| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Initial public offerings: International insights | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1994 | 957 |
| 2 | Islamic banking: Interest-free or interest-based? | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2009 | 535 |
| 3 | Herding behavior in Chinese stock markets: An examination of A and B shares | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2008 | 460 |
| 4 | Size really matters: Further evidence on the negative relationship between board size and firm value | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2005 | 433 |
| 5 | Economic policy uncertainty and corporate investment: Evidence from China | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2014 | 431 |
| 6 | Behavioral finance | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2003 | 318 |
| 7 | Shareholding structure and corporate performance of partially privatized firms: Evidence from listed Chinese companies | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2000 | 300 |
| 8 | Ownership concentration, firm performance, and dividend policy in Hong Kong | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2005 | 275 |
| 9 | Contrarian and momentum strategies in the China stock market: 1993–2000 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2002 | 254 |
| 10 | Are Asian stock market fluctuations due mainly to intra-regional contagion effects? Evidence based on Asian emerging stock markets | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1999 | 243 |
| 11 | Tunneling and propping up: An analysis of related party transactions by Chinese listed companies | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2009 | 243 |
| 12 | The profitability of technical trading rules in the Asian stock markets | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1995 | 238 |
| 13 | An empirical study on the determinants of the capital structure of Thai firms | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1999 | 232 |
| 14 | Board gender diversity and firm performance: Empirical evidence from Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2015 | 219 |
| 15 | Do Islamic stock indexes outperform conventional stock indexes? A stochastic dominance approach | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2014 | 217 |
| 16 | Ethical investing in Australia: Is there a financial penalty? | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2006 | 215 |
| 17 | Performance of global Islamic versus conventional share indices: International evidence | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2014 | 207 |
| 18 | Volatility spillovers between the Chinese and world equity markets | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2012 | 205 |
| 19 | Underpricing and aftermarket performance of IPOs in Shanghai, China | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1998 | 204 |
| 20 | An empirical investigation of underpricing in Chinese IPOs | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1999 | 196 |
| 21 | Controlling shareholders and corporate value: Evidence from Thailand | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2001 | 190 |
| 22 | The relationship between CSR and performance: Evidence in China | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2018 | 186 |
| 23 | Risk and return on China's new stock markets: Some preliminary evidence | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1994 | 185 |
| 24 | Good news, bad news and international spillovers of stock return volatility between Japan and the U.S. | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1994 | 182 |
| 25 | Multiple board appointments and firm performance in emerging economies: Evidence from India | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2009 | 180 |
| 26 | Analyst coverage, optimism, and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2013 | 172 |
| 27 | Book-to-market, firm size, and the turn-of-the-year effect: Evidence from Pacific-Basin emerging markets | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1998 | 171 |
| 28 | Managerial optimism and corporate investment: Some empirical evidence from Taiwan | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2005 | 170 |
| 29 | Dynamic dependence of the global Islamic equity index with global conventional equity market indices and risk factors | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2014 | 161 |
| 30 | Institutional affiliation and the role of venture capital: Evidence from initial public offerings in Japan | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2000 | 160 |
| 31 | Efficiency of Islamic banks during the financial crisis: An analysis of Middle Eastern and Asian countries | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2014 | 158 |
| 32 | The market reaction to green bond issuance: Evidence from China | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2020 | 154 |
| 33 | Selecting macroeconomic variables as explanatory factors of emerging stock market returns | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2001 | 153 |
| 34 | Dividends for tunneling in a regulated economy: The case of China | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2009 | 153 |
| 35 | Does bank FinTech reduce credit risk? Evidence from China | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2020 | 153 |
| 36 | Did the Asian financial crisis scare foreign investors out of Japan? | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2002 | 151 |
| 37 | International equity market comovements: Economic fundamentals or contagion? | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2003 | 150 |
| 38 | Corporate governance and tunneling: Empirical evidence from China | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2008 | 147 |
| 39 | Capital controls, market segmentation and stock prices: Evidence from the Chinese stock market | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1996 | 139 |
| 40 | Agency costs and ownership structure in Australia | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2005 | 137 |
| 41 | Agency cost, top executives' overconfidence, and investment-cash flow sensitivity — Evidence from listed companies in China | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2011 | 137 |
| 42 | Corporate governance, top executive compensation and firm performance in Japan | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2007 | 136 |
| 43 | The effect of monetary policy on real estate price growth in China | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2012 | 136 |
| 44 | Asset pricing in China's domestic stock markets: Is there a logic? | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2007 | 135 |
| 45 | On the predictability of Chinese stock returns | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2010 | 133 |
| 46 | Corporate governance and risk-taking: Evidence from Japanese firms | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2011 | 133 |
| 47 | Google search intensity and its relationship with returns and trading volume of Japanese stocks | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2014 | 133 |
| 48 | The investment and operating performance of Japanese initial public offerings | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 1997 | 131 |
| 49 | Agency costs, ownership structure and corporate governance compliance: A private contracting perspective | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2010 | 130 |
| 50 | Financial literacy and financial behavior: Evidence from the emerging Asian middle class | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 2018 | 130 |
