Journal of Corporate Finance

Article	Citations
Personal financial incentives, corporate governance, and firms’ campaign contributions	341
Explaining the involvement and investment of women in business angel groups: The impact of organizational context and investment experience	284
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China	273
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	266
Political corruption, Dodd–Frank whistleblowing, and debt financing	161
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment	155
Executive compensation and secured debt: Evidence from REITs	153
The internal labor markets of business groups	149
Short seller attention	136
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data	128
Editorial Board	126
Product market competition with CDS	121
Editorial Board	115
Regional redistribution through SBA guaranteed loan programs	105
Callable or convertible debt? The role of debt overhang and covenants	102
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups	101
Ancestral connections and corporate alliances	94
Editorial Board	89
JCF special issue on private equity editorial	89
Do firms manage their share prices to mitigate investor short-termism?	85
Information transfer of CEO turnover: Evidence from firm-CEO mismatch	81
Corporate financial policy: What really matters?	80
Why do investment banks buy put options from companies?	80
Corporate opacity and effectiveness of independent female directors	78
CEO risk-seeking and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from pilot CEOs	75

Do corporate lawyers matter? Evidence from patents	75
Debt maturity structure and the quality of risk disclosures	74
Too much of a good thing? Corporate social responsibility and the takeover market	70
Foreign institutional ownership externalities and supplier innovation	70
Do CEO beliefs affect corporate cash holdings?	69
Trademarks and the cost of equity capital	67
Does gender diversity on banks' boards matter? Evidence from public bailouts	65
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	60
The spillover effect of advertising on the capital market: Evidence from financial constraints	60
Labor unions and real earnings management	58
Peer-level analyst transitions	57
Borrowing from government owned banks & firm's liquidation risk	56
Punishment or deterrence? Environmental justice construction and corporate equity financing––Evidence from environmental courts	56
Managerial activism	55
Concierge treatment from banks: Evidence from the paycheck protection program	53
Corporate insider purchases and the options market: Competition among informed investors	51
Pension risk and corporate investment distortion	51
When CEOs adapt: An investigation of manager experience, policy and performance following recessions	51
IPO withdrawals: Are corporate governance and VC characteristics the guiding light in the rough sea of volatile markets?	49
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms	49
The finance of climate change	47
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	45
Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance	45
Gender bias, board diversity, and firm value: Evidence from a natural experiment	43
The effect of social connections on capital structure in supplier-customer relationships	43
70 years of US corporate profits	42
Options trading and the cost of debt	42
In name only: Information spillovers among Chinese firms with similar stock names during earnings announcements	41
Credit default swaps and corporate debt structure	41
Lending when relationships are scarce: The role of information spread via bank networks	40
Religiosity and risk taking: Is there a demand-side effect?	39
Executive social connections and gender pay gaps	39
The world cup in football and the US IPO market	39
Social capital and entrepreneurial financing choice	38
Does bankruptcy law improve the fate of distressed firms? The role of credit channels	38
Can European electric utilities manage asset impairments arising from net zero carbon targets?	37
Stock liquidity, empire building, and valuation	36
Financial resource pooling in club deals	36
The sovereign wealth funds risk premium: Evidence from the cost of debt financing	34
Stakeholders and the stock price crash risk: What matters in corporate social performance?	34
R&D tax credits, technology spillovers, and firms' product convergence	34
One way out of the share pledging quagmire: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	34
Operating lease obligations and corporate cash management	34
Shades of grey: Risk-related agency conflicts and corporate innovation	34
Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility	33
Recent changes to the regulatory framework for the private capital market	33
What drives the active involvement in business angel groups? The role of angels' decision-making style, investment-specific human capital and motivations	32
Does litigation risk matter for the choice between bank debt and public debt?	32
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk	32
Geographic proximity and trade credit: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment	32

Which buy-side institutions participate in public earnings conference calls? Implications for capital markets and sell-side coverage	32
Does ambiguity matter for corporate debt financing? Theory and evidence	31
Outside directors' equity incentives and strategic alliance decisions	31
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	30
CEO country-specific experience and cross-border mergers and acquisitions	30
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	30
Does the mandatory disclosure of suppliers' tax uncertainties affect supply chain relations?	30
Fraud commitment in a smaller world: Evidence from a natural experiment	30
Mind the sovereign ceiling on corporate performance	30
Tax avoidance as an unintended consequence of environmental regulation: Evidence from the EU ETS	29
The importance of target information in the acquisition of privately held firms	29
What are the benefits of attracting gambling investors? Evidence from stock splits in China	29
Corporate financing of investment opportunities in a world of institutional cross-ownership	28
The value impact of climate and non-climate environmental shareholder proposals	28
Effectiveness of monitoring, managerial entrenchment, and corporate cash holdings	28
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	28
CEO political preference and credit ratings	28
Do younger CEOs really increase firm risk? Evidence from sudden CEO deaths	28
Political corruption, Dodd–Frank whistleblowing, and corporate investment	27
Corrigendum to “Political corruption, Dodd–Frank whistleblowing, and corporate investment” [Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 73 April 2022, 102145]	27
Managerial liability and corporate innovation: Evidence from a legal shock	27
The real effects of distressed bank mergers	27
Liability taxes, risk, and the cost of banking crises	26
Firm listing status and the investment home bias	26
Bankruptcy, overlapping directors, and bank loan pricing	25
Sentiment analysis and gender differences in earnings conference calls	25
Corporate investment and growth opportunities: The role of R&D-capital complementarity	25
Board reforms and debt choice	25
Does an anti-corruption campaign increase analyst earnings forecast optimism?	25
Tone emphasis and insider trading	25
Are US founding families expropriators or stewards? Evidence from quasi-natural experiment	24
The effect of shareholder activism on earnings management: Evidence from shareholder proposals	24
Fiduciary duty or loyalty? Evidence from co-opted boards and corporate misconduct	24
Does corrupt practice increase the implied cost of equity?	24
Corporate failures: Declines, collapses, and scandals	24
Credit risk spillovers and cash holdings	24
Can CFOs resist undue pressure from CEOs to manage earnings?	23
The dark side of CEO social capital: Evidence from real earnings management and future operating performance	23
U.S. stock prices and the dot.com-bubble: Can dividend policy rescue the efficient market hypothesis?	23
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance	23
The information transfer effects of political connections on mitigating policy uncertainty: Evidence from China	23
Board diversity and shareholder voting	23
Firm-level political risk and debt choice	23
The impact of climate change on the cost of bank loans	23
Does common ownership constrain managerial rent extraction? Evidence from insider trading profitability	23
Does CEO overconfidence affect workplace safety?	22
CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics	22
Industrial policy and governmental venture capital: Evidence from China	22
Does it pay to be socially connected with wall street brokerages? Evidence from cost of equity	21
Decomposing value gains – The case of the best leveraged buy-out ever	21
Sovereign wealth funds and cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loans	21
How do financial contracts evolve for new ventures?	21
Convertible debt and asset substitution of multinational corporations	21
Editorial Board	21
What determines the composition of a firm's cash reserves?	21
Forecasting crash risk in U.S. bank returns—The role of credit booms	21
Editorial Board	21
Information production in start-up firms: SPACs vs. Traditional IPOs	20
The information value of M&A press releases	20
Bank liquidity creation and religious observance: Evidence from Ramadan fasting	20
CEO reputation and shareholder voting	20
Editorial Board	20
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions	20
Editorial Board	20
Relationship-specific investments for up- and downstream firms and credit constraints	20
Firms’ rollover risk, capital structure and unequal exposure to aggregate shocks	20
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	20
Weather, institutional investors and earnings news	19
Credit ratings and acquisitions	19
Managerial conservatism and corporate policies	19
The stock market valuation of human capital creation	19
Patent pledgeability, trade secrecy, and corporate patenting	19
Partisan conflict and corporate credit spreads: The role of political connection	19
The effect of cultural and institutional factors on initiation, completion, and duration of cross-border acquisitions	19
Nondisclosure and analyst behavior: Evidence from redaction of proprietary information from public filings	19
Strengthening secured creditors: Implications on debt financing and investment	19
Investment efficiency of firms outside the business group	19
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis	19
The signaling role of trade credit: Evidence from a counterfactual analysis	18
Depoliticization and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from the mandated resignation of directors in China	18

Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	18
Firm opacity and the opportunity cost of cash	18
Dare to play with fire? Managerial ability and the use of short-term debt	18
Secured and unsecured debt in creditor-friendly bankruptcy	18
Aggregate productivity, leased capital and market participation	18
Do tax incentives affect investment quality?	18
Signaling through timing of stock splits	18
Do CFO career concerns matter? Evidence from IPO financial reporting outcomes	18
Real options, risk aversion and markets: A corporate finance perspective	17
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?	17
The tax-efficient use of debt in multinational corporations	17
Editorial Board	17
Information asymmetry, external certification, and the cost of bank debt	17
Securities litigation risk and board gender diversity	17
Like a duck to water: Do credit rating analysts outperform in bond fund management	17
Risk management transparency and compensation	17
The informational consequences of good and bad mergers	17
Industry informational interactions and corporate fraud	17
Working capital balances and financial policy	17
ISDS disputes, adjudication and cross-border M&As	17
Courting innovation: The effects of litigation risk on corporate innovation	16
Tunneling through trademarks	16
Regulation and information costs of sovereign distress: Evidence from corporate lending markets	16
Foreign investors, firm level productivity, and European economic integration	16
Are non-family successors all the same? Inside-promoted vs. outside-sourced	16
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions	16
Dollar borrowing, firm credit risk, and FX-hedged funding opportunities	16
Wage gap and stock returns: Do investors dislike pay inequality?	16
Windfalls? Costs and benefits of investment tax incentives due to financial constraints	16
Peer information in loan pricing	16
Labor-saving innovations and capital structure	16
Do investors benefit from MiFID II unbundling?	16
The evolution of pay premiums for managerial attributes	16
Lean against the wind: The effect of policy uncertainty on a firm's corporate social responsibility strategy	16
Shareholder litigation risk and the information environment: Revisiting evidence from two natural experiments	16
Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions	16
Acquisitions: A curse or blessing for direct competitors? The impact of target ownership structure	16
Mandatory governance reform and corporate risk management	16
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	16