Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Economics is 11. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board2502
Arbitrage-based recovery915
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression883
Editorial Board807
Editorial Board597
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults489
What matters in a characteristic?451
Momentum turning points359
Expected return, volume, and mispricing333
Equity duration and predictability321
Monetary policy expectation errors220
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field192
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability188
Risk-free interest rates181
Stakes and investor behaviors180
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions178
Betting against betting against beta173
Implicit extrapolation and the beliefs channel of investment demand169
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences157
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program156
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices156
Conditional risk154
The invention of corporate governance150
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem146
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies144
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma137
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market132
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers123
Price regulation in two-sided markets: Empirical evidence from debit cards122
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching118
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums110
Finance without exotic risk109
Have risk premia vanished?108
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world107
The risk and return of impact investing funds107
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices104
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?104
Aspirational utility and investment behavior104
Defunding controversial industries: Can targeted credit rationing choke firms?99
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels98
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk98
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field97
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution96
Market efficiency in the age of big data95
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era94
Pricing and constructing international government bond portfolios93
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?92
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark91
Micro uncertainty and asset prices91
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?91
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks91
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions89
Discrimination in the payments chain88
Evergreening87
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment87
Priced risk in corporate bonds87
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability85
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?84
The value of intermediation in the stock market84
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors83
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending82
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?82
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve80
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households80
Macroeconomic drivers and the pricing of uncertainty, inflation, and bonds79
Editorial Board77
Editorial Board76
Editorial Board76
Editorial Board76
Regulatory leakage among financial advisors: Evidence from FINRA regulation of “bad” brokers75
Skill versus reliability in venture capital74
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity74
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets72
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate72
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment72
Financing the litigation arms race72
Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?71
Intermediary financing without commitment70
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity70
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL66
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha65
Count (and count-like) data in finance65
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline64
Editorial Board64
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic64
Peak-Bust rental spreads63
Editorial Board62
Understanding the strength of the dollar62
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements61
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds61
ESG lending61
Keeping options open: What motivates entrepreneurs?60
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare60
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market58
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty58
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies58
Patent quality, firm value, and investor underreaction: Evidence from patent examiner busyness57
Editorial Board56
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets55
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM54
Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE53
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models53
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds52
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil52
Expected idiosyncratic volatility52
Venture capital contracts51
Rules versus discretion in capital regulation51
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans49
Honoring Michael C. Jensen49
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates48
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy48
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193347
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans47
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market47
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market47
Inflation and Trading47
Dissecting green returns45
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era45
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence45
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey45
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market45
Editorial Board43
A quantitative analysis of bank lending relationships43
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles43
How valuable is corporate adaptation to crisis? Estimates from Covid-19 work-from-home announcements43
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models43
Editorial Board42
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks42
Value creation in shareholder activism42
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing42
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing41
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks41
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices40
Financial constraints and the racial housing gap40
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios40
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data40
Taking sides on return predictability40
Overvaluing simple bets: Evidence from the options market39
LTCM Redux? Hedge fund Treasury trading, funding fragility, and risk constraints39
Social interactions and households’ flood insurance decisions39
Global Business Networks38
Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.38
Do the right firms survive bankruptcy?38
Too Levered for Pigou: Carbon pricing, financial constraints, and leverage regulation38
The economics of “Buy Now, Pay Later”: A merchant’s perspective37
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?37
In sickness and in debt: The COVID-19 impact on sovereign credit risk37
What moves treasury yields?37
Editorial Board37
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure36
How monetary policy shaped the housing boom36
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition35
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic35
Editorial Board35
Price ceilings, market structure, and payout policies35
Editorial Board35
Editorial Board35
Geographic clustering of institutional investors34
The rise of dual-class stock IPOs34
The moral preferences of investors: Experimental evidence34
Silence is safest: Information disclosure when the audience’s preferences are uncertain34
The retail execution quality landscape34
Measurement and effects of bank exit policies34
Do intermediaries improve GSE lending? Evidence from proprietary GSE data33
The effects of policy interventions to limit illegal money lending33
Editor’s note33
Editorial Board33
Editorial Board33
Investor learning about monetary-policy transmission and the stock market32
Importance of transaction costs for asset allocation in foreign exchange markets32
Debt dynamics with fixed issuance costs32
Strategic insider trading and its consequences for outsiders: Evidence from the eighteenth century32
The cross-border effects of bank capital regulation32
ESG: A panacea for market power?31
Robo advisors and access to wealth management31
Premium for heightened uncertainty: Explaining pre-announcement market returns31
Time-varying risk of nominal bonds: How important are macroeconomic shocks?31
On index investing30
The dynamics of concealment30
Asset pricing with return extrapolation30
Volatility and informativeness30
Sorting out the effect of credit supply29
Redeploying dirty assets: The impact of environmental29
Editorial Board29
Do bank CEOs learn from banking crises?29
Tiny trades, big questions: Fractional shares29
Revenue collapses and the consumption of small business owners in the COVID-19 pandemic28
The impact of bank financing on municipalities’ bond issuance and the real economy28
Credit supply and house prices: Evidence from mortgage market segmentation27
When large traders create noise27
It’s what you say and what you buy: A holistic evaluation of the corporate credit facilities27
Industry asset revaluations around public and private acquisitions27
A credit-based theory of the currency risk premium26
Music sentiment and stock returns around the world26
Short selling efficiency26
Index providers: Whales behind the scenes of ETFs26
Crowdsourcing peer information to change spending behavior25
Listening in on investors’ thoughts and conversations25
Overallocation and secondary market outcomes in corporate bond offerings25
Network effects in corporate financial policies25
Financial constraints, cash flow timing patterns, and asset prices24
Editorial Board24
The SOFR discount24
The use of asset growth in empirical asset pricing models24
Monetary tightening and U.S. bank fragility in 2023: Mark-to-market losses and uninsured depositor runs?24
Information-based pricing in specialized lending24
Financial inclusion, economic development, and inequality: Evidence from Brazil23
Disclosing and cooling-off: An analysis of insider trading rules23
The global factor structure of exchange rates23
Four facts about ESG beliefs and investor portfolios23
The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street23
The Wall Street stampede: Exit as governance with interacting blockholders23
Collateral value uncertainty and mortgage credit provision22
Editorial Board22
Risk-adjusted capital allocation and misallocation22
Does paycheck frequency matter? Evidence from micro data22
Editorial Board22
Pricing of index options in incomplete markets22
Active trading and (poor) performance: The social transmission channel22
Token-based platform governance21
Information technology and lender competition21
Small and vulnerable: SME productivity in the great productivity slowdown21
Diversification driven demand for large stock21
Searching for the equity premium20
Are cryptos different? Evidence from retail trading20
Editorial Board20
The retail habitat20
Firm uncertainty and households: Spending, savings, and risks20
The proxy advisory industry: Influencing and being influenced20
Corrigendum to “Ripples into waves: Trade networks, economic activity, and asset prices” [Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 145, (July 2022) Pages 217–238/Article Number]20
Editorial Board20
Strategic fragmented markets20
Gradual information diffusion across commonly owned firms20
Real-time price discovery via verbal communication: Method and application to Fedspeak20
Editorial Board20
Can FinTech reduce disparities in access to finance? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program19
Is there a zero lower bound? The effects of negative policy rates on banks and firms19
Personal finance education mandates and student loan repayment19
Collateral quality and intervention traps19
Collateral competition: Evidence from central counterparties19
Editorial Board19
Charting by machines19
Financial market concentration and misallocation19
Editorial Board18
The risk and return of equity and credit index options18
JAQ of all trades: Job mismatch, firm productivity and managerial quality18
Outlier blindness: A neurobiological foundation for neglect of financial risk18
Benchmarking benchmarks18
Yield drifts when issuance comes before macro news18
Household mobility and mortgage rate lock18
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