and share pledges: Evidence from the share pledge reform in China	27
Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach	27
Automation cost flexibility and firm value	26
Early individual stakeholders, first venture capital investment, and exit in the UK startup ecosystem	26
The anatomy of corporate securitizations and contract design	25
Monetary policy, intangible capital, and debt contracts	25
Foundation ownership and sustainability	25
Innovation for promotion: The effect of executive involvement on inventors' innovation choice	24
The Long-term effect of social disasters on stock market participation	24
Outside director social network centrality and turnover before stock performance crash: A friend in need?	24
Manipulating expectations upward: Investor sentiment and managers’ range forecast strategy	24
Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance	24
Dynamic incentive contracts for ESG investing	24
Individual investors matter: The effect of investor-firm interactions on corporate earnings management	24
Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?	23
Does commercial reform embracing digital technologies mitigate stock price crash risk?	23
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings	23
Naïve or sophisticated? Information disclosure and investment decisions in peer to peer lending	22
Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts	22
Executive incentives under common ownership	22
The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions	22
Cybersecurity risk and corporate innovation	22
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups	21
Relationship-based debt financing of Chinese private sector firms: The role of social connections to banks versus political connections	21
“May the road ahead be smooth”: Cultural continuity and CEO succession	21
Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle	21
Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance	20
R&D tax credits, technology spillovers, and firms' product convergence	20
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment	20
Shadow seniority? Lending relationships and borrowers’ selective default	20
The effect of the cost of capital on private equity buyout performance	19
Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility	19
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms	19
Antitrust policies and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence	19
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China	19
The information value of M&A press releases	18
Editorial Board	18
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions	18
A primer on oracle economics	18
Business association membership and firms’ access to trade credit: Evidence from thirty countries	18
CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics	18
Regulation and information costs of sovereign distress: Evidence from corporate lending markets	17
Influential independent directors' reputation incentives: Impacts on CEO compensation contracts and financial reporting	17
The informational consequences of good and bad mergers	17
Foreign competition and CEO risk-incentive compensation	17
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis	17
The information advantage of industry common owners and its spillover effect on stock price crash risk	17
Decomposing value gains – The case of the best leveraged buy-out ever	17
Labor-saving innovations and capital structure	17
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?	17
Divestitures and CEO overconfidence	16
Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions	16
Bankers’ pay and the evolving structure of US banking	16
Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers	16
Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs	16
Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination	16
The role of individual investment bankers in IPO pricing: Evidence from investor bidding behavior	15
Exploring the profitability in analyst collective opinions: The role of analyst crowd characteristics	15
The dark side of asset redeployability through the lens of corporate employment decisions	15
The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders	15
Firms save from bonds but not from loans	15
Deposit insurance and discretion in loan loss provisioning	14
Backing away from ESG? The effect of sovereign rating downgrades on corporate sustainability	14
Deregulation and bank stability: Evidence from loan-to-deposit ratio requirement in China	14
Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers	14
Customer orientation and stock resilience during adversity periods	14
Managers' cultural origin and corporate response to an economic shock	14
Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans	14
Opioid epidemic and corporate innovation	14
The role of financial constraints in firm investment under pollution abatement regulation	14
Pricing of project finance bonds: A comparative analysis of primary market spreads	13

Pension fund investment and firm innovation	13
Corporate governance reforms, societal trust, and corporate financial policies	13
Investor–firm interactions and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China	13
Institutional dual ownership and voluntary greenhouse gas emission disclosure	13
The ripple effect: How subsidies transform firm behavior	13
Environmental regulations, supply chain relationships, and green technological innovation	13
Market pressure or regulatory pressure? U.S. small bank pre-emptive IT investment to data privacy regulation	13
Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit	13
Natural disasters and firm leasing: A collateral channel	13
Machine Learning for the Unlisted: Enhancing MSME Default Prediction with Public Market Signals	13
Green banking illusion? The influence of “Eco-Conscious” bank shareholders on credit allocation	12
Does environmental lobbying create firm value?	12
Societal secrecy and IPO underpricing	12
Green credit and its obstacles: Evidence from China's green credit guidelines	12
Editorial Board	12
Corrigendum to “Corporate board reforms around the world and stock price crash risk” 62 (2020) 101557	12
When trust breaks: Academic misconduct, innovation networks, and capital discrimination	12
Friend or foe? Bilateral political relations and the portfolio allocation of foreign institutional investors	12
Editorial Board	12
The long-term effects of loan guarantees on SME performance	12
Editorial: Ownership and corporate social and sustainable policies	12
Financial amplification, leased capital, and risk management	12
Mandatory corporate social responsibility and foreign institutional investor preferences	12
Editorial Board	12
Not in my backyard: Personal bias in mutual fund voting on environmental and social proposals	11
New international flight routes and MNCs' investment	11
Making honest men of them: Institutional investors, financial reporting, and the appointment of female directors to all-male boards	11
Understanding stock price behavior around external financing	11
Institutional blockholders and corporate innovation	11
Divided we fall: Congressional cycles, the stock market and firm performance	11
How alternative finance informs central themes in corporate finance	11
The double-edged sword of corporate net zero commitment on the carbon risk premium	11
The equity value implications of court ideology: Evidence from federal judge turnover	11
A shot in the arm: Economic support packages and firm performance during COVID-19	11
Does tax reform affect labor investment efficiency?	11
CEOs' narcissism and opportunistic insider trading	11
The impact of product market competition on workplace safety	11
The crypto multiplier	11
Mutual funds' capital gains lock-in and earnings management	10
The influence of media slant on short sellers	10
Underwriter incentives and IPO pricing	10
Benchmarking private equity: The direct alpha method	10
Editorial Board	10
Changes in CEO stock option grants: A look at the numbers	10
Boards of Banks	10
Boardroom networks and corporate investment	10
Contingent convertible bonds: Optimal call strategy and the impact of refinancing	10
National identity and foreign directors' access to private information	10
The role of the end time in experimental asset markets	10
Illuminating the murk: The effect of business complexity on voluntary disclosure	10
Innovation Success and Capital Structure	10
Are family and friends the wrong investors? Evidence from U.S. start-ups	9
Do firms manage their share prices to mitigate investor short-termism?	9
Effectiveness of monitoring, managerial entrenchment, and corporate cash holdings	9
Executive compensation and secured debt: Evidence from REITs	9
Regional redistribution through SBA guaranteed loan programs	9
Editorial Board	9
Major government customers and corporate court outcomes: Evidence from China	9
Editorial Board	9
Corporate insider purchases and the options market: Competition among informed investors	9
The effect of social connections on capital structure in supplier-customer relationships	9
Does environmental and social performance affect pricing efficiency? Evidence from earnings conference call tones	9
JCF special issue on private equity editorial	9
Networks and information in credit markets	9
Outside directors' equity incentives and strategic alliance decisions	9
Gender bias, board diversity, and firm value: Evidence from a natural experiment	9
Editorial Board	8
Credit default swaps and corporate debt structure	8
Rookie directors and board efficacy	8
Editorial Board	8
Do younger CEOs really increase firm risk? Evidence from sudden CEO deaths	8
How did small business respond to unexpected shocks? Evidence from a natural experiment in China	8
Editorial Board	8
Partisan conflict and corporate credit spreads: The role of political connection	8
Subsidizing uncertain investments: The role of production technology and imprecise learning	8
Callable or convertible debt? The role of debt overhang and covenants	8
Ancestral connections and corporate alliances	8
Distributional income effects of banking regulation in Europe	8
Sovereign wealth funds and cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loans	8
Tunneling through trademarks	8
Iron curtain echoes: The enduring impact of communism and crowdfunding	8
The signaling role of trade credit: Evidence from a counterfactual analysis	8
Industrial policy and governmental venture capital: Evidence from China	8
Punishment or deterrence? Environmental justice construction and corporate equity financing––Evidence from environmental courts	8
CEO cultural heritage and corporate social responsibility	8
Information production in start-up firms: SPACs vs. Traditional IPOs	8
Shareholder litigation risk and the information environment: Revisiting evidence from two natural experiments	8
Crowdfunding as gambling: Evidence from repeated natural experiments	8
Do tax incentives affect investment quality?	8
Happily ever after? Lender diversification and performance sensitivity in post-IPO loans	8
Editorial Board	7
Global board reforms and corporate acquisition performance	7
Carbon home bias of European investors	7
Risk-taking incentives and firm credit risk	7
Flood, farms and credit: The role of branch banking in the era of climate change	7