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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board1937
Editorial Board1758
Editorial Board1307
Monetary policy expectation errors1276
Editorial Board1199
Arbitrage-based recovery888
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression699
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability678
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults598
Momentum turning points424
What matters in a characteristic?420
Expected return, volume, and mispricing402
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers384
Finance and the supply of housing quality350
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field325
Risk-free interest rates292
Uncertainty, access to debt, and firm precautionary behavior267
Editorial Board258
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market230
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences186
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions182
Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances154
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?152
The invention of corporate governance150
And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital150
Betting against betting against beta149
Conditional risk146
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program143
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma139
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers135
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices129
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies127
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem126
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices125
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching125
The risk and return of impact investing funds118
Entangled risks in incomplete FX markets117
Editorial Board116
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels112
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?105
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk105
Global factor premiums101
M&A rumors about unlisted firms100
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world100
Have risk premia vanished?99
Market efficiency in the age of big data98
Aspirational utility and investment behavior96
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution95
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums93
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field92
Do investors care about carbon risk?91
Discrimination in the payments chain90
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era89
Life after LIBOR88
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark88
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence87
Evergreening87
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?84
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability81
The value of intermediation in the stock market81
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions80
Informed trading in government bond markets80
Core earnings: New data and evidence79
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks79
Volatility, intermediaries, and exchange rates78
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?78
Priced risk in corporate bonds78
Does common ownership really increase firm coordination?77
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors77
Micro uncertainty and asset prices76
Network risk and key players: A structural analysis of interbank liquidity75
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?73
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment72
Editorial Board71
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?71
Editorial Board70
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity70
Editorial Board70
Editorial Board70
Financing the litigation arms race69
Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?69
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households69
Skill versus reliability in venture capital69
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending69
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity69
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL68
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve68
Intermediary financing without commitment67
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha66
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate66
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets66
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment66
Count (and count-like) data in finance66
Dynastic control without ownership: Evidence from post-war Japan65
Editorial Board65
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds65
Peak-Bust rental spreads65
Keeping options open: What motivates entrepreneurs?65
Understanding the strength of the dollar64
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare64
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies63
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market63
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic62
Patent quality, firm value, and investor underreaction: Evidence from patent examiner busyness61
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements61
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline60
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty59
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets59
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans59
Expected idiosyncratic volatility58
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193357
Rules versus discretion in capital regulation57
Editorial Board57
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans57
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil57
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates56
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM56
Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE55
Honoring Michael C. Jensen55
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era55
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market55
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market55
Brexit and the contraction of syndicated lending55
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy54
Venture capital contracts54
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey53
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence53
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds53
Dissecting green returns52
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market52
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models52
Editorial Board51
Editorial Board51
Erratum to “Heterogeneous intermediary asset pricing” [Journal of Financial Economics 141/2 (2021) 505-532]51
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing50
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles50
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks49
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices49
Value creation in shareholder activism49
Anatomy of a liquidity crisis: Corporate bonds in the COVID-19 crisis49
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models49
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks48
Lifting the veil: The price formation of corporate bond offerings48
Long-term discount rates do not vary across firms48
Common shocks in stocks and bonds47
Capital supply and corporate bond issuances: Evidence from mutual fund flows47
Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes47
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data46
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios46
The local innovation spillovers of listed firms46
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing46
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure45
Editorial Board45
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?45
LTCM Redux? Hedge fund Treasury trading, funding fragility, and risk constraints44
Macro risks and the term structure of interest rates43
Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.42
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic42
Lucky factors42
Do the right firms survive bankruptcy?42
How monetary policy shaped the housing boom42
In sickness and in debt: The COVID-19 impact on sovereign credit risk42
What moves treasury yields?42
Social interactions and households’ flood insurance decisions41
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