Journal of Corporate Finance

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Volume 85, issue C, 2024

Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance11We appreciate comments and suggestions from Morten Bennedsen (the editor), an anonymous reviewer, and the seminar participants at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shenzhen University, Sun Yat Sen University, Wuhan University, and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. All errors are our own. Qingyuan Li acknowledges financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number: 72332003)

Zhihong Chen, Ole-Kristian Hope, Qingyuan Li and Yongbo Li

Information production in start-up firms: SPACs vs. Traditional IPOs

Keiichi Hori and Hiroshi Osano

Flood, farms and credit: The role of branch banking in the era of climate change

Pejman Abedifar, Seyed Javad Kashizadeh and Steven Ongena

Director networks and firm value

Tor-Erik Bakke, Jeffrey R. Black, Hamed Mahmudi and Scott Linn

Unconventional green

Andrea Zaghini

Buffing firm innovation by lobbying

Anqi Jiao and Juntai Lu

Belated stock returns for green innovation under carbon emissions trading market

Fanglin Chen, Zhongfei Chen and Xin Zhang

The deterrence effect of M&A regulatory enforcements

Eric de Bodt, Jean-Gabriel Cousin, Micah S. Officer and Richard Roll

Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups

Melissa B. Frye, Vladimir A. Gatchev and Duong T. Pham

Uncertainty shocks, equity financing, and business cycle amplifications

Jongho Park

Liquid stock as an acquisition currency

Sheng Huang, Johan Maharjan and Vikram Nanda

Patent pledgeability, trade secrecy, and corporate patenting

Yanke Dai, Ting Du, Huasheng Gao, Yan Gu and Yongqin Wang

Foreign investors, firm level productivity, and European economic integration

Warren Bailey, Gulnur Muradoglu, Ceylan Onay and Kate Phylaktis

Customer identity concealing and insider selling profitability: Evidence from China

Wan Huang, Yufan Bai and Hong Luo

Volume 84, issue C, 2024

Informed options trading before FDA drug advisory meetings

Zekun Wu, Paul Borochin and Joseph Golec

Do firms manage their share prices to mitigate investor short-termism?

Ibrahim Bostan, Ji-Chai Lin and G. Mujtaba Mian

Clawback adoptions, managerial compensation incentives, capital investment mix and efficiency

Gary C. Biddle, Lilian H. Chan and Jeong Hwan Joo

Corporate governance reforms, societal trust, and corporate financial policies

Cephas Simon Peter Dak-Adzaklo and Raymond M.K. Wong

How do firms cope with losses from extreme weather events?

Emanuela Benincasa, Frank Betz and Luca Gattini

Information transfer of CEO turnover: Evidence from firm-CEO mismatch

Rosemond Desir, Scott E. Seavey and Maya Thevenot

Labor-saving innovations and capital structure

Jiaping Qiu, Chi Wan and Yan Wang

Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms

Lei Gao, Jianlei Han, Jeong-Bon Kim and Zheyao Pan

The effects of government venture capital: New evidence from China based on a two-sided matching structural model

Jing Zhang, Yueqi Fan and Ye Liu

Boardroom networks and corporate investment

Suyong Song and Wang, Jiawei (Brooke)

ESG and CEO turnover around the world

Gonul Colak, Timo P. Korkeamäki and Niclas Oskar Meyer

CEO personality traits, strategic flexibility, and firm dynamics

Tom Aabo, Christos Pantzalis, Jung Chul Park, Lenos Trigeorgis and Jesper N. Wulff

Business aspects in focus, investor underreaction and return predictability

Zuben Jin

Partisan conflict and corporate credit spreads: The role of political connection

Liyao Wang

Cross-border M&A, gender-equal culture, and board gender diversity

Yangming Bao and Jie Li

How did small business respond to unexpected shocks? Evidence from a natural experiment in China

Ye Zhou, Difang Huang, Muzi Chen, Yunlong Wang and Xiaoguang Yang

The spillover effect of advertising on the capital market: Evidence from financial constraints111 Fuxiu Jiang acknowledges the financial support from the China National Natural Science Foundation (Nos. 72272144). Yanyan Shen acknowledges the financial support from the Innovation Centre for Digital Business and Capital Development of Beijing Technology and Business University (Nos. SZSK202305) and National Social Science Fund of China (Nos. 23FYB052). Xiaoxue Xia acknowledges the financial support from the China National Natural Science Foundation (Nos. 72202018) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos. 2022M720496). All errors are ours

Fuxiu Jiang, Yanyan Shen and Xiaoxue Xia

Bank market power and financial reporting quality

Biao Mi, Luqiao Zhang, Liang Han and Yun Shen

The effect of capital inflows on the imports of capital goods in developing countries

Jan Fidrmuc, Khusrav Gaibulloev, Ali Mirzaei and Tomoe Moore

Industrial policy and governmental venture capital: Evidence from China

Guoqing Ge, Jian Xue and Qian Zhang

Does farming culture shape household financial decisions?

Sipeng Zeng and Frank Yu

Relationship-specific investments for up- and downstream firms and credit constraints

Thomas David, Michael Troege, Hiep Manh Nguyen and Hang Thu Nguyen

Geographic proximity and trade credit: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Caiyue Ouyang, Jiacai Xiong, Li Liu and Jun Yao

Strengthening secured creditors: Implications on debt financing and investment

Óscar J. Guevara and Julio Riutort

Financial resource pooling in club deals

Lara Faverzani

Investor–firm interactions and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China

Weidong Xu, Zijun Luo and Donghui Li

The impact of bank mergers on corporate tax aggressiveness

Jie Chen, Tapas Mishra, Wei Song, Qingjing Zhang and Zhuang Zhang

The influence of media slant on short sellers

April Knill, Baixiao Liu, John J. McConnell and Glades McKenzie

How does currency risk impact firms? New evidence from bank loan contracts

Mikael C. Bergbrant, Bill B. Francis and Delroy M. Hunter

Volume 83, issue C, 2023

Trade secret protection and product market dynamics

Daniel Bradley, Dan Hu, Xiaojing Yuan and Chi Zhang

Do corporate lawyers matter? Evidence from patents

Dimitris Andriosopoulos, Pawel Czarnowski and Andrew Marshall

Is your surname remunerative? Surname favorability and CEO compensation

Jay Heon Jung, Sonya S. Lim and Jongwon Park

Shades of grey: Risk-related agency conflicts and corporate innovation

Emdad Islam and Lubna Rahman

CEO reputation and shareholder voting

Thomas David, Alberta Di Giuli and Arthur Romec

Processing trade and credit constraints

Jie Li, Zhigang Ouyang and Naixin Zhang

Board diversity and shareholder voting

Ian D. Gow, David F. Larcker and Edward M. Watts

The role of environmental, social, and governance rating on corporate debt structure

Panagiotis Asimakopoulos, Stylianos Asimakopoulos and Xinyu Li

On the determinants of the dynamic choice between mergers and tender offers

Elmar Lukas, Paulo J. Pereira and Artur Rodrigues

Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China

Yurou Liu

Firm-level media news, bank loans, and the role of institutional environments

Zhehao Jia, Donghui Li, Yukun Shi and Lu Xing

Individual investors matter: The effect of investor-firm interactions on corporate earnings management

Yi Li, Pengfei Wang and Wei Zhang

Misallocation of debt and aggregate productivity

Hwagyun Kim, Vipul Mathur, Jong Kook Shin and Chetan Subramanian

Credit default swaps and corporate debt structure

Yangyang Chen, Walid Saffar, Chenyu Shan and Sarah Qian Wang

Women directors and E&S performance: Evidence from board gender quotas

Edith Ginglinger and Caroline Raskopf

The effects of labor choice on investment and output dynamics

Haejun Jeon, Xue Cui and Chuanqian Zhang

Pandemics and financial development: A lesson from the 1918 influenza pandemic

Wenxuan Hou, Mao Li, Brian G.M. Main and Xiaofan Liu

Social diversity in corporate boards and firm outcomes

Suresh Bhagavatula, Manaswini Bhalla, Manisha Goel and Balagopal Vissa

Bank liquidity creation and religious observance: Evidence from Ramadan fasting

Arisyi Raz

CEO network centrality and bank risk: Evidence from US Bank holding companies

Yaoyao Fan, Yuxiang Jiang, Pengcheng Jin and Yong Mai

Dividend hibernation and future earnings: When no dividend news is good news

Jo Drienko and Bardia Khorsand

Debt maturity structure and the quality of risk disclosures

Sumingyue Wang, Xinlu Wang and Liang Xu

Trademarks and the cost of equity capital

Bin Yang, Zhe An, Xin Gao and Donghui Li