Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2026

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

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Volume 101, issue C, 2026

Prosocial cultural heritage and corporate philanthropy

Li Huang, Oliver Zhen Li, Shan Wang and Lijun Xia

Republican boards' and CEOs' preferences for in-person AGMs

Lily Yuanzhi Li and David Yermack

Corporate social responsibility as sustainable financial strategy: Evidence from China's targeted poverty alleviation

Jia Meng and ZhongXiang Zhang

Financial advice behaviour: humans versus AI

Ylva Baeckström and Roman Matkovskyy

Relationship banking: The borrower’s incentives channel

Pejman Abedifar, Soroush Kamyab, Steven Ongena and Amine Tarazi

Non-underwritten placements of equity

Siyuan Fan, Ioannis V. Floros, Leonardo Madureira and Ajai K. Singh

Horizontal directors and investment efficiency

José-Miguel Gaspar, Sumingyue Wang and Liang Xu

Not in my backyard: Personal bias in mutual fund voting on environmental and social proposals

Ryan Flugum, Choonsik Lee and Matthew E. Souther

How does relief from mandatory disclosure affect firm investment and growth?

Anantha Divakaruni, Howard Jones and Kazbi Soonawalla

Growth equity investment patterns and performance

Paul Lavery, William L. Megginson and Alina Munteanu

When peers fail: Spillover effects of CSR incidents on real investment

Thang Ho, Duc Trung Do, Giray Gozgor and Jing Li

Less is more: Institutional investors and corporate venture capital

Dongxu Li, Yifei Mao, Xuan Tian and Kailei Ye

How do firms resolve patent disputes? Insights from competitive dynamics and market uncertainty

Danmo Lin, Du Liu and A. Elizabeth Whalley

Co-opted boards and anti-takeover provisions in US firms: Do better financial outcomes and dynamic governance matter?

Mohammad Dulal Miah, Rashedul Hasan, Sabur Mollah and Arun Upadhyay

Are short sellers lured by analyst consensus?

Harold Contreras and Francisco Marcet

Divestitures and CEO overconfidence

Mark Humphery-Jenner, Vikram Nanda, Silveri, Sabatino (Dino) and Minxing Sun

Conflicting incentives: How the inevitable disclosure doctrine disparately influences disclosure

Thomas Bates, Bryan Lim, Jordan Neyland and Yolanda Yulong Wang

Skilled foreign labor supply and corporate investment: Evidence from H-1B lotteries and application deadlines

Sheng-Jun Xu

Mandated board independence and shareholder value: Evidence on the role of firm characteristics

Edward Kim

Contingent capital with contingent share repurchase clause

Xianwei Lin, Franck Moraux and Xuezhi Qin

Internal information asymmetry, external reporting, and insider trading: Theory and evidence

Chang-Mo Kang, Donghyun Kim and Youngdeok Lim

Corporate asset-backed securitization and firm performance in China: A shadow-leverage perspective

Ronghui Pang, Yanan Zhang, Jianbiao Li and Shaopeng Xie

CEO aging and investment propensity: Experimental evidence

Steffen Brenner, Jeppe Christoffersen, Torben Andersen and Thomas Plenborg

The unintended real effect of salary history bans: The case of innovation

Julian Atanassov and Lin Deng

Volume 100, issue C, 2026

The effect of the cost of capital on private equity buyout performance

Paul M. Guest, Mingzhu Wang and Simon Welte

Institutional blockholders and corporate innovation

Bing Guo, Dennis C. Hutschenreiter, David Perez-Castrillo and Anna Toldrà-Simats

Customer concentration and corporate employment

Huiqiang Wang, Xinjian Shao and Zheng Liu

Migrant welfare policies and firm value: Evidence from a novel city-level index in China

Xianfeng Zhang, Yuxuan Gu, Hongyang Liu, Qihang Xue and Da Fang

When trust breaks: Academic misconduct, innovation networks, and capital discrimination

Jianxiang Hou, Kebin Wang and Tian Wu

Online voting and minority shareholders' information acquisition: Evidence from a mandatory reform in China

Yili Wu, Changjiang Lyu and Chenkai Ni

Distributional income effects of banking regulation in Europe

Melina Ludolph, Lena Tonzer and Lars Brausewetter

Does local political corruption asymmetrically affect resource adjustment decisions?

Georgios Loukopoulos, Panagiotis Loukopoulos and Dimitrios Ntounis

Financial amplification, leased capital, and risk management

Yuhao Xuan, Linqing You and Kaihong Song

Age demographics and stock return comovement

Shaddy Douidar, Suin Lee, Christos Pantzalis and Jung Chul Park

Drought, bank lending, and agricultural financial resilience

Michael Brei, Oskar Kowalewski, Piotr Śpiewanowski and Eric Strobl

Social interactions in investment decisions: Evidence from fund managers' common site visits

Yangming Bao, Yun Chen and Feifei Zhu

How managers frame capital budgeting in investor communications

Robert Battalio, Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald

Do creditor rights reduce tunneling? Evidence from India’s bankruptcy law reforms

Prasanna Gai, Akshat Singh, Asha Sundaram and Gautham Udupa

Risky corporate savings and stock liquidity

Qifan Zhai, Yuyuan Chang and Zhou, Qing (Clara)

The role of growth strategies in acquisitions

Yang Bai, Fred Bereskin, Micah S. Officer and Jing Wang

Does common ownership raise antitrust concerns?

Huaizhou Li, Leo Liu, Ronald Masulis and Jason Zein

Female board directorship and employee pay: International evidence from board gender diversity reforms

Jiqing Bian, Douglas J. Cumming, Jin Lei and Yan Wang

Regulatory centralization and corporate green innovation: Evidence from personnel authority reform in China

Dongmin Kong, Chenhao Liu and Ling Zhu

Antitrust policies and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence

Taejin Jung, Sunhwa Choi, Jaehee Jo and Hee-Yeon Sunwoo

Volume 99, issue C, 2026

Restricting executive pay, growth incentives, and corporate M&As

Tian Lan and Luyao Pan

Manipulating expectations upward: Investor sentiment and managers’ range forecast strategy

Lin Chen, Huang, Zhijian (James), Zhuo Li and Fenghua Wen

Do director ownership plans change director behavior?

Shawn Mobbs and Shage Zhang

Decomposing the finance wage premium: Contributions of technology and risk

Ata Can Bertay, José Gabriel Carreño, Harry Huizinga, Burak Uras and Nathanael Vellekoop

Global corporate bond markets and local monetary policy transmission

Ahmet Benlialper

Dissecting the influence of geopolitical risks on employment decisions: The role of employment protection across countries

Jinyan Ji, Zhangfan Cao, Cherry Yi Zhang and Xiaolan Zheng

Warrants and their agency issues: Investment timing, financing, and default effects

Thomas A. McWalter and Peter H. Ritchken

Pay restrictions and labor investment

June Cao, Iftekhar Hasan, Zijie Huang and Jingyuan Zhao

Government debt, government ownership, and corporate cash dividends

Jing Lin, Yuetong Lu, Mingshan Zhou and Yunbi An

Deposit insurance and discretion in loan loss provisioning

Leo Pugachev, Ashok Robin, Dilin Wang and Rong Yang

Shadow seniority? Lending relationships and borrowers’ selective default

Francisco González, José E. Gutiérrez and Jose Maria Serena Garralda

Lease or borrow? The case of small equipment contracts

James Schallheim and Xiaodi Zhang

Strategic adaptations to competition: Supplier investment shifts following import tariff cuts

Alok Nemani and Shweta Srinivasan

Business association membership and firms’ access to trade credit: Evidence from thirty countries

Xianhang Qian and Zisen Liu

Turning threats into opportunities: The impact of cybersecurity risk on labor investment efficiency

Zheng Yang, Henry Hongren Huang and Trung K. Do

Corporate governance and trade credit: International evidence from board reforms

Douglas Cumming, R. Jared DeLisle, Jin Lei and Zi Yang

The transparency of AI and the profits of the firm

Pablo Hernández-Lagos

Do industrial land discounts raise firms' capital-labor ratios? Evidence from China

Wenqi Duan, Jianhong Qi and Yong Tan

Consumer sentiment inequality, relative performance of firms, and the market

Husna Memon and Amir Rubin

Tell me you have a plan! Insider trade signals from firms undergoing corporate downsizing

Dallin M. Alldredge, Lee E. Biggerstaff and Brian Blank

Political network and muted insider trading

Wei Chen, Xian Gu, Iftekhar Hasan, Hao Zhao and Yun Zhu

Navigating policy uncertainty: Politically experienced directors and corporate investment

Demian Berchtold, Blake Bowler, Paul Brockman, Zhe Li and Jiri Tresl

Investor repricing of chronic undervaluation: Evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange capital efficiency initiative

D’Ercole, Francesco, Alexander F. Wagner and Kazuo Yamada

Gains from targeting? Government subsidies and firm performance in China

Jiuli Huang, Yabin Wang and Min Zhu

Strategic cash portfolio management in the face of policy uncertainty: Evidence from U.S. firms

Julian Atanassov, Gabriele Lattanzio and Bektemir Ysmailov