Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Economics is 12. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board2327
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability2071
Arbitrage-based recovery1521
Expected return, volume, and mispricing1497
Risk-free interest rates1387
Equity duration and predictability830
What matters in a characteristic?822
Momentum turning points746
Editorial Board499
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Monetary policy expectation errors481
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults474
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression454
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field421
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers333
Stakes and investor behaviors310
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions304
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences211
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program175
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?173
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market171
Conditional risk170
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma169
The invention of corporate governance169
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices162
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem161
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies150
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers149
Betting against betting against beta148
Defunding controversial industries: Can targeted credit rationing choke firms?146
Price regulation in two-sided markets: Empirical evidence from debit cards145
Editorial Board133
Finance without exotic risk127
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices124
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels124
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching119
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk118
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?113
Have risk premia vanished?111
M&A rumors about unlisted firms111
Global factor premiums102
Market efficiency in the age of big data101
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world101
Aspirational utility and investment behavior101
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field100
The risk and return of impact investing funds100
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums100
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution99
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability94
Do investors care about carbon risk?94
Discrimination in the payments chain94
Core earnings: New data and evidence93
Informed trading in government bond markets93
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark92
Micro uncertainty and asset prices90
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era89
Pricing and constructing international government bond portfolios87
Evergreening86
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?86
The value of intermediation in the stock market85
Priced risk in corporate bonds84
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence83
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions82
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?81
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?81
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?80
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks80
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment80
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve79
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors79
Intermediary financing without commitment79
Skill versus reliability in venture capital79
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households78
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha78
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment77
Macroeconomic drivers and the pricing of uncertainty, inflation, and bonds76
Editorial Board76
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending76
Editorial Board74
Editorial Board73
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity72
Editorial Board72
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity71
Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?71
Financing the litigation arms race71
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL71
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets70
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate70
Count (and count-like) data in finance70
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare69
Editorial Board69
Peak-Bust rental spreads68
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market67
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements67
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline66
Dynastic control without ownership: Evidence from post-war Japan66
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic62
Keeping options open: What motivates entrepreneurs?60
Editorial Board60
Patent quality, firm value, and investor underreaction: Evidence from patent examiner busyness60
Understanding the strength of the dollar60
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies59
ESG lending59
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty58
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds58
Editorial Board57
Rules versus discretion in capital regulation57
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans56
Honoring Michael C. Jensen56
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market56
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193355
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates55
Inflation and Trading55
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM54
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market54
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans53
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil52
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds52
Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE51
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy51
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era50
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets50
Expected idiosyncratic volatility50
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence49
Venture capital contracts49
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market48
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models48
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey47
Dissecting green returns46
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices46
Editorial Board46
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios46
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks45
Editorial Board45
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data45
A quantitative analysis of bank lending relationships45
Financial constraints and the racial housing gap44
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models44
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing44
Taking sides on return predictability43
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles43
Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes42
Common shocks in stocks and bonds42
Value creation in shareholder activism41
Lifting the veil: The price formation of corporate bond offerings40
Overvaluing simple bets: Evidence from the options market40
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks40
Too Levered for Pigou: Carbon pricing, financial constraints, and leverage regulation40
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing40
What moves treasury yields?40
In sickness and in debt: The COVID-19 impact on sovereign credit risk39
Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.39
LTCM Redux? Hedge fund Treasury trading, funding fragility, and risk constraints39
Social interactions and households’ flood insurance decisions38
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic38
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure38
Editorial Board38
Editorial Board38
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition38
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?38
Global Business Networks37
Do the right firms survive bankruptcy?37
How monetary policy shaped the housing boom37
The economics of “Buy Now, Pay Later”: A merchant’s perspective37
Editorial Board37
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Price ceilings, market structure, and payout policies36
The retail execution quality landscape36
The moral preferences of investors: Experimental evidence36
The rise of dual-class stock IPOs36
Geographic clustering of institutional investors36
The benchmark inclusion subsidy36
Measurement and effects of bank exit policies36
Risk perceptions and politics: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic35
Editorial Board35
The cross-border effects of bank capital regulation35
Silence is safest: Information disclosure when the audience’s preferences are uncertain35
Investor learning about monetary-policy transmission and the stock market35
Do intermediaries improve GSE lending? Evidence from proprietary GSE data34
The effects of policy interventions to limit illegal money lending34
Importance of transaction costs for asset allocation in foreign exchange markets34
ESG: A panacea for market power?34
Volatility and informativeness33
Robo advisors and access to wealth management33
Editorial Board33
Strategic insider trading and its consequences for outsiders: Evidence from the eighteenth century33
Time-varying risk of nominal bonds: How important are macroeconomic shocks?33
Debt dynamics with fixed issuance costs33
Editor’s note33
Premium for heightened uncertainty: Explaining pre-announcement market returns33
Redeploying dirty assets: The impact of environmental32
On index investing32
The Big Three and corporate carbon emissions around the world32
A credit-based theory of the currency risk premium32
Asset pricing with return extrapolation32
Tiny trades, big questions: Fractional shares31
Short selling efficiency31
Editorial Board31
Listening in on investors’ thoughts and conversations31
Music sentiment and stock returns around the world31
Credit supply and house prices: Evidence from mortgage market segmentation30
The dynamics of concealment30
Sorting out the effect of credit supply30
Index providers: Whales behind the scenes of ETFs30
Do bank CEOs learn from banking crises?30
Revenue collapses and the consumption of small business owners in the COVID-19 pandemic30
When large traders create noise30
Overallocation and secondary market outcomes in corporate bond offerings29
Investment, capital stock, and replacement cost of assets when economic depreciation is non-geometric29
Network effects in corporate financial policies29
Corporate green bonds28
It’s what you say and what you buy: A holistic evaluation of the corporate credit facilities28
The impact of bank financing on municipalities’ bond issuance and the real economy28
Industry asset revaluations around public and private acquisitions28
Crowdsourcing peer information to change spending behavior27
The SOFR discount27
Failing to forecast rare events27
The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street27
The global factor structure of exchange rates27
The use of asset growth in empirical asset pricing models26
Editorial Board26
Information-based pricing in specialized lending26
The Wall Street stampede: Exit as governance with interacting blockholders26
Financial constraints, cash flow timing patterns, and asset prices25
Disclosing and cooling-off: An analysis of insider trading rules25
Financial inclusion, economic development, and inequality: Evidence from Brazil25
Monetary tightening and U.S. bank fragility in 2023: Mark-to-market losses and uninsured depositor runs?25
Four facts about ESG beliefs and investor portfolios25
Editorial Board24
Optimal financing with tokens24
Does paycheck frequency matter? Evidence from micro data24
Diversification driven demand for large stock24
Token-based platform governance23
Editorial Board23
Are cryptos different? Evidence from retail trading23
Active trading and (poor) performance: The social transmission channel23
Pricing of index options in incomplete markets22
Gradual information diffusion across commonly owned firms22
Real-time price discovery via verbal communication: Method and application to Fedspeak22
Collateral value uncertainty and mortgage credit provision22
Searching for the equity premium21
Risk-adjusted capital allocation and misallocation21
Editorial Board21
Small and vulnerable: SME productivity in the great productivity slowdown21
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The proxy advisory industry: Influencing and being influenced21
Information technology and lender competition21
Collateral quality and intervention traps20
Editorial Board20
The retail habitat20
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