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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Peer-level analyst transitions324
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale194
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying185
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences180
Imbalanced ESG investing?150
Product market competition with CDS149
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China119
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data113
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance112
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?101
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk100
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta92
Corporate ownership and ESG performance91
Labor unions and real earnings management82
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation78
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity78
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales76
Local product market competition and bank loans75
Economic magnitudes within reason68
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market68
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions67
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts66
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives65
Signaling through timing of stock splits63
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.61
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation56
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence53
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions52
Leggso: Financing experimentation51
Learning and staged equity financing48
Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme47
Editorial Board47
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk46
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms46
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets45
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan45
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency45
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts45
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?45
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends44
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions43
Director networks and firm value42
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct41
Political uncertainty and institutional herding41
Bank market power and financial reporting quality40
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign39
Haste doesn't bring success: Top-down amplification of economic growth targets and enterprise overcapacity39
Editorial Board38
National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance38
Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility38
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?38
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic38
Debt maturity dispersion and the cost of bank loans37
May the force be with you: Investor power and company valuations37
Polarized corporate boards35
Dividend hibernation and future earnings: When no dividend news is good news35
Macroprudential policy and intra-group dynamics: The effects of reserve requirements in Brazil35
Money isn't everything: Compensation of locally educated executives35
CSR contracting and performance-induced CEO turnover34
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes34
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings32
Board gender diversity and responsible banking during the COVID-19 pandemic32
Major customers and carbon footprints along the supply chain32
Sunshine-induced mood and SEO pricing: Evidence from detailed investor bids in SEO auctions31
The intangible shift: Redefining the dynamics of market-to-book ratios31
Editorial Board30
Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market30
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?30
Tightening monetary policy and investment dynamics in the European Monetary Union: Firm- and country-level heterogeneity30
The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring30
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?29
U.S. multinationals' alternatives to paying taxes29
Early-stage venture financing29
Heterogeneity in independent non-executive directors' attributes and risk-taking in large banks28
Board financial expertise and the capital decisions of US banks28
Customer identity concealing and insider selling profitability: Evidence from China28
Risk, return, and environmental and social ratings28
Managerial incentives and trade credit: Evidence from China's EVA appraisal reform among CSOEs27
The influence of the media on government decisions: Evidence from IPOs in China27
Debt structure and debt overhang27
The impact of automation on firms' reporting quality27
Duration of executive compensation and maturity structure of corporate debt27
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws27
The bright side of the internal labor market: Evidence from the labor cost stickiness of firms affiliated with privately owned business groups in China27
Innovation beyond firm boundaries: Strategic alliances and corporate innovation26
Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach26
Robust inference in single firm/single event analyses26
Financing constraints and share pledges: Evidence from the share pledge reform in China26
Foundation ownership and sustainability25
The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions25
Early individual stakeholders, first venture capital investment, and exit in the UK startup ecosystem25
Dynamic incentive contracts for ESG investing24
Naïve or sophisticated? Information disclosure and investment decisions in peer to peer lending24
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings24
Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle24
Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?24
The anatomy of corporate securitizations and contract design24
Female CFOs, leverage and the moderating role of board diversity and CEO power24
The Long-term effect of social disasters on stock market participation24
Executive incentives under common ownership24
Underwriting bank bonds: Information sharing, certification and distribution networks23
Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts23
Cybersecurity risk and corporate innovation23
Innovation for promotion: The effect of executive involvement on inventors' innovation choice23
(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management23
Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance23
Outside director social network centrality and turnover before stock performance crash: A friend in need?23
Automation cost flexibility and firm value23
Individual investors matter: The effect of investor-firm interactions on corporate earnings management23
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups22
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms22
Bankruptcy, overlapping directors, and bank loan pricing22
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment22
Relationship-based debt financing of Chinese private sector firms: The role of social connections to banks versus political connections22
Does corrupt practice increase the implied cost of equity?22
Corporate investment and growth opportunities: The role of R&D-capital complementarity22
Does commercial reform embracing digital technologies mitigate stock price crash risk?22
Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility21
Editorial Board21
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China21
R&D tax credits, technology spillovers, and firms' product convergence21
Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance21
The finance of climate change21
A primer on oracle economics21
CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics21
Decomposing value gains – The case of the best leveraged buy-out ever20
The information value of M&A press releases20
Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers19
The informational consequences of good and bad mergers19
Foreign competition and CEO risk-incentive compensation19
Corrigendum to “Corporate culture and CEO turnover” [Journal of Corporate Finance, 28 (2014) 66–82]19
Influential independent directors' reputation incentives: Impacts on CEO compensation contracts and financial reporting19
Are non-family successors all the same? Inside-promoted vs. outside-sourced18
The information advantage of industry common owners and its spillover effect on stock price crash risk18
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis18
Regulation and information costs of sovereign distress: Evidence from corporate lending markets18
Securities litigation risk and board gender diversity18
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions17
Courting innovation: The effects of litigation risk on corporate innovation17
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?17
Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination17
Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions17
Labor-saving innovations and capital structure17
Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure17
Gender board diversity and the cost of bank loans16
Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs16
Firms save from bonds but not from loans16
The role of divestitures in horizontal mergers16
Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit16
Opioid epidemic and corporate innovation16
The role of individual investment bankers in IPO pricing: Evidence from investor bidding behavior16
Dare to play with fire? Managerial ability and the use of short-term debt16
Managers' cultural origin and corporate response to an economic shock15
Option compensation, risky mortgage lending, and the financial crisis15
Pricing of project finance bonds: A comparative analysis of primary market spreads15
The dark side of asset redeployability through the lens of corporate employment decisions15
Local political corruption and Firm's non-GAAP reporting15
The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders15
Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans15
Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers15
Customer orientation and stock resilience during adversity periods15
Natural disasters and firm leasing: A collateral channel15
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