Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2026

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

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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 María Serena

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 J. 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 D. 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

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