Christopher A. Hennessy

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Christopher A. Hennessy is a scholar working on Finance, Accounting and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher A. Hennessy has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Finance, 26 papers in Accounting and 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Christopher A. Hennessy's work include Corporate Finance and Governance (23 papers), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (16 papers) and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (13 papers). Christopher A. Hennessy is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Finance and Governance (23 papers), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (16 papers) and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (13 papers). Christopher A. Hennessy collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Christopher A. Hennessy's co-authors include Toni M. Whited, Amnon Levy, Hayne E. Leland, Dirk Hackbarth, Dmitry Livdan, Gilles Chemla, Yuri Tserlukevich, Ilya A. Strebulaev, Rainer Jankowitsch and Nils Friewald and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies.

In The Last Decade

Christopher A. Hennessy

43 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

How Costly Is External Financing? Evidence from a Structu... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2007 2005 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. How Costly Is External Financing? Evidence from a Structural Estimation
    2007 820 citations Christopher A. Hennessy, Toni M. Whited The Journal of Finance profile →
  2. Debt Dynamics
    2005 593 citations Christopher A. Hennessy, Toni M. Whited The Journal of Finance profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher A. Hennessy United Kingdom 13 1.9k 1.7k 948 678 195 46 2.6k
William R. Gebhardt United States 7 1.6k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 397 0.4× 975 1.4× 116 0.6× 8 2.2k
Vicentiu Covrig United States 14 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 535 0.6× 358 0.5× 225 1.2× 26 1.6k
Christa H. S. Bouwman United States 20 1.9k 1.0× 2.2k 1.3× 1.0k 1.1× 239 0.4× 174 0.9× 44 2.7k
Jon A. Garfinkel United States 18 1.6k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 546 0.6× 326 0.5× 64 0.3× 46 2.0k
Warren Bailey United States 14 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 479 0.5× 320 0.5× 252 1.3× 31 1.7k
Anand Srinivasan Singapore 14 1.9k 1.0× 2.0k 1.2× 711 0.8× 258 0.4× 65 0.3× 32 2.4k
Florian Heider Germany 18 1.2k 0.6× 1.7k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 187 0.3× 338 1.7× 52 2.3k
Jamie John McNutt United States 7 1.1k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 570 0.6× 218 0.3× 102 0.5× 10 1.6k
Michael G. Hertzel United States 21 1.7k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 579 0.6× 557 0.8× 67 0.3× 46 2.1k
Joan Farre-Mensa United States 13 1.3k 0.7× 598 0.4× 701 0.7× 355 0.5× 90 0.5× 25 1.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gamba, Andrea & Christopher A. Hennessy. (2024). Manipulable Data, Goodhart's Law, and Credit Risk Prediction. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Hennessy, Christopher A. & Charles Goodhart. (2023). GOODHART'S LAW AND MACHINE LEARNING: A STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE. International Economic Review. 64(3). 1075–1086. 3 indexed citations
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Chemla, Gilles & Christopher A. Hennessy. (2021). Signaling, Instrumentation, and CFO Decision-Making. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).
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Hennessy, Christopher A. & Dmitry Livdan. (2020). Learning, parameter drift, and the credibility revolution. Journal of Monetary Economics. 117. 395–417. 1 indexed citations
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Chemla, Gilles & Christopher A. Hennessy. (2019). Rational expectations and the Paradox of policy-relevant natural experiments. Journal of Monetary Economics. 114. 368–381. 7 indexed citations
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Hennessy, Christopher A. & Ilya A. Strebulaev. (2019). Beyond Random Assignment: Credible Inference and Extrapolation in Dynamic Economies. The Journal of Finance. 75(2). 825–866. 18 indexed citations
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Hennessy, Christopher A., et al.. (2019). Empirical analysis of corporate tax reforms: What is the null and where did it come from?. Journal of Financial Economics. 135(3). 555–576. 6 indexed citations
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Chemla, Gilles & Christopher A. Hennessy. (2017). Subject Rational Expectations Will Contaminate Randomized Controlled Medical Trials. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Chemla, Gilles & Christopher A. Hennessy. (2014). Skin in the Game and Moral Hazard. The Journal of Finance. 69(4). 1597–1641. 65 indexed citations
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Hennessy, Christopher A.. (2013). Model Before Measurement. 2(1). 193–215. 1 indexed citations
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Hennessy, Christopher A.. (2012). Liquidity-Based Security Design: The Case of Uninformed Sellers ∗.
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Chemla, Gilles & Christopher A. Hennessy. (2012). Skin in the Game and Moral Hazard. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Chemla, Gilles & Christopher A. Hennessy. (2011). Originate-to-Distribute and Screening Incentives. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Hennessy, Christopher A., et al.. (2010). Repeated Signaling and Firm Dynamics. Review of Financial Studies. 23(5). 1981–2023. 53 indexed citations
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Hennessy, Christopher A. & Toni M. Whited. (2007). How Costly Is External Financing? Evidence from a Structural Estimation. The Journal of Finance. 62(4). 1705–1745. 820 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hackbarth, Dirk, Christopher A. Hennessy, & Hayne E. Leland. (2006). Can the Tradeoff Theory Explain Debt Structure?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 52 indexed citations
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Hennessy, Christopher A. & Toni M. Whited. (2005). Debt Dynamics. The Journal of Finance. 60(3). 1129–1165. 593 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hennessy, Christopher A. & Toni M. Whited. (2004). Beyond Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities: Using Indirect Inference to Estimate Costs of External Funds. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Hennessy, Christopher A. & Yuri Tserlukevich. (2004). Analyzing Callable and Convertible Bonds when the Modigliani-Miller Assumptions are Violated. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Hackbarth, Dirk, Christopher A. Hennessy, & Hayne E. Leland. (2003). The Optimal Mix of Bank and Market Debt: An Asset Pricing Approach. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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