Journal of Corporate Finance

Article	Citations
Peer-level analyst transitions	344
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	306
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	185
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	176
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance	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
Imbalanced ESG investing?	109
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	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
Customer concentration and M&A performance	55
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	55
Leggso: Financing experimentation	54
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency	53
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	50
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	48
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	48
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	47
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	47
Editorial Board	46
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	46
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	45
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk	44
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct	43
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?	43
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	43
Political uncertainty and institutional herding	43
Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme	41
Raising capital after IPO withdrawal	40
CEO mobility and corporate policy risk	39
Director networks and firm value	39
Haste doesn't bring success: Top-down amplification of economic growth targets and enterprise overcapacity	39
Learning and staged equity financing	38
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?	38
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic	37
Editorial Board	37
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings	37
National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance	37
May the force be with you: Investor power and company valuations	36
Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility	36
Major customers and carbon footprints along the supply chain	35
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes	35
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?	35
Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market	35
Debt maturity dispersion and the cost of bank loans	33
Dividend hibernation and future earnings: When no dividend news is good news	32
Sunshine-induced mood and SEO pricing: Evidence from detailed investor bids in SEO auctions	32
Money isn't everything: Compensation of locally educated executives	32
Stakeholder orientation and the value of cash holdings: Evidence from a natural experiment	32
Macroprudential policy and intra-group dynamics: The effects of reserve requirements in Brazil	32
Board gender diversity and responsible banking during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
CSR contracting and performance-induced CEO turnover	31
Polarized corporate boards	31

The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring	31
Editorial Board	30
Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach	30
Antitakeover provisions and investment in mergers and acquisitions: A causal reevaluation	30
Duration of executive compensation and maturity structure of corporate debt	29
Innovation beyond firm boundaries: Strategic alliances and corporate innovation	29
The influence of the media on government decisions: Evidence from IPOs in China	29
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?	29
The impact of automation on firms' reporting quality	28
Early-stage venture financing	28
Risk, return, and environmental and social ratings	28
U.S. multinationals' alternatives to paying taxes	28
Robust inference in single firm/single event analyses	28
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws	27
Heterogeneity in independent non-executive directors' attributes and risk-taking in large banks	27
The bright side of the internal labor market: Evidence from the labor cost stickiness of firms affiliated with privately owned business groups in China	27
Board financial expertise and the capital decisions of US banks	27
Customer identity concealing and insider selling profitability: Evidence from China	27
Financing constraints and share pledges: Evidence from the share pledge reform in China	27
Debt structure and debt overhang	26
Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts	25
Early individual stakeholders, first venture capital investment, and exit in the UK startup ecosystem	25
The anatomy of corporate securitizations and contract design	25
(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management	25
Foundation ownership and sustainability	25
The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions	25
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings	24
Naïve or sophisticated? Information disclosure and investment decisions in peer to peer lending	24
Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?	24
The Long-term effect of social disasters on stock market participation	24
Individual investors matter: The effect of investor-firm interactions on corporate earnings management	24
Dynamic incentive contracts for ESG investing	24
Relationship-based debt financing of Chinese private sector firms: The role of social connections to banks versus political connections	24
Executive incentives under common ownership	24
Underwriting bank bonds: Information sharing, certification and distribution networks	24
Innovation for promotion: The effect of executive involvement on inventors' innovation choice	24
Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance	24
Outside director social network centrality and turnover before stock performance crash: A friend in need?	23
Confucianism, successor choice, and firm performance in family firms: Evidence from China	23
R&D tax credits, technology spillovers, and firms' product convergence	23
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups	23
Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle	23
Does commercial reform embracing digital technologies mitigate stock price crash risk?	23
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms	23
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment	23
Cybersecurity risk and corporate innovation	23
Female CFOs, leverage and the moderating role of board diversity and CEO power	23
Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance	23
CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics	23
Bankruptcy, overlapping directors, and bank loan pricing	22
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China	22
Decomposing value gains – The case of the best leveraged buy-out ever	22
Does corrupt practice increase the implied cost of equity?	22
The finance of climate change	22
Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility	22
Are US founding families expropriators or stewards? Evidence from quasi-natural experiment	22
Corporate investment and growth opportunities: The role of R&D-capital complementarity	22
Editorial Board	22
Foreign competition and CEO risk-incentive compensation	21
Corrigendum to “Corporate culture and CEO turnover” [Journal of Corporate Finance, 28 (2014) 66–82]	21
The information value of M&A press releases	21
Influential independent directors' reputation incentives: Impacts on CEO compensation contracts and financial reporting	21
The informational consequences of good and bad mergers	21
Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers	21
Securities litigation risk and board gender diversity	21
Dare to play with fire? Managerial ability and the use of short-term debt	20
Labor-saving innovations and capital structure	20
Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions	20
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?	20
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions	20
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis	20
The information advantage of industry common owners and its spillover effect on stock price crash risk	19
Are non-family successors all the same? Inside-promoted vs. outside-sourced	19
Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination	19
Depoliticization and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from the mandated resignation of directors in China	19
Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure	19
Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers	18
Regulation and information costs of sovereign distress: Evidence from corporate lending markets	18
Investor–firm interactions and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China	18
Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit	18

Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs	18
Courting innovation: The effects of litigation risk on corporate innovation	18
Pricing of project finance bonds: A comparative analysis of primary market spreads	17
Option compensation, risky mortgage lending, and the financial crisis	17
Customer orientation and stock resilience during adversity periods	17
The role of individual investment bankers in IPO pricing: Evidence from investor bidding behavior	17
Firms save from bonds but not from loans	17
Local political corruption and Firm's non-GAAP reporting	17
Institutional dual ownership and voluntary greenhouse gas emission disclosure	17
Opioid epidemic and corporate innovation	17
Gender board diversity and the cost of bank loans	17
Managers' cultural origin and corporate response to an economic shock	16
Corporate governance reforms, societal trust, and corporate financial policies	16
Environmental regulations, supply chain relationships, and green technological innovation	16
The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders	16
The role of divestitures in horizontal mergers	16
Can a not-for-profit minority institutional shareholder make a big difference in corporate governance? A quasi-natural experiment	16
The dark side of asset redeployability through the lens of corporate employment decisions	16
The role of financial constraints in firm investment under pollution abatement regulation	16
Natural disasters and firm leasing: A collateral channel	16
Air pollution and employee treatment	15
Mandatory corporate social responsibility and foreign institutional investor preferences	15
Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans	15
Do short sellers anticipate late filings?	15
The long-term effects of loan guarantees on SME performance	15
Corrigendum to “Corporate board reforms around the world and stock price crash risk” 62 (2020) 101557	15
Editorial Board	15
Societal secrecy and IPO underpricing	15
Green banking illusion? The influence of “Eco-Conscious” bank shareholders on credit allocation	15
Editorial Board	14
Implicit government guarantees and credit ratings	14
To pollute or not to pollute: Political connections and corporate environmental performance	14
The equity value implications of court ideology: Evidence from federal judge turnover	14
Editorial: Ownership and corporate social and sustainable policies	14
Editorial Board	14
Green credit and its obstacles: Evidence from China's green credit guidelines	14
Recession managers and mutual fund performance	14
Understanding stock price behavior around external financing	13
The impact of product market competition on workplace safety	13
CEOs' narcissism and opportunistic insider trading	13
Does tax reform affect labor investment efficiency?	13
Divided we fall: Congressional cycles, the stock market and firm performance	13
A shot in the arm: Economic support packages and firm performance during COVID-19	13
Talented inside directors and corporate social responsibility: A tale of two roles	13
Dividend taxes, employment, and firm productivity	13
Editorial Board	13
How alternative finance informs central themes in corporate finance	13
Employment protection and share repurchases: Evidence from wrongful discharge laws	13
Perceptions of corporate corruption culture and debt contracting	13
Governance, information flow, and stock returns	12
Fintech, financial constraints and innovation: Evidence from China	12
A global analysis of Private Investments in Public Equity	12
Are family and friends the wrong investors? Evidence from U.S. start-ups	12
Employment mobility and pay for sector performance	12
The influence of media slant on short sellers	12
The effect of geographic proximity on corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from China	12
The role of the end time in experimental asset markets	12
Changes in CEO stock option grants: A look at the numbers	12
Contingent convertible bonds: Optimal call strategy and the impact of refinancing	12
Making honest men of them: Institutional investors, financial reporting, and the appointment of female directors to all-male boards	12
Why are distressed firms acquisitive?	12
Editorial Board	12
Firm uncertainty and corporate policies: The role of stock return skewness	12
Illuminating the murk: The effect of business complexity on voluntary disclosure	12
Stock liquidity and corporate labor investment	11
Are all activists created equal? The effect of interventions by hedge funds and other private activists on long-term shareholder value	11
Does environmental and social performance affect pricing efficiency? Evidence from earnings conference call tones	11
Benchmarking private equity: The direct alpha method	11
Underwriter incentives and IPO pricing	11
Innovation Success and Capital Structure	11
Vertical integration to mitigate internal capital market inefficiencies	11
Boardroom networks and corporate investment	11
The role of employer learning and regulatory interventions in mitigating executive gender pay gap	11
The gender gap in bank credit access	11
One false step can make a great difference: Does corporate litigation cause the exit of the controlling shareholder?	11
Managerial discretion and efficiency of internal capital markets	11
Mutual funds' capital gains lock-in and earnings management	11
Do firms manage their share prices to mitigate investor short-termism?	10
JCF special issue on private equity editorial	10
Effectiveness of monitoring, managerial entrenchment, and corporate cash holdings	10
Does gender diversity on banks' boards matter? Evidence from public bailouts	10
Ancestral connections and corporate alliances	10
Editorial Board	10
Regional redistribution through SBA guaranteed loan programs	10
Callable or convertible debt? The role of debt overhang and covenants	10
Editorial Board	10
Outside directors' equity incentives and strategic alliance decisions	10
Credit default swaps and corporate debt structure	10
Punishment or deterrence? Environmental justice construction and corporate equity financing––Evidence from environmental courts	9
Beta estimation precision and corporate investment efficiency	9
Fraud commitment in a smaller world: Evidence from a natural experiment	9
Clawback adoptions and institutional investment decisions	9
Editorial Board	9
Iron curtain echoes: The enduring impact of communism and crowdfunding	9
Gender bias, board diversity, and firm value: Evidence from a natural experiment	9