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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board2132
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Editorial Board1397
Arbitrage-based recovery1290
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression762
Finance and the supply of housing quality748
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults679
Momentum turning points464
What matters in a characteristic?451
Bank heterogeneity and financial stability444
Risk-free interest rates416
Monetary policy expectation errors399
Expected return, volume, and mispricing388
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field310
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers289
Editorial Board280
The invention of corporate governance234
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices195
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences166
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?163
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market162
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies162
Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances159
Conditional risk152
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program150
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma148
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem141
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions136
Betting against betting against beta136
And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital132
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers130
The return of return dominance: Decomposing the cross-section of prices126
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching117
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?113
Global factor premiums111
Editorial Board110
Entangled risks in incomplete FX markets110
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels108
Aspirational utility and investment behavior107
Have risk premia vanished?106
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world105
The risk and return of impact investing funds103
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk97
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums97
M&A rumors about unlisted firms96
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution95
Market efficiency in the age of big data94
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field91
Do investors care about carbon risk?91
Informed trading in government bond markets89
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence89
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era89
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?87
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks87
Discrimination in the payments chain86
Micro uncertainty and asset prices86
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions85
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability85
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark85
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?84
The value of intermediation in the stock market84
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?83
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors81
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?80
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment79
Core earnings: New data and evidence78
Priced risk in corporate bonds77
Evergreening76
Network risk and key players: A structural analysis of interbank liquidity76
Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity75
Editorial Board75
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Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment73
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households73
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve73
Financing the litigation arms race73
Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?73
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending72
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate72
Intermediary financing without commitment72
Skill versus reliability in venture capital72
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets71
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL71
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity70
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha70
Count (and count-like) data in finance70
Editorial Board68
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements67
Understanding the strength of the dollar67
Peak-Bust rental spreads67
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare66
Keeping options open: What motivates entrepreneurs?66
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic65
Dynastic control without ownership: Evidence from post-war Japan63
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds62
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market62
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline62
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies62
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty61
Patent quality, firm value, and investor underreaction: Evidence from patent examiner busyness61
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market61
Editorial Board60
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil60
Rules versus discretion in capital regulation58
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates58
Honoring Michael C. Jensen58
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets57
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market57
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models56
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193356
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds56
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM55
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans55
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans55
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market55
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era54
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy54
Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE54
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence53
Expected idiosyncratic volatility53
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey52
Dissecting green returns52
Venture capital contracts51
Editorial Board51
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Erratum to “Heterogeneous intermediary asset pricing” [Journal of Financial Economics 141/2 (2021) 505-532]50
A quantitative analysis of bank lending relationships49
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data48
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models48
Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes48
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks48
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing48
Anatomy of a liquidity crisis: Corporate bonds in the COVID-19 crisis47
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing47
Common shocks in stocks and bonds46
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks46
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles46
Value creation in shareholder activism45
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices45
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios45
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure44
Lifting the veil: The price formation of corporate bond offerings44
Editorial Board44
Long-term discount rates do not vary across firms44
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic43
Do the right firms survive bankruptcy?43
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?43
LTCM Redux? Hedge fund Treasury trading, funding fragility, and risk constraints42
What moves treasury yields?42
The economics of “Buy Now, Pay Later”: A merchant’s perspective42
Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.42
In sickness and in debt: The COVID-19 impact on sovereign credit risk42
Editorial Board42
Global Business Networks41
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition41
Social interactions and households’ flood insurance decisions41
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