Journal of Corporate Finance

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Corporate Finance is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Product market competition with CDS349
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data191
Labor unions and real earnings management156
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta126
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying119
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?109
Imbalanced ESG investing?96
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk95
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China89
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance85
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale85
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences80
Corporate ownership and ESG performance78
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives76
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation76
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation74
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales69
Economic magnitudes within reason66
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity59
Signaling through timing of stock splits59
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market56
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions56
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?54
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts54
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.54
Political uncertainty and institutional herding51
Institutional voids and business group dynamics: Evidence from judicial reform in China50
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk50
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan50
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency50
Bank market power and financial reporting quality50
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct48
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts48
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends48
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms48
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign47
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets45
Editorial Board45
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?44
Leggso: Financing experimentation44
Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme43
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions43
National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance42
Learning and staged equity financing42
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence42
Director networks and firm value41
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions41
Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility40
Polarized corporate boards39
The intangible shift: Redefining the dynamics of market-to-book ratios39
Sunshine-induced mood and SEO pricing: Evidence from detailed investor bids in SEO auctions39
Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market37
Board gender diversity and responsible banking during the COVID-19 pandemic36
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes34
Dividend hibernation and future earnings: When no dividend news is good news34
May the force be with you: Investor power and company valuations34
The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring34
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic33
Editorial Board32
CSR contracting and performance-induced CEO turnover32
Major customers and carbon footprints along the supply chain32
Macroprudential policy and intra-group dynamics: The effects of reserve requirements in Brazil32
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings32
Money isn't everything: Compensation of locally educated executives32
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws31
Tightening monetary policy and investment dynamics in the European Monetary Union: Firm- and country-level heterogeneity31
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?31
Duration of executive compensation and maturity structure of corporate debt30
Managerial incentives and trade credit: Evidence from China's EVA appraisal reform among CSOEs30
The impact of automation on firms' reporting quality30
The bright side of the internal labor market: Evidence from the labor cost stickiness of firms affiliated with privately owned business groups in China30
Robust inference in single firm/single event analyses30
U.S. multinationals' alternatives to paying taxes29
Risk, return, and environmental and social ratings29
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?29
Editorial Board28
Early-stage venture financing28
Customer identity concealing and insider selling profitability: Evidence from China28
Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach27
Financing constraints and share pledges: Evidence from the share pledge reform in China27
Board financial expertise and the capital decisions of US banks27
Innovation beyond firm boundaries: Strategic alliances and corporate innovation27
Debt structure and debt overhang27
Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?26
Automation cost flexibility and firm value26
Relationship-based debt financing of Chinese private sector firms: The role of social connections to banks versus political connections26
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings26
Does commercial reform embracing digital technologies mitigate stock price crash risk?26
The Long-term effect of social disasters on stock market participation26
Innovation for promotion: The effect of executive involvement on inventors' innovation choice26
The anatomy of corporate securitizations and contract design26
Early individual stakeholders, first venture capital investment, and exit in the UK startup ecosystem26
Foundation ownership and sustainability26
(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management25
Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance25
Outside director social network centrality and turnover before stock performance crash: A friend in need?25
Cybersecurity risk and corporate innovation24
The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions24
Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts24
Naïve or sophisticated? Information disclosure and investment decisions in peer to peer lending24
Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle24
Individual investors matter: The effect of investor-firm interactions on corporate earnings management23
Female CFOs, leverage and the moderating role of board diversity and CEO power23
Dynamic incentive contracts for ESG investing23
Executive incentives under common ownership23
Does corrupt practice increase the implied cost of equity?22
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment22
A primer on oracle economics22
CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics22
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China21
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms21
Bankruptcy, overlapping directors, and bank loan pricing21
Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility21
Corporate investment and growth opportunities: The role of R&D-capital complementarity21
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups21
R&D tax credits, technology spillovers, and firms' product convergence21
Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance20
Editorial Board20
The finance of climate change20
The information value of M&A press releases19
Are non-family successors all the same? Inside-promoted vs. outside-sourced19
The informational consequences of good and bad mergers19
The information advantage of industry common owners and its spillover effect on stock price crash risk19
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions19
Regulation and information costs of sovereign distress: Evidence from corporate lending markets18
Labor-saving innovations and capital structure18
Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers18
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis18
Securities litigation risk and board gender diversity18
Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions18
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?17
Foreign competition and CEO risk-incentive compensation17
Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit17
Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers17
Influential independent directors' reputation incentives: Impacts on CEO compensation contracts and financial reporting17
Decomposing value gains – The case of the best leveraged buy-out ever17
Backing away from ESG? The effect of sovereign rating downgrades on corporate sustainability17
Bankers’ pay and the evolving structure of US banking17
Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination17
Courting innovation: The effects of litigation risk on corporate innovation17
Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure17
The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders17
The ripple effect: How subsidies transform firm behavior17
The role of divestitures in horizontal mergers16
Gender board diversity and the cost of bank loans16
Investor–firm interactions and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China16
Market pressure or regulatory pressure? U.S. small bank pre-emptive IT investment to data privacy regulation16
Corporate governance reforms, societal trust, and corporate financial policies16
Managers' cultural origin and corporate response to an economic shock16
Natural disasters and firm leasing: A collateral channel16
Firms save from bonds but not from loans15
The role of financial constraints in firm investment under pollution abatement regulation15
The role of individual investment bankers in IPO pricing: Evidence from investor bidding behavior15
Customer orientation and stock resilience during adversity periods15
Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs15
Can a not-for-profit minority institutional shareholder make a big difference in corporate governance? A quasi-natural experiment15
Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans15
The dark side of asset redeployability through the lens of corporate employment decisions15
Pricing of project finance bonds: A comparative analysis of primary market spreads15
Institutional dual ownership and voluntary greenhouse gas emission disclosure15
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