Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Financial Economics is 73. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board2036
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Editorial Board1352
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Arbitrage-based recovery1245
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression904
Finance and the supply of housing quality732
Expected return, volume, and mispricing712
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability635
Momentum turning points442
What matters in a characteristic?437
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field424
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers395
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults370
Risk-free interest rates364
Monetary policy expectation errors295
Uncertainty, access to debt, and firm precautionary behavior279
Editorial Board267
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices234
The invention of corporate governance186
Conditional risk158
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program157
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences156
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market156
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?153
And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital148
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions146
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers142
Betting against betting against beta133
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma133
Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances132
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies130
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem127
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching126
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices123
Entangled risks in incomplete FX markets122
Editorial Board113
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels109
Have risk premia vanished?107
The risk and return of impact investing funds105
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution104
Aspirational utility and investment behavior103
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world102
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?102
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk102
M&A rumors about unlisted firms97
Market efficiency in the age of big data96
Global factor premiums96
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums94
Do investors care about carbon risk?93
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field93
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era92
Life after LIBOR89
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence88
Informed trading in government bond markets88
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability86
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark85
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks83
Core earnings: New data and evidence83
Evergreening82
The value of intermediation in the stock market82
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions81
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment81
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?81
Priced risk in corporate bonds80
Discrimination in the payments chain80
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors79
Micro uncertainty and asset prices76
Network risk and key players: A structural analysis of interbank liquidity75
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?75
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?74
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?73
Editorial Board73
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