Most cited papers from American Finance Association

The most cited paper from American Finance Association is "Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk Taking?*" (Ulrike Malmendier, Stefan Nagel, 2011), with 2,588 citations. Next come "Corporate Governance and Acquirer Returns" (1,879) and "Asset Growth and the Cross‐Section of Stock Returns" (1,607).

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Citations are OpenAlex's own counts, from its 2026-09-23 snapshot, so the ranking can differ from Google Scholar or Web of Science. A paper is listed for an institution when any of its authors gave it as an affiliation; retracted papers and papers whose citation count cannot be traced to citing works are left out, and a preprint and the article it became are shown once. Release dates are OpenAlex's: where a source gave only a month or a year, that is what is shown. How the lists are chosen.