Journal of Corporate Finance

Article	Citations
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	175
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	152
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?	108
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	107
Labor unions and real earnings management	106
Corporate green revenue and syndicated loan pricing	104
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	90
Greening through trade	87
Bank municipal bond holdings and mortgage lending standards	76
Imbalanced ESG investing?	76
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	73
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	72
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	71
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	70
Signaling through timing of stock splits	68
Economic magnitudes within reason	67
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	64
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	63
Quantifying the legacy of trauma: The long-term impact of the African slave trade on contemporary firm corruption	58
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	57
Do director ownership plans change director behavior?	57
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	56
Real estate collateral, lender screening, and M&A performance	55
Interest rate uncertainty and the investment/financing decisions	53
Editorial Board	52

Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	51
“Death becomes her”: Market reaction to the death of controlling inside blockholders	48
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk	47
Local peer effects and corporate investment	47
Learning and staged equity financing	45
Leggso: Financing experimentation	44
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	44
Editorial Board	44
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	43
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency	43
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts	42
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	42
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	41
Director networks and firm value	41
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?	40
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	40
Political uncertainty and institutional herding	40
Institutional voids and business group dynamics: Evidence from judicial reform in China	39
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	39
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?	38
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	37
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct	36
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	36
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic	36
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	36
When does a generalist CEO create shareholder value? The effect of managerial challenge	35
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes	34
Polarized corporate boards	33
Executive live streaming	33
Money isn't everything: Compensation of locally educated executives	33
The intangible shift: Redefining the dynamics of market-to-book ratios	33
Tightening monetary policy and investment dynamics in the European Monetary Union: Firm- and country-level heterogeneity	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
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings	32
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?	32
Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market	32
Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility	31
Board gender diversity and responsible banking during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring	31
Major customers and carbon footprints along the supply chain	31
Debt structure and debt overhang	30
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws	30
Customer identity concealing and insider selling profitability: Evidence from China	30
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?	30
Robust inference in single firm/single event analyses	30
U.S. multinationals' alternatives to paying taxes	30
Strategic flexibility: How rent-seeking behavior enables firms to adapt to uncertainty	29
Employee stock options and innovation: Evidence from an exogenous shock to employee intellectual property rights	29
Early-stage venture financing	28

Competition and the value of innovation	28
Managerial incentives and trade credit: Evidence from China's EVA appraisal reform among CSOEs	27
Beneficiary investor monitoring and asset manager engagement	27
Political network and muted insider trading	26
The impact of automation on firms' reporting quality	26
Financing constraints and share pledges: Evidence from the share pledge reform in China	26
The bright side of the internal labor market: Evidence from the labor cost stickiness of firms affiliated with privately owned business groups in China	26
Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach	26
Innovation beyond firm boundaries: Strategic alliances and corporate innovation	25
Risk, return, and environmental and social ratings	25
(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management	24
Monetary policy, intangible capital, and debt contracts	24
Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings	24
Automation cost flexibility and firm value	24
Outside director social network centrality and turnover before stock performance crash: A friend in need?	23
Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance	23
Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle	23
Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts	23
Innovation for promotion: The effect of executive involvement on inventors' innovation choice	23
Executive incentives under common ownership	23
Naïve or sophisticated? Information disclosure and investment decisions in peer to peer lending	22
Cybersecurity risk and corporate innovation	22
Foundation ownership and sustainability	22
The Long-term effect of social disasters on stock market participation	22
The anatomy of corporate securitizations and contract design	22
Early individual stakeholders, first venture capital investment, and exit in the UK startup ecosystem	22
Dynamic incentive contracts for ESG investing	22
The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions	21
Relationship-based debt financing of Chinese private sector firms: The role of social connections to banks versus political connections	21
Individual investors matter: The effect of investor-firm interactions on corporate earnings management	21
Manipulating expectations upward: Investor sentiment and managers’ range forecast strategy	21
Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?	21
Does commercial reform embracing digital technologies mitigate stock price crash risk?	21
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups	20
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms	20
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment	20
“May the road ahead be smooth”: Cultural continuity and CEO succession	20
CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics	19
Business association membership and firms’ access to trade credit: Evidence from thirty countries	19
R&D tax credits, technology spillovers, and firms' product convergence	19
Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility	19
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China	18
Editorial Board	18
A primer on oracle economics	18
Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance	18
Shadow seniority? Lending relationships and borrowers’ selective default	18
Decomposing value gains – The case of the best leveraged buy-out ever	17
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?	17
The informational consequences of good and bad mergers	17
Foreign competition and CEO risk-incentive compensation	17
Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers	17
The information advantage of industry common owners and its spillover effect on stock price crash risk	17
Regulation and information costs of sovereign distress: Evidence from corporate lending markets	17
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions	17
Labor-saving innovations and capital structure	17
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis	16
Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination	16
Influential independent directors' reputation incentives: Impacts on CEO compensation contracts and financial reporting	16
Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions	16
The information value of M&A press releases	16
The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders	15
Natural disasters and firm leasing: A collateral channel	15
Deregulation and bank stability: Evidence from loan-to-deposit ratio requirement in China	15
Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs	15
Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit	15
Market pressure or regulatory pressure? U.S. small bank pre-emptive IT investment to data privacy regulation	15
The dark side of asset redeployability through the lens of corporate employment decisions	15
Exploring the profitability in analyst collective opinions: The role of analyst crowd characteristics	15
Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans	15
The role of individual investment bankers in IPO pricing: Evidence from investor bidding behavior	15
Firms save from bonds but not from loans	15
Bankers’ pay and the evolving structure of US banking	15
Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers	14
Pension fund investment and firm innovation	14
Environmental regulations, supply chain relationships, and green technological innovation	14
Deposit insurance and discretion in loan loss provisioning	14
Opioid epidemic and corporate innovation	14
Customer orientation and stock resilience during adversity periods	13
Pricing of project finance bonds: A comparative analysis of primary market spreads	13
Backing away from ESG? The effect of sovereign rating downgrades on corporate sustainability	13

The ripple effect: How subsidies transform firm behavior	13
The role of financial constraints in firm investment under pollution abatement regulation	13