Journal of Empirical Finance

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Empirical Finance is 3. 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
Persistent and transient variance components in option pricing models with variance-dependent Kernel113
Uncovered interest rate parity redux: Non-uniform effects45
House price bubbles under the COVID-19 pandemic40
Characteristic-sorted portfolios and macroeconomic risks—An orthogonal decomposition40
Using, taming or avoiding the factor zoo? A double-shrinkage estimator for covariance matrices38
The effect of venture capital backing on innovation in newly public firms38
Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from JGTRRA36
Dynamic relationship between Stock and Bond returns: A GAS MIDAS copula approach35
Public data openness and trade credit: Evidence from China35
On the profitability of influential carry-trade strategies: Data-snooping bias and post-publication performance35
Bear factor and hedge fund performance34
Estimation and inference in low frequency factor model regressions with overlapping observations32
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for stock investors? A regime-switching approach31
A revisit to bias-adjusted predictive regression30
High frequency online inflation and term structure of interest rates: Evidence from China27
Climate change risk and green bond pricing24
The stock market tips22
Changes in the electorate and firm values: Evidence from the introduction of female suffrage in Switzerland20
Stock price movements: Evidence from global equity markets19
Partial moments and indexation investment strategies17
Customer–supplier relationships and non-linear financial policy response17
Identifying the underlying components of high-frequency data: Pure vs jump diffusion processes17
The correlated trading and investment performance of individual investors16
Decision-based trades: An analysis of institutional investors’ information advantages16
Tone or term: Machine-learning text analysis, featured vocabulary extraction, and evidence from bond pricing in China16
Is machine learning a necessity? A regression-based approach for stock return prediction16
Regulatory fragmentation and corporate innovation15
Smart beta, “smarter” flows14
Modeling and forecasting dynamic conditional correlations with opening, high, low, and closing prices14
Caught in the crossfire: How the threat of hedge fund activism affects creditors14
Are stablecoins the money market mutual funds of the future?14
The commodity risk premium and neural networks13
Is idiosyncratic risk priced? The international evidence13
A robust latent factor model for high-dimensional portfolio selection13
Firm-level political risk and corporate R&D investment12
The anatomy of a fee change — evidence from cryptocurrency markets12
Equity issues, creditor control and market timing patterns: Evidence from leverage decreasing recapitalizations12
Is gold a hedge or a safe haven against stock markets? Evidence from conditional comoments12
The impact of liquidity risk in the Chinese banking system on the global commodity markets12
Estimation with mixed data frequencies: A bias-correction approach12
Easy money and competitive industries’ booms and busts12
Portfolio homogeneity and systemic risk of financial networks12
Technological shocks and stock market volatility over a century11
Bitcoin unchained: Determinants of cryptocurrency exchange liquidity11
Depositor responses to a banking crisis: Are finance professionals special?11
Short-term institutional investors and the diffusion of supply chain information11
Does a sudden breakdown in public information search impair analyst forecast accuracy? Evidence from China11
City goes dark: Dark trading and adverse selection in aggregate markets11
Managerial ability and financial statement disaggregation decisions11
Do fees matter? Investor’s sensitivity to active management fees11
Forecasting financial volatility: An approach based on Parkinson volatility measure with long memory stochastic range model11
Machine learning loss given default for corporate debt11
Improving information leadership share for measuring price discovery11
International comovement of r10
The AH premium: A tale of “siamese twin” stocks10
Why Do U.S. Firms Invest Less over Time?10
Margin-buying, short-selling, and stock valuation: Why is the effect reversed over time in China?10
Social connectedness and cross-border mergers and acquisitions10
Information in unexpected bonus cuts: Firm performance and CEO firings10
Ownership structure and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese corporate bond market10
The influence of long-term managerial orientation on pay inequality10
Unlocking predictive potential: The frequency-domain approach to equity premium forecasting10
Editorial Board9
Do firms use credit lines to support investment opportunities?: Evidence from success in R&D9
Multiple testing of the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis across currencies9
Peer influence and the value of cash holdings9
Betting on success: Unveiling the role of local gambling culture in equity crowdfunding9
Editorial Board9
What drives the TIPS–Treasury bond mispricing?9
CEO personality traits and corporate value implication of acquisitions8
Financial statement disaggregation and bank loan pricing8
Acute illness symptoms among investment professionals and stock market dynamics: Evidence from New York City8
Coskewness and reversal of momentum returns: The US and international evidence8
Technology spillover, corporate investment, and stock returns8
Managerial commitment and heterogeneity in target-date funds8
Reserve holding and bank lending8
Tail risks and private equity performance8
Unveiling the villain: Credit supply and the debt trap8
Certainty of uncertainty for asset pricing8
Market neutrality and beta crashes8
The value of risk-taking in mergers: Role of ownership and country legal institutions8
Strategic implications of corporate disclosure via Twitter7
Option gamma and stock returns7
Stock return prediction: Stacking a variety of models7
Effects of customer unionization on supplier relationships and supplier value7
Mispricing chasing and hedge fund returns7
Small is beautiful? How the introduction of mini futures contracts affects the regular contracts7
Editorial Board7
Director optimism and CEO equity compensation7
It is not just What you say, but How you say it: Why tonality matters in central bank communication7
Forecasting realized betas using predictors indicating structural breaks and asymmetric risk effects7
The battle between activist hedge funds and labor unions7
An adaptive long memory conditional correlation model7
Household Debt Overhang and Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention7
Local predictability of stock returns and cash flows7
The aftermath of covenant violations: Evidence from China's corporate debt securities7
The economic value of equity implied volatility forecasting with machine learning6
Organization capital and analyst coverage6
Stock return predictability and cyclical movements in valuation ratios6
Bank dividends, interest expenses, and leverage6
Dynamic risk management and asset comovement6
The role of bad-news coverage and media environments in crash risk around the world6
Skilled active liquidity management: Evidence from shocks to fund flows6
CEO neuroticism and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from CEOs’ tweets6
Stochastic volatility: A tale of co-jumps, non-normality, GMM and high frequency data6
Forecasting realized volatility: Does anything beat linear models?6
The effects of economic uncertainty on financial volatility: A comprehensive investigation6
How price limit affects the market efficiency in a short-sale constrained market? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment6
Behavioral biases, information frictions and interest rate expectations6
Follow the leader: Index tracking with factor models6
Equity markets volatility clustering: A multiscale analysis of intraday and overnight returns6
Endogeneity in the mutual fund flow–performance relationship: An instrumental variables solution6
How does bank opacity affect credit growth and return predictability?5
Implied local volatility models5
Credit distortions in Japanese momentum5
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
(In)Attention: distracted shareholders and corporate innovation5
An empirical application of Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo to frailty correlated default models5
Big portfolio selection by graph-based conditional moments method5
Option valuation via nonaffine dynamics with realized volatility5
The risk–return tradeoff among equity factors5
Limit order revisions across investor sophistication5
Income, trading, and performance: Evidence from retail investors4
Editorial Board4
Macroeconomic news and price synchronicity4
Can existing corporate finance theories explain security offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic?4
Industry regulation and the comovement of stock returns4
Forecasting intraday market risk: A marked self-exciting point process with exogenous renewals4
Global political risk and international stock returns4
Combining the MGHyp distribution with nonlinear shrinkage in modeling financial asset returns4
Automated stock picking using random forests4
Empirical analysis of crude oil dynamics using affine vs. non-affine jump-diffusion models4
Why do firms with no leverage still have leverage and volatility feedback effects?4
The informativeness of regional GDP announcements: Evidence from China4
Diversity and inclusion: Evidence from corporate inventors4
The rise of venture capital and IPO quality4
Testing predictability of stock returns under possible bubbles4
Policy risk and insider trading4
Time series momentum and reversal: Intraday information from realized semivariance4
Editorial Board4
Monitoring institutional ownership and corporate innovation4
A jumping index of jumping stocks? An MCMC analysis of continuous-time models for individual stocks3
Carbon dioxide and asset pricing: Evidence from international stock markets3
Reinforcement learning and risk preference in equity linked notes markets3
Cross-border M&As and credit risk: Evidence from the CDS market3
Product competition, political connections, and the costs of high leverage3
Do investors reach for yield? Evidence from corporate bond mutual fund flows3
Religiosity and sovereign credit quality3
Cross-market volatility forecasting with attention-based spatial–temporal graph convolutional networks3
Income inequality, inflation and financial development3
Enhancing betting against beta with stochastic dominance3
US cross-listing and domestic high-frequency trading: Evidence from Canadian stocks3
The contribution of jump signs and activity to forecasting stock price volatility3
What drives robo-advice?3
A financial modeling approach to industry exchange-traded funds selection3
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
Jump tail risk exposure and the cross-section of stock returns3
Herding behavior and systemic risk in global stock markets3
Default-probability-implied credit ratings for Chinese firms3
Co-illiquidity management3
US risk premia under emerging markets constraints3
Tick size and firm financing decisions: Evidence from a natural experiment3
Development banks and the syndicate structure: Evidence from a world sample3
Factor correlation and the cross section of asset returns: A correlation-robust machine learning approach3
The PhD origins of finance faculty3
Horizontal mergers and heterogeneous firm investments: evidence from the United States3
Capital mobility and the long-run return–risk trade-offs of industry portfolios3
The contributions of betas versus characteristics to the ESG premium3
Disagreement, speculation, and the idiosyncratic volatility3
Geographical proximity, cultural familiarity and financial information production3
Expected returns and risk in the stock market3
When “time varying” volatility meets “transaction cost” in portfolio selection3
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