Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Financial Economics is 16. 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
Editorial Board71
Editorial Board70
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity70
Editorial Board70
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve68
Intermediary financing without commitment68
Skill versus reliability in venture capital68
Editorial Board68
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households67
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets67
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment67
Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?66
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending66
Financing the litigation arms race66
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate65
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity65
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha65
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL65
Count (and count-like) data in finance64
Peak-Bust rental spreads64
Editorial Board64
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare63
Dynastic control without ownership: Evidence from post-war Japan63
Understanding the strength of the dollar63
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds63
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline62
Keeping options open: What motivates entrepreneurs?62
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements62
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic61
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies61
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market60
Patent quality, firm value, and investor underreaction: Evidence from patent examiner busyness59
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty59
Expected idiosyncratic volatility58
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets58
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193358
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans58
Editorial Board57
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil57
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence56
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models56
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM56
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans56
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds55
Venture capital contracts55
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey55
Brexit and the contraction of syndicated lending55
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy55
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market55
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates54
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market54
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era53
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market53
Dissecting green returns52
Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE52
Editorial Board51
Erratum to “Heterogeneous intermediary asset pricing” [Journal of Financial Economics 141/2 (2021) 505-532]51
Editorial Board51
Capital supply and corporate bond issuances: Evidence from mutual fund flows50
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices49
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models49
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks49
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles49
The remarkable growth in financial economics, 1974–202049
Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes49
Common shocks in stocks and bonds49
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing49
Value creation in shareholder activism48
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios47
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data47
Lifting the veil: The price formation of corporate bond offerings47
Anatomy of a liquidity crisis: Corporate bonds in the COVID-19 crisis47
The local innovation spillovers of listed firms47
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing46
Editorial Board46
Long-term discount rates do not vary across firms46
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure46
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks46
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?45
What moves treasury yields?45
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition45
Do the right firms survive bankruptcy?44
Social interactions and households’ flood insurance decisions44
Global Business Networks44
Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.43
Lucky factors43
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic43
How monetary policy shaped the housing boom42
In sickness and in debt: The COVID-19 impact on sovereign credit risk42
Editorial Board41
Network structure and pricing in the FX market41
Macro risks and the term structure of interest rates41
Family comes first: Reproductive health and the gender gap in entrepreneurship40
Editorial Board40
The moral preferences of investors: Experimental evidence40
The retail execution quality landscape40
Price ceilings, market structure, and payout policies40
Risk perceptions and politics: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic39
Editorial Board39
Silence is safest: Information disclosure when the audience’s preferences are uncertain39
The benchmark inclusion subsidy39
The effects of policy interventions to limit illegal money lending39
Editor’s note39
Geographic clustering of institutional investors39
Editorial Board39
The rise of dual-class stock IPOs39
Volatility and informativeness38
Calendar rotations: A new approach for studying the impact of timing using earnings announcements38
Strategic insider trading and its consequences for outsiders: Evidence from the eighteenth century38
The cross-border effects of bank capital regulation38
Hedging macroeconomic and financial uncertainty and volatility37
ESG: A panacea for market power?37
The telegraph and modern banking development, 1881–193637
Debt dynamics with fixed issuance costs37
Robo advisors and access to wealth management37
On index investing36
Asset pricing with return extrapolation36
Importance of transaction costs for asset allocation in foreign exchange markets36
Subnational debt of China: The politics-finance nexus36
Time-varying risk of nominal bonds: How important are macroeconomic shocks?36
The role of high-skilled foreign labor in startup performance: Evidence from two natural experiments35
The Big Three and corporate carbon emissions around the world35
The short duration premium35
Premium for heightened uncertainty: Explaining pre-announcement market returns35
Index providers: Whales behind the scenes of ETFs34
When large traders create noise34
Information shocks, disagreement, and drift34
Industry asset revaluations around public and private acquisitions34
Editorial Board33
Do bank CEOs learn from banking crises?33
The impact of bank financing on municipalities’ bond issuance and the real economy33
Sorting out the effect of credit supply33
Music sentiment and stock returns around the world32
The dynamics of concealment32
Tiny trades, big questions: Fractional shares32
Network effects in corporate financial policies32
Bank capital, government bond holdings, and sovereign debt capacity32
Short selling efficiency32
A credit-based theory of the currency risk premium32
Overallocation and secondary market outcomes in corporate bond offerings32
Investment, capital stock, and replacement cost of assets when economic depreciation is non-geometric32
Listening in on investors’ thoughts and conversations32
Editorial Board31
Credit supply and house prices: Evidence from mortgage market segmentation31
The SOFR discount31
Failing to forecast rare events31
It’s what you say and what you buy: A holistic evaluation of the corporate credit facilities31
Financial constraints, cash flow timing patterns, and asset prices31
Crowdsourcing peer information to change spending behavior31
Corporate green bonds31
The rate of communication31
The global factor structure of exchange rates31
The impact of arbitrage on market liquidity30
The Wall Street stampede: Exit as governance with interacting blockholders30
Optimal financing with tokens30
The use of asset growth in empirical asset pricing models30
Do activist hedge funds target female CEOs? The role of CEO gender in hedge fund activism30
Negative peer disclosure29
The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street29
Editorial Board29
Four facts about ESG beliefs and investor portfolios29
Disclosing and cooling-off: An analysis of insider trading rules29
Monetary tightening and U.S. bank fragility in 2023: Mark-to-market losses and uninsured depositor runs?29
Editorial Board29
Financial inclusion, economic development, and inequality: Evidence from Brazil29
Banks as patient lenders: Evidence from a tax reform29
The proxy advisory industry: Influencing and being influenced29
Information technology and lender competition28
Entrepreneurship and information on past failures: A natural experiment28
Are cryptos different? Evidence from retail trading28
Asset pricing with index investing28
Token-based platform governance28
Inside brokers28
Small and vulnerable: SME productivity in the great productivity slowdown28
Real-time price discovery via verbal communication: Method and application to Fedspeak28
Gradual information diffusion across commonly owned firms28
Pricing of index options in incomplete markets28
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