Journal of Corporate Finance

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Corporate Finance is 46. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Product market competition with CDS313
Peer-level analyst transitions309
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale292
Which buy-side institutions participate in public earnings conference calls? Implications for capital markets and sell-side coverage174
Corporate ownership and ESG performance167
Managerial liability and corporate innovation: Evidence from a legal shock165
Labor unions and real earnings management149
Borrowing from government owned banks & firm's liquidation risk138
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data136
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta130
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China109
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying105
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences99
The dark side of CEO social capital: Evidence from real earnings management and future operating performance98
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk97
The internal labor markets of business groups90
Does an anti-corruption campaign increase analyst earnings forecast optimism?90
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance89
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation86
The evolution of pay premiums for managerial attributes85
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions80
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation78
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales77
Economic magnitudes within reason75
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives73
Signaling through timing of stock splits71
Credit ratings and acquisitions65
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity65
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts65
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market63
Industry informational interactions and corporate fraud62
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.62
Customer concentration and M&A performance60
Local product market competition and bank loans58
How common are credit-less recoveries? Firm-level evidence on the role of financial markets in crisis recovery58
What determines the composition of a firm's cash reserves?58
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence57
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions53
Leggso: Financing experimentation51
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions51
Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme49
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency49
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets48
Editorial Board46
Raising capital after IPO withdrawal46
Political uncertainty and institutional herding46
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