Journal of Applied Corporate Finance

1989 - 2025

Current editor(s): Donald H. Chew Jr.

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Volume 37, issue 2, 2025

A Message From the Editors pp. 2-3

John McCormack

A critique of the apocalyptic climate narrative pp. 8-15

Harry DeAngelo and Judith A. Curry

Body and soul: The price of paradise pp. 16-23

Marc Hodak and Jack Masterson

The impact of shifting societal attitudes toward women on capital markets and corporations: Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement pp. 24-35

Karl V. Lins, Lukas Roth, Henri Servaes and Ane Tamayo

How micro‐ and macro‐governance failures cause financial crises pp. 36-45

Charles W. Calomiris and Matthew Jaremski

Causes and dynamics of equity market run‐ups and “bubbles”: Lessons from the boom and bust of Britain's railway mania of the 1840s pp. 46-59

Vaska Atta‐Darkua, Robert F. Bruner and Scott C. Miller

Agency costs of stakeholderism: Evidence from compensation contracting at AT&T pp. 60-76

Stephen Bryan, Robert Nash and Ajay Patel

Hire for character. Train for competence pp. 77-84

Peter Rea, Alan Kolp and James K. Stoller

Corporate alignment with the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities: First evidence from financial accounting data pp. 85-103

Alexander Cheema‐Fox, Megan Czasonis, Piyush Kontu and George Serafeim

The UBS‐Credit Suisse Merger: Helvetia's Gift pp. 104-121

Pascal Böni, Tim A. Kroencke and Florin P. Vasvari

EVA still matters! Corporate and investor applications using EVA‐style analysis pp. 122-132

Li Ai, Atreya Chakraborty, James L. Grant and Emery A. Trahan

Volume 37, issue 1, 2025

A Message from the Editor pp. 2-3

Don Chew

Capitalizing entrepreneurship: The rise of growth equity pp. 8-22

Gabriele Lattanzio, Lubomir P. Litov, William L. Megginson and Alina Munteanu

Are investment banks special too? Evidence on relationship‐specific capital in investment bank services pp. 23-35

Chitru S. Fernando, William L. Megginson and Anthony D. May

The record on privatization pp. 36-47

William L. Megginson, Robert C. Nash and Matthias van Randenborgh

Are project finance loans different from other syndicated credits? pp. 48-57

Stefanie Kleimeier and William L. Megginson

Corporate Governance in India pp. 58-69

Rajesh Chakrabarti, William Megginson and Pradeep K. Yadav

The value of Reputation: Evidence from Equity Underwriting pp. 70-84

Chitru S. Fernando, Vladimir A. Gatchev, Anthony D. May and William L. Megginson

The rise of accelerated seasoned equity underwritings pp. 85-105

Bernardo Bortolotti, William Megginson and Scott B. Smart

The financial and economic lessons of Italy's privatization program pp. 106-116

William L. Megginson and Dario Scannapieco

How stock‐swap mergers affect shareholder (and bondholder) wealth: More evidence of the value of corporate “Focus” pp. 117-125

Lance A. Nail, William L. Megginson and Carlos Maquieira

Toward a global model of venture capital? pp. 126-140

William L. Megginson

Volume 36, issue 4, 2024

A message from the editors pp. 2-3

Don Chew and John McCormack

Postmodern corporate finance pp. 9-18

Gregory V. Milano

A tale of leadership in value creation pp. 19-26

Gregory V. Milano

EVA and the “New Economy” pp. 27-34

Gregory V. Milano

Beyond EVA pp. 35-43

Gregory V. Milano

Driving outperformance: The power and potential of economic profit pp. 44-50

Jeffrey Greene, Greg Milano, Alex Curatolo and Michael Chew

How one company drives ownership behavior to innovate and create shareholder value: The case of Varian Medical Systems pp. 51-55

J. Michael Bruff and Marwaan Karame

The dirty dozen stifling value‐based management: Diagnoses and solutions pp. 56-61

Jeffrey Greene

Capital deployment roundtable: A discussion of corporate investment and payout policy pp. 62-79

Paul Clancy, Michael Mauboussin, John Briscoe, Scott Ostfeld, Paul Hilal, John McCormack, Don Chew and Gregory V. Milano

Save the buyback, save jobs pp. 80-81

Gregory V. Milano and Michael Chew

Building a bridge between marketing and finance pp. 82-91

Ryan Barker and Gregory V. Milano

A deeper look at the return on purpose: Before and during a crisis pp. 119-132

Gregory V. Milano, Riley Whately, Brian Tomlinson and Alexa Yiğit

Volume 36, issue 2, 2024

A message from the Editors pp. 2-4

John McCormack

Rational sustainability pp. 8-15

Alex Edmans

Living wages revisited: The case of Walgreens Boots Alliance pp. 16-20

Tom Gosling

Corporate social responsibility and the shareholder primacy paradigm pp. 21-26

David J. Denis

Epilogue: Sustainable financial management (and the promise and pitfalls of ESG investing) pp. 27-35

Don Chew

The American Dream Is Alive and Well (and the Problem of U.S. Inequality Greatly Exaggerated)* pp. 36-39

Michael Strain

The neglected moral effects of the market: Arguments from the last 300 years pp. 41-44

Jerry Z. Muller

Capitalism and inequality: What the right and the left get wrong pp. 45-52

Jerry Z. Muller

Nationalism and capitalism pp. 53-59

Jerry Z. Muller

The threat of democracy to capitalism pp. 60-65

Jerry Z. Muller

Capitalism and the Jews revisited pp. 66-72

Jerry Z. Muller

Volume 36, issue 1, 2024

A message from the Editor pp. 2-4

Don Chew

Financial markets and economic growth pp. 9-14

Merton Miller

Another look back at Merton Miller's “Financial Markets and Economic Growth” pp. 15-18

Charles W. Calomiris

The political origins of five decades of big changes in banking pp. 19-21

Charles W. Calomiris

The founding of the federal banking system as a commitment to fair access pp. 22-23

Charles W. Calomiris

Will fractional‐reserve stablecoin banking replace bitcoin and some traditional banking payments? pp. 24-28

Charles W. Calomiris

Fear and loathing in the market for US Treasuries and the clearing nostrum pp. 29-33

Craig Pirrong

New thinking about the effects of negative interest rates on banks and the economy pp. 34-35

Charles W. Calomiris

Two heads are better than one: The case for incorporating market‐based information into bank supervision and regulation pp. 36-39

Charles W. Calomiris

The value of “Soft” supervisory information pp. 40-41

Charles W. Calomiris

The case for loan market efficiency—and freedom pp. 42-44

Charles W. Calomiris

Systemic risk and unrealized losses in the banking system pp. 45-54

Paul Kupiec