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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Quantifying the impact of red tape on investment: A survey data approach1750
Unlocking clients: The importance of relationships in the financial advisory industry1523
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market1169
Disclosing and cooling-off: An analysis of insider trading rules1117
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets1074
Bank competition and household privacy in a digital payment monopoly835
The real and financial effects of internal liquidity: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act619
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Motivating collusion523
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Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE380
The rate of communication352
Ambiguity about volatility and investor behavior341
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil308
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy260
Voluntary disclosure with evolving news237
Venture capital contracts236
Volatility and the cross-section of returns on FX options226
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The diversification and welfare effects of robo-advising172
Intermediary-based equity term structure168
Modeling volatility in dynamic term structure models145
Failing to forecast rare events140
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The short-termism trap: Catering to informed investors with limited horizons132
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults125
Paying for beta: Leverage demand and asset management fees119
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Capital forbearance in the bank recovery and resolution game115
Shattered housing114
Do low search costs facilitate like-buys-like mergers? Evidence from common bank networks112
Leverage110
Sitting bucks: Stale pricing in fixed income funds107
Monetary policy expectation errors105
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM103
Optimal financing with tokens101
Financing constraints, home equity and selection into entrepreneurship99
Does regulatory cooperation help integrate equity markets?96
Broken promises, competition, and capital allocation in the mutual fund industry94
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The jump leverage risk premium93
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market91
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market91
Dynamic resource allocation with hidden volatility90
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans89
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193389
Arbitrage-based recovery86
From employee to entrepreneur: The role of unemployment risk86
Crowdsourcing peer information to change spending behavior84
Four facts about ESG beliefs and investor portfolios84
The global factor structure of exchange rates81
Delayed crises and slow recoveries81
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models78
Dominant currency debt77
The SOFR discount76
What matters in a characteristic?75
Do limits to arbitrage explain the benefits of volatility-managed portfolios?75
Contracting without contracting institutions: The trusted assistant loan in 19th century China73
The “7% solution” and IPO (under)pricing73
The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street72
Pervasive underreaction: Evidence from high-frequency data71
The high volume return premium and economic fundamentals71
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans70
Finance and the supply of housing quality70
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability69
The use of asset growth in empirical asset pricing models68
Banks as patient lenders: Evidence from a tax reform68
Negative peer disclosure67
Financial constraints, cash flow timing patterns, and asset prices67
More informative disclosures, less informative prices? Portfolio and price formation around quarter-ends66
Flexibility costs of debt: Danish exporters during the cartoon crisis66
Young firms, old capital66
Creditor rights, collateral reuse, and credit supply65
Intermediation frictions in debt relief: Evidence from CARES Act forbearance65
Reciprocal lending relationships in shadow banking65
Momentum turning points64
Benchmark interest rates when the government is risky64
The impact of arbitrage on market liquidity64
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds63
Risk-free interest rates62
Monetary tightening and U.S. bank fragility in 2023: Mark-to-market losses and uninsured depositor runs?62
The effect of media-linked directors on financing and external governance61
Expected return, volume, and mispricing61
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers61
Fire sale risk and expected stock returns61
Understanding momentum and reversal61
The governance of director compensation60
Central bank communication and the yield curve60
From patriarchy to partnership: Gender equality and household finance60
Brexit and the contraction of syndicated lending59
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence59
Self-imposed liquidity constraints via voluntary debt repayment58
Financial transaction taxes and the informational efficiency of financial markets: A structural estimation58
Uncertainty, access to debt, and firm precautionary behavior58
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates58
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey58
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field57
A frog in every pan: Information discreteness and the lead-lag returns puzzle57
Real effects of climate policy: Financial constraints and spillovers57
A theory of financial media57
Measuring the welfare cost of asymmetric information in consumer credit markets57
Common ownership and innovation efficiency57
Corporate actions and the manipulation of retail investors in China: An analysis of stock splits57
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era57
What do you think about climate finance?57
Air pollution, behavioral bias, and the disposition effect in China55
The effects of disclosure and enforcement on payday lending in Texas54
The colour of finance words54
Do activist hedge funds target female CEOs? The role of CEO gender in hedge fund activism54
The social signal54
The impact of impact investing54
Financial development and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Brazil53
Financial inclusion, economic development, and inequality: Evidence from Brazil53
Persistent government debt and aggregate risk distribution52
The Wall Street stampede: Exit as governance with interacting blockholders52
Extrapolative beliefs in the cross-section: What can we learn from the crowds?52
The cross-section of intraday and overnight returns51
Political ideology and international capital allocation50
Corporate flexibility in a time of crisis50
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression49
Dissecting green returns49
Angel investment and first impressions48
What is CEO overconfidence? Evidence from executive assessments48
The democratization of investment research and the informativeness of retail investor trading48
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data47
Stock return ignorance47
Value creation in shareholder activism47
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Cleansing by tight credit: Rational cycles and endogenous lending standards47
Why are commercial loan rates so sticky? The effect of private information on loan spreads47
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Intraday arbitrage between ETFs and their underlying portfolios47
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Inflation and Disintermediation47
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Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?46
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The volatility puzzle of the beta anomaly45
Does paycheck frequency matter? Evidence from micro data44
Token-based platform governance44
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Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market44
A tale of two types: Generalists vs. specialists in asset management44
Conditional risk44
Asset pricing with heterogeneous agents and long-run risk43
Demand-and-supply imbalance risk and long-term swap spreads43
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The distributional effects of student loan forgiveness43
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Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions42
The bank as Grim Reaper: Debt composition and bankruptcy thresholds41
The pass-through of uncertainty shocks to households41
Banks funding, leverage, and investment41
Extracting extrapolative beliefs from market prices: An augmented present-value approach40
Pricing of index options in incomplete markets40
Labor leverage, coordination failures, and aggregate risk39
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program39
What is the impact of introducing a parallel OTC market? Theory and evidence from the chinese interbank FX market39
Reaching for yield and the housing market: Evidence from 18th-century Amsterdam38
Small and vulnerable: SME productivity in the great productivity slowdown38
Feedback loops in industry trade networks and the term structure of momentum profits38
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing37
Investing outside the box: Evidence from alternative vehicles in private equity37
Uncertainty about what is in the price37
Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes37
Long-term discount rates do not vary across firms36
The remarkable growth in financial economics, 1974–202036
Are cryptos different? Evidence from retail trading36
Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances36
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios36
Risk-adjusted capital allocation and misallocation36
Inside brokers36
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma36
Common shocks in stocks and bonds36
The proxy advisory industry: Influencing and being influenced36
Erratum to “Heterogeneous intermediary asset pricing” [Journal of Financial Economics 141/2 (2021) 505-532]36
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences35
Product market strategy and corporate policies35
Investment responses to tax policy under uncertainty35
The international propagation of economic downturns through multinational companies: The real economy channel35
Corporate responses to stock price fragility35
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models35
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem34
Good for your fiscal health? The effect of the affordable care act on healthcare borrowing costs34
Real-time price discovery via verbal communication: Method and application to Fedspeak34
The big bang: Stock market capitalization in the long run33
Oil volatility risk33
Lifting the veil: The price formation of corporate bond offerings33
Anatomy of a liquidity crisis: Corporate bonds in the COVID-19 crisis33
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles33
Attention triggers and investors’ risk-taking33
Treasury inconvenience yields during the COVID-19 crisis33
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks33
When and how are rule 10b5-1 plans used for insider stock sales?32
Trade credit and profitability in production networks32
Spectral factor models32
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices32
On the information content of credit ratings and market-based measures of default risk31
The impact of consumer credit access on self-employment and entrepreneurship31
Capital supply and corporate bond issuances: Evidence from mutual fund flows31
Limited attention to detail in financial markets: Evidence from reduced-form and structural estimation31
Specialization and performance in private equity: Evidence from the hotel industry31
Stocks for the long run? Evidence from a broad sample of developed markets31
Information technology and lender competition31
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices30
Aggregate lapsation risk30
Asset pricing with index investing30
Gradual information diffusion across commonly owned firms30
On the fast track: Information acquisition costs and information production30
Partisan residential sorting on climate change risk29
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks29
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies29
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing29
The local innovation spillovers of listed firms29
Mispricing, short-sale constraints, and the cross-section of option returns29
Entrepreneurship and information on past failures: A natural experiment29
Measuring macroeconomic tail risk29
The effect of stock liquidity on cash holdings: The repurchase motive29
Active trading and (poor) performance: The social transmission channel29
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers29
Betting against betting against beta28
How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates?28
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High-cost debt and perceived creditworthiness: Evidence from the UK28
Bank transparency and deposit flows28
And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital28
Q: Risk, rents, or growth?28
Why does the Fed move markets so much? A model of monetary policy and time-varying risk aversion28
Disaster resilience and asset prices28
Factors and risk premia in individual international stock returns28
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure28
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Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution27
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Credit cycles with market-based household leverage27
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What moves treasury yields?27
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Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.26
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Personal finance education mandates and student loan repayment26
Searching for the equity premium26
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