Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Economics is 15. 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
Editorial Board1850
Editorial Board1352
Editorial Board1334
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
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk102
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world102
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?102
M&A rumors about unlisted firms97
Global factor premiums96
Market efficiency in the age of big data96
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums94
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field93
Do investors care about carbon risk?93
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era92
Life after LIBOR89
Informed trading in government bond markets88
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence88
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
Editorial Board72
Editorial Board72
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity72
Editorial Board71
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity71
Intermediary financing without commitment71
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve70
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment70
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending69
Financing the litigation arms race69
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households69
Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?69
Skill versus reliability in venture capital69
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL68
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha68
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets68
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate68
Peak-Bust rental spreads67
Count (and count-like) data in finance67
Editorial Board66
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market66
Understanding the strength of the dollar65
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline65
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare65
Dynastic control without ownership: Evidence from post-war Japan64
Keeping options open: What motivates entrepreneurs?64
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds63
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements63
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies60
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic60
Patent quality, firm value, and investor underreaction: Evidence from patent examiner busyness59
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans59
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty59
Editorial Board58
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193358
Honoring Michael C. Jensen58
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market57
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates57
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans57
Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE57
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets57
Rules versus discretion in capital regulation57
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM56
Expected idiosyncratic volatility56
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil55
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market55
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models54
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence54
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era53
Venture capital contracts53
Dissecting green returns52
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market52
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey52
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy52
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds52
Editorial Board51
Erratum to “Heterogeneous intermediary asset pricing” [Journal of Financial Economics 141/2 (2021) 505-532]50
Editorial Board50
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles50
Common shocks in stocks and bonds49
A quantitative analysis of bank lending relationships49
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing49
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models49
Lifting the veil: The price formation of corporate bond offerings49
Long-term discount rates do not vary across firms48
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing48
Anatomy of a liquidity crisis: Corporate bonds in the COVID-19 crisis48
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks48
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices48
Capital supply and corporate bond issuances: Evidence from mutual fund flows46
Value creation in shareholder activism45
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks45
Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes45
The local innovation spillovers of listed firms44
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios44
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic44
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data44
Editorial Board44
Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.43
Editorial Board42
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure42
What moves treasury yields?42
LTCM Redux? Hedge fund Treasury trading, funding fragility, and risk constraints42
Global Business Networks42
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition42
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?42
In sickness and in debt: The COVID-19 impact on sovereign credit risk41
Social interactions and households’ flood insurance decisions41
Do the right firms survive bankruptcy?41
Macro risks and the term structure of interest rates41
Lucky factors41
Price ceilings, market structure, and payout policies40
Risk perceptions and politics: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic40
The rise of dual-class stock IPOs40
How monetary policy shaped the housing boom40
Editorial Board40
The retail execution quality landscape39
Editorial Board39
Network structure and pricing in the FX market39
The benchmark inclusion subsidy38
Geographic clustering of institutional investors38
Silence is safest: Information disclosure when the audience’s preferences are uncertain37
Editorial Board37
The moral preferences of investors: Experimental evidence37
The cross-border effects of bank capital regulation36
Editor’s note36
The effects of policy interventions to limit illegal money lending36
Editorial Board36
Time-varying risk of nominal bonds: How important are macroeconomic shocks?35
Asset pricing with return extrapolation35
Volatility and informativeness35
Debt dynamics with fixed issuance costs35
The short duration premium35
Robo advisors and access to wealth management35
Do intermediaries improve GSE lending? Evidence from proprietary GSE data35
Strategic insider trading and its consequences for outsiders: Evidence from the eighteenth century35
Hedging macroeconomic and financial uncertainty and volatility34
The telegraph and modern banking development, 1881–193634
Importance of transaction costs for asset allocation in foreign exchange markets34
The Big Three and corporate carbon emissions around the world34
On index investing34
Subnational debt of China: The politics-finance nexus34
The role of high-skilled foreign labor in startup performance: Evidence from two natural experiments34
ESG: A panacea for market power?34
Editorial Board33
The impact of bank financing on municipalities’ bond issuance and the real economy33
Premium for heightened uncertainty: Explaining pre-announcement market returns33
The dynamics of concealment33
Do bank CEOs learn from banking crises?33
Investment, capital stock, and replacement cost of assets when economic depreciation is non-geometric33
Bank capital, government bond holdings, and sovereign debt capacity32
Credit supply and house prices: Evidence from mortgage market segmentation32
Revenue collapses and the consumption of small business owners in the COVID-19 pandemic32
Redeploying dirty assets: The impact of environmental32
Index providers: Whales behind the scenes of ETFs32
Sorting out the effect of credit supply32
When large traders create noise31
It’s what you say and what you buy: A holistic evaluation of the corporate credit facilities31
Network effects in corporate financial policies31
Music sentiment and stock returns around the world31
Industry asset revaluations around public and private acquisitions31
A credit-based theory of the currency risk premium31
Corporate green bonds31
Tiny trades, big questions: Fractional shares31
Short selling efficiency31
Overallocation and secondary market outcomes in corporate bond offerings31
The impact of arbitrage on market liquidity30
The Wall Street stampede: Exit as governance with interacting blockholders30
Listening in on investors’ thoughts and conversations30
Disclosing and cooling-off: An analysis of insider trading rules30
The SOFR discount30
Editorial Board30
Failing to forecast rare events30
Financial constraints, cash flow timing patterns, and asset prices30
Crowdsourcing peer information to change spending behavior29
The use of asset growth in empirical asset pricing models29
The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street29
Monetary tightening and U.S. bank fragility in 2023: Mark-to-market losses and uninsured depositor runs?28
The global factor structure of exchange rates28
Optimal financing with tokens28
Four facts about ESG beliefs and investor portfolios28
The rate of communication28
Financial inclusion, economic development, and inequality: Evidence from Brazil28
Token-based platform governance27
The proxy advisory industry: Influencing and being influenced27
Editorial Board27
Collateral value uncertainty and mortgage credit provision27
Editorial Board27
Risk-adjusted capital allocation and misallocation26
Pricing of index options in incomplete markets26
Information technology and lender competition26
Active trading and (poor) performance: The social transmission channel26
Are cryptos different? Evidence from retail trading26
Real-time price discovery via verbal communication: Method and application to Fedspeak26
Small and vulnerable: SME productivity in the great productivity slowdown26
Gradual information diffusion across commonly owned firms26
Does paycheck frequency matter? Evidence from micro data25
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