Journal of Financial Research

Article	Citations
The asset growth return premium and anchoring on the 52‐week high	31
Institutional herding, credit rating and overreaction in stock price	25
Bond covenants and the speed of corporate capital structure adjustment: Evidence from China	24
IRS Private Letter Rulings: Initial Evidence on Determinants and Consequences	19
Exploring the multifaceted impacts of convertible bond issuance on stock market quality: Evidence from China	18
Firm (re)valuation and payouts	16
Social media and cost of debt financing: Evidence from stock forum text analysis	12
Social media, high‐frequency trading, and market making after‐hours – Evidence from presidential tweets	12
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Project risk and the bank monitored credit line	11
Short selling and options trading: A tale of two markets	11
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Informed trading by hedge funds	10
Dividend mispricing: Evidence from all‐stock merger deals	10
Ambiguity and risk factors in bank stocks	10
Bailouts and the modeling of bank distress	10
Should lenders also advise? Evidence from project loans	10
Does tunneling lower employee wages?	9
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Hostile activism: Hostile tactics or hostile hedge funds?	7
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Success or failure? Managerial ability and firm emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings	7
Debt financing, the pandemic, and Federal Reserve interventions	7
Different momentum effects across countries: An explanation based on investors' behavior	7
MIDAS and dividend growth predictability: Revisiting the excess volatility puzzle	7

Fueling regional economic prosperity: The role of P2P lending in micro‐firms and small businesses	7
Market structure and price clustering: Maker‐taker versus taker‐maker	7
Income and balance sheet diversification effects on banks' cost and profit efficiency: Evidence from the United States	6
Capacity overhang and corporate disinvestment decisions	6
Understanding the cross‐section of CDS returns using equity options	6
Dividends and share repurchases during the COVID‐19 economic crisis	6
Executive networks and global stock liquidity	6
Price clustering and the informational efficiency of stock prices	6
Corporate social responsibility and bank liquidity creation	5
Insider trading restriction enforcement, investor protection, and innovation	5
Debt enforcement, financial leverage, and product failures: Evidence from China and the United States	5
Bank geographic deregulation, new credit accounts, and consumer credit	5
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Corporate social (ir)responsibility and firm risk: The role of corporate governance	5
Issue Information	5
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Social capital and managerial opportunism: Evidence from option backdating	4
The impact of horizontal mergers on suppliers' cash holdings	4
New ESG rating drivers in the cross‐section of European stock returns	4
Social media and price discovery: The case of cross‐listed firms	4
Issue Information	4
Reference point formation: Does the market whisper in the background?	4
When bubbles align: Synchronization and systemic risk in US real estate	4
Personal connections, financial advisors and M&A outcomes	4
Character and creditworthiness: Unveiling the role of job titles in peer‐to‐peer lending	4
Do earnouts create the right incentives? Earnings management around earnout‐based acquisitions	4
Foreign corporations as large shareholders	4
Industrial policy conflicts and their impact on analysts' forecast accuracy and behavior	4
The impact of subordinate executives’ comparative confidence and competence on corporate risk‐taking	4
Seasoned equity offerings and payout policy	3
Board quality and the public purse: A study of government subsidies and corporate governance	3
Corporate cash holdings and industry risk	3
The role of the dual holder in mitigating underinvestment	3
Issue Information	3
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Decomposing industry leverage: The special cases of real estate investment trusts and technology & hardware companies	3
Predictable time‐series biases in analyst target prices and stock returns	3
Predicting corporate restructuring and financial distress in banks: The case of the Swiss banking industry	3
CEO social media activity and insider trading	3
Estimating background risk hedging demands from cross‐sectional data	3
Short selling ETFs and market performance	2
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Board structure and market performance: Does one solution fit all?	2
Issue Information	2
Local labor match and corporate investments: Evidence from new flight routes	2
Common ownership and executive pay duration	2
CEO–board connections and the cost of equity capital: International evidence	2
Balancing liquidity and returns through interbank markets: Endogenous interest rates and network structures	2
The credit channel of monetary policy before and after the zero lower bound: Evidence from the US equity market	2
Insider Trading as a Compensation Mechanism	2

Do carbon prices affect stock prices?	2
Permanent private equity: Market performance and transactions	2
Who can see the iceberg's peak? How icebergs are used by information and liquidity traders	2
ETF ownership and the transmission of monetary policy	2
Country culture and shadow banking	2
Cyclicality of liquidity creation: Nonlinear evidence from US bank holding companies	2
Market impacts of the 2020 short selling bans	2
Issue Information	2
Intraday variation in trading costs: Evidence from the TSPP	2
Interstate migration networks and stock return comovement	2
Does interest rate liberalization affect corporate debt structure?	2
Daily entry and exit triggers for open market repurchases	2
Social connections and information leakage: Evidence from target stock price run‐up in takeovers	2
The pervasiveness of matching rights in merger agreements: Impact on shareholder wealth	2
CEO prior uncertainty and pay–performance sensitivity	2
Information absorption in stocks with short‐selling constraints	2
The alphabet and idiosyncratic volatility	2
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When attentive insider trading matters: Evidence from government investment	1
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Issue Information	1
Director reputational penalties when shareholders disapprove of executive compensation	1
Military independent directors and merger activity	1
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CDS contract initiations: REIT board monitoring and corporate decision outcomes	1
Tax‐loss selling and the January effect revisited: Evidence from municipal bond closed‐end funds and exchange‐traded funds	1
A European perspective on climate change and political tensions and conflicts	1
Social media sentiment, investor herding and informational efficiency	1
Adverse selection in cryptocurrency markets	1
Economic policy uncertainty and insider trading	1
Does environmental investment pay off?—portfolio analyses of the E in ESG during political conflicts and public health crises	1
How does the JOBS act affect the rule 144A market?	1
The impact of changing disclosure requirements, competition, and private capital on firm exit methods and premiums	1
Issue Information	1
The role of existing shareholders in private equity placements in China	1
‘And forgive us our debts’: Christian moralities and over‐indebtedness	1
Active ingredients: How actively managed holdings shape target date fund performance and costs	1
Managerial Opportunism and Corporate Investment Efficiency	1
How smart is smart money? Evidence from mutual funds' exposure on corporate misconduct	1
Institutional trading and information processing: Evidence from complicated firms and easy‐to‐analyze firms	1
Homemade international diversification under economic policy uncertainty	1
Economic policy uncertainty and short‐term reversals	1
The efficacy of market timing and value creation	1
CEO‐employee pay ratio disclosure and dividend policy	1
Debt dispersion and corporate liquidity	1
Managing other people's money: An agency theory in financial management industry	1
Mutual fund partial liquidation and future performance	1
Import competition and stock price crash risk	1
De facto time‐varying indices‐based benchmarks for mutual fund returns	1
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Liquidity shocks and intraday price reaction	1
Issue Information	1
The role of media connections in seasoned equity offerings	1
Consumer stock market expectations and portfolio choice	0
Political connections and regulatory efficiency: Evidence from the anti‐corruption campaign in China	0
CEO compensation complexity: Optimal contracts or agency problems?	0
Social connections and innovation in diversified conglomerates	0
IPO proceeds deployment and firm performance	0
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A closed‐form pricing solution for options on assets with pricing errors	0
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Treasury auction method and underpricing: Evidence from Iceland	0
Debt capacity and the ability to service the public debt: A discerning look at the credit quality of Uncle Sam	0
From tension to trust: The role of corporate culture in easing labor relations	0
The cost of rate caps: Evidence from Arkansas	0
Do dividends and share repurchases convey information about financial strength? An exploration of the disparities between banks and industrial firms	0
A comparative study of bank efficiency in three Chinese regions: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao	0
The discount for lack of marketability term structure	0
Local connectedness and corporate social responsibility	0
Why do firms strategically delay payments of corporate loans?	0
Board gender diversity and acquisition choices	0
Signaling effects of recurrent list‐price reductions on the likelihood of house sales	0
Spillover effects of creditor rights on corporate payout policy	0
The value of social capital in small business lending: Evidence from the Small Business Administration program	0
Economic policy uncertainty and the cost of equity capital	0
Understanding the effects on corporate performance of investments in wealth management products	0
CEO extraversion and the cost of equity capital	0
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Unraveling the knot: Organized labor and the complexity of CEO compensation	0
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Treasury return predictability and investor sentiment	0
Tournament effects in equity mutual funds: Impact of economic conditions and investment styles	0
Valuing the speed of adjustment of capital structure	0
The Psychological Cost of Debt: Evidence from Islamic Housing Mortgages	0
Environmental protection fee‐to‐tax and enterprise innovation path selection: Incremental innovation or breakthrough innovation?	0
Threats to human capital: The effect of health risk on corporate financial policy	0
Do credit market accessibility and legal protection shape corporate innovation?	0
The causal impact of short‐sale constraints on the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle	0
The role of Cross‐Border alliances in corporate social responsibility: International evidence	0
Dual‐class share structure and innovation	0
Synthetic long stock and option trading: Evidence from stock splits	0
Do temporary changes in earnings caused by mean reversion affect firms’ refinancing decisions?	0
Issue Information	0
Democracy and stock market returns	0
Does the linguistic complexity of annual reports affect the corporate leasing decision?	0
Hedge funds and climate news risk: Evidence from stock holdings in fossil fuel firms	0
The effects of bank mergers on listed U.S. borrowers	0
How does air pollution affect corporate information environment?	0
Household portfolio allocation and stock market beliefs: Evidence from Japanese households	0
Model for optimizing lender's decision on dealing with collateral of defaulted mortgage	0
Bond pairs and the term structure	0
Informed trading of out‐of‐the‐money options and market efficiency	0
Economic policy uncertainty and international corporate leasing	0
Are CSR incidents truly bad news?	0
The effect of liquidity and arbitrage on the price efficiency of Chinese ETFs	0
VC ownership post‐IPO: When, why, and how do VCs exit?	0
Organizational capital and private placements of common equity	0
Selling to buy: Asset sales, acquisition financing, and value creation	0
Impacts of firm life cycle on bond ratings and yields	0
Excess cash and equity option liquidity	0
Policy uncertainty and tail risk in energy futures: The role of maturity and storage capacity constraints	0
Does legal protection of trade secrets reduce the cost of debt? Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine	0
Community social capital, managerial opportunistic behavior, and information uncertainty in IPO firms	0
Climate risk and credit ratings	0
New evidence on the economic motives for bank mergers	0
Market‐implied ratings and their divergence from credit ratings	0
Cultural, trust, and transparency effects on the use of anchoring in mergers and acquisitions	0
Is idiosyncratic asymmetry priced in commodity futures?	0
Sink or swim? Managerial ability and trade credit	0
Central Bank Purchases and Corporate Bond Issuance during the Pandemic: The Case of Japan	0
Tax policies and agency costs	0
Academic CEOs and corporate innovation	0
Passive insider trading before pension freezes	0
Are stress‐tested banks in the United States becoming similar? Evidence from convergence tests	0
Are we playing the same “research” game in business?	0
Issue Information	0
Variance of deviation from optimal leverage	0
Climate transition risk and bank lending	0
The effect of the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF) on corporate short‐term borrowing costs	0
Executive compensation, internal control quality, and corporate social responsibility in China	0
Firm reaction to geopolitical crises: Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine conflict	0
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Import competition, credit reallocation, and small business lending	0
Asset versus equity acquisitions by financial institutions	0
Do product market threats affect the leasing decision?	0
Artificial intelligence innovation and stock price crash risk	0
Commodity tail risk and equity risk premia	0
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Modified quality, short‐term reversal, and value investing	0
Short sellers and capital structure dynamics	0
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The role of internal capital markets during financial crises: Evidence from Korean chaebols	0
Toeholds and information quality in common‐value takeover auctions	0
Bond covenants and investment policy	0
Lending discrimination and the role of community banks	0
Improving portfolio investment performance with distance‐based portfolio‐combining algorithms	0
CEO inside debt compensation and the asset sale decision	0
Distracted institutional shareholders and debt maturity	0
Portfolio returns and consumption growth covariation in the frequency domain, real economic activity, and expected returns	0
Does local economic freedom matter for the cost of corporate borrowing from the banking sector? Evidence from the US states	0
Institutional investors and mispricing of unionized firms	0
Managerial characteristics and performance of eurozone mutual funds	0
Employee diversity and litigation risk: Evidence from the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act	0
The pricing of liquidity factors	0
Topics That Matter: ESG Reports and Information Asymmetry	0
Venture capital and private equity investors, governance, and success of IPOs: Evidence from India	0
Constraints on provisioning at public versus private community banks	0
Deposit flows and the January effect in deposit rates	0
Capital gain overhang and risk–return trade‐off: An international study	0
Sentiment or habits: Why not both?	0
Issue Information	0
Strategic technology talent acquisition and firm value: A cross‐industry examination	0
Financial analysts' bundling across firms: Target prices and stock recommendations	0
The role of bank lenders in firm leverage adjustments	0
Selection effects in the births of mutual funds	0
Unintended consequences of discrimination litigation caps	0
Time‐Series Factor Modeling and Selection	0
Active mutual funds and their passive ETF investments	0
Mutual fund director compensation	0
The causal effect of local product market shocks on equity holdings: Evidence from the airline industry	0
Can central banks be heard over the sound of gunfire?	0
Boundary of the firm with endogenous firm structure	0
The impact of labor on the performance of founder‐family firms	0
Lending and risk controls for BHCs after the Dodd–Frank act	0
The taxonomy of tail risk	0