Journal of Corporate Finance

Article	Citations
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	181
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?	118
Greening through trade	107
Corporate green revenue and syndicated loan pricing	107
Bank municipal bond holdings and mortgage lending standards	106
Imbalanced ESG investing?	102
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	97
Labor unions and real earnings management	81
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	79
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	79
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	77
Social interactions in investment decisions: Evidence from fund managers' common site visits	74
The role of growth strategies in acquisitions	74
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	72
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	70
Signaling through timing of stock splits	67
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	67
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	64
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	61
Quantifying the legacy of trauma: The long-term impact of the African slave trade on contemporary firm corruption	58
Real estate collateral, lender screening, and M&A performance	58
Editorial Board	57
Interest rate uncertainty and the investment/financing decisions	57
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	54
Do director ownership plans change director behavior?	53

Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	52
Economic magnitudes within reason	51
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	49
Editorial Board	49
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	45
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	45
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency	45
Local peer effects and corporate investment	44
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	44
“Death becomes her”: Market reaction to the death of controlling inside blockholders	44
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk	44
Institutional voids and business group dynamics: Evidence from judicial reform in China	43
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	42
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	42
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts	41
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	40
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?	40
Political uncertainty and institutional herding	40
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct	39
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	38
Leggso: Financing experimentation	38
Director networks and firm value	37
Do creditor rights reduce tunneling? Evidence from India’s bankruptcy law reforms	37
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	37
Polarized corporate boards	36
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes	36
Executive live streaming	36
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	36
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic	35
The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring	35
Sunshine-induced mood and SEO pricing: Evidence from detailed investor bids in SEO auctions	35
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings	35
Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market	35
Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility	34
Major customers and carbon footprints along the supply chain	33
Dividend hibernation and future earnings: When no dividend news is good news	33
The intangible shift: Redefining the dynamics of market-to-book ratios	33
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?	32
When does a generalist CEO create shareholder value? The effect of managerial challenge	32
Age demographics and stock return comovement	32
Tightening monetary policy and investment dynamics in the European Monetary Union: Firm- and country-level heterogeneity	32
Employee stock options and innovation: Evidence from an exogenous shock to employee intellectual property rights	30
Political network and muted insider trading	30
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws	30
The impact of automation on firms' reporting quality	30
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?	30
U.S. multinationals' alternatives to paying taxes	30
Beneficiary investor monitoring and asset manager engagement	29
Early-stage venture financing	29
Strategic flexibility: How rent-seeking behavior enables firms to adapt to uncertainty	29

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

Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans	13
Pension fund investment and firm innovation	13
The role of financial constraints in firm investment under pollution abatement regulation	13
Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit	13
Backing away from ESG? The effect of sovereign rating downgrades on corporate sustainability	13
Deregulation and bank stability: Evidence from loan-to-deposit ratio requirement in China	13
Investor–firm interactions and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China	13