Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Financial Economics is 74. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board2132
Editorial Board1931
Editorial Board1401
Editorial Board1397
Arbitrage-based recovery1290
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression762
Finance and the supply of housing quality748
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults679
Momentum turning points464
What matters in a characteristic?451
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability444
Risk-free interest rates416
Monetary policy expectation errors399
Expected return, volume, and mispricing388
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field310
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers289
Editorial Board280
The invention of corporate governance234
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices195
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences166
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?163
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market162
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies162
Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances159
Conditional risk152
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program150
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma148
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem141
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions136
Betting against betting against beta136
And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital132
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers130
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices126
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching117
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?113
Global factor premiums111
Entangled risks in incomplete FX markets110
Editorial Board110
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels108
Aspirational utility and investment behavior107
Have risk premia vanished?106
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world105
The risk and return of impact investing funds103
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk97
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums97
M&A rumors about unlisted firms96
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution95
Market efficiency in the age of big data94
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field91
Do investors care about carbon risk?91
Informed trading in government bond markets89
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence89
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era89
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?87
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks87
Discrimination in the payments chain86
Micro uncertainty and asset prices86
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions85
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability85
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark85
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?84
The value of intermediation in the stock market84
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?83
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors81
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?80
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment79
Core earnings: New data and evidence78
Priced risk in corporate bonds77
Network risk and key players: A structural analysis of interbank liquidity76
Evergreening76
Editorial Board75
Editorial Board75
Editorial Board75
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity75
Editorial Board74
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