Journal of Banking & Finance

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Banking & Finance is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
How should we measure the performance of corporate bond mutual funds? Evaluating model quality and impact on inferences304
Market discipline and regulatory arbitrage: Evidence from ABCP liquidity guarantors240
Leveling the playing field? The effect of disclosing fund manager activeness to individual investors235
Banks incentive pay, diversification and systemic risk158
Timing sentiment with style: Evidence from mutual funds156
Quality is our asset: The international transmission of liquidity regulation114
Supervisory stringency, payout restrictions, and bank equity prices113
Predicting stock returns of past-winner stocks and bond returns of past-loser stocks with a stock’s 52-week price anchor102
Canonical portfolios: Optimal asset and signal combination100
Dealer misconduct and price dynamics at the fix92
Trade policy sensitivity and global stock returns: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential election82
Biased risk perceptions: Evidence from the laboratory and financial markets76
Dark premonitions: Pre-bankruptcy investor attention and behavior74
Dissecting the return-predicting power of risk-neutral variance68
A tale of two banking regulations: Impact of regulatory overlap on the analysis of liquidity creation67
Social capital, finance, and consumption: Evidence from a representative sample of Chinese households65
Demographic trends, the rent-to-price ratio, and housing market returns64
The case for CASE: Estimating heterogeneous systemic effects63
Banks’ investments in fintech ventures58
Expected and Unexpected Jumps in the Overnight Rate: Consistent Management of the Libor Transition54
Financial development and wage income: Evidence from the global football market52
Award-winning CEOs and corporate innovation51
Competition, coinsurance and moral hazard in banking50
Political relations and media coverage50
Risk-taking incentives and risk-talking outcomes48
Country financial development and the extension of trade credit by firms with market power47
Familiarity breeds day trade47
How free is free? Retail trading costs with zero commissions46
Religion and insider trading profits41
Variation in the value of active share across regions of investments: Evidence from global equity funds39
The dark side of bank taxes39
The effect of institutional herding on stock prices: The differentiating role of credit ratings38
Trading volume and liquidity provision in cryptocurrency markets38
Do stock-level experienced returns influence security selection?37
The gradient allocation principle based on the higher moment risk measure37
Impact of Price Path on Disposition Bias37
Money market reforms:The effect on the commercial paper market36
Stress tests and information disclosure: An experimental analysis36
Lease-adjusted productivity measurement35
A new approach to credit ratings34
Does FinTech coverage improve the pricing efficiency of capital market? Evidence from China33
Human capital quality and stock returns33
Drought, water, and the valuation of hydropower assets33
Sign matters: Stock-movement-based trading decisions of individual investors33
Exploiting the dynamics of commodity futures curves32
Modeling the time-varying dynamic term structure of interest rates32
Signal strength adjustment behavior: Evidence from share repurchases32
Employment Protection and Household Mortgage Debt31
Experiments in finance31
Intraday momentum in the VIX futures market31
Editorial Board31
Common institutional blockholders and tail risk31
Gender composition and conflicts of interest in the financial industry: Evidence from analysts’ target price optimism30
Corporate noncompliance: Do corporate violations affect bank loan contracting?29
Pension funding and the cross section of stock returns - The case of Germany29
Available-for-sale is available for hoarding: When nonfinancial firms hold financial assets29
Fintech and big tech credit: Drivers of the growth of digital lending28
How do experienced analysts improve price efficiency?28
Heterogeneous inflation and deflation experiences and savings decisions during German industrialization26
Editorial Board26
Option introduction, short-sale constraints, and stock price efficiency: New evidence from IPO lockup periods25
Asset management with an ESG mandate25
Capital requirements, mortgage rates and house prices24
Algorithmic trading and market quality: International evidence of the impact of errors in colocation dates24
Global weather-based trading strategies23
Shadow loans and regulatory arbitrage: Evidence from China23
Leveraging intellectual property: The value of harmonized enforcement regimes23
Bank affiliation and timing ability of mutual funds: Evidence from China22
Complexity and the default risk of mortgage-backed securities22
Good idiosyncratic volatility, bad idiosyncratic volatility, and the cross-section of stock returns22
A large creditor in contagious liquidity crises22
Cross-asset time-series momentum: Crude oil volatility and global stock markets22
Government guarantees and bank liquidity creation around the world21
Do local investors know more? Evidence from securities class actions21
Operational loss recoveries and the macroeconomic environment: Evidence from the U.S. banking sector21
The more, the better? Predicting stock returns with local and global data21
Belief dispersion in the Chinese stock market and fund flows21
Do foreign institutions avoid investing in poorly CSR-performing firms?20
The role of CDS spreads in explaining bond recovery rates20
Bank competition and corporate employment: Evidence from the geographic distribution of bank branches in China20
Economic policy uncertainty and corporate bond liquidity20
Natural disasters and market manipulation20
Market-based private equity returns20
Editorial Board20
A revisit to the IPO spillover effect: On the importance of technological proximity20
The good, the bad, and the not-so-ugly of credit booms?: capital allocation and financial constraints20
Impact of risk oversight functions on bank risk: Evidence from the Dodd-Frank Act20
Does maker-taker limit order subsidy improve market outcomes? Quasi-natural experimental evidence19
Cross-country determinants of market efficiency: A technical analysis perspective19
Editorial Board19
Global foreign exchange volatility, ambiguity, and currency carry trades19
Erratum to “Corporate voluntary disclosure via WeChat” [Journal of Banking & Finance 176 (2025)/107393]19
Uncertain Text and Price Reactions to Earnings Releases19
Central bank liquidity facilities and market making19
The effect of bank recapitalization policy on credit allocation, investment, and productivity: Evidence from a banking crisis in Japan19
Leverage constraints and investors' choice of underlyings18
Can star analysts make superior coverage decisions in poor information environment?18
A stochastic programming model for dynamic portfolio management with financial derivatives18
Option-based intermediary leverage18
Back to the roots of internal credit risk models: Does risk explain why banks' risk-weighted asset levels converge over time?18
The effect of labour protection laws on the relationship between leverage and wages18
Information acquisition costs and credit spreads18
Nudging a second after18
Digital finance and financial literacy: Evidence from Chinese households18
Effects of macroprudential policy: Evidence from over 6000 estimates17
Inventor CEOs and financing of innovation: Evidence from IPOs17
What types of boards and compensation committees pay CEOs discretionary bonuses?17
Patented knowledge capital and implied equity risk premium16
A bank's optimal capital ratio: A time-varying parameter model to the partial adjustment framework16
Social connections and bank deposits16
Social capital and the cost of bank equity: Cross-country evidence16
Structural estimation of counterparty credit risk under recovery risk16
Reprint of: COVID-19, lockdowns, and the municipal bond market16
Life insurance convexity16
Information spillovers and cross monitoring between the stock market and loan market16
Trust in Founders16
Economic policy uncertainty and covenants in venture capital contracts15
How much do boards learn about CEO ability in crises? Evidence from CEO turnover15
Demand for financial advice: Evidence from a randomized choice experiment15
Corporate restructuring and creditor power: Evidence from European insolvency law reforms15
Have ratings become more accurate?15
Foreign bank lending during COVID-1915
Fund Flows and Asset Valuations of Bond Mutual Funds: Effect of Side-by-Side Management15
Blockholder board representation and debt contracting15
When It Rains It Drains: Psychological Distress and Household Net Worth15
Non‐operating risk and cash holdings: Evidence from pension risk15
The tax shield increases the interest rate15
Game in another town: Geography of stock watchlists and firm valuation15
Board gender diversity and equity-based compensation15
Easing of borrower-based measures: Evidence from Czech loan-level data14
Artificial intelligence and systemic risk14
Editorial Board14
Editorial Board14
Can Real Options Explain the Skewness of Stock Returns?14
Personal income tax and corporate innovation: The key role of inventors’ financial incentives14
Chasing the ESG factor14
Industrial policy and asset prices: Evidence from the Made in China 2025 policy14
Editorial Board14
Bank regulation and supervision: A symbiotic relationship14
Stock market experience and investor overconfidence: Do investors learn to be overconfident?14
Financial liberalization and house prices: Evidence from China14
Distressed firms, zombie firms and zombie lending: A taxonomy14
Strategic supply management and mechanism choice in government debt auctions: An empirical analysis from the Philippines14
A test of the Modigliani-Miller theorem, dividend policy and algorithmic arbitrage in experimental asset markets14
Crowdedness, mispricing, crashes, and spikes13
IPO underpricing and limited attention: Theory and evidence13
Personal bankruptcy and post-bankruptcy liquidity constraint13
Editorial Board13
Detecting political event risk in the option market13
Incentive contracting in the shadow of litigation risk: Evidence from universal demand laws13
Measuring the impact of changing deposit insurance coverage levels: Findings from Colombia13
Do internal capital markets in business groups mitigate firms' financial constraints?13
When school ties meet geography: Education-province bias in mutual fund portfolios13
Banking Market Structure and Trade Shocks12
Disclosure rules, controlling shareholders, and trading activity in the new issues market12
When should retirees tap their home equity?12
In Memoria Giorgio and Emilia Szegő A special issue on institutions, risk measures, and portfolio optimization12
Editorial Board12
Leverage and the cost of capital for U.S. banks12
Marginals versus copulas: Which account for more model risk in multivariate risk forecasting?12
Vulnerable funding in the global economy12
Reprint of: Delegated asset management and performance when some investors are unsophisticated12
The sources of value creation in acquisitions of intangible assets12
Discretion in pay ratio estimation12
When expectations of implicit government guarantees diminished, do retail stock investors run away?12
What are reference rates for?12
Economic activity and the bank credit channel12
Does options trading stabilize stock prices? : Evidence from a natural experiment11
Editorial Board11
Functional distance and bank loan pricing: Evidence from the opening of high-speed railway in China11
Monetary policy transmission, bank market power, and wholesale funding reliance11
Does regulatory and supervisory independence affect financial stability?11
Coherent risk measures alone are ineffective in constraining portfolio losses11
Low interest rates and banks’ interest margins: Does belonging to a banking group matter?11
Do Equity Analysts Reflect Private Information about SEC Investigations?11
Global evidence on unspanned macro risks in dynamic term structure models11
Newswire tone-overlay commodity portfolios11
The Banker’s oath and financial advice11
Forecasting Value at Risk and expected shortfall using a model with a dynamic omega ratio11
COVID-19 and bank branch lending: The moderating effect of digitalization11
Short selling and product market competition11
How does corporate culture affect IPO price formation?11
The up side of being down: Depression and crowdsourced forecasts11
Enhanced momentum strategies11
Editorial Board11
Bidder opportunism, familiarity, and the M&A payment choice11
Fiduciary duty and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from corporate opportunity waiver11
Is lending distance really changing? Distance dynamics and loan composition in small business lending11
CEO relative age at school entry and corporate risk-taking10
Household willingness to take financial risk: Stockmarket movements and life‐cycle effects10
Modeling and pricing credit risk with a focus on recovery risk10
Is bank misconduct related to social capital? Evidence from U.S. banks10
Do risky banks pay their employees more?10
4/2 rough and smooth10
Editorial Board10
Assessing and mitigating fire sales risk under partial information10
Political promotion incentives and banking supervision: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China10
Do Hedge Funds Value Sell-Side Analysts Differently?10
Debt-stabilizing properties of GDP-linked securities: A macro-finance perspective10
PayTech on BigTech platforms10
The market for corporate control and firm information environment: Evidence from five decades of data10
The impact of sustainable finance literacy on investment decisions10
Air pollution and bank loan pricing9
Compounding COVID-19 and climate risks: The interplay of banks’ lending and government’s policy in the shock recovery9
Investor heterogeneity and the market for fund benchmarks: Evidence from passive ETFs9
Impact of sovereign credit ratings on systemic risk and the moderating role of regulatory reforms: An international investigation9
Uncertainty premia for small and large risks9
Insider trading regulation and shorting constraints. Evaluating the joint effects of two market interventions.9
How do markets react to tighter bank capital requirements?9
The value of growth: Changes in profitability and future stock returns9
A shadow rate without a lower bound constraint9
Stock valuation during the COVID-19 pandemic: An explanation using option-based discount rates9
ESG and bond market resilience: Evidence from the Covid crisis9
Editorial Board9
Asymmetric cost behavior and non-financial firms’ risky financial investments9
Financial misconduct and bank risk-taking: Evidence from US banks9
National culture of secrecy and firms’ access to credit9
Stock market liberalization and corporate investment revisited: Evidence from China9
A stochastic model for predicting the response time of green vs brown stocks to climate change news risk9
Operational Risk is More Systemic than You Think: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies9
Optimal information production of mutual funds: Evidence from China9
Strategic repurchases and equity sales: Evidence from equity vesting schedules9
Investor sentiment and asset prices: Evidence from the ex-day9
Central bank policies and financial markets: Lessons from the euro crisis8
Geographic deregulation and bank capital structure8
Motivated beliefs about stock returns8
International information flow and market quality8
Real estate security token offerings and the secondary market: Driven by crypto hype or fundamentals?8
Editorial Board8
What drives startup valuations?8
The impact of managerial myopia on cybersecurity: Evidence from data breaches8
A hidden cost of ETF investing: Retail demand shocks and limits to arbitrage8
How cheap talk in climate disclosures relates to climate initiatives, corporate emissions, and reputation risk8
Corporate culture and M&A deals: Using text from crowdsourced employer reviews to measure cultural differences8
The real effects of corruption on M&A flows: Evidence from China's anti-corruption campaign8
Debt restructuring with multiple bank relationships8
Sustainable finance literacy and the determinants of sustainable investing8
Cybercrime on the ethereum blockchain8
Optimal restrictiveness of a financing covenant8
Editorial Board8
Geographic proximity and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from high-speed rail construction in China8
The demise of branch banking – Technology, consolidation, bank fragility8
A macro-financial perspective to analyse maturity mismatch and default7
Internal risk limits of dealers and corporate bond market making7
Climate risk and payout flexibility around the world7
Dimensions of national culture and R2 around the world7
Liquidity regulations, bank lending and fire-sale risk7
Beauty and stock market participation7
Terrorism, banking, and informal savings: Evidence from Nigeria7
Housing booms and local capital misallocation7
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