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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
How should we measure the performance of corporate bond mutual funds? Evaluating model quality and impact on inferences214
Dissecting the return-predicting power of risk-neutral variance213
Financial Sector Policy Response to COVID-19 in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies210
Award-winning CEOs and corporate innovation206
Banks incentive pay, diversification and systemic risk190
Demographic trends, the rent-to-price ratio, and housing market returns185
Expected and Unexpected Jumps in the Overnight Rate: Consistent Management of the Libor Transition170
Timing sentiment with style: Evidence from mutual funds150
Trade policy sensitivity and global stock returns: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential election138
Quality is our asset: The international transmission of liquidity regulation115
Stocks versus bonds for the long run when a riskless asset is available113
Determinants and predictability of commodity producer returns104
Market discipline and regulatory arbitrage: Evidence from ABCP liquidity guarantors88
Canonical portfolios: Optimal asset and signal combination87
Supervisory stringency, payout restrictions, and bank equity prices80
Dark premonitions: Pre-bankruptcy investor attention and behavior78
Social capital, finance, and consumption: Evidence from a representative sample of Chinese households78
Leveling the playing field? The effect of disclosing fund manager activeness to individual investors77
Financial development and wage income: Evidence from the global football market77
Biased risk perceptions: Evidence from the laboratory and financial markets73
The case for CASE: Estimating heterogeneous systemic effects70
Do banks price production process failures? Evidence from product recalls68
Banks’ investments in fintech ventures67
Common institutional ownership and corporate social responsibility65
Does FinTech coverage improve the pricing efficiency of capital market? Evidence from China65
Competition, coinsurance and moral hazard in banking61
Drought, water, and the valuation of hydropower assets60
Political relations and media coverage60
Lease-adjusted productivity measurement59
Trading volume and liquidity provision in cryptocurrency markets58
Optimal portfolio choice for higher-order risk averters57
The effect of institutional herding on stock prices: The differentiating role of credit ratings57
How do experienced analysts improve price efficiency?57
Religion and insider trading profits51
Pension funding and the cross section of stock returns - The case of Germany49
Risk-taking incentives and risk-talking outcomes48
Market shocks and professionals’ investment behavior – Evidence from the COVID-19 crash48
Do stock-level experienced returns influence security selection?47
Modeling the time-varying dynamic term structure of interest rates47
Intraday momentum in the VIX futures market45
Employment Protection and Household Mortgage Debt45
Common institutional blockholders and tail risk43
Stress testing and bank business patterns: A regression discontinuity study43
The gradient allocation principle based on the higher moment risk measure42
Sign matters: Stock-movement-based trading decisions of individual investors40
Experiments in finance40
Stress tests and information disclosure: An experimental analysis39
The dark side of bank taxes39
Heterogeneous beliefs in macroeconomic growth prospects and the carry risk premium37
Impact of Price Path on Disposition Bias37
Money market reforms:The effect on the commercial paper market36
The positive externalities of leveraged buyouts35
Monetary easing and the lending concentration channel of monetary policy transmission34
Special issue on green and ethical finance33
Exploiting the dynamics of commodity futures curves32
Variation in the value of active share across regions of investments: Evidence from global equity funds32
Signal strength adjustment behavior: Evidence from share repurchases32
A new approach to credit ratings32
Available-for-sale is available for hoarding: When nonfinancial firms hold financial assets31
Country financial development and the extension of trade credit by firms with market power31
Buy low, sell high? Do private equity fund managers have market timing abilities?31
Gender composition and conflicts of interest in the financial industry: Evidence from analysts’ target price optimism31
How free is free? Retail trading costs with zero commissions31
Fintech and big tech credit: Drivers of the growth of digital lending30
The illusion of oil return predictability: The choice of data matters!30
The role of CDS spreads in explaining bond recovery rates30
The pricing of carbon risk in syndicated loans: Which risks are priced and why?30
Corporate noncompliance: Do corporate violations affect bank loan contracting?30
Human capital quality and stock returns30
Operational loss recoveries and the macroeconomic environment: Evidence from the U.S. banking sector29
Do local investors know more? Evidence from securities class actions28
Bank affiliation and timing ability of mutual funds: Evidence from China28
Belief dispersion in the Chinese stock market and fund flows28
Leveraging intellectual property: The value of harmonized enforcement regimes28
Good idiosyncratic volatility, bad idiosyncratic volatility, and the cross-section of stock returns28
Complexity and the default risk of mortgage-backed securities28
Shadow loans and regulatory arbitrage: Evidence from China27
How do investors trade R&D-intensive Stocks? Evidence from hedge funds and other institutional investors27
Government guarantees and bank liquidity creation around the world27
A large creditor in contagious liquidity crises27
Information asymmetry and the profitability of technical analysis26
Algorithmic trading and market quality: International evidence of the impact of errors in colocation dates26
Editorial Board26
Capital requirements, mortgage rates and house prices26
Do foreign institutions avoid investing in poorly CSR-performing firms?26
Heterogeneous inflation and deflation experiences and savings decisions during German industrialization26
Market-based private equity returns25
Common ownership, price informativeness, and corporate investment25
Shrouding and the FX trades of global custody bank25
Global weather-based trading strategies25
Natural disasters and market manipulation25
The way forward for banks during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond: Government and central bank responses, threats to the global banking industry25
Bank competition and corporate employment: Evidence from the geographic distribution of bank branches in China24
Cross-asset time-series momentum: Crude oil volatility and global stock markets24
Economic policy uncertainty and corporate bond liquidity24
Does maker-taker limit order subsidy improve market outcomes? Quasi-natural experimental evidence23
Erratum to “Corporate voluntary disclosure via WeChat” [Journal of Banking & Finance 176 (2025)/107393]23
A stochastic programming model for dynamic portfolio management with financial derivatives23
Nudging a second after23
The effect of labour protection laws on the relationship between leverage and wages23
Interest rates, cash and short-term investments23
Editorial Board22
Option-based intermediary leverage22
What can we learn from firm-level jump-induced tail risk around earnings announcements?22
Inventor CEOs and financing of innovation: Evidence from IPOs22
Life insurance convexity21
Editorial Board21
The effect of bank recapitalization policy on credit allocation, investment, and productivity: Evidence from a banking crisis in Japan21
Patented knowledge capital and implied equity risk premium21
Impact of risk oversight functions on bank risk: Evidence from the Dodd-Frank Act21
Global foreign exchange volatility, ambiguity, and currency carry trades20
Central bank liquidity facilities and market making20
Back to the roots of internal credit risk models: Does risk explain why banks' risk-weighted asset levels converge over time?20
Complexity of global banks and the implications for bank risk: Evidence from foreign banks in Hong Kong20
Social capital and the cost of bank equity: Cross-country evidence20
Can star analysts make superior coverage decisions in poor information environment?20
Market discipline, regulation and banking effectiveness: Do measures matter?19
Bank complexity, governance, and risk19
Information acquisition costs and credit spreads18
Environmental regulation and financial stability: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms18
Leverage constraints and investors' choice of underlyings18
What drives a firm's ES performance? Evidence from stock returns18
Tuesday Blues and the day-of-the-week effect in stock returns18
Does government debt impede firm innovation? Evidence from the rise of LGFVs in China18
Cross-country determinants of market efficiency: A technical analysis perspective18
Digital finance and financial literacy: Evidence from Chinese households17
Uncertain text and price reactions to earnings releases17
Fund Flows and Asset Valuations of Bond Mutual Funds: Effect of Side-by-Side Management17
The good, the bad, and the not-so-ugly of credit booms?: capital allocation and financial constraints17
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on bank lending around the world17
The cost of foreign-currency lending17
Information spillovers and cross monitoring between the stock market and loan market17
Effects of macroprudential policy: Evidence from over 6000 estimates17
Downside risk and the cross-section of cryptocurrency returns17
A bank's optimal capital ratio: A time-varying parameter model to the partial adjustment framework17
A test of the Modigliani-Miller theorem, dividend policy and algorithmic arbitrage in experimental asset markets16
When It Rains It Drains: Psychological Distress and Household Net Worth16
Game in another town: Geography of stock watchlists and firm valuation16
Structural estimation of counterparty credit risk under recovery risk16
Corporate restructuring and creditor power: Evidence from European insolvency law reforms16
Non‐operating risk and cash holdings: Evidence from pension risk16
Financial liberalization and house prices: Evidence from China16
Can Real Options Explain the Skewness of Stock Returns?16
Reprint of: COVID-19, lockdowns, and the municipal bond market16
Social connections and bank deposits15
How much do boards learn about CEO ability in crises? Evidence from CEO turnover15
Chasing the ESG factor15
Personal income tax and corporate innovation: The key role of inventors’ financial incentives15
Bank regulation and supervision: A symbiotic relationship15
Demand for financial advice: Evidence from a randomized choice experiment15
Trust in Founders15
Stock market experience and investor overconfidence: Do investors learn to be overconfident?15
Industrial policy and asset prices: Evidence from the Made in China 2025 policy15
Board gender diversity and equity-based compensation15
Foreign bank lending during COVID-1915
Easing of borrower-based measures: Evidence from Czech loan-level data15
The tax shield increases the interest rate15
Blockholder board representation and debt contracting15
Have ratings become more accurate?15
Measuring the impact of changing deposit insurance coverage levels: Findings from Colombia14
Editorial Board14
Disclosure rules, controlling shareholders, and trading activity in the new issues market14
Personal bankruptcy and post-bankruptcy liquidity constraint14
Strategic supply management and mechanism choice in government debt auctions: An empirical analysis from the Philippines14
Distressed firms, zombie firms and zombie lending: A taxonomy14
Crowdedness, mispricing, crashes, and spikes14
Banking Market Structure and Trade Shocks14
Editorial Board14
The market impact of predictable flows: Evidence from leveraged VIX products14
Artificial intelligence and systemic risk14
Discretion in pay ratio estimation14
Editorial Board14
Editorial Board14
When school ties meet geography: Education-province bias in mutual fund portfolios14
Incentive contracting in the shadow of litigation risk: Evidence from universal demand laws13
Do internal capital markets in business groups mitigate firms' financial constraints?13
Leverage and the cost of capital for U.S. banks13
Vulnerable funding in the global economy13
What are reference rates for?13
Detecting political event risk in the option market13
IPO underpricing and limited attention: Theory and evidence13
Editorial Board13
Do intangibles matter for corporate policies? Evidence from organization capital and corporate payout choices13
How does corporate culture affect IPO price formation?13
The dynamics of non-performing loans during banking crises: A new database with post-COVID-19 implications13
A shrinkage approach for Sharpe ratio optimal portfolios with estimation risks13
The sources of value creation in acquisitions of intangible assets13
When expectations of implicit government guarantees diminished, do retail stock investors run away?13
Marginals versus copulas: Which account for more model risk in multivariate risk forecasting?13
Economic activity and the bank credit channel12
The Banker’s oath and financial advice12
The market for corporate control and firm information environment: Evidence from five decades of data12
Debt-stabilizing properties of GDP-linked securities: A macro-finance perspective12
Editorial Board12
Banking relationship, information reusability, and acquisition loans12
The capital gain lock-in effect and seasoned equity offerings12
Reprint of: Delegated asset management and performance when some investors are unsophisticated12
Is lending distance really changing? Distance dynamics and loan composition in small business lending12
Newswire tone-overlay commodity portfolios12
Short selling and product market competition12
Modeling and pricing credit risk with a focus on recovery risk12
COVID-19 and bank branch lending: The moderating effect of digitalization12
Coherent risk measures alone are ineffective in constraining portfolio losses12
How do bank-specific characteristics affect lending? New evidence based on credit registry data from Latin America12
Editorial Board12
Non-recourse mortgage law and housing speculation12
Political promotion incentives and banking supervision: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China12
The up side of being down: Depression and crowdsourced forecasts12
Does regulatory and supervisory independence affect financial stability?12
Post-crisis regulations, market making, and liquidity in over-the-counter markets12
When should retirees tap their home equity?12
In Memoria Giorgio and Emilia Szegő A special issue on institutions, risk measures, and portfolio optimization12
Fiduciary duty and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from corporate opportunity waiver11
Functional distance and bank loan pricing: Evidence from the opening of high-speed railway in China11
Do Hedge Funds Value Sell-Side Analysts Differently?11
Low interest rates and banks’ interest margins: Does belonging to a banking group matter?11
CEO relative age at school entry and corporate risk-taking11
The value of growth: Changes in profitability and future stock returns11
Double the insurance, double the funds?11
What drives the dispersion anomaly?11
Household willingness to take financial risk: Stockmarket movements and life‐cycle effects11
Assessing and mitigating fire sales risk under partial information11
Trust and local bias of individual investors11
Is bank misconduct related to social capital? Evidence from U.S. banks11
Regulatory and bailout decisions in a banking union11
Credit derivatives and corporate default prediction11
The impact of managerial myopia on cybersecurity: Evidence from data breaches11
Cybercrime on the ethereum blockchain11
Forecasting Value at Risk and expected shortfall using a model with a dynamic omega ratio11
Supply, demand, and risk premiums in electricity markets11
Longs, shorts, and the cross-section of stock returns11
Editorial Board11
Time is money: Real effects of relationship lending in a crisis11
Strategic repurchases and equity sales: Evidence from equity vesting schedules11
Editorial Board11
Enhanced momentum strategies11
Banks’ complexity-risk nexus and the role of regulation10
Insider trading regulation and shorting constraints. Evaluating the joint effects of two market interventions.10
Investor heterogeneity and the market for fund benchmarks: Evidence from passive ETFs10
Stock valuation during the COVID-19 pandemic: An explanation using option-based discount rates10
Risk and control in complex banking groups10
Impact of sovereign credit ratings on systemic risk and the moderating role of regulatory reforms: An international investigation10
Sustainable finance literacy and the determinants of sustainable investing10
Central bank policies and financial markets: Lessons from the euro crisis10
Financial misconduct and bank risk-taking: Evidence from US banks10
Does the geographical complexity of the Colombian financial conglomerates increase banks’ risk? The role of diversification, regulatory arbitrage, and funding costs10
A shadow rate without a lower bound constraint10
Uncertainty premia for small and large risks10
A stochastic model for predicting the response time of green vs brown stocks to climate change news risk10
Bank-specific capital requirements and capital management from 1989-2013: Further evidence from the UK10
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