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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board1887
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Bank heterogeneity and financial stability1222
Editorial Board1162
Arbitrage-based recovery879
Finance and the supply of housing quality677
Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults635
Momentum turning points574
What matters in a characteristic?414
Monetary policy expectation errors408
Expected return, volume, and mispricing390
Financial factors and the propagation of the Great Depression371
CEO compensation: Evidence from the field338
The role of financial conditions in portfolio choices: The case of insurers294
Risk-free interest rates285
Uncertainty, access to debt, and firm precautionary behavior254
Editorial Board252
Racial disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program230
Loan spreads and credit cycles: The role of lenders’ personal economic experiences183
Conditional risk179
Direct lenders in the U.S. middle market150
Bitcoin’s limited adoption problem147
Betting against betting against beta146
And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital145
Institutional investors, heterogeneous benchmarks and the comovement of asset prices144
Why are corporate payouts so high in the 2000s?142
News as sources of jumps in stock returns: Evidence from 21 million news articles for 9000 companies141
Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers135
Sovereign risk premia and global macroeconomic conditions128
Voting and trading: The shareholder’s dilemma128
Democracy and the pricing of initial public offerings around the world123
Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances123
Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching121
Equity tail risk and currency risk premiums120
Entangled risks in incomplete FX markets116
Aspirational utility and investment behavior114
Editorial Board110
Gig labor: Trading safety nets for steering wheels109
Financing breakthroughs under failure risk105
Have risk premia vanished?101
Insurance and portfolio decisions: Two sides of the same coin?100
M&A rumors about unlisted firms100
Monetary policy at work: Security and credit application registers evidence98
Global factor premiums97
Market efficiency in the age of big data96
The risk and return of impact investing funds96
Corporate culture: Evidence from the field94
Bank liquidity provision across the firm size distribution93
Do investors care about carbon risk?92
Discrimination in the payments chain91
Independent regulators and financial stability evidence from gubernatorial election campaigns in the Progressive Era88
Price transparency in OTC equity lending markets: Evidence from a loan fee benchmark88
Self-Declared benchmarks and fund manager intent: “Cheating” or competing?87
Core earnings: New data and evidence87
The value of intermediation in the stock market86
Micro uncertainty and asset prices85
Heterogeneous liquidity providers and night-minus-day return predictability84
Volatility, intermediaries, and exchange rates82
Peer selection and valuation in mergers and acquisitions79
High policy uncertainty and low implied market volatility: An academic puzzle?78
Informed trading in government bond markets78
Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors77
Employee output response to stock market wealth shocks77
Shale shocked: Cash windfalls and household debt repayment76
Priced risk in corporate bonds76
Does common ownership really increase firm coordination?76
Network risk and key players: A structural analysis of interbank liquidity75
Life after LIBOR75
Is there a home field advantage in global markets?74
Does customer-base structure influence managerial risk-taking incentives?74
Is there a risk-return tradeoff in the corporate bond market? Time-series and cross-sectional evidence73
Evergreening72
Editorial Board71
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Asymmetric information, disagreement, and the valuation of debt and equity70
Editorial Board70
Intermediary financing without commitment68
Skill versus reliability in venture capital68
Editorial Board68
Intermediary balance sheets and the treasury yield curve68
The short- and long-run effects of remote work on U.S. housing markets67
Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment67
Reaching for yield: Evidence from households67
Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending66
Financing the litigation arms race66
Who creates new firms when local opportunities arise?66
Machine learning and fund characteristics help to select mutual funds with positive alpha65
The death of a regulator: Strict supervision, bank lending, and business activity65
What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL65
Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate65
Peak-Bust rental spreads64
Editorial Board64
Count (and count-like) data in finance64
Dynastic control without ownership: Evidence from post-war Japan63
Understanding the strength of the dollar63
Endogenous inattention and risk-specific price underreaction in corporate bonds63
Fintech entry, lending market competition, and welfare63
Keeping options open: What motivates entrepreneurs?62
Warp speed price moves: Jumps after earnings announcements62
The fundamental-to-market ratio and the value premium decline62
The negativity bias and perceived return distributions: Evidence from a pandemic61
Dynamic asset (mis)pricing: Build-up versus resolution anomalies61
Refinancing cross-subsidies in the mortgage market60
Patent quality, firm value, and investor underreaction: Evidence from patent examiner busyness59
Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty59
Signals and stigmas from banking interventions: Lessons from the Bank Holiday of 193358
Borrow now, pay even later: A quantitative analysis of student debt payment plans58
Expected idiosyncratic volatility58
Strategic arbitrage in segmented markets58
Revealing corruption: Firm and worker level evidence from Brazil57
Editorial Board57
In-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe ratios of multi-factor asset pricing models56
Asset holders’ consumption risk and tests of conditional CCAPM56
Competition, Product differentiation and Crises: Evidence from 18 million securitized loans56
Salience theory and the cross-section of stock returns: International and further evidence56
Let the rich be flooded: The distribution of financial aid and distress after hurricane harvey55
Brexit and the contraction of syndicated lending55
Expansionary yet different: Credit supply and real effects of negative interest rate policy55
Market power in wholesale funding: A structural perspective from the triparty repo market55
Validity, tightness, and forecasting power of risk premium bounds55
Venture capital contracts55
The cost of steering in financial markets: Evidence from the mortgage market54
International trade and the risk in bilateral exchange rates54
Fire-sale risk in the leveraged loan market53
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era53
Dissecting green returns52
Closing auctions: Nasdaq versus NYSE52
Erratum to “Heterogeneous intermediary asset pricing” [Journal of Financial Economics 141/2 (2021) 505-532]51
Editorial Board51
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Capital supply and corporate bond issuances: Evidence from mutual fund flows50
Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes49
Common shocks in stocks and bonds49
The cross-section of investment and profitability: Implications for asset pricing49
Efficient estimation of bid–ask spreads from open, high, low, and close prices49
Empirical evaluation of overspecified asset pricing models49
Treasury option returns and models with unspanned risks49
The consequences of student loan credit expansions: Evidence from three decades of default cycles49
The remarkable growth in financial economics, 1974–202049
Value creation in shareholder activism48
Lifting the veil: The price formation of corporate bond offerings47
Anatomy of a liquidity crisis: Corporate bonds in the COVID-19 crisis47
The local innovation spillovers of listed firms47
Missing values handling for machine learning portfolios47
What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data47
Editorial Board46
Long-term discount rates do not vary across firms46
Fed information effects: Evidence from the equity term structure46
Realized semibetas: Disentangling “good” and “bad” downside risks46
Persistent and transitory components of firm characteristics: Implications for asset pricing46
What moves treasury yields?45
Strategic digitization in currency and payment competition45
Can the changes in fundamentals explain the attenuation of anomalies?45
Social interactions and households’ flood insurance decisions44
Global Business Networks44
Do the right firms survive bankruptcy?44
Lucky factors43
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic43
Foreign investment of US multinationals: The effect of tax policy and agency conflicts.43
In sickness and in debt: The COVID-19 impact on sovereign credit risk42
How monetary policy shaped the housing boom42
Network structure and pricing in the FX market41
Macro risks and the term structure of interest rates41
Editorial Board41
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