Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

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Volume 47, issue C, 2017

Does local religiosity affect organizational risk-taking? Evidence from the hedge fund industry pp. 1-22

Lei Gao, Ying Wang and Jing Zhao

Hedge funds in M&A deals: Is there exploitation of insider information? pp. 23-45

Rui Dai, Nadia Massoud, Debarshi Nandy and Anthony Saunders

CEO social capital, risk-taking and corporate policies pp. 46-71

Stephen P. Ferris, David Javakhadze and Tijana Rajkovic

Information leakage in family firms: Evidence from short selling around insider sales pp. 72-87

Hanwen Sun and Shuxing Yin

Career concerns and the busy life of the young CEO pp. 88-109

Xiaoyang Li, Angie Low and Anil K. Makhija

Skin in the game: General partner capital commitment, investment behavior and venture capital fund performance pp. 110-130

Ning Jia and Dan Wang

CEO compensation and risk-taking at financial firms: Evidence from U.S. federal loan assistance pp. 131-150

Amar Gande and Swaminathan Kalpathy

The small IPO and the investing preferences of mutual funds pp. 151-173

Robert P. Bartlett, Paul Rose and Steven Davidoff Solomon

Investor protection and corporate control pp. 174-190

Borja Larrain, Matias Tapia and Francisco Urzúa I.

Geographic concentration of institutions, corporate governance, and firm value pp. 191-218

Xiaoran Huang and Jun-Koo Kang

Independent director reputation incentives and stock price informativeness pp. 219-235

Vathunyoo Sila, Angelica Gonzalez and Jens Hagendorff

The equity-financing channel, the catering channel, and corporate investment: International evidence pp. 236-252

Yuanto Kusnadi and K.C. John Wei

Do investors flip less in bookbuilding than in auction IPOs? pp. 253-268

Suman Neupane, Andrew Marshall, Krishna Paudyal and Chandra Thapa

Volume 46, issue C, 2017

Product market advertising, heterogeneous beliefs, and the long-run performance of initial public offerings pp. 1-24

Thomas Chemmanur and An Yan

Are managers paid for better levels of pension funding? pp. 25-33

Michael J. Alderson, Brian L. Betker and Joseph T. Halford

What do stock price levels tell us about the firms? pp. 34-50

Konan Chan, Fengfei Li, Ji-Chai Lin and Tse-Chun Lin

What determines horizontal merger antitrust case selection? pp. 51-76

Ning Gao, Ni Peng and Norman Strong

Multinationality and firm value: The role of real options awareness pp. 77-96

Sophocles Ioulianou, Lenos Trigeorgis and Tarik Driouchi

Does cross-listing increase managers' propensity to listen to the market in M&A deals? pp. 97-120

Abed AL-Nasser Abdallah and Wissam Abdallah

Informed short selling around SEO announcements pp. 121-138

Sanjay Deshmukh, Keith Jacks Gamble and Keith M. Howe

Media sentiment and IPO underpricing pp. 139-153

Emanuele Bajo and Carlo Raimondo

Do managerial risk-taking incentives influence firms' exchange rate exposure? pp. 154-169

Bill B. Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Delroy M. Hunter and Yun Zhu

Who needs big banks? The real effects of bank size on outcomes of large US borrowers pp. 170-185

Biswas, Swarnava (Sonny), Fabiana Gómez and Wei Zhai

What is the shareholder wealth impact of target CEO retention in private equity deals? pp. 186-206

Leonce L. Bargeron, Frederik P. Schlingemann, René M. Stulz and Chad J. Zutter

Cross-border merger waves pp. 207-231

Emma Qianying Xu

Private benefits of public control: Evidence of political and economic benefits of state ownership pp. 232-247

Juliet D'Souza and Robert Nash

The behaviour of SMEs' capital structure determinants in different macroeconomic states pp. 248-260

Nikolaos Daskalakis, Dimitrios Balios and Violetta Dalla

R&D investments and credit lines pp. 261-283

Yilmaz Guney, Ahmet Karpuz and Neslihan Ozkan

Individualism, democracy, and contract enforcement pp. 284-306

Brandon N. Cline and Claudia R. Williamson

The value of restrictive covenants in the changing bond market dynamics before and after the financial crisis pp. 307-319

Marc W. Simpson and Axel Grossmann

Languages and corporate savings behavior pp. 320-341

Shimin Chen, Henrik Cronqvist, Serene Ni and Frank Zhang

The determinants of buyout returns: Does transaction strategy matter? pp. 342-360

Brian Ayash, Robert P. Bartlett and Annette B. Poulsen

The effect of relationships with government-owned banks on cash flow constraints: Evidence from India pp. 361-373

Anand Srinivasan and Ashok Thampy

Firm investment in human health capital pp. 374-390

Sara B. Holland

Stock market listing and the use of trade credit: Evidence from public and private firms pp. 391-410

Yomna Abdulla, Viet Dang and Arif Khurshed

Corporate lobbying and labor relations: Evidence from employee-level litigations pp. 411-441

Omer Unsal, M. Kabir Hassan and Duygu Zirek

Does the choice between fixed price and make whole call provisions reflect differential agency costs? pp. 442-460

Michael J. Alderson, Fang Lin and Duane R. Stock

For love and money: Marital leadership in family firms pp. 461-476

Mario Amore, Danny Miller, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller and Guido Corbetta

Volume 45, issue C, 2017

Debt covenants and the speed of capital structure adjustment pp. 1-18

Erik Devos, Shofiqur Rahman and Desmond Tsang

CEO power and matching leverage preferences pp. 19-30

Timo Korkeamäki, Eva Liljeblom and Daniel Pasternack

Inorganic growth strategies and the evolution of the private equity business model pp. 31-63

Benjamin Hammer, Alexander Knauer, Magnus Pflücke and Bernhard Schwetzler

Equity raising by Asian firms: Choosing between PIPEs and SEOs pp. 64-83

Sandeep Dahiya, Leora Klapper, Harini Parthasarathy and Dorothe Singer

Do financial analysts play a role in shaping the rival response of target firms? International evidence pp. 84-103

Donghui Li, Zhian Chen, Zhe An and Michael Murong

Working on the weekend: Do analysts strategically time the release of their recommendation revisions? pp. 104-121

Lynn Rees, Nathan Y. Sharp and Paul A. Wong

Expropriation risk by block holders, institutional quality and expected stock returns pp. 122-149

Bruce Hearn, Kate Phylaktis and Jenifer Piesse

Religion and succession intention - Evidence from Chinese family firms pp. 150-161

Na Shen and Jun Su

CEO political ideology and mergers and acquisitions decisions pp. 162-175

Ahmed M. Elnahas and Dongnyoung Kim

Do banks and industrial companies have equal access to reputable underwriters in debt markets? pp. 176-202

Santiago Carbó-Valverde, Pedro Cuadros-Solas and Francisco Rodríguez-Fernández

Cash conversion cycle and value-enhancing operations: Theory and evidence for a free lunch pp. 203-219

Rodrigo Zeidan and Offer Moshe Shapir

Network connections, CEO compensation and involuntary turnover: The impact of a friend of a friend pp. 220-244

Steven Balsam, So Yean Kwack and Jae Young Lee

Determinants and consequences of shareholder proposals: The cases of board election, charter amendment, and profit disposal pp. 245-261

Tsung-ming Yeh

The impact of interest rates on firms' financing policies pp. 262-293

Sigitas Karpavičius and Fan Yu

Reading between the blocks pp. 294-317

Nilanjan Basu, Imants Paeglis and Melissa Toffanin

Shareholder litigation, shareholder–creditor conflict, and the cost of bank loans pp. 318-332

Yongqiang Chu

Misspecification in event studies pp. 333-341

Joseph M. Marks and Jim Musumeci

Litigation risk and institutional monitoring pp. 342-359

Kuntara Pukthuanthong, Harry Turtle, Thomas Walker and Jun Wang

Intellectual property rights and cross-border mergers and acquisitions pp. 360-377

Azizjon Alimov and Micah S. Officer

U.S. class action lawsuits targeting foreign firms: The country spillover effect pp. 378-400

Xuxing Huang, Yixuan Rui, Jianfeng Shen and Gloria Y. Tian

Corporate fraud and external social connectedness of independent directors pp. 401-427

Yu Flora Kuang and Gladys Lee

Direct and indirect risk-taking incentives of inside debt pp. 428-466

Stefano Colonnello, Giuliano Curatola and Ngoc Giang Hoang

The trouble with approximating industry concentration from Compustat pp. 467-479

Jan Keil

The impact on shareholder value of top defense counsel in mergers and acquisitions litigation pp. 480-495

C.N.V. Krishnan, Steven Davidoff Solomon and Randall S. Thomas

Can investors anticipate post-IPO mergers and acquisitions? pp. 496-521

Christopher W. Anderson, Jian Huang and Gökhan Torna

Does foreign direct investment affect host-country firms' financial constraints? pp. 522-539

Mengying Wang

Covenant violations and dynamic loan contracting pp. 540-565

Felix Freudenberg, Bjorn Imbierowicz, Anthony Saunders and Sascha Steffen

Is board compensation excessive? pp. 566-585

Mustafa Dah and Melissa B. Frye

The governance transfer of blockholders: Evidence from block acquisitions and earnings management around the world pp. 586-607

Lili Dai, Ravi Dharwadkar, Linna Shi and Bohui Zhang

Risk and ambiguity in 10-Ks: An examination of cash holding and derivatives use pp. 608-631

Richard Friberg and Thomas Seiler

Value creation from M&As: New evidence pp. 632-650

G. Alexandridis, N. Antypas and N. Travlos

The monitoring role of female directors over accounting quality pp. 651-668

Juan Manuel García Lara, Beatriz Garcia Osma, Araceli Mora and Mariano Scapin

Share buybacks and gender diversity pp. 669-686

Theodoros Evgeniou and Theo Vermaelen

The real effect of the initial enforcement of insider trading laws pp. 687-709

Zhihong Chen, Yuan Huang, Yuanto Kusnadi and K.C. John Wei