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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Persistent and transient variance components in option pricing models with variance-dependent Kernel110
Mispricing and Anomalies: An Exogenous Shock to Short Selling from JGTRRA104
Uncovered interest rate parity redux: Non-uniform effects93
Estimation and inference in low frequency factor model regressions with overlapping observations41
The effect of venture capital backing on innovation in newly public firms38
Using, taming or avoiding the factor zoo? A double-shrinkage estimator for covariance matrices35
Characteristic-sorted portfolios and macroeconomic risks—An orthogonal decomposition35
Bear factor and hedge fund performance33
House price bubbles under the COVID-19 pandemic33
Dynamic relationship between Stock and Bond returns: A GAS MIDAS copula approach32
On the profitability of influential carry-trade strategies: Data-snooping bias and post-publication performance31
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for stock investors? A regime-switching approach30
Stock price movements: Evidence from global equity markets29
The stock market tips29
Climate change risk and green bond pricing28
A revisit to bias-adjusted predictive regression25
Customer–supplier relationships and non-linear financial policy response24
Exploring risk premium factors for country equity returns24
Changes in the electorate and firm values: Evidence from the introduction of female suffrage in Switzerland24
Partial moments and indexation investment strategies23
Identifying the underlying components of high-frequency data: Pure vs jump diffusion processes22
Forecasting stock returns with large dimensional factor models20
Tone or term: Machine-learning text analysis, featured vocabulary extraction, and evidence from bond pricing in China19
The correlated trading and investment performance of individual investors18
Caught in the crossfire: How the threat of hedge fund activism affects creditors18
Regulatory fragmentation and corporate innovation16
Decision-based trades: An analysis of institutional investors’ information advantages16
Estimation with mixed data frequencies: A bias-correction approach15
Is machine learning a necessity? A regression-based approach for stock return prediction15
Modeling and forecasting dynamic conditional correlations with opening, high, low, and closing prices15
The impact of liquidity risk in the Chinese banking system on the global commodity markets14
The transformed Gram Charlier distribution: Parametric properties and financial risk applications14
Smart beta, “smarter” flows13
The anatomy of a fee change — evidence from cryptocurrency markets13
Is gold a hedge or a safe haven against stock markets? Evidence from conditional comoments13
Are stablecoins the money market mutual funds of the future?13
Is idiosyncratic risk priced? The international evidence12
Equity issues, creditor control and market timing patterns: Evidence from leverage decreasing recapitalizations12
Firm-level political risk and corporate R&D investment12
Easy money and competitive industries’ booms and busts12
Short-term institutional investors and the diffusion of supply chain information11
Portfolio homogeneity and systemic risk of financial networks11
Margin-buying, short-selling, and stock valuation: Why is the effect reversed over time in China?11
Do fees matter? Investor’s sensitivity to active management fees11
The commodity risk premium and neural networks11
Technological shocks and stock market volatility over a century11
Social connectedness and cross-border mergers and acquisitions11
Managerial ability and financial statement disaggregation decisions10
Bitcoin unchained: Determinants of cryptocurrency exchange liquidity10
City goes dark: Dark trading and adverse selection in aggregate markets10
Depositor responses to a banking crisis: Are finance professionals special?10
Ownership structure and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese corporate bond market10
Machine learning loss given default for corporate debt10
Forecasting financial volatility: An approach based on Parkinson volatility measure with long memory stochastic range model10
Peer influence and the value of cash holdings10
International comovement of r10
Information in unexpected bonus cuts: Firm performance and CEO firings9
Editorial Board9
The AH premium: A tale of “siamese twin” stocks9
Do firms use credit lines to support investment opportunities?: Evidence from success in R&D9
Editorial Board9
What drives the TIPS–Treasury bond mispricing?9
Why Do U.S. Firms Invest Less over Time?9
The influence of long-term managerial orientation on pay inequality9
CEO personality traits and corporate value implication of acquisitions8
Unveiling the villain: Credit supply and the debt trap8
Managerial commitment and heterogeneity in target-date funds8
Technology spillover, corporate investment, and stock returns8
Certainty of uncertainty for asset pricing8
Multiple testing of the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis across currencies8
Financial statement disaggregation and bank loan pricing8
Betting on success: Unveiling the role of local gambling culture in equity crowdfunding8
Acute illness symptoms among investment professionals and stock market dynamics: Evidence from New York City8
Reserve holding and bank lending8
Tail risks and private equity performance8
Coskewness and reversal of momentum returns: The US and international evidence7
Forecasting realized betas using predictors indicating structural breaks and asymmetric risk effects7
The aftermath of covenant violations: Evidence from China's corporate debt securities7
The protective role of saving: Bayesian analysis of British panel data7
It is not just What you say, but How you say it: Why tonality matters in central bank communication7
Stock return prediction: Stacking a variety of models7
Skilled active liquidity management: Evidence from shocks to fund flows7
The value of risk-taking in mergers: Role of ownership and country legal institutions7
Option gamma and stock returns7
Director optimism and CEO equity compensation7
Small is beautiful? How the introduction of mini futures contracts affects the regular contracts7
Editorial Board7
Effects of customer unionization on supplier relationships and supplier value7
Market neutrality and beta crashes7
An adaptive long memory conditional correlation model7
How price limit affects the market efficiency in a short-sale constrained market? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment6
Mispricing chasing and hedge fund returns6
Local predictability of stock returns and cash flows6
Equity markets volatility clustering: A multiscale analysis of intraday and overnight returns6
Implied local volatility models6
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
Follow the leader: Index tracking with factor models6
Organization capital and analyst coverage6
The battle between activist hedge funds and labor unions6
Dynamic risk management and asset comovement6
Endogeneity in the mutual fund flow–performance relationship: An instrumental variables solution6
Option valuation via nonaffine dynamics with realized volatility6
Forecasting realized volatility: Does anything beat linear models?6
CEO neuroticism and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from CEOs’ tweets6
Trading the foreign exchange market with technical analysis and Bayesian Statistics6
The economic value of equity implied volatility forecasting with machine learning6
Stochastic volatility: A tale of co-jumps, non-normality, GMM and high frequency data6
How does bank opacity affect credit growth and return predictability?6
Empirical analysis of crude oil dynamics using affine vs. non-affine jump-diffusion models6
Can we forecast better in periods of low uncertainty? The role of technical indicators6
Stock return predictability and cyclical movements in valuation ratios6
Policy risk and insider trading5
Big portfolio selection by graph-based conditional moments method5
The effects of banking market structure on corporate cash holdings and the value of cash5
Risk optimizations on basis portfolios: The role of sorting5
Why do firms with no leverage still have leverage and volatility feedback effects?5
Bank stocks, risk factors, and tail behavior5
The risk–return tradeoff among equity factors5
Credit distortions in Japanese momentum5
An empirical application of Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo to frailty correlated default models5
Can existing corporate finance theories explain security offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic?5
Limit order revisions across investor sophistication5
Is convexity efficiently priced? Evidence from international swap markets5
Macroeconomic news and price synchronicity5
Time series momentum and reversal: Intraday information from realized semivariance5
Editorial Board5
Forecasting intraday market risk: A marked self-exciting point process with exogenous renewals5
Income, trading, and performance: Evidence from retail investors4
Automated stock picking using random forests4
Expected returns and risk in the stock market4
When “time varying” volatility meets “transaction cost” in portfolio selection4
The contribution of jump signs and activity to forecasting stock price volatility4
Monitoring institutional ownership and corporate innovation4
Industry regulation and the comovement of stock returns4
US cross-listing and domestic high-frequency trading: Evidence from Canadian stocks4
US risk premia under emerging markets constraints4
Enhancing betting against beta with stochastic dominance4
Global political risk and international stock returns4
The informativeness of regional GDP announcements: Evidence from China4
Testing predictability of stock returns under possible bubbles4
The rise of venture capital and IPO quality4
Combining the MGHyp distribution with nonlinear shrinkage in modeling financial asset returns4
Editorial Board4
Diversity and inclusion: Evidence from corporate inventors4
Development banks and the syndicate structure: Evidence from a world sample3
Disagreement, speculation, and the idiosyncratic volatility3
Herding behavior and systemic risk in global stock markets3
The contributions of betas versus characteristics to the ESG premium3
Jump tail risk exposure and the cross-section of stock returns3
Cross-border M&As and credit risk: Evidence from the CDS market3
Reinforcement learning and risk preference in equity linked notes markets3
Stock price fragility and the cost of bank loans3
The PhD origins of finance faculty3
Smoking hot portfolios? Trading behavior, investment biases, and self-control failure3
A jumping index of jumping stocks? An MCMC analysis of continuous-time models for individual stocks3
Income inequality, inflation and financial development3
Geographical proximity, cultural familiarity and financial information production3
Horizontal mergers and heterogeneous firm investments: evidence from the United States3
Carbon dioxide and asset pricing: Evidence from international stock markets3
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
Predicting corporate policies using downside risk: A machine learning approach3
Cross-market volatility forecasting with attention-based spatial-temporal graph convolutional networks3
A financial modeling approach to industry exchange-traded funds selection3
Co-illiquidity management3
What drives robo-advice?3
Running a mutual fund: Performance and trading behavior of runner managers3
Religiosity and sovereign credit quality3
Product competition, political connections, and the costs of high leverage3
Capital mobility and the long-run return–risk trade-offs of industry portfolios3
Factor correlation and the cross section of asset returns: A correlation-robust machine learning approach2
To be or not to be all-equity for firms that eliminate long-term debt2
Forecasting realized volatility with wavelet decomposition2
Forecasting multivariate volatilities with exogenous predictors: An application to industry diversification strategies2
Forecasting earnings with combination of analyst forecasts2
Maximum likelihood estimation of the Hull–White model2
The money-inflation nexus revisited2
Maxing out short-term reversals in weekly stock returns2
Expensive anomalies2
Editorial Board2
Conditional out-of-sample predictability of aggregate equity returns and aggregate equity return volatility using economic variables2
The pricing of jump and diffusive risks in the cross-section of cryptocurrency returns2
Detecting jumps amidst prevalent zero returns: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury securities2
Coreversal: The booms and busts of arbitrage activities in China2
CEO networks and the labor market for directors2
Household portfolio allocation, uncertainty, and risk2
Overlapping momentum portfolios2
Corporate social responsibility and excess perks2
The effect of investor attention on stock price crash risk2
Do share repurchases facilitate movement toward target capital structure? International evidence2
Financial risk-taking, religiosity and denomination heterogeneity2
Geographic diversification and corporate cash holdings2
Portfolio optimization with estimation errors—A robust linear regression approach2
The 2008 short-selling ban’s impact on tail risk2
Natural disasters and the role of regional lenders in economic recovery2
Do leveraged warrants prompt individuals to speculate on stock price reversals?2
Inverted vs maker-taker routing choice and trader information2
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