Journal of Corporate Finance

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
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions	71
The evolution of pay premiums for managerial attributes	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
Local product market competition and bank loans	59
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	59
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	57
What determines the composition of a firm's cash reserves?	57
Economic magnitudes within reason	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
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	48
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate 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
CEO mobility and corporate policy risk	43
Learning and staged equity financing	42
National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance	42
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	40
Haste doesn't bring success: Top-down amplification of economic growth targets and enterprise overcapacity	40
Editorial Board	39
Political uncertainty and institutional herding	38
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?	37
Raising capital after IPO withdrawal	37
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	36
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?	36
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	36
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	35
Editorial Board	35
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes	35
Macroprudential policy and intra-group dynamics: The effects of reserve requirements in Brazil	35
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings	34
Polarized corporate boards	34
Dividend hibernation and future earnings: When no dividend news is good news	34
Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility	34
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic	34
CSR contracting and performance-induced CEO turnover	32
The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring	32
The value of bond underwriter relationships	32
Money isn't everything: Compensation of locally educated executives	32
May the force be with you: Investor power and company valuations	32
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?	31
Sunshine-induced mood and SEO pricing: Evidence from detailed investor bids in SEO auctions	31
Board gender diversity and responsible banking during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Debt maturity dispersion and the cost of bank loans	31

Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market	31
Stakeholder orientation and the value of cash holdings: Evidence from a natural experiment	31
Antitakeover provisions and investment in mergers and acquisitions: A causal reevaluation	30
Editorial Board	30
The influence of the media on government decisions: Evidence from IPOs in China	29
Debt structure and debt overhang	29
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws	29
Early-stage venture financing	29
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?	28
Robust inference in single firm/single event analyses	28
U.S. multinationals' alternatives to paying taxes	28
Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach	27
Heterogeneity in independent non-executive directors' attributes and risk-taking in large banks	27
Duration of executive compensation and maturity structure of corporate debt	27
Customer identity concealing and insider selling profitability: Evidence from China	27
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
Does commercial reform embracing digital technologies mitigate stock price crash risk?	26
Investor rewards to environmental responsibility: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis	26
Board financial expertise and the capital decisions of US banks	26
Foundation ownership and sustainability	26
Financing constraints and share pledges: Evidence from the share pledge reform in China	26
(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management	25
Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts	25
Outside director social network centrality and turnover before stock performance crash: A friend in need?	25
Behavioral spillover between firms with shared auditors: The monitoring role of capital market investors	25
Underwriting bank bonds: Information sharing, certification and distribution networks	25
The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions	25
Naïve or sophisticated? Information disclosure and investment decisions in peer to peer lending	24
Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle	24
Innovation for promotion: The effect of executive involvement on inventors' innovation choice	24
Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?	23
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings	23
The dynamism of partially state-owned enterprises in East Asia	23
Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance	23
The anatomy of corporate securitizations and contract design	23
Relationship-based debt financing of Chinese private sector firms: The role of social connections to banks versus political connections	23
Individual investors matter: The effect of investor-firm interactions on corporate earnings management	22
Executive incentives under common ownership	22
Early individual stakeholders, first venture capital investment, and exit in the UK startup ecosystem	22
Female CFOs, leverage and the moderating role of board diversity and CEO power	22
Cybersecurity risk and corporate innovation	22
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups	22
Dynamic incentive contracts for ESG investing	22
Confucianism, successor choice, and firm performance in family firms: Evidence from China	22
R&D tax credits, technology spillovers, and firms' product convergence	21
Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility	21
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China	21
Are US founding families expropriators or stewards? Evidence from quasi-natural experiment	21
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment	21
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms	21
Corporate investment and growth opportunities: The role of R&D-capital complementarity	21
Bankruptcy, overlapping directors, and bank loan pricing	21
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis	20
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?	20
Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance	20
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions	20
Does corrupt practice increase the implied cost of equity?	20
The finance of climate change	20
CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics	20
The informational consequences of good and bad mergers	20
Does bankruptcy law improve the fate of distressed firms? The role of credit channels	20
Credit risk spillovers and cash holdings	20
Influential independent directors' reputation incentives: Impacts on CEO compensation contracts and financial reporting	19
Foreign competition and CEO risk-incentive compensation	19
Decomposing value gains – The case of the best leveraged buy-out ever	19
Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers	19
Labor-saving innovations and capital structure	19
Corrigendum to “Corporate culture and CEO turnover” [Journal of Corporate Finance, 28 (2014) 66–82]	19
Courting innovation: The effects of litigation risk on corporate innovation	19
Does it pay to be socially connected with wall street brokerages? Evidence from cost of equity	19
Are non-family successors all the same? Inside-promoted vs. outside-sourced	19
Editorial Board	19
The information value of M&A press releases	19
Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions	18
Managerial conservatism and corporate policies	18
Dare to play with fire? Managerial ability and the use of short-term debt	18
Depoliticization and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from the mandated resignation of directors in China	18
Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure	18
Securities litigation risk and board gender diversity	18

Regulation and information costs of sovereign distress: Evidence from corporate lending markets	18
Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit	17
Opioid epidemic and corporate innovation	17
The role of individual investment bankers in IPO pricing: Evidence from investor bidding behavior	17
The dark side of asset redeployability through the lens of corporate employment decisions	17
The role of divestitures in horizontal mergers	17
Option compensation, risky mortgage lending, and the financial crisis	17
Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination	17
Institutional dual ownership and voluntary greenhouse gas emission disclosure	17
Natural disasters and firm leasing: A collateral channel	17
Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers	17
The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders	17
Local political corruption and Firm's non-GAAP reporting	17
Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans	16
Corporate governance reforms, societal trust, and corporate financial policies	16
Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs	16
The role of financial constraints in firm investment under pollution abatement regulation	16
Air pollution and employee treatment	16
Environmental regulations, supply chain relationships, and green technological innovation	16
Pricing of project finance bonds: A comparative analysis of primary market spreads	16
Managers' cultural origin and corporate response to an economic shock	16
Investor–firm interactions and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China	16
Gender board diversity and the cost of bank loans	16
CEO early-life disaster experience and stock price crash risk	16
Societal secrecy and IPO underpricing	15
Implicit government guarantees and credit ratings	15
Corrigendum to “Corporate board reforms around the world and stock price crash risk” 62 (2020) 101557	15
The long-term effects of loan guarantees on SME performance	15
Can a not-for-profit minority institutional shareholder make a big difference in corporate governance? A quasi-natural experiment	15
Editorial Board	15
Recession managers and mutual fund performance	15
Do short sellers anticipate late filings?	15
Mandatory corporate social responsibility and foreign institutional investor preferences	14
Green credit and its obstacles: Evidence from China's green credit guidelines	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	13
Editorial Board	13
How alternative finance informs central themes in corporate finance	13
Dividend taxes, employment, and firm productivity	13
Making honest men of them: Institutional investors, financial reporting, and the appointment of female directors to all-male boards	13
A shot in the arm: Economic support packages and firm performance during COVID-19	13
Why are distressed firms acquisitive?	13
The effect of geographic proximity on corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from China	13
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	13
Does tax reform affect labor investment efficiency?	13
Governance, information flow, and stock returns	13
Understanding stock price behavior around external financing	13
Talented inside directors and corporate social responsibility: A tale of two roles	12
CEOs' narcissism and opportunistic insider trading	12
The influence of media slant on short sellers	12
A global analysis of Private Investments in Public Equity	12
Employment protection and share repurchases: Evidence from wrongful discharge laws	12
Online social networks and corporate investment similarity	12
The role of the end time in experimental asset markets	12
Editorial Board	12
Changes in CEO stock option grants: A look at the numbers	12
Perceptions of corporate corruption culture and debt contracting	12
Fintech, financial constraints and innovation: Evidence from China	12
Managerial discretion and efficiency of internal capital markets	12
Employment mobility and pay for sector performance	12
The role of employer learning and regulatory interventions in mitigating executive gender pay gap	12
Does environmental and social performance affect pricing efficiency? Evidence from earnings conference call tones	11
Innovation Success and Capital Structure	11
Underwriter incentives and IPO pricing	11
Mutual funds' capital gains lock-in and earnings management	11
One false step can make a great difference: Does corporate litigation cause the exit of the controlling shareholder?	11
Boardroom networks and corporate investment	11
Vertical integration to mitigate internal capital market inefficiencies	11
Short selling constraints and politically motivated negative information suppression	11
Benchmarking private equity: The direct alpha method	10
Stock liquidity and corporate labor investment	10
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Callable or convertible debt? The role of debt overhang and covenants	10
Outside directors' equity incentives and strategic alliance decisions	10
Are all activists created equal? The effect of interventions by hedge funds and other private activists on long-term shareholder value	10
Firm uncertainty and corporate policies: The role of stock return skewness	10
Contingent convertible bonds: Optimal call strategy and the impact of refinancing	10
Do firms manage their share prices to mitigate investor short-termism?	10
Ancestral connections and corporate alliances	10
Executive compensation and secured debt: Evidence from REITs	10
Are family and friends the wrong investors? Evidence from U.S. start-ups	10
Illuminating the murk: The effect of business complexity on voluntary disclosure	10
The gender gap in bank credit access	10
JCF special issue on private equity editorial	10
Regional redistribution through SBA guaranteed loan programs	10
Corporate insider purchases and the options market: Competition among informed investors	10
Punishment or deterrence? Environmental justice construction and corporate equity financing––Evidence from environmental courts	9
Industrial policy and governmental venture capital: Evidence from China	9
The effect of social connections on capital structure in supplier-customer relationships	9
Sovereign wealth funds and cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loans	9
Does gender diversity on banks' boards matter? Evidence from public bailouts	9
Information production in start-up firms: SPACs vs. Traditional IPOs	9
Do younger CEOs really increase firm risk? Evidence from sudden CEO deaths	9