Journal of Financial Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Research is 0. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Firm (re)valuation and payouts37
Exploring the multifaceted impacts of convertible bond issuance on stock market quality: Evidence from China22
The asset growth return premium and anchoring on the 52‐week high16
IRS Private Letter Rulings: Initial Evidence on Determinants and Consequences15
Issue Information14
Social media and cost of debt financing: Evidence from stock forum text analysis13
Project risk and the bank monitored credit line13
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When it rains, it pours: Multifactor asset management in good and bad times11
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Should lenders also advise? Evidence from project loans11
Informed trading by hedge funds9
Bailouts and the modeling of bank distress9
Dividend mispricing: Evidence from all‐stock merger deals9
Short selling and options trading: A tale of two markets7
Ambiguity and risk factors in bank stocks7
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MIDAS and dividend growth predictability: Revisiting the excess volatility puzzle6
Different momentum effects across countries: An explanation based on investors' behavior6
Market structure and price clustering: Maker‐taker versus taker‐maker6
Debt financing, the pandemic, and Federal Reserve interventions6
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Issue Information6
Income and balance sheet diversification effects on banks' cost and profit efficiency: Evidence from the United States5
Debt enforcement, financial leverage, and product failures: Evidence from China and the United States5
Executive networks and global stock liquidity5
Capacity overhang and corporate disinvestment decisions5
Hostile activism: Hostile tactics or hostile hedge funds?5
Understanding the cross‐section of CDS returns using equity options5
Issue Information4
Dividends and share repurchases during the COVID‐19 economic crisis4
Personal connections, financial advisors and M&A outcomes4
Predicting corporate restructuring and financial distress in banks: The case of the Swiss banking industry4
Seasoned equity offerings and payout policy4
Social capital and managerial opportunism: Evidence from option backdating4
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Corporate social responsibility and bank liquidity creation4
Periodicity of trading activity in foreign exchange markets4
The impact of horizontal mergers on suppliers' cash holdings4
Decomposing industry leverage: The special cases of real estate investment trusts and technology & hardware companies4
Reference point formation: Does the market whisper in the background?4
Insider trading restriction enforcement, investor protection, and innovation4
Social media and price discovery: The case of cross‐listed firms4
It's the tone, stupid! Soft information in credit rating reports and financial markets4
Social connections and information leakage: Evidence from target stock price run‐up in takeovers4
New ESG rating drivers in the cross‐section of European stock returns4
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Foreign corporations as large shareholders4
Estimating background risk hedging demands from cross‐sectional data3
The role of the dual holder in mitigating underinvestment3
Issue Information3
Industry tournament incentives and corporate innovation strategies3
Predictable time‐series biases in analyst target prices and stock returns3
Corporate cash holdings and industry risk3
Interstate migration networks and stock return comovement3
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Issue Information2
Intraday variation in trading costs: Evidence from the TSPP2
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Market impacts of the 2020 short selling bans2
Does interest rate liberalization affect corporate debt structure?2
Board structure and market performance: Does one solution fit all?2
Information absorption in stocks with short‐selling constraints2
The credit channel of monetary policy before and after the zero lower bound: Evidence from the US equity market2
Local labor match and corporate investments: Evidence from new flight routes2
Who can see the iceberg's peak? How icebergs are used by information and liquidity traders2
Permanent private equity: Market performance and transactions2
The pervasiveness of matching rights in merger agreements: Impact on shareholder wealth2
Balancing liquidity and returns through interbank markets: Endogenous interest rates and network structures2
Tax‐loss selling and the January effect revisited: Evidence from municipal bond closed‐end funds and exchange‐traded funds1
Issue Information1
Military independent directors and merger activity1
Debt dispersion and corporate liquidity1
Mutual fund partial liquidation and future performance1
CEO overconfidence and debt covenant violations1
Director reputational penalties when shareholders disapprove of executive compensation1
A European perspective on climate change and political tensions and conflicts1
Cyclicality of liquidity creation: Nonlinear evidence from US bank holding companies1
Issue Information1
Negative bubbles and the market for “dreams”: “Lemons” in the looking glass1
Homemade international diversification under economic policy uncertainty1
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Does environmental investment pay off?—portfolio analyses of the E in ESG during political conflicts and public health crises1
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The role of existing shareholders in private equity placements in China1
The alphabet and idiosyncratic volatility1
How does the JOBS act affect the rule 144A market?1
‘And forgive us our debts’: Christian moralities and over‐indebtedness1
Mutual fund performance and changes in factor exposure1
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On regulation and excess reserves: The case of Basel III1
The real effects of earnout contracts in M&As1
Which economic uncertainty measure matters for households' portfolio decision?1
Managing other people's money: An agency theory in financial management industry1
Economic policy uncertainty and short‐term reversals1
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CDS contract initiations: REIT board monitoring and corporate decision outcomes1
The impact of changing disclosure requirements, competition, and private capital on firm exit methods and premiums1
Comoment risk in corporate bond yields and returns1
De facto time‐varying indices‐based benchmarks for mutual fund returns1
Import competition and stock price crash risk1
CEO prior uncertainty and pay–performance sensitivity1
Economic policy uncertainty and insider trading1
CEO–board connections and the cost of equity capital: International evidence1
Institutional trading and information processing: Evidence from complicated firms and easy‐to‐analyze firms1
The efficacy of market timing and value creation1
Bank size and performance: An analysis of the industry in the United States in the post‐financial‐crisis era1
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Adverse selection in cryptocurrency markets1
Lending discrimination and the role of community banks0
Short sellers and capital structure dynamics0
Social connections and innovation in diversified conglomerates0
Interbank borrowing and bank liquidity risk0
The cost of rate caps: Evidence from Arkansas0
New evidence on the economic motives for bank mergers0
Community social capital, managerial opportunistic behavior, and information uncertainty in IPO firms0
Toeholds and information quality in common‐value takeover auctions0
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Treasury auction method and underpricing: Evidence from Iceland0
Cash flow growth and stock returns0
Dual‐class share structure and innovation0
IPO proceeds deployment and firm performance0
Asset versus equity acquisitions by financial institutions0
Organizational capital and private placements of common equity0
Performance and diversification benefits of IPO‐focused mutual funds0
Import competition, credit reallocation, and small business lending0
Impacts of firm life cycle on bond ratings and yields0
The role of bank lenders in firm leverage adjustments0
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European equity markets volatility spillover: Destabilizing energy risk is the new normal0
How smart is smart money? Evidence from mutual funds' exposure on corporate misconduct0
Does local economic freedom matter for the cost of corporate borrowing from the banking sector? Evidence from the US states0
The effect of the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF) on corporate short‐term borrowing costs0
Deposit flows and the January effect in deposit rates0
Sentiment or habits: Why not both?0
Liquidity risk and the beta premium0
The determinants of stock–bond return correlations0
Issue Information0
Managerial characteristics and performance of eurozone mutual funds0
Excess cash and equity option liquidity0
Synthetic long stock and option trading: Evidence from stock splits0
Local connectedness and corporate social responsibility0
Venture capital and private equity investors, governance, and success of IPOs: Evidence from India0
Variance of deviation from optimal leverage0
Dependence matters! Investor sentiment and stock returns: A sliced inverse regression approach0
Institutional investors and mispricing of unionized firms0
Capital gain overhang and risk–return trade‐off: An international study0
Portfolio returns and consumption growth covariation in the frequency domain, real economic activity, and expected returns0
Valuing the speed of adjustment of capital structure0
Artificial intelligence innovation and stock price crash risk0
Informed trading of out‐of‐the‐money options and market efficiency0
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Economic policy uncertainty and the cost of equity capital0
Issue Information0
Do traders overweight experience from first movers?0
Time‐Series Factor Modeling and Selection0
The U.S. syndicated loan market: Matching data0
The taxonomy of tail risk0
Commodity tail risk and equity risk premia0
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The effect of liquidity and arbitrage on the price efficiency of Chinese ETFs0
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The effects of bank mergers on listed U.S. borrowers0
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Model for optimizing lender's decision on dealing with collateral of defaulted mortgage0
Lending and risk controls for BHCs after the Dodd–Frank act0
Do dividends and share repurchases convey information about financial strength? An exploration of the disparities between banks and industrial firms0
Religious differences and households' investment decisions0
The threat of voiced shareholder disapproval and the value of voting0
The role of Cross‐Border alliances in corporate social responsibility: International evidence0
Distracted institutional shareholders and debt maturity0
Blockholder mutual fund participation in private in‐house meetings0
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Active share: A blessing and a curse0
Do temporary changes in earnings caused by mean reversion affect firms’ refinancing decisions?0
Improving portfolio investment performance with distance‐based portfolio‐combining algorithms0
A comparative study of bank efficiency in three Chinese regions: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao0
The role of media connections in seasoned equity offerings0
The relative number of anti‐takeover provisions and the market for corporate control0
The causal effect of corporate governance on employee satisfaction0
Trump's tweets: Sentiment, stock market volatility, and jumps0
Issue Information0
Unintended consequences of discrimination litigation caps0
Preopening price indications and market quality: Evidence from NYSE Rule 480
Sink or swim? Managerial ability and trade credit0
Selection effects in the births of mutual funds0
CEO extraversion and the cost of equity capital0
Tweets versus broadsheets: Sentiment impact on stock markets around the world0
Board gender diversity and acquisition choices0
Signaling effects of recurrent list‐price reductions on the likelihood of house sales0
Author Index of Volume XLIV, 20210
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The role of internal capital markets during financial crises: Evidence from Korean chaebols0
Active mutual funds and their passive ETF investments0
Hedging uncertainty with cryptocurrencies: Is bitcoin your best bet?0
Financial analysts' bundling across firms: Target prices and stock recommendations0
Is idiosyncratic asymmetry priced in commodity futures?0
Do bank managers signal through cash flow statements?0
Do credit market accessibility and legal protection shape corporate innovation?0
How does air pollution affect corporate information environment?0
Information‐driven stock price comovement0
Bank–client cross‐ownership of bank stocks: A network analysis0
Does legal protection of trade secrets reduce the cost of debt? Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine0
Issue Information0
Climate risk and credit ratings0
Can central banks be heard over the sound of gunfire?0
Hedge funds and climate news risk: Evidence from stock holdings in fossil fuel firms0
Treasury return predictability and investor sentiment0
Tax policies and agency costs0
Democracy and stock market returns0
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The benefit of being public: Evidence from survival analysis of corporate financing0
The impact of labor on the performance of founder‐family firms0
The effect of investor attention on fraud discovery and value loss in securities class action litigation0
Policy uncertainty and cash dynamics0
Climate transition risk and bank lending0
The factor market spillover effects of shareholder activism0
Constraints on provisioning at public versus private community banks0
Investment horizon for private‐value assets: Evidence from the art market0
Liquidity shocks and intraday price reaction0
Academic CEOs and corporate innovation0
Swap variance hedging and efficiency: The role of high moments0
Do more active funds still earn higher performance? Evidence from Active Share over time0
Firm reaction to geopolitical crises: Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine conflict0
Threats to human capital: The effect of health risk on corporate financial policy0
Boundary of the firm with endogenous firm structure0
The value of social capital in small business lending: Evidence from the Small Business Administration program0
New institutional investors in the IPO secondary market: Sentiment or fundamentals?0
Passive insider trading before pension freezes0
Are stress‐tested banks in the United States becoming similar? Evidence from convergence tests0
Round‐number biases on trading time: Evidence from international markets0
Cultural, trust, and transparency effects on the use of anchoring in mergers and acquisitions0
CEO compensation complexity: Optimal contracts or agency problems?0
VC ownership post‐IPO: When, why, and how do VCs exit?0
Tournament effects in equity mutual funds: Impact of economic conditions and investment styles0
Are we playing the same “research” game in business?0
The causal effect of local product market shocks on equity holdings: Evidence from the airline industry0
Issue Information0
The discount for lack of marketability term structure0
Market‐implied ratings and their divergence from credit ratings0
Does amortization matter? Evidence from the syndicated loan market0
Executive compensation, internal control quality, and corporate social responsibility in China0
Bond pairs and the term structure0
Bond covenants and investment policy0
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