Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

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

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Volume 95, issue C, 2025

Birth order and fund manager’s trading behavior: Role of sibling rivalry

Vikas Agarwal, Alexander Cochardt and Vitaly Orlov

Lazy dividends

Patrick J. Dennis and James P. Weston

Supervisory arbitrage and real effects

Thorsten Beck, Consuelo Silva-Buston and Wolf Wagner

Corporate political activities and firms' carbon emissions

Abu Amin, Md Miran Hossain, Narae Lee and Samir Saadi

Market pressure or regulatory pressure? U.S. small bank pre-emptive IT investment to data privacy regulation

Jin Huang, Xiangyu Lin, Xiaomeng Shi and S. Sarah Zhang

Bankers’ pay and the evolving structure of US banking

Ronald W. Anderson and Karin Jõeveer

Democracy, dividends, and corporate valuation

Loc T. Bui

The ripple effect: How subsidies transform firm behavior

José Antonio Pérez-Amuedo, M. Kabir Hassan and Reza Houston

Corporate share repurchases and the 2023 excise tax

Don M. Autore, Spencer Barnes, Nicholas Clarke and Andrew Schrowang

Shareholder litigation rights, CEO turnover, and board monitoring

Hue Hwa Au Yong, Blake Loriot and Yulia Merkoulova

Reputation acquisition and abnormal performance in IPO underwriting

Walid Y. Busaba, Zheng Liu and Felipe Restrepo

Does brand capital influence corporate environmental policies? Evidence from toxic release inventory data

Md Ismail Haidar, Mark Kroll and Nam H. Nguyen

Negative effects of delayed retirement: Employment protection of older workers and firm value

Atsushi Chino

Withdrawal notice to: “How alternative finance informs central themes in corporate finance” [J. Corp. Finan. 67 (2021) 101879]

Hisham Farag and Sofia Johan

Can government policies tackle maturity mismatches? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Xiao Chen, Narisa Tianjing Dai, Ming Liu, Raymond H.Y. So and Zhiyuan Simon Tan

Peer default and EDGAR searches

Oliver Zhen Li, Yupeng Lin, Jinping Zhang and Zilong Zhang

Institutional voids and business group dynamics: Evidence from judicial reform in China11We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71772039)，National Social Science Foundation of China (No. 21&ZD144), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in UIBE (CXTD14–01), the Postgraduate Innovative Research Fund of University of International Business and Economics (No. 202509), and Taishan Young Talent Scholar Project of Shandong Province (No. 20221116)

Xingxing Hu, Bingxuan Lin, Huilong Liu and Xiaowei Xu

Volume 94, issue C, 2025

A new lease on firm behavior

Matteo Binfarè, Robert A. Connolly, Fotis Grigoris and Crocker H. Liu

A primer on oracle economics

Lin William Cong, Liam Fox, Siguang Li and Luofeng Zhou

Does hedge fund activism harm corporate social performance? Evidence from ESG ratings11We have no potential conflicts to disclose. Zhao gratefully acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, [Grant No. 72472150]

Jiaying Wei and Shan Zhao

Corporate taxes and corporate social responsibility

Xin Chang, Yaling Jin, Endong Yang and Wenrui Zhang

Managerial incentives and trade credit: Evidence from China's EVA appraisal reform among CSOEs

Yang He, Xin Pang and Kemin Wang

Corporate mergers and acquisitions under lender scrutiny

Buhui Qiu and Teng Wang

Number of numbers: Does a greater proportion of quantitative textual disclosure reduce information risk?

John L. Campbell, Xin Zheng and Dexin Zhou

The demand for tax-favored risky assets with capital gains tax exclusions, tax policy uncertainty, and its implications for pricing

Yehuda Davis, Suresh Govindaraj and Tavish Tejas

Where do angels come from?

Valerio Pelucco and Silvio Vismara

Demand-driven corporate social responsibility: Symbolic versus substantive change after environmental disasters

Juan Manuel García Lara, Beatriz García Osma, Irina Gazizova and Akram Khalilov

Transparency as the antidote: Do trade disputes intensify corporate earnings management?

Shouyu Yao, Tianze Li, Jing Liao, Kam C. Chan and Xutang Liu

Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts

YiLin Wu, Richard Lok-Si Ieong and Shawn Thomas

Automation cost flexibility and firm value

Barıs Ince and Cansu Iskenderoglu

Subsidizing uncertain investments: The role of production technology and imprecise learning

Christian Riis Flor and Kevin Berg Grell

Machine Learning for the Unlisted: Enhancing MSME Default Prediction with Public Market Signals

Alessandro Bitetto, Stefano Filomeni and Michele Modina

Voluntary disclosures and climate change uncertainty: Evidence from CDS premiums

Michael B. Imerman, Xiaoxia Ye and Ran Zhao

Does government ownership differently impact expected left-tail and volatility risk of bank stock? Evidence from options market

Pranjal Srivastava, Sumit Saurav and Abinash Mishra

Does share pledging affect workplace safety?

Kenuo Li and Lijuan Zhang

The good and evil of algos: Investment-to-price sensitivity and the learning hypothesis

Nihad Aliyev, Fariz Huseynov and Khaladdin Rzayev

Political connections and media bias: Evidence from China

Denis Schweizer, Xinjie Wang, Ge Wu and Aoran Zhang

Common institutional investors and board representation in rival firms

Heng Geng, Harald Hau, Roni Michaely and Binh Hoang Nguyen

Bitcoin price volatility: Effects of retail traders, illegal users, and sentiment

Kose John and Jingrui Li

Reconciling the evidence on board diversity mandates

Daniel T. Greene, JiHoon Hwang, Vincent J. Intintoli and Kathleen M. Kahle

Boards of Banks

Daniel Ferreira, Tom Kirchmaier, Daniel Metzger and Shiwei Ye

Networks and information in credit markets

Abhimanyu Gupta, Sotirios Kokas, Alexander Michaelides and Raoul Minetti

The impact of local corruption on firms' narrative R&D disclosures

Rui Huang, Xuejun Jiang, Leonard Leye Li, Louise Yi Lu and Yangxin Yu

Special issue on non-significant results

Matthew Ringgenberg

Do firms benefit from carbon risk management? Evidence from the credit default swaps market

Huu Nhan Duong, Petko S. Kalev, Madhu Kalimipalli and Saurabh Trivedi

Peer effects of star-analysts' departure: New evidence from China

Zhifan Tian, Zeng, Cheng (Colin), Chaofan Li and Yi Wu

Cash holdings and relationship lending

Sandeep Dahiya, Issam Hallak and Thomas Matthys

Firm-level climate sentiments, climate politics and implied cost of equity capital

Katsiaryna Salavei Bardos, Dev R. Mishra and Hyacinthe Y. Somé

Central bank digital currency and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from China's e-CNY pilot

Guanglong Zhang and Kam C. Chan

Dark Trading and Stock-based CEO Pay

Khaladdin Rzayev, Tanseli Savaser and Elif Sisli-Ciamarra

Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?

Tiago Loncan

The intangible shift: Redefining the dynamics of market-to-book ratios

Peter Cheng, Lin Li, Wilson H.S. Tong and Chingfu Tsai

Director informativeness following board gender balancing: Evidence from insider trading

Bjorn Eckbo and Bernt Ødegaard

Tightening monetary policy and investment dynamics in the European Monetary Union: Firm- and country-level heterogeneity

Paolo Canofari, Marco Cucculelli, Alessandro Piergallini and Matteo Renghini

The impact of enhanced creditor rights on venture capital: Evidence from the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act

William L. Megginson and Hyeonjoon Park

Backing away from ESG? The effect of sovereign rating downgrades on corporate sustainability

Periklis Boumparis, Chris Florackis, Omrane Guedhami and Sushil Sainani

CEO cultural heritage and corporate social responsibility

Md Showaib Sarker and Ahmed Elnahas

Does green bond issuance reduce the cost of bank loans? Evidence from China

Congcong Wang, Chong Wang, Huaigang Long and Adam Zaremba

The dark side of CEO inside debt: Evidence from stock price crash risk

Amir Gholami and Ahmed Elnahas