Journal of Corporate Finance

Article	Citations
Firms and social responsibility: A review of ESG and CSR research in corporate finance	675
Do shareholders benefit from green bonds?	332
Does CSR matter in times of crisis? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	245
Fintech and access to finance	151
Navigating through economic policy uncertainty: The role of corporate cash holdings	146
Does board gender diversity affect renewable energy consumption?	128
Fintech, financial constraints and innovation: Evidence from China	117
Carbon risk and corporate capital structure	115
The impact of climate change on the cost of bank loans	114
Powerful CEOs and stock price crash risk	111
CEOs' hometown connections and access to trade credit: Evidence from China	103
Does media coverage deter firms from withholding bad news? Evidence from stock price crash risk	99
The real effect of partial privatization on corporate innovation: Evidence from China's split share structure reform	96
Corporate board reforms around the world and stock price crash risk	96
Digital Tulips? Returns to investors in initial coin offerings	96
Corporate social responsibility, product market perception, and firm value	93
Institutional investors and post-ICO performance: an empirical analysis of investor returns in initial coin offerings (ICOs)	90
Investor rewards to environmental responsibility: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis	88
Directors with foreign experience and corporate tax avoidance	84
Does good luck make people overconfident? Evidence from a natural experiment in the stock market	82
Dividends and economic policy uncertainty: International evidence	82
Does carbon risk matter for corporate acquisition decisions?	81
CEO early-life disaster experience and stock price crash risk	78
Institutional investors' horizons and corporate employment decisions	78
CEO-director ties and labor investment efficiency	76

Do employee-friendly firms invest more efficiently? Evidence from labor investment efficiency	75
Labor cost, government intervention, and corporate innovation: Evidence from China	73
Integrating corporate social responsibility criteria into executive compensation and firm innovation: International evidence	72
The influence of economic policy uncertainty on corporate trade credit and firm value	70
Is social capital associated with corporate innovation? Evidence from publicly listed firms in the U.S	70
Corporate governance reform and risk-taking: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in an emerging market	70
Twenty-five years of the Journal of Corporate Finance: A scientometric analysis	70
Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure	69
Internal controls, risk management, and cash holdings	68
Corporate social responsibility versus corporate shareholder responsibility: A family firm perspective	67
Climate risk: The price of drought	66
Organizational capital, corporate tax avoidance, and firm value	66
ESG government risk and international IPO underpricing	64
The impact of blockchain related name changes on corporate performance	63
Government intervention and firm investment	62
Economic policy uncertainty and short-term financing: The case of trade credit	60
CEO overconfidence and corporate cash holdings	60
Capital markets, financial institutions, and corporate finance in China	59
CEO risk-taking incentives and corporate social responsibility	59
Trust and innovation: Evidence from CEOs' early-life experience	59
Annual report readability and the cost of equity capital	58
Does external uncertainty matter in corporate sustainability performance?	57
Lead independent directors and investment efficiency	57
Varieties in state capitalism and corporate innovation: Evidence from an emerging economy	57
Banks and the real economy: An assessment of the research	55
Stakeholders and the stock price crash risk: What matters in corporate social performance?	54
The future of financial fraud	53
Does national culture affect corporate innovation? International evidence	52
Does gender diversity on banks' boards matter? Evidence from public bailouts	51
Business sustainability factors and stock price informativeness	50
Fiduciary duty or loyalty? Evidence from co-opted boards and corporate misconduct	49
Do investors want politically connected independent directors? Evidence from their forced resignations in China	49
Quality revealing versus overstating in equity crowdfunding	49
Higher education and corporate innovation	47
Haste doesn't bring success: Top-down amplification of economic growth targets and enterprise overcapacity	46
Efficiency wages as gift exchange: Evidence from corporate innovation in China	45
Does bankruptcy law improve the fate of distressed firms? The role of credit channels	45
Feeling right at home: Hometown CEOs and firm innovation	45
Stereotypes in financial literacy: Evidence from PISA	45
Mandatory CSR expenditure and stock market liquidity	43
Air pollution and employee treatment	43
Which criteria matter when impact investors screen social enterprises?	43
Gender diversity and bank misconduct	42
Does takeover activity affect stock price crash risk? Evidence from international M&A laws	42
Multiple blockholders and earnings management	41
It’s who you know that counts: Board connectedness and CSR performance	41
Confucianism, successor choice, and firm performance in family firms: Evidence from China	40
Shareholder litigation rights and capital structure decisions	40
Corporate governance and cash holdings: Evidence from worldwide board reforms	40
Institutional investor distraction and earnings management	40

Financial distress risk and stock price crashes	40
Natural disasters and analysts' earnings forecasts	39
Board co-option and default risk	39
Do political connection disruptions increase labor costs in a government-dominated market? Evidence from publicly listed companies in China	38
The information transfer effects of political connections on mitigating policy uncertainty: Evidence from China	38
Trade credit and stock liquidity	38
Multinationality and the value of green innovation	38
The role of equity compensation in reducing inefficient investment in labor	38
Asset redeployability and the choice between bank debt and public debt	37
Fraud commitment in a smaller world: Evidence from a natural experiment	36
Entrepreneurs' facial trustworthiness, gender, and crowdfunding success	36
Selling to buy: Asset sales and acquisitions	35
What do insiders know? Evidence from insider trading around share repurchases and SEOs	35
Does stakeholder orientation matter for earnings management: Evidence from non-shareholder constituency statutes	35
Peer influence on trade credit	35
Female CFOs, leverage and the moderating role of board diversity and CEO power	35
Does easing access to foreign financing matter for firm performance?	34
The color of shareholders' money: Institutional shareholders' political values and corporate environmental disclosure	33
Intangible intensity and stock price crash risk	33
Do banks price environmental transition risks? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	33
Managerial ability, corporate social culture, and M&As	33
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.	33
Stock price effects of climate activism: Evidence from the first Global Climate Strike	32
The gender gap in bank credit access	32
Information manipulation in equity crowdfunding markets	32
The unintended real effects of short selling in an emerging market	32
When green meets green	31
Non-controlling large shareholders in emerging markets: Evidence from China	31
To pollute or not to pollute: Political connections and corporate environmental performance	31
Policy uncertainty and the capital shortfall of global financial firms	31
Does religiosity influence venture capital investment decisions?	30
Need for speed: High-speed rail and firm performance	30
Implicit government guarantees and credit ratings	30
National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance	29
Securities litigation and corporate tax avoidance	29
Value relevance of the new environmental enforcement regime in China	29
The differential impact of corporate blockchain-development as conditioned by sentiment and financial desperation	29
Do CEO beliefs affect corporate cash holdings?	29
Returns and network growth of digital tokens after cross-listings	29
Terrorist attacks, investor sentiment, and the pricing of initial public offerings	29
The failure of Chinese peer-to-peer lending platforms: Finance and politics	28
Corporate failures: Declines, collapses, and scandals	28
Voluntary disclosure of corporate political spending	28
Does privatization reform alleviate ownership discrimination? Evidence from the Split-share structure reform in China	28
CEO political preference and credit ratings	28
The dark side of CEO social capital: Evidence from real earnings management and future operating performance	27
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance	27
The impact of monetary policy on M&A outcomes	27
Corporate Twitter use and cost of equity capital	26
How does uncertainty influence target capital structure?	26
Politician as venture capitalist: Politically-connected VCs and IPO activity in China	26
Is equity crowdfunding always good? Deal structure and the attraction of venture capital investors	26
Do external labour market incentives constrain bad news hoarding? The CEO's industry tournament and crash risk reduction	25
Do disclosures of selective access improve market information acquisition fairness? Evidence from company visits in China	25
Stock liquidity and corporate labor investment	25
Emerging market corporate leverage and global financial conditions	25
Post-privatization state ownership and bank risk-taking: Cross-country evidence	25
The effect of relationship banking on firm efficiency and default risk	25
Is language an economic institution? Evidence from R&D investment	24
Time for gift giving: Abnormal share repurchase returns and uncertainty	24
Corporate managerial ability, earnings smoothing, and acquisitions	24
Transactional and relational approaches to political connections and the cost of debt	24
Protection of proprietary information and financial reporting opacity: Evidence from a natural experiment	24
Insider trading patterns	24
Reputational concerns in the market for corporate control	24
Investment, leverage and political risk: Evidence from project-level FDI	24
Shareholder litigation rights and stock price crash risk	24
Board connections and crisis performance: Family, state, and political networks	24
Spillover effects of government initiatives fostering entrepreneurship on the access to bank credit for entrepreneurial firms in Europe	24
Customer concentration and M&A performance	24
Shareholder litigation rights and corporate acquisitions	23
Are CEOs judged on their companies' social reputation?	23
Access to internal capital, creditor rights and corporate borrowing: Does group affiliation matter?	23
The impact of short-selling pressure on corporate employee relations	22
Local peer effects of corporate social responsibility	22
Does the Dodd-Frank Act reduce the conflict of interests of credit rating agencies?	22
Revisiting acquirer returns: Evidence from unanticipated deals	22
Gender board diversity and the cost of bank loans	22
Board reforms and debt choice	22
Institutional investment horizons, corporate governance, and credit ratings: International evidence	21

State ownership and stock liquidity: Evidence from privatization	21
Worldwide short selling regulations and IPO underpricing	21
Does exposure to product market competition influence insider trading profitability?	21
Attention! Distracted institutional investors and stock price crash	21
Institutional dual holdings and risk-shifting: Evidence from corporate innovation	21
The party school education and corporate innovation: Evidence from SOEs in China	20
Does trust matter for the cost of bank loans?	20
Bank regulatory size thresholds, merger and acquisition behavior, and small business lending	20
Do the resignations of politically connected independent directors affect corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China	20
How alternative finance informs central themes in corporate finance	20
Major shareholders’ trust and market risk: Substituting weak institutions with trust	20
A comparative analysis of ex ante credit spreads: Structured finance versus straight debt finance	20
Environmental performance and analyst information processing costs	19
Diversity and women in finance: Challenges and future perspectives	19
Natural disasters and economic growth: The role of banking market structure	19
The effect of board gender diversity on cross-listing	19
Internal coalition and stock price crash risk	19
The power of Connections: Evidence from financial companies	19
Economic policy uncertainty and cross-border lending	19
Institutional investor horizon and bank risk-taking	19
CEO overconfidence and bank loan contracting	18
Managerial entrenchment and capital structure: The effect of diversification	18
Competition Policy and the Profitability of Corporate Acquisitions	18
Mandatory corporate social responsibility and foreign institutional investor preferences	18
Let us work together: The impact of customer strategic alliances on IPO underpricing and post-IPO performance	18
Executive compensation and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from private loan contracts	18
Confidence and capital raising	18
#MeToo: Sexual harassment and company value	18
CEO power and the likelihood of paying dividends: Effect of profitability and cash flow volatility	18
Political Control, Corporate Governance and Firm Value: The Case of China	18
How does greater bank competition affect borrower screening? Evidence from China's WTO entry	18
Corporate financing of investment opportunities in a world of institutional cross-ownership	18
Bank competition and financing efficiency under asymmetric information	18
Board monitoring, director connections, and credit quality☆	18
CSR contracting and performance-induced CEO turnover	18
Foreign residency rights and corporate cash holdings	18
Bank power, block ownership, boards and financial distress likelihood: An investigation of Spanish listed firms	18
Do stress tests affect bank liquidity creation?	17
Financial analysts' career concerns and the cost of private debt	17
Does gender diversity in the workplace mitigate climate change?	17
Does economic policy uncertainty drive the initiation of corporate lobbying?	17
Macroeconomic news and acquirer returns in M&As: The impact of investor alertness	17
The effect of managers on M&As	17
Foreign institutional ownership and the speed of leverage adjustment: International evidence	17
Firms' rationales for CEO duality: Evidence from a mandatory disclosure regulation	17
Outsourcing flexibility under financial constraints	17
One way out of the share pledging quagmire: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	17
Political corruption and mergers and acquisitions	17
Credit rationing in P2P lending to SMEs: Do lender-borrower relationships matter?	17
Do CFOs matter? Evidence from the M&A process	17
Employee protection shocks and corporate cash holdings	16
What's good for you is good for me: The effect of CEO inside debt on the cost of equity	16
The relevance of investor rights in crowdinvesting	16
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings	16
Sentiment analysis and gender differences in earnings conference calls	16
The effect of geographic proximity on corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from China	15
CEO inside debt and internal capital market efficiency	15
Co-opted directors, covenant intensity, and covenant violations	15
Courting innovation: The effects of litigation risk on corporate innovation	15
Concierge treatment from banks: Evidence from the paycheck protection program	15
Who wins and who loses from bank geographic deregulation? Analysis of financially constrained and unconstrained firms	15
Insider trading and shareholder investment horizons	15
The rise of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges: Evaluating the role of airdrops and governance tokens	15
Too gloomy to invest: Weather-induced mood and crowdfunding	15
The finance of climate change	15
Does an anti-corruption campaign increase analyst earnings forecast optimism?	15
Earnings management by classification shifting and IPO survival	15
Dividend taxes, employment, and firm productivity	15
The role of directors with related supply chain industry experience in corporate acquisition decisions	15
Depoliticization and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from the mandated resignation of directors in China	15
Social capital and entrepreneurial financing choice	15
Antitakeover Provisions and Firm Value: New Evidence from the M&A Market	14
Has persistence persisted in private equity? Evidence from buyout and venture capital funds	14
Soft activism and corporate dividend policy: Evidence from institutional investors site visits	14
Non-executive ownership and private loan pricing	14
First-mover advantage, time to finance, and cash holdings	14
When rain matters! Investments and value relevance	14
The effect of shareholder activism on earnings management: Evidence from shareholder proposals	14
Large shareholder ownership types and board governance	14
Institutional investors and bank governance: An international analysis of bank earnings management	14
Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach	14
Money chasing hot industries? Investor attention and valuation of venture capital backed firms	14
Venture capital and corporate social responsibility	14
Corporate media connections and merger outcomes	14
U.S. stock prices and the dot.com-bubble: Can dividend policy rescue the efficient market hypothesis?	14
Can machines learn capital structure dynamics?	14
Liquidity regulation and bank lending	14
Transforming the management and governance of private family firms: The role of venture capital	14
Does local competition and firm market power affect investment adviser misconduct?	14
Does unionization affect the manager–shareholder conflict? Evidence from firm-specific stock price crash risk	14
Optimal terms of contingent capital, incentive effects, and capital structure dynamics	14
Lean against the wind: The effect of policy uncertainty on a firm's corporate social responsibility strategy	13
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk	13
Corrigendum to “Corporate culture and CEO turnover” [Journal of Corporate Finance, 28 (2014) 66–82]	13
Winning a deal in private equity: Do educational ties matter?	13