Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Financial Economics is 72. 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
Editorial Board1887
Editorial Board1694
Editorial Board1276
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability1222
Editorial Board1162
Arbitrage-based recovery879
Finance and the supply of housing quality677
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults635
Momentum turning points574
What matters in a characteristic?414
Monetary policy expectation errors408
Expected return, volume, and mispricing390
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression371
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field338
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers294
Risk-free interest rates285
Uncertainty, access to debt, and firm precautionary behavior254
Editorial Board252
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program230
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences183
Conditional risk179
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market150
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem147
Betting against betting against beta146
And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital145
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices144
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?142
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies141
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers135
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions128
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma128
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world123
Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances123
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching121
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums120
Entangled risks in incomplete FX markets116
Aspirational utility and investment behavior114
Editorial Board110
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels109
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk105
Have risk premia vanished?101
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?100
M&A rumors about unlisted firms100
Monetary policy at work: Security and credit application registers evidence98
Global factor premiums97
Market efficiency in the age of big data96
The risk and return of impact investing funds96
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field94
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution93
Do investors care about carbon risk?92
Discrimination in the payments chain91
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era88
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark88
Core earnings: New data and evidence87
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?87
The value of intermediation in the stock market86
Micro uncertainty and asset prices85
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability84
Volatility, intermediaries, and exchange rates82
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions79
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?78
Informed trading in government bond markets78
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors77
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks77
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment76
Priced risk in corporate bonds76
Does common ownership really increase firm coordination?76
Network risk and key players: A structural analysis of interbank liquidity75
Life after LIBOR75
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?74
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?74
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence73
Evergreening72
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