Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

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

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Volume 34, issue C, 2015

The role of the chief legal officer in corporate governance pp. 1-22

Robert C. Bird, Paul A. Borochin and John D. Knopf

Dynamics of bank relationships in entrepreneurial finance pp. 23-31

Hidenori Takahashi

Cultural similarity as in-group favoritism: The impact of religious and ethnic similarities on alliance formation and announcement returns pp. 32-46

Wei Shi and Yinuo Tang

Young family firms: Financing decisions and the willingness to dilute control pp. 47-63

Kevin Keasey, Beatriz Martinez and Julio Pindado

The public corporation as an intermediary between “Main Street” and “Wall Street” pp. 64-82

Ramesh K.S. Rao

Corporate divestitures: Spin-offs vs. sell-offs pp. 83-107

Alexandros P. Prezas and Karen Simonyan

Family firms, employee satisfaction, and corporate performance pp. 108-127

Minjie Huang, Pingshu Li, Felix Meschke and James P. Guthrie

Business sustainability performance and cost of equity capital pp. 128-149

Anthony C. Ng and Zabihollah Rezaee

Financial market misconduct and agency conflicts: A synthesis and future directions pp. 150-168

Douglas Cumming, Robert Dannhauser and Sofia Johan

Insider trading before accounting scandals pp. 169-190

Anup Agrawal and Tommy Cooper

Institutional trading during a wave of corporate scandals: “Perfect Payday”? pp. 191-209

Gennaro Bernile, Johan Sulaeman and Qin Wang

Financial intermediaries in the midst of market manipulation: Did they protect the fool or help the knave? pp. 210-234

Vladimir Atanasov, Ryan Davies and John J. Merrick

Changes in underwriters' selection of comparable firms pre- and post-IPO: Same bank, same company, different peers pp. 235-250

Silvio Vismara, Andrea Signori and Stefano Paleari

Tournament incentives and corporate fraud pp. 251-267

Lars Helge Haß, Maximilian A. Müller and Skrålan Vergauwe

Corporate litigation and executive turnover pp. 268-292

Joseph Aharony, Chelsea Liu and Alfred Yawson

Misrepresentation and capital structure: Quantifying the impact on corporate debt value pp. 293-310

Xinghua Zhou and R. Mark Reesor

Exchange trading rules, surveillance and suspected insider trading pp. 311-330

Michael Aitken, Douglas Cumming and Feng Zhan

Volume 33, issue C, 2015

Poor performance and the value of corporate honesty pp. 1-18

Don Chance, James Cicon and Stephen P. Ferris

Financial distress: Lifecycle and corporate restructuring pp. 19-33

SzeKee Koh, Robert B. Durand, Lele Dai and Millicent Chang

Sovereign and corporate credit risk: Evidence from the Eurozone pp. 34-52

Mascia Bedendo and Paolo Colla

Cash holdings and employee welfare pp. 53-70

Mohamed Ghaly, Viet Dang and Konstantinos Stathopoulos

Corporate governance and state expropriation risk pp. 71-84

Burcin Col and Vihang Errunza

Securities Data Company and Zephyr, data sources for M&A research pp. 85-100

Helen Bollaert and Marieke Delanghe

Governance and Payout Precommitment pp. 101-117

Kose John, Anzhela Knyazeva and Diana Knyazeva

Investment stage drifts and venture capital managerial incentives pp. 118-128

Luigi Buzzacchi, Giuseppe Scellato and Elisa Ughetto

Social ties and IPO outcomes pp. 129-146

John W. Cooney, Leonardo Madureira, Ajai K. Singh and Ke Yang

Financing hierarchy: Evidence from quantile regression pp. 147-163

J.B. Chay, Soon Hong Park, Soojung Kim and Jungwon Suh

Investor sentiment and bidder announcement abnormal returns pp. 164-179

Jo Danbolt, Antonios Siganos and Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos

The effect of cultural distance on contracting decisions: The case of executive compensation pp. 180-195

Stephen Bryan, Robert Nash and Ajay Patel

Government ownership, informed trading, and private information pp. 196-211

Ginka Borisova and Pradeep K. Yadav

The family business map: Framework, selective survey, and evidence from Chinese family firm succession pp. 212-226

Morten Bennedsen, Joseph P.H. Fan, Ming Jian and Yin-Hua Yeh

CEO identity and labor contracts: Evidence from CEO transitions pp. 227-242

Laurent Bach and Nicolas Serrano-Velarde

Founder's political connections, second generation involvement, and family firm performance: Evidence from China pp. 243-259

Nianhang Xu, Qingbo Yuan, Xuanyu Jiang and Kam C. Chan

Family-firm risk-taking: Does religion matter? pp. 260-278

Fuxiu Jiang, Zhan Jiang, Kenneth Kim and Min Zhang

Family firms, soft information and bank lending in a financial crisis pp. 279-292

Leandro D'Aurizio, Tommaso Oliviero and Livio Romano

Trust, family businesses and financial intermediation pp. 293-316

Massimiliano Stacchini and Petra Degasperi

One-child policy and family firms in China pp. 317-329

Jerry Cao, Douglas Cumming and Xiaoming Wang

Pay-out policies in founding family firms pp. 330-344

Dusan Isakov and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf

CEOs in family firms: Does junior know what he's doing? pp. 345-361

Roberto Pinheiro and Chris Yung

Volume 32, issue C, 2015

Do risk-taking incentives induce CEOs to invest? Evidence from acquisitions pp. 1-23

Ettore Croci and Dimitris Petmezas

Corporate efficiency in Europe pp. 24-40

Jan Hanousek, Evžen Kočenda and Anastasiya Shamshur

Prestige without purpose? Reputation, differentiation, and pricing in U.S. equity underwriting pp. 41-63

Chitru S. Fernando, Vladimir A. Gatchev, Anthony D. May and William L. Megginson

Voluntary disclosure, excess executive compensation, and firm value pp. 64-90

Huimin Chung, William Q. Judge and Yi-Hua Li

Cross-listings and corporate cash savings: International evidence pp. 91-107

Yuanto Kusnadi

Firms’ earnings smoothing, corporate social responsibility, and valuation pp. 108-127

Lei Gao and Joseph H. Zhang

Multiple lead underwriter IPOs and firm visibility pp. 128-149

Jin Q. Jeon, Cheolwoo Lee, Tareque Nasser and M. Tony Via

Institutional environment, firm ownership, and IPO first-day returns: Evidence from China pp. 150-168

Yibiao Chen, Steven Shuye Wang, Wei Li, Qian Sun and Wilson H.S. Tong

Political and economic incentives of government in partial privatization pp. 169-189

Zhaohua Li and Takeshi Yamada

Institutions, board structure, and corporate performance: Evidence from Chinese firms pp. 217-237

Tao Chen

Executive compensation in family firms: The effect of multiple family members pp. 238-257

Minying Cheng, Bingxuan Lin and Minghai Wei

Bank financing and corporate governance pp. 258-270

Meijun Qian and Bernard Y. Yeung

Government connections and financial constraints: Evidence from a large representative sample of Chinese firms pp. 271-294

Robert Cull, Wei Li, Bo Sun and Lixin Xu

Tunneling through Non-Operational Fund Occupancy: An investigation based on officially identified activities pp. 295-311

Guohua Jiang, Pingui Rao and Heng Yue

Foreign institutional investors and corporate governance in emerging markets: Evidence of a split-share structure reform in China pp. 312-326

Wei Huang and Tao Zhu

In the name of charity: Political connections and strategic corporate social responsibility in a transition economy pp. 327-346

Karen Jingrong Lin, Jinsong Tan, Liming Zhao and Khondkar Karim

Cross-listing, firm-specific information, and corporate governance: Evidence from Chinese A-shares and H-shares pp. 347-362

Shan Li, Paul Brockman and Ralf Zurbruegg