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
Foundation ownership and sustainability	25
The anatomy of corporate securitizations and contract design	25
Monetary policy, intangible capital, and debt contracts	25
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
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
Does commercial reform embracing digital technologies mitigate stock price crash risk?	23
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings	23
Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?	23
Cybersecurity risk and corporate innovation	22
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
“May the road ahead be smooth”: Cultural continuity and CEO succession	21
Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle	21
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
Shadow seniority? Lending relationships and borrowers’ selective default	20
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
Antitrust policies and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence	19
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China	19
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
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
The information value of M&A press releases	18
Editorial Board	18
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions	18
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
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
Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs	16
Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination	16
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
The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders	15
Firms save from bonds but not from loans	15
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
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
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
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
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