Journal of Corporate Finance

Article	Citations
Product market competition with CDS	313
Peer-level analyst transitions	309
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	292
Which buy-side institutions participate in public earnings conference calls? Implications for capital markets and sell-side coverage	174
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	167
Managerial liability and corporate innovation: Evidence from a legal shock	165
Labor unions and real earnings management	149
Borrowing from government owned banks & firm's liquidation risk	138
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data	136
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	130
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	109
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	105
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	99
The dark side of CEO social capital: Evidence from real earnings management and future operating performance	98
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk	97
Does an anti-corruption campaign increase analyst earnings forecast optimism?	90
The internal labor markets of business groups	90
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance	89
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	86
The evolution of pay premiums for managerial attributes	85
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions	80
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	78
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	77
Economic magnitudes within reason	75
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	73

Signaling through timing of stock splits	71
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	65
Credit ratings and acquisitions	65
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	65
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	63
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.	62
Industry informational interactions and corporate fraud	62
Customer concentration and M&A performance	60
How common are credit-less recoveries? Firm-level evidence on the role of financial markets in crisis recovery	58
What determines the composition of a firm's cash reserves?	58
Local product market competition and bank loans	58
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	57
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	53
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	51
Leggso: Financing experimentation	51
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency	49
Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme	49
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	48
Political uncertainty and institutional herding	46
Editorial Board	46
Raising capital after IPO withdrawal	46
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	45
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?	45
CEO mobility and corporate policy risk	44
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	43
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	42
Learning and staged equity financing	42
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	41
Director networks and firm value	41
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?	39
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct	38
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts	38
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	38
National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance	38
Editorial Board	37
Haste doesn't bring success: Top-down amplification of economic growth targets and enterprise overcapacity	37
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings	36
Polarized corporate boards	36
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic	36
Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility	36
May the force be with you: Investor power and company valuations	35
Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market	35
Major customers and carbon footprints along the supply chain	35
Dividend hibernation and future earnings: When no dividend news is good news	34
The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring	34
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes	33
Money isn't everything: Compensation of locally educated executives	33
Debt maturity dispersion and the cost of bank loans	32
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?	32
Sunshine-induced mood and SEO pricing: Evidence from detailed investor bids in SEO auctions	32

Board gender diversity and responsible banking during the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Macroprudential policy and intra-group dynamics: The effects of reserve requirements in Brazil	32
The value of bond underwriter relationships	31
Editorial Board	31
Stakeholder orientation and the value of cash holdings: Evidence from a natural experiment	31
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?	31
CSR contracting and performance-induced CEO turnover	31
Antitakeover provisions and investment in mergers and acquisitions: A causal reevaluation	31
The influence of the media on government decisions: Evidence from IPOs in China	31
Risk, return, and environmental and social ratings	30
U.S. multinationals' alternatives to paying taxes	30
Early-stage venture financing	29
Heterogeneity in independent non-executive directors' attributes and risk-taking in large banks	29
The impact of automation on firms' reporting quality	29
Debt structure and debt overhang	28
Duration of executive compensation and maturity structure of corporate debt	28
Board financial expertise and the capital decisions of US banks	28
Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach	27
Innovation beyond firm boundaries: Strategic alliances and corporate innovation	27
Investor rewards to environmental responsibility: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis	27
Customer identity concealing and insider selling profitability: Evidence from China	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
Robust inference in single firm/single event analyses	27
Foundation ownership and sustainability	26
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws	26
Underwriting bank bonds: Information sharing, certification and distribution networks	26
Financing constraints and share pledges: Evidence from the share pledge reform in China	26
Outside director social network centrality and turnover before stock performance crash: A friend in need?	25
The anatomy of corporate securitizations and contract design	25
Behavioral spillover between firms with shared auditors: The monitoring role of capital market investors	25
Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?	24
Innovation for promotion: The effect of executive involvement on inventors' innovation choice	24
Cybersecurity risk and corporate innovation	24
(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management	24
Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance	24
The dynamism of partially state-owned enterprises in East Asia	24
Individual investors matter: The effect of investor-firm interactions on corporate earnings management	24
Confucianism, successor choice, and firm performance in family firms: Evidence from China	23
Early individual stakeholders, first venture capital investment, and exit in the UK startup ecosystem	23
Naïve or sophisticated? Information disclosure and investment decisions in peer to peer lending	23
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings	23
Does commercial reform embracing digital technologies mitigate stock price crash risk?	23
Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts	23
Female CFOs, leverage and the moderating role of board diversity and CEO power	23
The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions	22
Dynamic incentive contracts for ESG investing	22
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms	22
Does corrupt practice increase the implied cost of equity?	22
Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle	22
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment	22
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups	22
R&D tax credits, technology spillovers, and firms' product convergence	22
Corporate investment and growth opportunities: The role of R&D-capital complementarity	22
Relationship-based debt financing of Chinese private sector firms: The role of social connections to banks versus political connections	22
Bankruptcy, overlapping directors, and bank loan pricing	22
The informational consequences of good and bad mergers	21
Credit risk spillovers and cash holdings	21
The finance of climate change	21
Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance	21
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?	21
Are US founding families expropriators or stewards? Evidence from quasi-natural experiment	21
Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility	21
Editorial Board	21
Does bankruptcy law improve the fate of distressed firms? The role of credit channels	21
CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics	21
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China	21
Does it pay to be socially connected with wall street brokerages? Evidence from cost of equity	20
Regulation and information costs of sovereign distress: Evidence from corporate lending markets	20
Corrigendum to “Corporate culture and CEO turnover” [Journal of Corporate Finance, 28 (2014) 66–82]	20
Securities litigation risk and board gender diversity	20
Decomposing value gains – The case of the best leveraged buy-out ever	20
Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers	20
Are non-family successors all the same? Inside-promoted vs. outside-sourced	20
Labor-saving innovations and capital structure	19
Managerial conservatism and corporate policies	19
Foreign competition and CEO risk-incentive compensation	19
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis	19
Depoliticization and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from the mandated resignation of directors in China	19
Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions	19
Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure	19

The information value of M&A press releases	19
The information advantage of industry common owners and its spillover effect on stock price crash risk	19
Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination	18
Influential independent directors' reputation incentives: Impacts on CEO compensation contracts and financial reporting	18
The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders	18
Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit	18
Dare to play with fire? Managerial ability and the use of short-term debt	18
Courting innovation: The effects of litigation risk on corporate innovation	18
Option compensation, risky mortgage lending, and the financial crisis	18
The role of individual investment bankers in IPO pricing: Evidence from investor bidding behavior	18
The role of divestitures in horizontal mergers	18
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions	18
Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers	18
Pricing of project finance bonds: A comparative analysis of primary market spreads	17
Corporate governance reforms, societal trust, and corporate financial policies	17
Managers' cultural origin and corporate response to an economic shock	17
Opioid epidemic and corporate innovation	17
Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs	17
Can a not-for-profit minority institutional shareholder make a big difference in corporate governance? A quasi-natural experiment	17
Local political corruption and Firm's non-GAAP reporting	17
Institutional dual ownership and voluntary greenhouse gas emission disclosure	17
Natural disasters and firm leasing: A collateral channel	17
CEO early-life disaster experience and stock price crash risk	16
Air pollution and employee treatment	16
Gender board diversity and the cost of bank loans	16
Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans	16
The role of financial constraints in firm investment under pollution abatement regulation	16
Environmental regulations, supply chain relationships, and green technological innovation	16
Investor–firm interactions and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China	16
The dark side of asset redeployability through the lens of corporate employment decisions	16
Editorial Board	15
Corrigendum to “Corporate board reforms around the world and stock price crash risk” 62 (2020) 101557	15
Green banking illusion? The influence of “Eco-Conscious” bank shareholders on credit allocation	15
Do short sellers anticipate late filings?	15
Societal secrecy and IPO underpricing	15
The long-term effects of loan guarantees on SME performance	15
Mandatory corporate social responsibility and foreign institutional investor preferences	15
Does tax reform affect labor investment efficiency?	14
Implicit government guarantees and credit ratings	14
The equity value implications of court ideology: Evidence from federal judge turnover	14
Employment protection and share repurchases: Evidence from wrongful discharge laws	14
Recession managers and mutual fund performance	14
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	14
Green credit and its obstacles: Evidence from China's green credit guidelines	14
To pollute or not to pollute: Political connections and corporate environmental performance	14
Editorial Board	13
Why are distressed firms acquisitive?	13
Talented inside directors and corporate social responsibility: A tale of two roles	13
Perceptions of corporate corruption culture and debt contracting	13
Dividend taxes, employment, and firm productivity	13
Understanding stock price behavior around external financing	13
Making honest men of them: Institutional investors, financial reporting, and the appointment of female directors to all-male boards	13
CEOs' narcissism and opportunistic insider trading	13
The effect of geographic proximity on corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from China	13
Online social networks and corporate investment similarity	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
How alternative finance informs central themes in corporate finance	13
Fintech, financial constraints and innovation: Evidence from China	13
Governance, information flow, and stock returns	13
Employment mobility and pay for sector performance	12
Mutual funds' capital gains lock-in and earnings management	12
Are family and friends the wrong investors? Evidence from U.S. start-ups	12
Illuminating the murk: The effect of business complexity on voluntary disclosure	12
The influence of media slant on short sellers	12
Managerial discretion and efficiency of internal capital markets	12
Changes in CEO stock option grants: A look at the numbers	12
Benchmarking private equity: The direct alpha method	12
Short selling constraints and politically motivated negative information suppression	12
Editorial Board	12
A global analysis of Private Investments in Public Equity	12
Firm uncertainty and corporate policies: The role of stock return skewness	12
Contingent convertible bonds: Optimal call strategy and the impact of refinancing	12
The role of the end time in experimental asset markets	12
Are all activists created equal? The effect of interventions by hedge funds and other private activists on long-term shareholder value	11
The role of employer learning and regulatory interventions in mitigating executive gender pay gap	11
Does environmental and social performance affect pricing efficiency? Evidence from earnings conference call tones	11
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
Underwriter incentives and IPO pricing	11
The gender gap in bank credit access	11
Stock liquidity and corporate labor investment	11
Ancestral connections and corporate alliances	11
Innovation Success and Capital Structure	11
Boardroom networks and corporate investment	11
One false step can make a great difference: Does corporate litigation cause the exit of the controlling shareholder?	11
Vertical integration to mitigate internal capital market inefficiencies	11
JCF special issue on private equity editorial	11
Punishment or deterrence? Environmental justice construction and corporate equity financing––Evidence from environmental courts	10
The effect of shareholder activism on earnings management: Evidence from shareholder proposals	10
Fraud commitment in a smaller world: Evidence from a natural experiment	10
Gender bias, board diversity, and firm value: Evidence from a natural experiment	10
Industrial policy and governmental venture capital: Evidence from China	10
Sovereign wealth funds and cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loans	10