Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

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

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Volume 90, issue C, 2025

Little emperor CEOs: Firm risk and performance when CEOs grow up without siblings

Tianxi Wang, Angelica Gonzalez, Jens Hagendorff and Vathunyoo Sila

The fed information shocks and the market for corporate control: Predictive and causal effects

Samer Adra, Leonidas G. Barbopoulos and Anthony Saunders

The impact of CEO political ideology on labor cost reductions and payout decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ali Bayat, Marc Goergen, Panagiotis Koutroumpis and Xingjie Wei

Corporate social responsibility and insider horizon

Mark Shackleton, Yaqiong Yao and Ziran Zuo

Non-compete agreements, innovation value and efficiency

Zhaozhao He

Volume 89, issue C, 2024

The performance of private equity portfolio companies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Paul Lavery and Nicholas Wilson

Shadow union in local labor markets and corporate financing policies

DuckKi Cho and Lyungmae Choi

Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences

Yiming Qian, Xinjian Shao and Jingchi Liao

Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives

Lubomir P. Litov, Xia Liu, William L. Megginson and Romora E. Sitorus

Do buy-side analysts in earnings conference calls manipulate stock prices?

Gang Hu, Michael J. Jung, M.H. Franco Wong, Danlei Bonnie Yu and X. Frank Zhang

The value impact of climate and non-climate environmental shareholder proposals

Henk Berkman, Jonathan Jona, Joshua Lodge and Joshua Shemesh

Corruption and insider trading

Kyriacos Kyriacou, Siming Liu and Bryan Mase

Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale

Hung-Kun Chen and Shing-yang Hu

Majority-of-the-minority shareholder votes and investment efficiency

Ning Cao, Paul B. McGuinness and Chao Xi

Does the mandatory disclosure of suppliers' tax uncertainties affect supply chain relations?

Xuedan Tao, Huabing Barbara Wang, Qian Xin and You Xu

Digitalization and the performance of non-technological firms: Evidence from the COVID-19 and natural disaster shocks

José-Miguel Gaspar, Sumingyue Wang and Liang Xu

Institutional dual ownership and voluntary greenhouse gas emission disclosure

Johannes A. Barg, Wolfgang Drobetz, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami and Henning Schröder

Family firms and carbon emissions

Marcin Borsuk, Nicolas Eugster, Paul-Olivier Klein and Oskar Kowalewski

Does tax reform affect labor investment efficiency?

Steven E. Kaplan and Eugie Y. Lee

The real effects of distressed bank mergers

Valeriya Dinger, Christian Schmidt and Erik Theissen

Corporate social responsibility and external disruptions

Po-Hsuan Hsu, Hsiao-Hui Lee and Long Yi

Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers

Ivan E. Brick, Darius Palia and Yankuo Qiao

Supply chain vertical common ownership and cost of loans

Haowen Tian, Junkai Wang and Sirui Wu

The effect of bond ownership structure on ESG performance

Hye Seung Lee, Jesus M. Salas, Ke Shen and Ke Yang

Compensation peer effects of corporate social responsibility

Yuyuan Chang, Nicolai J. Foss, Shuping Li and Jing Xie

The gender gap in executive promotions

Jing Xu

Does relaxing household credit constraints hurt small business lending? Evidence from a policy change in Texas

Berrak Bahadir, Inci Gumus and Matthew Schaffer

Optimal financing of highly innovative projects under double moral hazard

Gino Loyola and Yolanda Portilla

Private equity buyouts & firm exporting in crisis periods: Exploring a new channel

Paul Lavery, Marina-Eliza Spaliara and Holger Görg

Does litigation risk matter for the choice between bank debt and public debt?

H. Kent Baker, Hatem Rjiba, Samir Saadi and Syrine Sassi

Reserves regulation and the risk-taking channel

Manthos Delis, Sotirios Kokas and Alexandros Kontonikas

Sibling co-management and cost of capital: Evidence from Chinese listed family firms

Nianhang Xu, Danwen Song, Rongrong Xie and Kam C. Chan

Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence

Huu Nhan Duong, Abhinav Goyal and Leon Zolotoy

Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta

Ashrafee Hossain, Abdullah-Al Masum and Ramzi Benkraiem

The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market

Qing Yu, Eddie Chi-Man Hui and Jianfu Shen

Volume 88, issue C, 2024

The real impacts of public short campaigns: Evidence from stakeholders

Claire Liu, Angie Low and Talis Putnins

Political uncertainty and institutional herding

Konstantinos Gavriilidis, Vasileios Kallinterakis and Maurizio Montone

Litigation and information effects on private sales of securities

Onur Bayar, Ioannis V. Floros, Yini Liu and Juan Mao

IPO price formation and board gender diversity

Raghavendra Rau, Jason Sandvik and Theo Vermaelen

Option trading and equity price efficiency

Keming Li

Double standards? The adverse impact of chairperson hometown ties on corporate green innovation

Nianhang Xu, Min Li, Rongrong Xie and Kam C. Chan

Fast tracks to boardrooms: Director supply and board appointments

Audinga Baltrunaite and Egle Karmaziene

Law, politics, and trade credit in China

Senlin Miao, Zhaobo Zhu, Deng, Wesley (Xiaohu) and Fenghua Wen

Environmental regulations, supply chain relationships, and green technological innovation

Jing Lin, Xiyang Cao, Xiaoqi Dong and Yunbi An

Financial distress, bank branching deregulation, and customer-supplier relationships

Yili Lian

The role of the end time in experimental asset markets

Anita Kopányi-Peuker and Matthias Weber

Navigating through cyberattacks: The role of tax aggressiveness

Anh-Tuan Le, Henry Hongren Huang and Trung Do

Pledgeability and bank lending technology

Tobias Dieler and Wei Zhai

Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?

Mohammad Hendijani Zadeh and Zahra Jalali

Volume 87, issue C, 2024

Subsidy-driven firm growth: Does loan history matter? Evidence from a European Union subsidy program

Tirupam Goel, Almos Telegdy, Ádám Banai and Elod Takats

Impact of mobile banking on small business lending after bank branch closures

Ye Wang and Shuang Wu

ISDS disputes, adjudication and cross-border M&As

Julan Du and Yifei Zhang

The fringe benefits of fringe benefits: When firms borrow from their retirement providers

Connor L. Kasten

Adding stress in banking: Stress tests and risk-taking sentiments

Raffi E. García, Jyothsna G. Harithsa and Abena Owusu

Law and borders: Entrepreneurs' immigration status and trade credit

Changqin Luo, Hanwen Sun, Guochao Yang and Bohui Zhang

Retraction notice to “Rising board gender diversity and incentives of female directors” [Journal of Corporate Finance 80 (2023) 102386]

Arun Upadhyay

Signaling through timing of stock splits

Maria Chiara Iannino, Min Zhang and Sergey Zhuk

Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation

Swaminathan Balasubramaniam, Armando Gomes and SangMok Lee

Illuminating the murk: The effect of business complexity on voluntary disclosure

Arshia Farzamfar, Pouyan Foroughi, Hosein Hamisheh Bahar and Lilian Ng

Corporate insider purchases and the options market: Competition among informed investors

Byounghyun Jeon and Johan Sulaeman

Dynamic incentive contracts for ESG investing

Yuqian Zhang and Zhaojun Yang

Do investors benefit from MiFID II unbundling?

Emelie Fröberg and Michael Halling

Board gender diversity reform and corporate carbon emissions

Raúl Barroso, Tinghua Duan, Guo, Siyue (Sarina) and Oskar Kowalewski

Global board reforms and corporate acquisition performance

Thomas To, Eliza Wu and Diya Zhao

Working capital balances and financial policy

Mark J. Flannery and Özde Öztekin

The effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 on corporate investment11The authors wish to thank an anonymous referee, Heitor Almeida (editor), Novia Chen, Scott Dyreng, Ed Maydew, Sean McGuire, Volkan Muslu, Hrvoje Kurtovic, Richard Price, Brian Rountree, Karen Nelson, Antonio de Vito, Nisreen Salti, Jack Stecher, and Ryan Wilson for helpful comments. We especially thank Jan-Axel Wittlinger for extensive help on previous versions of this paper

Steven Crawford and Garen Markarian

Political determinants of privatizations in China: A natural experiment based on politician career concerns

Zhangkai Huang, Jinyu Liu, Guangrong Ma and Lixin Xu

Aggregate productivity, leased capital and market participation

Linqing You

70 years of US corporate profits

Simcha Barkai and Seth G. Benzell

Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers

Mosab Hammoudeh and Amrita Nain

Underwriter incentives and IPO pricing

Susanne Espenlaub, Abdulkadir Mohamed and Brahim Saadouni

Do CFO career concerns matter? Evidence from IPO financial reporting outcomes

Dimitrios Gounopoulos, Georgios Loukopoulos, Panagiotis Loukopoulos and Yu Zhang