Journal of Corporate Finance

Article	Citations
Firms and social responsibility: A review of ESG and CSR research in corporate finance	724
Do shareholders benefit from green bonds?	348
Does CSR matter in times of crisis? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	254
Fintech and access to finance	161
Navigating through economic policy uncertainty: The role of corporate cash holdings	151
Does board gender diversity affect renewable energy consumption?	134
Fintech, financial constraints and innovation: Evidence from China	130
Carbon risk and corporate capital structure	122
The impact of climate change on the cost of bank loans	121
Powerful CEOs and stock price crash risk	112
CEOs' hometown connections and access to trade credit: Evidence from China	110
Does media coverage deter firms from withholding bad news? Evidence from stock price crash risk	105
The real effect of partial privatization on corporate innovation: Evidence from China's split share structure reform	102
Digital Tulips? Returns to investors in initial coin offerings	99
Investor rewards to environmental responsibility: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis	98
Corporate board reforms around the world and stock price crash risk	97
Corporate social responsibility, product market perception, and firm value	95
Does carbon risk matter for corporate acquisition decisions?	92
Institutional investors and post-ICO performance: an empirical analysis of investor returns in initial coin offerings (ICOs)	92
Dividends and economic policy uncertainty: International evidence	90
Directors with foreign experience and corporate tax avoidance	88
CEO-director ties and labor investment efficiency	85
Does good luck make people overconfident? Evidence from a natural experiment in the stock market	82
Institutional investors' horizons and corporate employment decisions	82
CEO early-life disaster experience and stock price crash risk	81

Do employee-friendly firms invest more efficiently? Evidence from labor investment efficiency	78
Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure	78
Labor cost, government intervention, and corporate innovation: Evidence from China	75
The influence of economic policy uncertainty on corporate trade credit and firm value	75
Integrating corporate social responsibility criteria into executive compensation and firm innovation: International evidence	74
Is social capital associated with corporate innovation? Evidence from publicly listed firms in the U.S	73
Internal controls, risk management, and cash holdings	72
Twenty-five years of the Journal of Corporate Finance: A scientometric analysis	70
Corporate social responsibility versus corporate shareholder responsibility: A family firm perspective	70
Corporate governance reform and risk-taking: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in an emerging market	70
ESG government risk and international IPO underpricing	69
Climate risk: The price of drought	67
Organizational capital, corporate tax avoidance, and firm value	67
The impact of blockchain related name changes on corporate performance	65
Trust and innovation: Evidence from CEOs' early-life experience	65
Government intervention and firm investment	65
Economic policy uncertainty and short-term financing: The case of trade credit	63
CEO overconfidence and corporate cash holdings	63
Varieties in state capitalism and corporate innovation: Evidence from an emerging economy	62
Does external uncertainty matter in corporate sustainability performance?	61
CEO risk-taking incentives and corporate social responsibility	61
Capital markets, financial institutions, and corporate finance in China	59
Lead independent directors and investment efficiency	59
Annual report readability and the cost of equity capital	59
Banks and the real economy: An assessment of the research	58
Stakeholders and the stock price crash risk: What matters in corporate social performance?	55
Fiduciary duty or loyalty? Evidence from co-opted boards and corporate misconduct	55
Does gender diversity on banks' boards matter? Evidence from public bailouts	54
Does national culture affect corporate innovation? International evidence	53
Business sustainability factors and stock price informativeness	53
The future of financial fraud	53
Quality revealing versus overstating in equity crowdfunding	52
Higher education and corporate innovation	50
Gender diversity and bank misconduct	49
Do investors want politically connected independent directors? Evidence from their forced resignations in China	49
Feeling right at home: Hometown CEOs and firm innovation	48
Stereotypes in financial literacy: Evidence from PISA	48
Haste doesn't bring success: Top-down amplification of economic growth targets and enterprise overcapacity	48
Air pollution and employee treatment	46
Efficiency wages as gift exchange: Evidence from corporate innovation in China	46
Does bankruptcy law improve the fate of distressed firms? The role of credit channels	46
Mandatory CSR expenditure and stock market liquidity	46
Which criteria matter when impact investors screen social enterprises?	45
Trade credit and stock liquidity	45
Does takeover activity affect stock price crash risk? Evidence from international M&A laws	43
Multiple blockholders and earnings management	42
Natural disasters and analysts' earnings forecasts	42
Financial distress risk and stock price crashes	42
Confucianism, successor choice, and firm performance in family firms: Evidence from China	41
Institutional investor distraction and earnings management	41

Shareholder litigation rights and capital structure decisions	41
It’s who you know that counts: Board connectedness and CSR performance	41
Corporate governance and cash holdings: Evidence from worldwide board reforms	40
Board co-option and default risk	40
Asset redeployability and the choice between bank debt and public debt	40
Multinationality and the value of green innovation	40
The information transfer effects of political connections on mitigating policy uncertainty: Evidence from China	40
The role of equity compensation in reducing inefficient investment in labor	39
To pollute or not to pollute: Political connections and corporate environmental performance	39
Do political connection disruptions increase labor costs in a government-dominated market? Evidence from publicly listed companies in China	39
Female CFOs, leverage and the moderating role of board diversity and CEO power	38
Entrepreneurs' facial trustworthiness, gender, and crowdfunding success	37
Do banks price environmental transition risks? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	37
Fraud commitment in a smaller world: Evidence from a natural experiment	37
What do insiders know? Evidence from insider trading around share repurchases and SEOs	37
Peer influence on trade credit	36
Selling to buy: Asset sales and acquisitions	36
Does stakeholder orientation matter for earnings management: Evidence from non-shareholder constituency statutes	36
The color of shareholders' money: Institutional shareholders' political values and corporate environmental disclosure	35
Managerial ability, corporate social culture, and M&As	35
When green meets green	35
The gender gap in bank credit access	35
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.	35
Intangible intensity and stock price crash risk	34
Does easing access to foreign financing matter for firm performance?	34
Information manipulation in equity crowdfunding markets	33
The unintended real effects of short selling in an emerging market	33
Non-controlling large shareholders in emerging markets: Evidence from China	33
Stock price effects of climate activism: Evidence from the first Global Climate Strike	33
The differential impact of corporate blockchain-development as conditioned by sentiment and financial desperation	32
Implicit government guarantees and credit ratings	32
Policy uncertainty and the capital shortfall of global financial firms	31
Need for speed: High-speed rail and firm performance	31
Does religiosity influence venture capital investment decisions?	30
Returns and network growth of digital tokens after cross-listings	30
Do CEO beliefs affect corporate cash holdings?	30
National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance	30
Terrorist attacks, investor sentiment, and the pricing of initial public offerings	30
Does privatization reform alleviate ownership discrimination? Evidence from the Split-share structure reform in China	29
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance	29
CEO political preference and credit ratings	29
Value relevance of the new environmental enforcement regime in China	29
Securities litigation and corporate tax avoidance	29
The failure of Chinese peer-to-peer lending platforms: Finance and politics	29
The dark side of CEO social capital: Evidence from real earnings management and future operating performance	29
Voluntary disclosure of corporate political spending	28
The impact of monetary policy on M&A outcomes	28
Is equity crowdfunding always good? Deal structure and the attraction of venture capital investors	28
Corporate failures: Declines, collapses, and scandals	28
How does uncertainty influence target capital structure?	27
Politician as venture capitalist: Politically-connected VCs and IPO activity in China	27
Corporate Twitter use and cost of equity capital	27
Customer concentration and M&A performance	27
Transactional and relational approaches to political connections and the cost of debt	26
The effect of relationship banking on firm efficiency and default risk	26
Emerging market corporate leverage and global financial conditions	26
Shareholder litigation rights and stock price crash risk	26
Stock liquidity and corporate labor investment	26
Investment, leverage and political risk: Evidence from project-level FDI	26
Do disclosures of selective access improve market information acquisition fairness? Evidence from company visits in China	26
Do external labour market incentives constrain bad news hoarding? The CEO's industry tournament and crash risk reduction	25
Board connections and crisis performance: Family, state, and political networks	25
Reputational concerns in the market for corporate control	25
Time for gift giving: Abnormal share repurchase returns and uncertainty	25
Insider trading patterns	25
Post-privatization state ownership and bank risk-taking: Cross-country evidence	25
Is language an economic institution? Evidence from R&D investment	25
Corporate managerial ability, earnings smoothing, and acquisitions	24
Gender board diversity and the cost of bank loans	24
Revisiting acquirer returns: Evidence from unanticipated deals	24
Are CEOs judged on their companies' social reputation?	24
Protection of proprietary information and financial reporting opacity: Evidence from a natural experiment	24
Spillover effects of government initiatives fostering entrepreneurship on the access to bank credit for entrepreneurial firms in Europe	24
Board reforms and debt choice	24
Attention! Distracted institutional investors and stock price crash	23
The impact of short-selling pressure on corporate employee relations	23
Access to internal capital, creditor rights and corporate borrowing: Does group affiliation matter?	23
Shareholder litigation rights and corporate acquisitions	23
Local peer effects of corporate social responsibility	23
Does trust matter for the cost of bank loans?	22

Political corruption and mergers and acquisitions	22
State ownership and stock liquidity: Evidence from privatization	22
Do the resignations of politically connected independent directors affect corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China	22
Institutional investment horizons, corporate governance, and credit ratings: International evidence	22
Does the Dodd-Frank Act reduce the conflict of interests of credit rating agencies?	22
The power of Connections: Evidence from financial companies	22
The party school education and corporate innovation: Evidence from SOEs in China	22
Institutional dual holdings and risk-shifting: Evidence from corporate innovation	22
Competition Policy and the Profitability of Corporate Acquisitions	21
Major shareholders’ trust and market risk: Substituting weak institutions with trust	21
Worldwide short selling regulations and IPO underpricing	21
Institutional investor horizon and bank risk-taking	21
How alternative finance informs central themes in corporate finance	21
Does exposure to product market competition influence insider trading profitability?	21
Corporate financing of investment opportunities in a world of institutional cross-ownership	21
Confidence and capital raising	20
Economic policy uncertainty and cross-border lending	20
Natural disasters and economic growth: The role of banking market structure	20
How does greater bank competition affect borrower screening? Evidence from China's WTO entry	20
Diversity and women in finance: Challenges and future perspectives	20
CSR contracting and performance-induced CEO turnover	20
The rise of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges: Evaluating the role of airdrops and governance tokens	20
A comparative analysis of ex ante credit spreads: Structured finance versus straight debt finance	20
Bank regulatory size thresholds, merger and acquisition behavior, and small business lending	20
Internal coalition and stock price crash risk	20
Mandatory corporate social responsibility and foreign institutional investor preferences	20
Foreign residency rights and corporate cash holdings	20
One way out of the share pledging quagmire: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	19
Credit rationing in P2P lending to SMEs: Do lender-borrower relationships matter?	19
Let us work together: The impact of customer strategic alliances on IPO underpricing and post-IPO performance	19
The effect of board gender diversity on cross-listing	19
#MeToo: Sexual harassment and company value	19
CEO power and the likelihood of paying dividends: Effect of profitability and cash flow volatility	19
Bank power, block ownership, boards and financial distress likelihood: An investigation of Spanish listed firms	19
Environmental performance and analyst information processing costs	19
Bank competition and financing efficiency under asymmetric information	19
Political Control, Corporate Governance and Firm Value: The Case of China	19
Foreign institutional ownership and the speed of leverage adjustment: International evidence	18
Does gender diversity in the workplace mitigate climate change?	18
Macroeconomic news and acquirer returns in M&As: The impact of investor alertness	18
The effect of managers on M&As	18
Board monitoring, director connections, and credit quality☆	18
Executive compensation and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from private loan contracts	18
CEO overconfidence and bank loan contracting	18
Managerial entrenchment and capital structure: The effect of diversification	18
Do stress tests affect bank liquidity creation?	18
The relevance of investor rights in crowdinvesting	17
Does local competition and firm market power affect investment adviser misconduct?	17
Sentiment analysis and gender differences in earnings conference calls	17
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings	17
Does economic policy uncertainty drive the initiation of corporate lobbying?	17
Firms' rationales for CEO duality: Evidence from a mandatory disclosure regulation	17
Soft activism and corporate dividend policy: Evidence from institutional investors site visits	17
Do CFOs matter? Evidence from the M&A process	17
Outsourcing flexibility under financial constraints	17