Journal of Financial Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Financial Economics is 35. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board2502
Arbitrage-based recovery915
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression883
Editorial Board807
Editorial Board597
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults489
What matters in a characteristic?451
Momentum turning points359
Expected return, volume, and mispricing333
Equity duration and predictability321
Monetary policy expectation errors220
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field192
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability188
Risk-free interest rates181
Stakes and investor behaviors180
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions178
Betting against betting against beta173
Implicit extrapolation and the beliefs channel of investment demand169
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences157
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices156
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program156
Conditional risk154
The invention of corporate governance150
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem146
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies144
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma137
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market132
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers123
Price regulation in two-sided markets: Empirical evidence from debit cards122
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching118
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums110
Finance without exotic risk109
Have risk premia vanished?108
The risk and return of impact investing funds107
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world107
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?104
Aspirational utility and investment behavior104
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices104
Defunding controversial industries: Can targeted credit rationing choke firms?99
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk98
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels98
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field97
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution96
Market efficiency in the age of big data95
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era94
Pricing and constructing international government bond portfolios93
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?92
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks91
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark91
Micro uncertainty and asset prices91
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?91
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions89
Discrimination in the payments chain88
Priced risk in corporate bonds87
Evergreening87
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment87
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability85
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?84
The value of intermediation in the stock market84
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors83
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending82
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?82
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households80
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve80
Macroeconomic drivers and the pricing of uncertainty, inflation, and bonds79
Editorial Board77
Editorial Board76
Editorial Board76
Editorial Board76
Regulatory leakage among financial advisors: Evidence from FINRA regulation of “bad” brokers75
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity74
Skill versus reliability in venture capital74
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment72
Financing the litigation arms race72
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets72
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate72
Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?71
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity70
Intermediary financing without commitment70
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL66
Count (and count-like) data in finance65
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha65
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic64
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline64
Editorial Board64
Peak-Bust rental spreads63
Understanding the strength of the dollar62
Editorial Board62
ESG lending61
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements61
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds61
Keeping options open: What motivates entrepreneurs?60
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare60
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies58
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market58
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty58
Patent quality, firm value, and investor underreaction: Evidence from patent examiner busyness57
Editorial Board56
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets55
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM54
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models53
Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE53
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil52
Expected idiosyncratic volatility52
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds52
Rules versus discretion in capital regulation51
Venture capital contracts51
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans49
Honoring Michael C. Jensen49
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy48
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates48
Inflation and Trading47
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193347
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans47
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market47
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market47
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey45
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market45
Dissecting green returns45
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era45
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence45
How valuable is corporate adaptation to crisis? Estimates from Covid-19 work-from-home announcements43
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models43
Editorial Board43
A quantitative analysis of bank lending relationships43
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles43
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing42
Editorial Board42
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks42
Value creation in shareholder activism42
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks41
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing41
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios40
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data40
Taking sides on return predictability40
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices40
Financial constraints and the racial housing gap40
LTCM Redux? Hedge fund Treasury trading, funding fragility, and risk constraints39
Social interactions and households’ flood insurance decisions39
Overvaluing simple bets: Evidence from the options market39
Do the right firms survive bankruptcy?38
Too Levered for Pigou: Carbon pricing, financial constraints, and leverage regulation38
Global Business Networks38
Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.38
What moves treasury yields?37
Editorial Board37
The economics of “Buy Now, Pay Later”: A merchant’s perspective37
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?37
In sickness and in debt: The COVID-19 impact on sovereign credit risk37
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure36
How monetary policy shaped the housing boom36
Editorial Board35
Editorial Board35
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition35
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic35
Editorial Board35
Price ceilings, market structure, and payout policies35
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