OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Corporate Finance is 42. 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.)

Article	Citations
Product market competition with CDS	349
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data	191
Labor unions and real earnings management	156
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	126
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	119
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?	109
Imbalanced ESG investing?	96
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk	95
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	89
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	85
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance	85
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	80
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	78
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	76
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	76
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	74
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	69
Economic magnitudes within reason	66
Signaling through timing of stock splits	59
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	59
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	56
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions	56
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.	54
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?	54
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	54

Political uncertainty and institutional herding	51
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	50
Institutional voids and business group dynamics: Evidence from judicial reform in China	50
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk	50
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	50
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency	50
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts	48
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	48
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	48
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct	48
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	47
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	45
Editorial Board	45
Leggso: Financing experimentation	44
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?	44
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	43
Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme	43
Learning and staged equity financing	42
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	42
National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance	42