Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

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Volume 44, issue C, 2017

A pecking order of shareholder structure pp. 1-14

Fuxiu Jiang, Kenneth Kim, John R. Nofsinger and Bing Zhu

Non-dividend protected executive options and dividend policy: Evidence from SFAS 123R pp. 15-33

Jean Canil

Why do IPO issuers grant overallotment options to underwriters? pp. 34-47

Yawen Jiao, Kenji Kutsuna and Richard Smith

Asymmetric foreign exchange cash flow exposure: A firm-level analysis pp. 48-72

Alain A. Krapl

The impact of regulation on information quality and performance around seasoned equity offerings: International evidence pp. 73-98

Larry Fauver, Gilberto Loureiro and Alvaro G. Taboada

Performance share plans: Valuation and empirical tests pp. 99-125

Craig W. Holden and Daniel S. Kim

The relation among trapped cash, permanently reinvested earnings, and foreign cash pp. 126-148

Stacie K. Laplante and Wayne L. Nesbitt

Does the impact of board independence on large bank risks change after the global financial crisis? pp. 149-166

Francesco Vallascas, Sabur Mollah and Kevin Keasey

Political environment, financial intermediation costs, and financing patterns pp. 167-192

Ali Gungoraydinoglu, Gönül Çolak and Ozde Oztekin

Firm network structure and innovation pp. 193-214

Tuugi Chuluun, Andrew Prevost and Arun Upadhyay

Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence pp. 215-232

Stephen Knack and Lixin Xu

The influence of firm and industry political spending on tax management among S&P 500 firms pp. 233-254

Kristina Minnick and Tracy Noga

Judicial efficiency and capital structure: An international study pp. 255-274

Attaullah Shah, Hamid Ali Shah, Jason M. Smith and Labianca, Giuseppe (Joe)

Risk-shifting, equity risk, and the distress puzzle pp. 275-288

Keming Li, James Lockwood and Hong Miao

Entrepreneurial optimism, credit availability, and cost of financing: Evidence from U.S. small businesses pp. 289-307

Na Dai, Vladimir Ivanov and Rebel Cole

Creditor control rights, capital structure, and legal enforcement pp. 308-330

Mai Daher

Debt covenant design and creditor control rights: Evidence from the tightest covenant pp. 331-352

Jing Wang

Truncation bias corrections in patent data: Implications for recent research on innovation pp. 353-374

Nishant Dass, Vikram Nanda and Steven Chong Xiao

Memories of Armen pp. 385-387

Susan Woodward

Who monitors the monitor? The use of special committees by target firms in corporate takeovers pp. 388-404

Audra L. Boone and J. Harold Mulherin

Thirty years of shareholder activism: A survey of empirical research pp. 405-424

Matthew R. Denes, Jonathan Karpoff and Victoria B. McWilliams

Managerial ability and success: Evidence from the career paths of film directors pp. 425-439

Kose John, S. Abraham Ravid and Jayanthi Sunder

The survival of the U.S. dual class share structure pp. 440-450

Jason W. Howell

Limited liability and share transferability: An analysis of California firms, 1920–1940 pp. 451-468

Leonce Bargeron and Kenneth Lehn

Culture and the ownership concentration of public corporations around the world pp. 469-486

Clifford G. Holderness

Alchian on tenure: Some long awaited empirical evidence pp. 487-505

William O. Brown

Risk taking in competition: Evidence from match play golf tournaments pp. 506-523

Serkan Ozbeklik and Janet Kiholm Smith

Institutional determinants of vertical integration in China pp. 524-539

Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

Explicit employment contracts and CEO compensation pp. 540-560

Wei-Ling Song and Kam-Ming Wan

Alchian remembrances pp. 561-582

Michael Maloney

Volume 43, issue C, 2017

Option incentives, leverage, and risk-taking pp. 1-18

Kyonghee Kim, Sukesh Patro and Raynolde Pereira

Political money contributions of U.S. IPOs pp. 19-38

Dimitrios Gounopoulos, Antonios Kallias, Konstantinos Kallias and Panayiotis Tzeremes

Internal capital market inefficiencies, shareholder payout, and abnormal leverage pp. 39-57

Brooke Beyer, Jimmy Downes and Eric T. Rapley

Do fraudulent firms produce abnormal disclosure? pp. 58-85

Gerard Hoberg and Craig Lewis

The impact of board gender composition on dividend payouts pp. 86-105

Jie Chen, Woon Sau Leung and Marc Goergen

Independent directors: Less informed but better selected than affiliated board members? pp. 106-121

Sandra Cavaco, Patricia Crifo, Antoine Reberioux and Gwenael Roudaut

Countries lending infrastructure and capital structure determination: The case of European SMEs pp. 122-138

Andrea Mc Namara, Pierluigi Murro and Sheila O'Donohoe

Do what you did four quarters ago: Trends and implications of quarterly dividends pp. 139-158

Christian Andres and Ulrich Hofbaur

Does an Islamic label indicate good corporate governance? pp. 159-174

Raphie Hayat and M. Kabir Hassan

Overconfidence and investment: An experimental approach pp. 175-192

Elena Pikulina, Luc Renneboog and Philippe N. Tobler

Internal governance and performance: Evidence from when external discipline is weak pp. 193-216

Jonathan Kalodimos

How does analysts' forecast quality relate to corporate investment efficiency? pp. 217-240

Tao Chen, Lingmin Xie and Yuanyuan Zhang

Does index addition affect corporate tax avoidance? pp. 241-259

Fariz Huseynov, Sabuhi Sardarli and Wei Zhang

The role of corporate political strategies in M&As pp. 260-287

Ettore Croci, Christos Pantzalis, Jung Chul Park and Dimitris Petmezas

Takeover law to protect shareholders: Increasing efficiency or merely redistributing gains? pp. 288-315

Ying Wang and Henry Lahr

Does it really matter how a firm diversifies? Assets-in-place diversification versus growth options diversification pp. 316-339

Pablo de Andrés, Gabriel de la Fuente and Pilar Velasco

Controlling shareholders' value, long-run firm value and short-term performance pp. 340-353

Hyung Cheol Kang, Robert M. Anderson, Kyong Shik Eom and Sang Koo Kang

Corporate social responsibility and capital allocation efficiency pp. 354-377

Avishek Bhandari and David Javakhadze

When is good news bad and vice versa? The Fortune rankings of America's most admired companies pp. 378-396

Yingmei Cheng, Baixiao Liu, John J. McConnell and Aaron Rosenblum

Financial distress and customer-supplier relationships pp. 397-406

Yili Lian

Organized labor and loan pricing: A regression discontinuity design analysis pp. 407-428

Yue Qiu and Tao Shen

Do busy directors influence the cost of debt? An examination through the lens of takeover vulnerability pp. 429-443

Sugato Chakravarty and Leann G. Rutherford

Sales of private firms and the role of CEO compensation pp. 444-463

Natasha Burns, Jan Jindra and Kristina Minnick

Managerial myopia, financial expertise, and executive-firm matching pp. 464-479

Fernando Anjos and Chang-Mo Kang

Why are firms listed in one country and private in other countries? The role of industry structure, banking sector and legal system pp. 480-499

Jan Bartholdy and Dennis Olson

Product market competition, idiosyncratic and systematic volatility pp. 500-513

Hussein Abdoh and Oscar Varela

Political freedom and corporate payouts pp. 514-529

Omrane Guedhami, Chuck C.Y. Kwok and Liang Shao