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
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	87
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	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
Credit ratings and acquisitions	72
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	72
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	70
Economic magnitudes within reason	68
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	66

Signaling through timing of stock splits	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
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	59
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	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
Political uncertainty and institutional herding	43
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
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
Haste doesn't bring success: Top-down amplification of economic growth targets and enterprise overcapacity	39
CEO mobility and corporate policy risk	39
Director networks and firm value	39
Learning and staged equity financing	38
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?	38
Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings	37
National Culture and the Value Implications of Corporate Environmental and Social Performance	37
Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic	37
Editorial Board	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
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
Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes	35
Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?	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
The influence of the media on government decisions: Evidence from IPOs in China	29
Do “say-on-pay” votes affect M&A decisions?	29
Duration of executive compensation and maturity structure of corporate debt	29
Innovation beyond firm boundaries: Strategic alliances and corporate innovation	29
Robust inference in single firm/single event analyses	28
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
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
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
Debt structure and debt overhang	26
Foundation ownership and sustainability	25
The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions	25
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers	21
Securities litigation risk and board gender diversity	21
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
Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?	20
Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions	20
Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis	20
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
Depoliticization and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from the mandated resignation of directors in China	19
Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure	19
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
Economic preferences for risk-taking and financing costs	18
Courting innovation: The effects of litigation risk on corporate innovation	18
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
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
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