今天开始TOP 50 CITED ARTICLES OF ALL

To find a better idea for MS thesis, I decide to read TOP 50 CITED ARTICLES OF ALL TIME and take some notes.

Hopefully, I could finish reading all papers carefully and absorb some of them. It cannot be better if I could generate some ideas in the process!

• On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance
• The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns
• Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: Implications for Stock Market Efficiency
• The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems
• FINANCIAL RATIOS, DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS AND THE PREDICTION OF CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY
• Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies
• On the Relation between the Expected Value and the Volatility of the Nominal Excess Return on Stocks
• Does the Stock Market Overreact?
• Founding-Family Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from the S&P 500
• COUNTERSPECULATION, AUCTIONS, AND COMPETITIVE SEALED TENDERS
• Investor Sentiment and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
• The Limits of Arbitrage
• The Cross-Section of Volatility and Expected Returns
• Risks for the Long Run: A Potential Resolution of Asset Pricing Puzzles
• The Benefits of Lending Relationships: Evidence from Small Business Data
• A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading, and Overreaction in Asset Markets
• The Determinants of Capital Structure Choice
• Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation
• No Contagion, Only Interdependence: Measuring Stock Market Comovements
• Efficient Capital Markets: II
• Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk
• Are Investors Reluctant to Realize Their Losses?
• Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors
• A Simple Model of Capital Market Equilibrium with Incomplete Information
• ON THE PRICING OF CORPORATE DEBT: THE RISK STRUCTURE OF INTEREST RATES
• Costly Search and Mutual Fund Flows
• Insiders and Outsiders: The Choice between Informed and Arm's-Length Debt
• Giving Content to Investor Sentiment: The Role of Media in the Stock Market
• The New Issues Puzzle
• The Long-Run Performance of initial Public Offerings
• RISK, UNCERTAINTY, AND DIVERGENCE OF OPINION
• Market Timing and Capital Structure
• CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment
• Measuring and Testing the Impact of News on Volatility
• THE PERFORMANCE OF MUTUAL FUNDS IN THE PERIOD 1945-1964
• Why Does Stock Market Volatility Change Over Time?
• Extreme Correlation of International Equity Markets
• Conditional Skewness in Asset Pricing Tests
• Information and the Cost of Capital
• Home Bias at Home: Local Equity Preference in Domestic Portfolios
• Agency Problems and Dividend Policies around the World
• The Theory of Capital Structure