Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Financial Economics is 41. 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
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market156
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences156
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
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma133
Betting against betting against beta133
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
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?102
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk102
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world102
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
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence88
Informed trading in government bond markets88
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability86
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark85
Core earnings: New data and evidence83
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks83
Evergreening82
The value of intermediation in the stock market82
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment81
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?81
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions81
Discrimination in the payments chain80
Priced risk in corporate bonds80
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors79
Micro uncertainty and asset prices76
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?75
Network risk and key players: A structural analysis of interbank liquidity75
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?74
Editorial Board73
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?73
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity72
Editorial Board72
Editorial Board72
Intermediary financing without commitment71
Editorial Board71
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity71
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment70
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve70
Skill versus reliability in venture capital69
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
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate68
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL68
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets68
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha68
Count (and count-like) data in finance67
Peak-Bust rental spreads67
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market66
Editorial Board66
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare65
Understanding the strength of the dollar65
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline65
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
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence54
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models54
Venture capital contracts53
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era53
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds52
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
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
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition42
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?42
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
Lucky factors41
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
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