Journal of Empirical Finance

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Empirical Finance is 2. 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
Persistent and transient variance components in option pricing models with variance-dependent Kernel105
Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from JGTRRA102
Uncovered interest rate parity redux: Non-uniform effects86
Estimation and inference in low frequency factor model regressions with overlapping observations46
The effect of venture capital backing on innovation in newly public firms41
Dynamic relationship between Stock and Bond returns: A GAS MIDAS copula approach40
House price bubbles under the COVID-19 pandemic37
Timing is money: The factor timing ability of hedge fund managers35
Characteristic-sorted portfolios and macroeconomic risks—An orthogonal decomposition34
Using, taming or avoiding the factor zoo? A double-shrinkage estimator for covariance matrices33
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for stock investors? A regime-switching approach31
Bear factor and hedge fund performance31
Stock price movements: Evidence from global equity markets31
The stock market tips30
In search of retail investors: The effect of retail investor attention on odd lot trades30
A revisit to bias-adjusted predictive regression29
Forecasting Bitcoin realized volatility by exploiting measurement error under model uncertainty27
Changes in the electorate and firm values: Evidence from the introduction of female suffrage in Switzerland26
Exploring risk premium factors for country equity returns25
Executive compensation and aspirational peer benchmarking25
Climate change risk and green bond pricing23
Tariff uncertainty and firm innovation: Evidence from the U.S.–China Permanent Normal Trade Relation23
Customer–supplier relationships and non-linear financial policy response22
Tone or term: Machine-learning text analysis, featured vocabulary extraction, and evidence from bond pricing in China21
Forecasting stock returns with large dimensional factor models20
Partial moments and indexation investment strategies20
Identifying the underlying components of high-frequency data: Pure vs jump diffusion processes19
The correlated trading and investment performance of individual investors19
Is machine learning a necessity? A regression-based approach for stock return prediction19
Caught in the crossfire: How the threat of hedge fund activism affects creditors18
Modeling and forecasting dynamic conditional correlations with opening, high, low, and closing prices18
Decision-based trades: An analysis of institutional investors’ information advantages18
Regulatory fragmentation and corporate innovation17
The transformed Gram Charlier distribution: Parametric properties and financial risk applications16
Estimation with mixed data frequencies: A bias-correction approach16
Diversification in lottery-like features and portfolio pricing discount: Evidence from closed-end funds16
The anatomy of a fee change — evidence from cryptocurrency markets15
The impact of liquidity risk in the Chinese banking system on the global commodity markets15
Are stablecoins the money market mutual funds of the future?15
Smart beta, “smarter” flows14
Equity issues, creditor control and market timing patterns: Evidence from leverage decreasing recapitalizations14
Is idiosyncratic risk priced? The international evidence14
Easy money and competitive industries’ booms and busts13
The commodity risk premium and neural networks12
Firm-level political risk and corporate R&D investment12
Portfolio homogeneity and systemic risk of financial networks11
Is gold a hedge or a safe haven against stock markets? Evidence from conditional comoments11
Machine learning loss given default for corporate debt11
City goes dark: Dark trading and adverse selection in aggregate markets10
Technological shocks and stock market volatility over a century10
Margin-buying, short-selling, and stock valuation: Why is the effect reversed over time in China?10
Bitcoin unchained: Determinants of cryptocurrency exchange liquidity10
Ownership structure and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese corporate bond market10
Do fees matter? Investor’s sensitivity to active management fees10
Social connectedness and cross-border mergers and acquisitions10
Depositor responses to a banking crisis: Are finance professionals special?10
International comovement of r10
Short-term institutional investors and the diffusion of supply chain information10
Managerial ability and financial statement disaggregation decisions10
Forecasting financial volatility: An approach based on Parkinson volatility measure with long memory stochastic range model10
Trading activity and price discovery in Bitcoin futures markets10
Why Do U.S. Firms Invest Less over Time?9
What drives the TIPS–Treasury bond mispricing?9
Do firms use credit lines to support investment opportunities?: Evidence from success in R&D9
The AH premium: A tale of “siamese twin” stocks9
Information in unexpected bonus cuts: Firm performance and CEO firings9
Peer influence and the value of cash holdings9
Editorial Board8
Multiple testing of the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis across currencies8
The influence of long-term managerial orientation on pay inequality8
Certainty of uncertainty for asset pricing8
CEO personality traits and corporate value implication of acquisitions8
Deciphering big data in consumer credit evaluation8
Editorial Board8
Betting on success: Unveiling the role of local gambling culture in equity crowdfunding8
Small is beautiful? How the introduction of mini futures contracts affects the regular contracts7
Option gamma and stock returns7
Coskewness and reversal of momentum returns: The US and international evidence7
Tail risks and private equity performance7
Managerial commitment and heterogeneity in target-date funds7
Reserve holding and bank lending7
An adaptive long memory conditional correlation model7
Director optimism and CEO equity compensation7
Acute illness symptoms among investment professionals and stock market dynamics: Evidence from New York City7
Financial statement disaggregation and bank loan pricing7
The protective role of saving: Bayesian analysis of British panel data7
The value of risk-taking in mergers: Role of ownership and country legal institutions7
It is not just What you say, but How you say it: Why tonality matters in central bank communication7
Unveiling the villain: Credit supply and the debt trap7
Technology spillover, corporate investment, and stock returns7
Market neutrality and beta crashes7
Stock return prediction: Stacking a variety of models7
Does vega-neutral options trading contain information?6
How price limit affects the market efficiency in a short-sale constrained market? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment6
Skilled active liquidity management: Evidence from shocks to fund flows6
Forecasting realized betas using predictors indicating structural breaks and asymmetric risk effects6
Stock return predictability and cyclical movements in valuation ratios6
Follow the leader: Index tracking with factor models6
Can we forecast better in periods of low uncertainty? The role of technical indicators6
Equity markets volatility clustering: A multiscale analysis of intraday and overnight returns6
CEO neuroticism and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from CEOs’ tweets6
Trading the foreign exchange market with technical analysis and Bayesian Statistics6
Organization capital and analyst coverage6
Effects of customer unionization on supplier relationships and supplier value6
Stochastic volatility: A tale of co-jumps, non-normality, GMM and high frequency data6
Local predictability of stock returns and cash flows6
The effects of economic uncertainty on financial volatility: A comprehensive investigation6
The role of bad-news coverage and media environments in crash risk around the world6
Forecasting realized volatility: Does anything beat linear models?6
Dynamic risk management and asset comovement6
The battle between activist hedge funds and labor unions6
Mispricing chasing and hedge fund returns6
Editorial Board6
The aftermath of covenant violations: Evidence from China's corporate debt securities6
Volatility cascades in cryptocurrency trading6
Endogeneity in the mutual fund flow–performance relationship: An instrumental variables solution6
The economic value of equity implied volatility forecasting with machine learning6
Bank stocks, risk factors, and tail behavior5
The effects of banking market structure on corporate cash holdings and the value of cash5
The risk–return tradeoff among equity factors5
Limit order revisions across investor sophistication5
Implied local volatility models5
Whose money is smart? Individual and institutional investors’ trades based on analyst recommendations5
Policy risk and insider trading5
Macroeconomic news and price synchronicity5
Credit distortions in Japanese momentum5
Editorial Board5
How does bank opacity affect credit growth and return predictability?5
Empirical analysis of crude oil dynamics using affine vs. non-affine jump-diffusion models5
An empirical application of Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo to frailty correlated default models5
Big portfolio selection by graph-based conditional moments method5
(In)Attention: Distracted Shareholders and Corporate Innovation5
Editorial Board5
Option valuation via nonaffine dynamics with realized volatility5
Time series momentum and reversal: Intraday information from realized semivariance5
Is convexity efficiently priced? Evidence from international swap markets5
Income, trading, and performance: Evidence from retail investors4
Forecasting intraday market risk: A marked self-exciting point process with exogenous renewals4
Testing predictability of stock returns under possible bubbles4
Diversity and inclusion: Evidence from corporate inventors4
US cross-listing and domestic high-frequency trading: Evidence from Canadian stocks4
Risk optimizations on basis portfolios: The role of sorting4
Industry regulation and the comovement of stock returns4
Herding behavior and systemic risk in global stock markets4
The informativeness of regional GDP announcements: Evidence from China4
Monitoring institutional ownership and corporate innovation4
Can existing corporate finance theories explain security offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic?4
Why do firms with no leverage still have leverage and volatility feedback effects?4
Automated stock picking using random forests4
Global political risk and international stock returns4
Predicting corporate policies using downside risk: A machine learning approach3
Jump tail risk exposure and the cross-section of stock returns3
The contributions of betas versus characteristics to the ESG premium3
A financial modeling approach to industry exchange-traded funds selection3
Enhancing betting against beta with stochastic dominance3
Combining the MGHyp distribution with nonlinear shrinkage in modeling financial asset returns3
The contribution of jump signs and activity to forecasting stock price volatility3
Disagreement, speculation, and the idiosyncratic volatility3
The price discovery role of day traders in futures market: Evidence from different types of day traders3
Allocation of attention and the delayed reaction of stock returns to liquidity shock: Global evidence3
Stock price fragility and the cost of bank loans3
Smoking hot portfolios? Trading behavior, investment biases, and self-control failure3
Editorial Board3
The rise of venture capital and IPO quality3
US risk premia under emerging markets constraints3
A jumping index of jumping stocks? An MCMC analysis of continuous-time models for individual stocks3
Development banks and the syndicate structure: Evidence from a world sample3
The PhD origins of finance faculty3
Capital mobility and the long-run return–risk trade-offs of industry portfolios3
Cross-border M&As and credit risk: Evidence from the CDS market3
Horizontal mergers and heterogeneous firm investments: evidence from the United States3
Geographical proximity, cultural familiarity and financial information production3
Income inequality, inflation and financial development3
Co-illiquidity management3
Expected returns and risk in the stock market3
When “time varying” volatility meets “transaction cost” in portfolio selection3
What drives robo-advice?3
Forecasting realized volatility with wavelet decomposition2
To be or not to be all-equity for firms that eliminate long-term debt2
Editorial Board2
Natural disasters and the role of regional lenders in economic recovery2
The effect of investor attention on stock price crash risk2
Maximum likelihood estimation of the Hull–White model2
Corporate social responsibility and excess perks2
Do leveraged warrants prompt individuals to speculate on stock price reversals?2
Reinforcement learning and risk preference in equity linked notes markets2
The 2008 short-selling ban’s impact on tail risk2
Geographic diversification and corporate cash holdings2
Does the executive labor market discipline? Labor market incentives and earnings management2
Forecasting earnings with combination of analyst forecasts2
Conditional out-of-sample predictability of aggregate equity returns and aggregate equity return volatility using economic variables2
Household portfolio allocation, uncertainty, and risk2
Overlapping momentum portfolios2
Expensive anomalies2
Detecting jumps amidst prevalent zero returns: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury securities2
Government Affiliation and Peer-To-Peer Lending Platforms in China2
The money-inflation nexus revisited2
Carbon dioxide and asset pricing: Evidence from international stock markets2
The pricing of jump and diffusive risks in the cross-section of cryptocurrency returns2
Inverted vs maker-taker routing choice and trader information2
Maxing out short-term reversals in weekly stock returns2
Financial risk-taking, religiosity and denomination heterogeneity2
Do share repurchases facilitate movement toward target capital structure? International evidence2
Factor correlation and the cross section of asset returns: A correlation-robust machine learning approach2
Religiosity and sovereign credit quality2
Product competition, political connections, and the costs of high leverage2
Running a mutual fund: Performance and trading behavior of runner managers2
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