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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bear factor and hedge fund performance48
Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from JGTRRA47
Persistent and transient variance components in option pricing models with variance-dependent Kernel47
The effect of venture capital backing on innovation in newly public firms46
On the profitability of influential carry-trade strategies: Data-snooping bias and post-publication performance46
Using, taming or avoiding the factor zoo? A double-shrinkage estimator for covariance matrices46
Public data openness and trade credit: Evidence from China43
Dynamic relationship between Stock and Bond returns: A GAS MIDAS copula approach43
House price bubbles under the COVID-19 pandemic42
Estimation and inference in low frequency factor model regressions with overlapping observations42
The stock return predictability of treasury bond yield in China39
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for stock investors? A regime-switching approach35
A revisit to bias-adjusted predictive regression34
High frequency online inflation and term structure of interest rates: Evidence from China30
Editorial Board28
Customer–supplier relationships and non-linear financial policy response28
Changes in the electorate and firm values: Evidence from the introduction of female suffrage in Switzerland24
Back to the future: Revival of behavioral explanations for long-term return reversals24
Stock price movements: Evidence from global equity markets24
The real effects of AI: Evidence from corporate investment efficiency23
Identifying excessive spread dispersion in the euro area: When do sovereign spreads go beyond fundamentals?23
Climate change risk and green bond pricing23
Tone or term: Machine-learning text analysis, featured vocabulary extraction, and evidence from bond pricing in China22
Identifying the underlying components of high-frequency data: Pure vs jump diffusion processes22
The correlated trading and investment performance of individual investors21
Decision-based trades: An analysis of institutional investors’ information advantages19
Peer effects in financial expectations18
Realized, expected and unexpected returns in asset pricing tests18
Is this time different? Reconsidering inflation hedged portfolios through community detection and fuzzy network18
Deep learning, predictability, and optimal portfolio returns18
Is machine learning a necessity? A regression-based approach for stock return prediction18
Modeling and forecasting dynamic conditional correlations with opening, high, low, and closing prices17
Estimation with mixed data frequencies: A bias-correction approach17
Regulatory fragmentation and corporate innovation17
Information salience, investor attention, and stock price crash risk17
The commodity risk premium and neural networks16
Are stablecoins the money market mutual funds of the future?16
Is gold a hedge or a safe haven against stock markets? Evidence from conditional comoments16
Easy money and competitive industries’ booms and busts16
A robust latent factor model for high-dimensional portfolio selection16
Smart beta, “smarter” flows16
Firm-level political risk and corporate R&D investment16
Portfolio homogeneity and systemic risk of financial networks15
Why does the Cochrane–Piazzesi model predict treasury returns?14
Do fees matter? Investor’s sensitivity to active management fees14
Short-term institutional investors and the diffusion of supply chain information13
Margin-buying, short-selling, and stock valuation: Why is the effect reversed over time in China?13
Bitcoin unchained: Determinants of cryptocurrency exchange liquidity13
International comovement of r13
Improving information leadership share for measuring price discovery13
Managerial ability and financial statement disaggregation decisions12
Ownership structure and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese corporate bond market12
Does a sudden breakdown in public information search impair analyst forecast accuracy? Evidence from China12
Forecasting financial volatility: An approach based on Parkinson volatility measure with long memory stochastic range model12
Technological shocks and stock market volatility over a century12
Social connectedness and cross-border mergers and acquisitions12
Insider trading and anomalies11
Why Do U.S. Firms Invest Less over Time?11
Do firms use credit lines to support investment opportunities?: Evidence from success in R&D11
What drives the TIPS–Treasury bond mispricing?11
The influence of long-term managerial orientation on pay inequality11
Unlocking predictive potential: The frequency-domain approach to equity premium forecasting11
Information in unexpected bonus cuts: Firm performance and CEO firings11
Editorial Board10
The origins and impacts of uncertainty: New evidence from a TVP-VAR extended joint connectedness approach10
Multiple testing of the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis across currencies10
Peer influence and the value of cash holdings10
Editorial Board10
The AH premium: A tale of “siamese twin” stocks10
Mutual fund performance and flow-performance relationship under ambiguity9
CEO personality traits and corporate value implication of acquisitions9
Betting on success: Unveiling the role of local gambling culture in equity crowdfunding9
Acute illness symptoms among investment professionals and stock market dynamics: Evidence from New York City9
Certainty of uncertainty for asset pricing9
Reserve holding and bank lending9
Factor pricing across asset classes9
Editorial Board8
Tail risks and private equity performance8
Financial statement disaggregation and bank loan pricing8
Household debt overhang and bankruptcy abuse prevention8
Managerial commitment and heterogeneity in target-date funds8
Don’t draw the downs apart: How to best simulate asset price drawdowns8
Technology spillover, corporate investment, and stock returns8
Market neutrality and beta crashes8
Editorial Board8
Unveiling the villain: Credit supply and the debt trap8
Spotlight on the neighborhood: The spillover effect of IPOs on retail investor attention8
Risk-based peer networks and return predictability: Evidence from textual analysis on 10-K filings8
Director optimism and CEO equity compensation7
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
An adaptive long memory conditional correlation model7
Option gamma and stock returns7
Coskewness and reversal of momentum returns: The US and international evidence7
Option-implied variance asymmetry and stock market returns7
Editorial Board7
The battle between activist hedge funds and labor unions6
Organization capital and analyst coverage6
Effects of customer unionization on supplier relationships and supplier value6
Local predictability of stock returns and cash flows6
How price limit affects the market efficiency in a short-sale constrained market? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment6
Forecasting realized betas using predictors indicating structural breaks and asymmetric risk effects6
The aftermath of covenant violations: Evidence from China's corporate debt securities6
Strategic implications of corporate disclosure via Twitter6
Mispricing chasing and hedge fund returns6
Skilled active liquidity management: Evidence from shocks to fund flows6
Equity markets volatility clustering: A multiscale analysis of intraday and overnight returns5
Trust and momentum: International evidence5
The role of bad-news coverage and media environments in crash risk around the world5
The economic value of equity implied volatility forecasting with machine learning5
Credit distortions in Japanese momentum5
Bank dividends, interest expenses, and leverage5
Salience theory and cross-sectional corporate bond returns5
CEO neuroticism and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from CEOs’ tweets5
Forecasting realized volatility: Does anything beat linear models?5
Empirical analysis of crude oil dynamics using affine vs. non-affine jump-diffusion models5
Behavioral biases, information frictions and interest rate expectations5
Sparse heterogeneous auto-regressive model for volatility forecasting5
Stock return predictability and cyclical movements in valuation ratios5
The effects of economic uncertainty on financial volatility: A comprehensive investigation5
The effects of banking market structure on corporate cash holdings and the value of cash5
Can we forecast better in periods of low uncertainty? The role of technical indicators5
The risk–return tradeoff among equity factors4
Positivity and long-lasting momentum4
Industry regulation and the comovement of stock returns4
Are the stylized features of stock returns the same in market downturns and upturns?4
(In)Attention: distracted shareholders and corporate innovation4
Implied local volatility models4
Big portfolio selection by graph-based conditional moments method4
Media, inventors, and corporate innovation4
Testing predictability of stock returns under possible bubbles4
Automated stock picking using random forests4
Why do firms with no leverage still have leverage and volatility feedback effects?4
An empirical application of Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo to frailty correlated default models4
Policy risk and insider trading4
Option valuation via nonaffine dynamics with realized volatility4
Macroeconomic news and price synchronicity4
Can existing corporate finance theories explain security offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic?4
Investors awaken: Fragility in China’s wealth management product market4
How does bank opacity affect credit growth and return predictability?4
Limit order revisions across investor sophistication4
Time series momentum and reversal: Intraday information from realized semivariance4
Global political risk and international stock returns3
Enhancing betting against beta with stochastic dominance3
Editorial Board3
Machine learning for realised volatility forecasting3
Cross-market volatility forecasting with attention-based spatial–temporal graph convolutional networks3
A jumping index of jumping stocks? An MCMC analysis of continuous-time models for individual stocks3
US cross-listing and domestic high-frequency trading: Evidence from Canadian stocks3
Tick size and firm financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment3
The veracity of insider trading signals in financially distressed firms3
Co-illiquidity management3
What drives retail investors’ overconfidence? The role of information acquisition costs3
Forecasting intraday market risk: A marked self-exciting point process with exogenous renewals3
When “time varying” volatility meets “transaction cost” in portfolio selection3
The contributions of betas versus characteristics to the ESG premium3
Measuring daily systemic risk with intraday data: Evidence from foreign exchange market3
The free dividend fallacy in the Chinese stock market: Evidence from stock pricing behavior around ex-dividend day3
Income inequality, inflation and financial development3
A financial modeling approach to industry exchange-traded funds selection3
The contribution of jump signs and activity to forecasting stock price volatility3
The rise of venture capital and IPO quality3
Monitoring institutional ownership and corporate innovation3
Unlocking stability: Corporate site visits and information disclosure3
Herding behavior and systemic risk in global stock markets3
Default-probability-implied credit ratings for Chinese firms3
Disagreement, speculation, and the idiosyncratic volatility3
Geographical proximity, cultural familiarity and financial information production3
Expected returns and risk in the stock market3
Momentum is still there conditional on volatility-amplified pessimism3
Combining the MGHyp distribution with nonlinear shrinkage in modeling financial asset returns3
Allocation of attention and the delayed reaction of stock returns to liquidity shock: Global evidence2
Economic conditions and portfolio tail risk: A probability-weighted simulation approach2
Horizontal mergers and heterogeneous firm investments: evidence from the United States2
Volatility and jumps in the Chinese Yuan using Gumbel distribution during the trade war and COVID-19 pandemic2
Detecting jumps amidst prevalent zero returns: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury securities2
Economic aggregation of return signals in global markets2
The impact of series investment companies on mutual fund attributes2
Do investors reach for yield? Evidence from corporate bond mutual fund flows2
Capital mobility and the long-run return–risk trade-offs of industry portfolios2
Prospect theory and stock price behavior in retail trading booms2
Jump tail risk exposure and the cross-section of stock returns2
Running a mutual fund: Performance and trading behavior of runner managers2
Corporate social responsibility and excess perks2
Overlapping momentum portfolios2
Carbon dioxide and asset pricing: Evidence from international stock markets2
The PhD origins of finance faculty2
What drives robo-advice?2
Religiosity and sovereign credit quality2
Product competition, political connections, and the costs of high leverage2
Factor correlation and the cross section of asset returns: A correlation-robust machine learning approach2
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