OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Corporate Finance is 44. 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.)

Article	Citations
Peer-level analyst transitions	344
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	306
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	185
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance	176
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	176
Borrowing from government owned banks & firm's liquidation risk	145
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data	139
The internal labor markets of business groups	123
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	109
Imbalanced ESG investing?	109
Product market competition with CDS	106
Labor unions and real earnings management	101
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	96
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk	91
Managerial liability and corporate innovation: Evidence from a legal shock	91
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	87
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	87
The evolution of pay premiums for managerial attributes	86
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.	81
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	75
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	72
Credit ratings and acquisitions	72
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	70
Economic magnitudes within reason	68
Signaling through timing of stock splits	66

Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	66
How common are credit-less recoveries? Firm-level evidence on the role of financial markets in crisis recovery	65
Local product market competition and bank loans	63
Industry informational interactions and corporate fraud	62
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions	60
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	59
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	59
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	55
Customer concentration and M&A performance	55
Leggso: Financing experimentation	54
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency	53
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	50
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	48
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	48
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	47
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	47
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	46
Editorial Board	46
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	45
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk	44