Journal of Financial Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Research is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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The asset growth return premium and anchoring on the 52‐week high34
Bond covenants and the speed of corporate capital structure adjustment: Evidence from China27
IRS Private Letter Rulings: Initial Evidence on Determinants and Consequences26
Institutional herding, credit rating and overreaction in stock price24
Firm (re)valuation and payouts19
Social media, high‐frequency trading, and market making after‐hours – Evidence from presidential tweets18
Exploring the multifaceted impacts of convertible bond issuance on stock market quality: Evidence from China14
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Project risk and the bank monitored credit line12
Does tunneling lower employee wages?11
Dividend mispricing: Evidence from all‐stock merger deals11
Ambiguity and risk factors in bank stocks10
Should lenders also advise? Evidence from project loans10
Bailouts and the modeling of bank distress10
Social media and cost of debt financing: Evidence from stock forum text analysis9
Informed trading by hedge funds9
Debt financing, the pandemic, and Federal Reserve interventions8
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Different momentum effects across countries: An explanation based on investors' behavior7
Executive networks and global stock liquidity7
Success or failure? Managerial ability and firm emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings7
Market structure and price clustering: Maker‐taker versus taker‐maker7
MIDAS and dividend growth predictability: Revisiting the excess volatility puzzle7
Income and balance sheet diversification effects on banks' cost and profit efficiency: Evidence from the United States7
Fueling regional economic prosperity: The role of P2P lending in micro‐firms and small businesses7
Price clustering and the informational efficiency of stock prices6
Capacity overhang and corporate disinvestment decisions6
Understanding the cross‐section of CDS returns using equity options6
Hostile activism: Hostile tactics or hostile hedge funds?6
Bank geographic deregulation, new credit accounts, and consumer credit6
Debt structure and environmental compliance5
Corporate social (ir)responsibility and firm risk: The role of corporate governance5
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Dividends and share repurchases during the COVID‐19 economic crisis5
Corporate social responsibility and bank liquidity creation5
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Debt enforcement, financial leverage, and product failures: Evidence from China and the United States5
When bubbles align: Synchronization and systemic risk in US real estate4
The impact of subordinate executives’ comparative confidence and competence on corporate risk‐taking4
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Character and creditworthiness: Unveiling the role of job titles in peer‐to‐peer lending4
The impact of horizontal mergers on suppliers' cash holdings4
Industrial policy conflicts and their impact on analysts' forecast accuracy and behavior4
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Insider trading restriction enforcement, investor protection, and innovation4
Social media and price discovery: The case of cross‐listed firms4
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New ESG rating drivers in the cross‐section of European stock returns4
Personal connections, financial advisors and M&A outcomes4
Foreign corporations as large shareholders4
Do earnouts create the right incentives? Earnings management around earnout‐based acquisitions4
CEO social media activity and insider trading3
Board quality and the public purse: A study of government subsidies and corporate governance3
Social connections and information leakage: Evidence from target stock price run‐up in takeovers3
Who can see the iceberg's peak? How icebergs are used by information and liquidity traders3
Distracted shareholders, information asymmetry, and capital markets: Evidence from the REIT industry3
The role of the dual holder in mitigating underinvestment3
Estimating background risk hedging demands from cross‐sectional data3
Predicting corporate restructuring and financial distress in banks: The case of the Swiss banking industry3
Decomposing industry leverage: The special cases of real estate investment trusts and technology & hardware companies3
Predictable time‐series biases in analyst target prices and stock returns3
Seasoned equity offerings and payout policy3
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Corporate cash holdings and industry risk3
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‘And forgive us our debts’: Christian moralities and over‐indebtedness2
CEO prior uncertainty and pay–performance sensitivity2
Balancing liquidity and returns through interbank markets: Endogenous interest rates and network structures2
Country culture and shadow banking2
Intraday variation in trading costs: Evidence from the TSPP2
Interstate migration networks and stock return comovement2
ETF ownership and the transmission of monetary policy2
Breaking the stablecoin buck: The attenuating impact of security breach shocks at cryptocurrency exchanges2
Active ingredients: How actively managed holdings shape target date fund performance and costs2
Local labor match and corporate investments: Evidence from new flight routes2
CEO–board connections and the cost of equity capital: International evidence2
Insider Trading as a Compensation Mechanism2
Information absorption in stocks with short‐selling constraints2
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Daily entry and exit triggers for open market repurchases2
Short selling ETFs and market performance2
Cyclicality of liquidity creation: Nonlinear evidence from US bank holding companies2
Import competition and stock price crash risk2
The alphabet and idiosyncratic volatility2
Market impacts of the 2020 short selling bans2
Common ownership and executive pay duration2
The pervasiveness of matching rights in merger agreements: Impact on shareholder wealth2
Does interest rate liberalization affect corporate debt structure?2
Board structure and market performance: Does one solution fit all?2
Do carbon prices affect stock prices?2
Social media sentiment, investor herding and informational efficiency1
Deposit flows and the January effect in deposit rates1
The efficacy of market timing and value creation1
The pricing of liquidity factors1
CDS contract initiations: REIT board monitoring and corporate decision outcomes1
The role of media connections in seasoned equity offerings1
Tax‐loss selling and the January effect revisited: Evidence from municipal bond closed‐end funds and exchange‐traded funds1
A European perspective on climate change and political tensions and conflicts1
Economic policy uncertainty and insider trading1
Homemade international diversification under economic policy uncertainty1
How does the JOBS act affect the rule 144A market?1
Managerial Opportunism and Corporate Investment Efficiency1
Mutual fund partial liquidation and future performance1
Strategic adjustment of capital structure: Evidence from firms newly added to the S&P 500 index1
The discount for lack of marketability term structure1
Local connectedness and corporate social responsibility1
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Does environmental investment pay off?—portfolio analyses of the E in ESG during political conflicts and public health crises1
Strategic technology talent acquisition and firm value: A cross‐industry examination1
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How smart is smart money? Evidence from mutual funds' exposure on corporate misconduct1
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Institutional trading and information processing: Evidence from complicated firms and easy‐to‐analyze firms1
The impact of changing disclosure requirements, competition, and private capital on firm exit methods and premiums1
De facto time‐varying indices‐based benchmarks for mutual fund returns1
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Military independent directors and merger activity1
Economic policy uncertainty and short‐term reversals1
New evidence on the economic motives for bank mergers1
Sink or swim? Managerial ability and trade credit1
Board gender diversity and acquisition choices1
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The value of social capital in small business lending: Evidence from the Small Business Administration program1
CEO‐employee pay ratio disclosure and dividend policy1
Tournament effects in equity mutual funds: Impact of economic conditions and investment styles1
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Liquidity shocks and intraday price reaction1
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When attentive insider trading matters: Evidence from government investment1
Managing other people's money: An agency theory in financial management industry1
The role of existing shareholders in private equity placements in China1
Debt dispersion and corporate liquidity1
Adverse selection in cryptocurrency markets1
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