Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

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Volume 31, issue C, 2015

Financial condition and product market cooperation pp. 1-16

Matthew T. Gustafson, Ivan T. Ivanov and John Ritter

Information ratings and capital structure pp. 17-32

Lee Hsien Pan, Chien-Ting Lin, Shih-Cheng Lee and Kung-Cheng Ho

Employees and the market for corporate control pp. 33-53

Antonio Macias and Christo Pirinsky

Buyers as stakeholders: How relationships affect suppliers' financial constraints pp. 54-66

Jennifer Itzkowitz

Trading and earnings management: Evidence from China's non-tradable share reform pp. 67-90

Gang Xiao

Valuing convertible bonds and the option to exchange bonds for stock pp. 91-115

John D. Finnerty

Financial regulation and IPOs: Evidence from the history of the Italian stock market pp. 116-131

Mattia Cattaneo, Michele Meoli and Silvio Vismara

Firm crash risk, information environment, and speed of leverage adjustment pp. 132-151

Zhe An, Donghui Li and Jin Yu

Institutional shareholding and information content of dividend surprises: Re-examining the dynamics in dividend-reappearance era pp. 152-170

Abu S. Amin, Shantanu Dutta, Samir Saadi and Premal P. Vora

The long-term valuation effects of voluntary dual class share unifications pp. 171-185

Beni Lauterbach and Anete Pajuste

Top VC IPO underpricing pp. 186-202

Daniel Bradley, Incheol Kim and Laurie Krigman

Do sophisticated investors interpret earnings conference call tone differently than investors at large? Evidence from short sales pp. 203-219

Benjamin Blau, Jared DeLisle and S. McKay Price

Family control and corporate cash holdings: Evidence from China pp. 220-245

Qigui Liu, Tianpei Luo and Gary Gang Tian

Returns to acquirers of public and subsidiary targets pp. 246-270

Jeffrey Jaffe, Jan Jindra, David Pedersen and Torben Voetmann

SEO announcement returns and internal capital market efficiency pp. 271-283

Aigbe Akhigbe and Ann Marie Whyte

The role of institutional development in the prevalence and performance of entrepreneur and family-controlled firms pp. 284-305

Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga and Hua Zhang

Volume 30, issue C, 2015

Majority support of shareholders, monitoring incentive, and dividend policy pp. 1-10

Naoya Mori and Naoshi Ikeda

Valuing diversity: CEOs' career experiences and corporate investment pp. 11-31

Conghui Hu and Yu-Jane Liu

Can the presence of foreign investment affect the capital structure of domestic firms? pp. 32-43

Sajid Anwar and Sizhong Sun

What determines the allocation of managerial ownership within firms? Evidence from investment management firms pp. 44-64

Stephen Dimmock, William Gerken and Jennifer Marietta-Westberg

Multinationality and opaqueness pp. 65-84

Tom Aabo, Christos Pantzalis and Jung Chul Park

Equity-incentive compensation and payout policy in Europe pp. 85-97

Natasha Burns, Brian C. McTier and Kristina Minnick

Is working capital management value-enhancing? Evidence from firm performance and investments pp. 98-113

Nihat Aktas, Ettore Croci and Dimitris Petmezas

How the timing of dividend reductions can signal value pp. 114-131

Tyler J. Hull

Evidence on the outcome of Say-On-Pay votes: How managers, directors, and shareholders respond pp. 132-149

Kelly R. Brunarski, T. Colin Campbell and Yvette S. Harman

The impact of personal attributes on corporate insider trading pp. 150-167

David Hillier, Adriana Korczak and Piotr Korczak

The price of environmental, social and governance practice disclosure: An experiment with professional private equity investors pp. 168-194

Patricia Crifo, Vanina D. Forget and Sabrina Teyssier

Executive compensation, organizational performance, and governance quality in the absence of owners pp. 195-222

Ashley N. Newton

Board independence and firm performance in China pp. 223-244

Yu Liu, Mihail K. Miletkov, Zuobao Wei and Tina Yang

What premiums do target shareholders expect? Explaining negative returns upon offer announcements pp. 245-256

James S. Ang and Ahmad Ismail

Do corporate managers skimp on shareholders' dividends to protect their own retirement funds? pp. 257-277

Assaf Eisdorfer, Carmelo Giaccotto and Reilly White

Innovation efficiency, global diversification, and firm value pp. 278-298

Wenlian Gao and Julia Chou

Politics, instability, and composition of international investment flows pp. 299-324

Art Durnev, Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova and Veronica Santarosa

Volume 29, issue C, 2014

On the compensation and activity of corporate boards pp. 1-19

Nga Q. Nguyen

Location and lease intensity pp. 20-36

Erik Devos and Shofiqur Rahman

An investigation of the asymmetric link between credit re-ratings and corporate financial decisions: “Flicking the switch” with financial flexibility pp. 37-57

Mahmoud Agha and Robert Faff

Does familiarity with business segments affect CEOs' divestment decisions? pp. 58-74

James Ang, Abe de Jong and Marieke van der Poel

The totality of change-in-control payments pp. 75-87

David Offenberg and Micah S. Officer

The value of multinationality and business group for Japanese firms pp. 88-110

Jongmoo Jay Choi, Takato Hiraki and James A. Landi

What all-cash companies tell us about IPOs and acquisitions pp. 111-121

Usha Rodrigues and Mike Stegemoller

Risk taking behavior of privatized banks pp. 122-142

Sana Mohsni and Isaac Otchere

The role of corporate board structure in attracting foreign investors pp. 143-157

Mihail K. Miletkov, Annette B. Poulsen and M. Babajide Wintoki

Do voluntary corporate restrictions on insider trading eliminate informed insider trading? pp. 158-178

Inmoo Lee, Michael Lemmon, Yan Li and John M. Sequeira

State Ownership, Political Institutions, and Stock Price Informativeness: Evidence from Privatization pp. 179-199

Hamdi Ben-Nasr and Jean-Claude Cosset

An international analysis of dividend smoothing pp. 200-220

David Javakhadze, Stephen P. Ferris and Nilanjan Sen

Corporate hedging and the cost of debt pp. 221-245

Jun Chen and Tao-Hsien Dolly King

Political connections and preferential lending at local level: Some evidence from the Italian credit market pp. 246-262

Luigi Infante and M. Piazza

The impact of insider trading laws on dividend payout policy pp. 263-287

Paul Brockman, Jiri Tresl and Emre Unlu

The value of financial flexibility and corporate financial policy pp. 288-302

Marc Steffen Rapp, Thomas Schmid and Daniel Urban

Reverse trade credit or default risk? Explaining the use of prepayments by firms pp. 303-326

Simona Mateut

Are the benefits of debt declining? The decreasing propensity of firms to be adequately levered pp. 327-350

Ranjan D'Mello and Mark Gruskin

Government asset sales, economic nationalism, and acquirer wealth effects pp. 351-368

Ginka Borisova and Arnold Cowan

Bonus schemes and trading activity pp. 369-389

Elena Pikulina, Luc Renneboog, Jenke Ter Horst and Philippe N. Tobler

The dark side of CEO ability: CEO general managerial skills and cost of equity capital pp. 390-409

Dev Mishra

Corporate liquidity and the contingent nature of bank credit lines: Evidence on the costs and consequences of bank default pp. 410-429

Anthony D. May

Paragon or pariah? The consequences of being conspicuously rich in China's new economy pp. 430-448

Michael Firth, Xianjie He, Oliver Rui and Tusheng Xiao

Sources of value gains in minority equity investments by private equity funds: Evidence from block share acquisitions pp. 449-474

Guojun Chen, Jun-Koo Kang, Jin-Mo Kim and Hyun Seung Na

Value impact of debt issuances by targets of withdrawn takeovers pp. 475-494

Tomas Jandik and Justin Lallemand

CEO optimism and the board's choice of successor pp. 495-510

T. Colin Campbell

A test of the Bolton–Scheinkman–Xiong hypothesis of how speculation affects the vesting time of options granted to directors pp. 511-519

Peter Egger and Doina Radulescu

Portfolio size and information disclosure: An analysis of startup accelerators pp. 520-534

Jin-Hyuk Kim and Liad Wagman

Bank stability and market discipline: The effect of contingent capital on risk taking and default probability pp. 542-560

Jens Hilscher and Alon Raviv

Market efficiency, managerial compensation, and real efficiency pp. 561-578

Rajdeep Singh and Vijay Yerramilli

The prevention of excess managerial risk taking pp. 579-593

Edward D. Van Wesep and Sean Wang

Stock-based managerial compensation, price informativeness, and the incentive to overinvest pp. 594-606

Günter Strobl

Investment timing decisions of managers under endogenous contracts pp. 607-627

Keiichi Hori and Hiroshi Osano

Options, option repricing in managerial compensation: Their effects on corporate investment risk pp. 628-643

Nengjiu Ju, Hayne Leland and Lemma W. Senbet

Dynamic capital structure with callable debt and debt renegotiations pp. 644-661

Peter Ove Christensen, Christian Flor, David Lando and Kristian R. Miltersen

Do compensation plans with performance targets provide better incentives? pp. 662-694

Helena Pinto and Martin Widdicks

Optimal contracts with privately informed agents and active principals pp. 695-709

Diego García