Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2026

Current editor(s): A. Poulsen and J. Netter

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Volume 98, issue C, 2026

New event and old antidote: Can ex-ante disclosure mitigate regulatory risk?

Ziyi Li, Rui Ruan, Yuchen Sun and Yue Tang

How you measure transition risk matters: comparing and evaluating climate transition risk metrics

Philip Fliegel

A minimum buyback requirement in open market repurchases: Impact on the signaling role

Pranjal Srivastava, Joshy Jacob and Ajay Pandey

Twin threats: The compound effect of transition and physical climate risks on firms' credit ratings

Marcin Borsuk, Zhuoya Du, Tinghua Duan, Oskar Kowalewski, Jianping Qi and Gireesh Shrimali

Monetary policy, intangible capital, and debt contracts

Renbin Zhang and Weimin Zhou

Curbing stock price crash: The bright side of regulatory fragmentation

Ming Gu, Dongxu Li and Zhitao Xiong

Executive live streaming

Zuben Jin and Zhewei Cheng

Management faultlines and the cost of bank loans

Hanzhong Shi, Min Teng, Wenming Wang, Kerui Zhai and Tianhui Li

Deregulation and bank stability: Evidence from loan-to-deposit ratio requirement in China

Jie Li, Liping Lu, Jin Wu and Tianhang Zhou

Analyst coverage of innovative firms and patent market values

Jing He, Michael J. Jung and Xiaodi Zhang

Do lenders price firms’ cybersecurity risk?

Bok Min Choi, Hans Degryse and Kristien Smedts

Exploring the profitability in analyst collective opinions: The role of analyst crowd characteristics

Xianjiao Wu, Qiang Ye, Xiaochen Liu and Xudong Liu

Tariffs, corporate cash holdings, and innovation

Konrad Adler, JaeBin Ahn and Mai Chi Dao

Risk management and corporate lifecycles: Evidence from reinsurance purchases

Cassandra R. Cole and Evan M. Eastman

Real estate collateral, lender screening, and M&A performance

Mingze Gao, Thanh Son Luong and Buhui Qiu

Insider trading with options: Evidence from rank-and-file employees

Matteo Vacca

Extreme weather events and payment timeliness in supply chains: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina

Viet A. Dang, Ning Gao and Hongge Lin

Mandatory CSR spending and firm risk: New evidence from regulatory intervention in India

Yogesh Chauhan, Chinmoy Ghosh and Nemiraja Jadiyappa

Major government customers and corporate court outcomes: Evidence from China

Xianhang Qian, Zisen Liu, Qian Wu and Cheng Zeng

Corporate green revenue and syndicated loan pricing

Jiali Yan and Junyang Yin

Bank municipal bond holdings and mortgage lending standards

Omar Rachedi and Vahid Saadi

Fintech market and regulation: Lessons from China’s peer-to-peer lending platforms

Dingwei Gu, Zhengqing Gui and Yangguang Huang

Worldwide board reforms and cross-border M&A flows

Qi Dong, Gianluca Marcato and Chen Zheng

Environmental and social incidents and misvaluation-driven leveraged buyouts

Neil M. Kellard, Alexandros Kontonikas, Michael J. Lamla, Stefano Maiani and Geoffrey Wood

Does environmental lobbying create firm value?

Anqi Jiao, Chunbo Liu and Honglin Ren

Corporate agility and monetary policy transmission

Gonul Colak and Sinh Thoi Mai

Outcomes, risk-taking, and incentives: Evidence from asset managers

Carsten Bienz, Diego Bonelli, Aksel Mjøs and Francisco Santos

Inter-industry network and corporate bond recovery rates

Abdolreza Nazemi, Friedrich Baumann and Frank J. Fabozzi

Economic policy uncertainty and the founding family firm premium

Markus Fütterer, Marc Steffen Rapp and Ignacio Requejo

Volume 97, issue C, 2026

When does a generalist CEO create shareholder value? The effect of managerial challenge

Sergey Gelman, Russell Fralich, Alex Bitektine and Sara Zahraei

Pension fund investment and firm innovation

David Pinkus, Dario Pozzoli and Cédric Schneider

Ruling with ideology: Politicians’ beliefs and privatizations

Linxiang Ma

The double-edged sword of corporate net zero commitment on the carbon risk premium

Keith Jin Deng Chan and Wilson Tsz Shing Wan

Revealing or concealing? The competitive landscape of bad news disclosure

Rui Dai, Rui Duan and Lilian Ng

It's all about timing: Analyst forecasts during weekday non-trading hours

Xunzhuo Xi, Yangyang Chen, Feng Tang and Desmond Chun Yip Yuen

Do carbon emissions affect the cost of capital? Primary versus secondary corporate bond markets

Daniel Kim and Sébastien Pouget

Understanding outlier opinions: Evidence from financial analysts

Qianqian Du, Frank Yu and Xiaoyun Yu

Advances in blockchain-based finance: Insights from the special issue

Evgeny Lyandres

Local peer effects and corporate investment

Yangming Bao and Martin R. Goetz

Friend or foe? Bilateral political relations and the portfolio allocation of foreign institutional investors

Stefano Lugo and Maurizio Montone

“Death becomes her”: Market reaction to the death of controlling inside blockholders

Massimiliano Barbi and Marco Bigelli

“May the road ahead be smooth”: Cultural continuity and CEO succession

Ran Tao and Hong Zhao

Volume 96, issue C, 2026

Preventive regulatory enforcement and access to trade credit: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Feng Cao, Haitong Li, Xueyan Zhang and Hong Zou

Quantifying the legacy of trauma: The long-term impact of the African slave trade on contemporary firm corruption

Yu Liu, Jian Xu and Yifan Zhou

The real effects of tick-size adjustments: Evidence from the 2016 tick-size pilot

Chen Lin, Wentao Yao and Hong Zou

Beneficiary investor monitoring and asset manager engagement

Masumi Sai, Yasutomo Tsukioka and Kazuo Yamada

New international flight routes and MNCs' investment

Hao Wei and Yuan Liu

Riskier climate, closer ties? How climate risk drives firms towards bank debt financing

Naser Al-Ayyoub and Hieu V. Phan

The crypto multiplier

Rodney J. Garratt and Maarten R.C. van Oordt

M&As and innovation: Evidence from acquiring private firms

Siti Farida, Jana P. Fidrmuc and Chendi Zhang

Greening through trade

Dongmin Kong, Chenhao Liu and Wenxu Ye

National identity and foreign directors' access to private information

Shaoyi Wang

Blockchain price oracles: Accuracy and violation recovery

Matthias Nadler, Katrin Schuler and Fabian Schär

Competition and the value of innovation

Muhan Hu and Linxiang Ma

Rookie directors and board efficacy

Bilal Al Dah, Mustafa Dah and Konstantinos Stathopoulos

Employee stock options and innovation: Evidence from an exogenous shock to employee intellectual property rights

Soomi Jang, Tunde Kovacs and Heeick Choi

Interest rate uncertainty and the investment/financing decisions

Xue Cui, Sudipto Sarkar and Chuanqian Zhang

Strategic flexibility: How rent-seeking behavior enables firms to adapt to uncertainty

Kyriacos Kyriacou, Siming Liu and Bryan Mase

Freedom is not free: Manager disloyalty and bank debt reliance

Luofan Bu, Jeffrey Ng, Byron Y. Song and Mark Yuzhi Yan

Impact of culture in peer-to-peer lending

Anand M. Goel and Hongju Ren

What data have told us about decentralized finance

Jaime Castillo León and Alfred Lehar