Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

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

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Volume 66, issue C, 2021

What do insiders know? Evidence from insider trading around share repurchases and SEOs

Peter Cziraki, Evgeny Lyandres and Roni Michaely

Securities litigation and corporate tax avoidance

Matteo P. Arena, Bin Wang and Rong Yang

Twenty-five years of the Journal of Corporate Finance: A scientometric analysis

H. Kent Baker, Satish Kumar and Debidutta Pattnaik

Does board gender diversity affect renewable energy consumption?

Muhammad Atif, Mohammed Hossain, Md Samsul Alam and Marc Goergen

How do passive funds act as active owners? Evidence from mutual fund voting records

Shenje Hshieh, Jiasun Li and Yingcong Tang

The future of financial fraud

Jonathan Karpoff

Seasoned equity offerings and corporate financial management

Michael J. Barclay, Fangjian Fu and Clifford W. Smith

Winning a deal in private equity: Do educational ties matter?

Florian Fuchs, Roland Füss, Tim Jenkinson and Stefan Morkoetter

Stock-market disruptions and corporate disclosure policies

Jinglin Jiang, Vikram Nanda and Steven Chong Xiao

US government TARP bailout and bank lottery behavior

Luca Del Viva, Eero Kasanen, Anthony Saunders and Lenos Trigeorgis

Sell-side analyst heterogeneity and insider trading

Harold Contreras and Francisco Marcet

What do employees know? Quality perception and ‘over-satisfaction’ in firms going public

Reza Farhadi and Vikram Nanda

Money as a weapon: Financing a winner-take-all competition

Sanjay Banerji and Dawei Fang

Major shareholders’ trust and market risk: Substituting weak institutions with trust

Omneya Abdelsalam, Antonios Chantziaras, Jonathan Batten and Ahmet Aysan

Dividends and economic policy uncertainty: International evidence

Najah Attig, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami and Xiaolan Zheng

Digital Tulips? Returns to investors in initial coin offerings

Hugo Benedetti and Leonard Kostovetsky

Time for gift giving: Abnormal share repurchase returns and uncertainty

Nina Anolick, Jonathan Batten, Harald Kinateder and Niklas Wagner

The role of equity compensation in reducing inefficient investment in labor

Mohammed Aminu Sualihu, Michaela Rankin and Janto Haman

Revisiting acquirer returns: Evidence from unanticipated deals

Abongeh A. Tunyi

Flights-to-control: Time variation in the value of a vote

Paul Docherty, Steve Easton and Sean Pinder

Does trust matter for the cost of bank loans?

Celia Álvarez-Botas and Víctor M. González

Does exposure to product market competition influence insider trading profitability?

Dewan Rahman, Muhammad Kabir and Barry Oliver

Public relations expenditure, media tone, and regulatory decisions

Yanling Wu and Gary Gang Tian

Institutional investor horizon and bank risk-taking

Shams Pathan, Mamiza Haq, Robert Faff and Trent Seymour

What is the effect of an additional dollar of IPO proceeds?

Michael Dambra, Matthew T. Gustafson and Kevin Pisciotta

Earnings management by classification shifting and IPO survival

Seraina Anagnostopoulou, Dimitrios Gounopoulos, Kamran Malikov and Hang Pham

Institutional trading in firms rumored to be takeover targets

Frederick Davis, Hamed Khadivar and Thomas J. Walker

Do stressed PE firms misbehave?

Ranko Jelic, Dan Zhou and Wasim Ahmad

Bond covenants, bankruptcy risk, and the cost of debt

Sattar A. Mansi, Yaxuan Qi and John K. Wald

Do state visits affect cross-border mergers and acquisitions?

Mark Aleksanyan, Zhiwei Hao, Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos and Patrick Verwijmeren

Institutional investor distraction and earnings management

Alexandre Garel, Jose M. Martin-Flores, Arthur Petit-Romec and Ayesha Scott

Geographic distance and board monitoring: Evidence from the relocation of independent directors

Yi Quan and Wenlan Zhang

Evasive shareholder meetings and corporate fraud

Yong Kyu Gam, Paramita Gupta, Jieun Im and Hojong Shin

Dividends and financial health: Evidence from U.S. bank holding companies

Niranjan Tripathy, Da Wu and Yi Zheng

Does local competition and firm market power affect investment adviser misconduct?

Michael Gelman, Zaheer Khan, Amir Shoham and Shlomo Y. Tarba

Managerial social capital and dividend smoothing

Luis Garcia-Feijoo, Md Miran Hossain and David Javakhadze

Network dynamics in business angel group investment decisions

Vincenzo Butticè, Annalisa Croce and Elisa Ughetto

Which criteria matter when impact investors screen social enterprises?

Joern Block, Mirko Hirschmann and Christian Fisch

The differential impact of corporate blockchain-development as conditioned by sentiment and financial desperation

Iulia Cioroianu, Shaen Corbet and Charles Larkin

Feeling right at home: Hometown CEOs and firm innovation

Shenggang Ren, Yingmei Cheng, Yucai Hu and Chao Yin

The (non-) effect of labor unionization on firm risk: Evidence from the options market

Mohamed Ghaly, Alexandros Kostakis and Konstantinos Stathopoulos

Short-term debt catering

Stefano Lugo

The going public decision of business group firms

Borja Larrain, Giorgo Sertsios and Francisco Urzúa I.,

Shareholder litigation rights and stock price crash risk

Ivan Obaydin, Ralf Zurbruegg, Md Noman Hossain, Binay Kumar Adhikari and Ahmed Elnahas

Transforming the management and governance of private family firms: The role of venture capital

Thomas Chemmanur, Gang Hu, Chaopeng Wu, Shinong Wu and Zehao Yan

The dark side of transparency in developing countries: The link between financial reporting practices and corruption

Tingting Liu, Yu Liu, Barkat Ullah, Zuobao Wei and Lixin Xu

Need for speed: High-speed rail and firm performance

Chun Kuang, Zijie Liu and Wenyu Zhu

The role of institutional investors in corporate and entrepreneurial finance

Thomas Chemmanur, Gang Hu and K.C. John Wei

Connected VCs and strategic alliances: Evidence from biotech companies

Leonhard Brinster and Tereza Tykvova

Are hedge funds' charitable donations strategic?

Vikas Agarwal, Yan Lu and Sugata Ray

Large customer-supplier links and syndicate loan structure

Ettore Croci, Marta Degl'Innocenti and Si Zhou

What does peer-to-peer lending evidence say about the Risk-Taking Channel of monetary policy?

Yiping Huang, Xiang Li and Chu Wang

Does national culture affect corporate innovation? International evidence

Narjess Boubakri, Imed Chkir, Samir Saadi and Hui Zhu

Does privatization reform alleviate ownership discrimination? Evidence from the Split-share structure reform in China

Jinyu Liu, Zhengwei Wang and Wuxiang Zhu

Required CEO stock ownership: Consequences for risk-taking and compensation

Neil Brisley, Jay Cai and Tu Nguyen

The failure of Chinese peer-to-peer lending platforms: Finance and politics

Qing He and Xiaoyang Li

Returns and network growth of digital tokens after cross-listings

Hugo Benedetti and Ehsan Nikbakht

Quad-qualified audit committee director: Implications for monitoring and reducing financial corruption

Mikhail A. Gorshunov, Achilles A. Armenakis, Stanley G. Harris and H. Jack Walker

Corporate profitability and the global persistence of corruption

Stephen P. Ferris, Jan Hanousek and Jiri Tresl

Natural disasters and analysts' earnings forecasts

Dongmin Kong, Zhiyang Lin, Yanan Wang and Junyi Xiang

Reductions in CEO career horizons and corporate policies

Nihat Aktas, Audra Boone, Ettore Croci and Andrea Signori

Delegated monitoring in crowdfunded microfinance: Evidence from Kiva

John P. Berns, Abu Zafar M. Shahriar and Luisa A. Unda

Firms and social responsibility: A review of ESG and CSR research in corporate finance

Stuart L. Gillan, Andrew Koch and Laura T. Starks

25 years and counting of corporate finance: What have we learned and where are we going?

Irena Hutton, April Knill and Chad J. Zutter

Corporate governance and corporate agility

Kenneth Lehn