Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

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Volume 28, issue C, 2014

Inside the board room pp. 1-5

Marc Goergen and Luc Renneboog

The determinants of the CEO successor choice in family firms pp. 6-25

Iram Fatima Ansari, Marc Goergen and Svetlana Mira

Should I stay or should I go? Former CEOs as monitors pp. 26-47

Christian Andres, Erik Fernau and Erik Theissen

Executive board composition and bank risk taking pp. 48-65

Allen N. Berger, Thomas Kick and Klaus Schaeck

Corporate culture and CEO turnover pp. 66-82

Franco Fiordelisi and Ornella Ricci

Fund governance contagion: New evidence on the mutual fund governance paradox pp. 83-101

Paul Calluzzo and Gang Nathan Dong

The incentives of grey directors: Evidence from unexpected executive and board chair turnover pp. 102-115

Kenneth A. Borokhovich, Thomas J. Boulton, Kelly R. Brunarski and Yvette S. Harman

Does the independence of independent directors matter? pp. 116-134

Rafel Crespi-Cladera and Bartolomé Pascual-Fuster

Appointments of academic directors pp. 135-151

Joshua White, Tracie Woidtke, Harold A. Black and Robert L. Schweitzer

Does mandatory gender balance work? Changing organizational form to avoid board upheaval pp. 152-168

Øyvind Bøhren and Siv Staubo

Do women directors improve firm performance in China? pp. 169-184

Yu Liu, Zuobao Wei and Feixue Xie

Director gender and mergers and acquisitions pp. 185-200

Maurice Levi, Kai Li and Feng Zhang

Outside options and CEO turnover: The network effect pp. 201-217

Yun Liu

Director networks and takeovers pp. 218-234

Luc Renneboog and Yang Zhao

Volume 27, issue C, 2014

Controlling shareholders, board structure, and firm performance: Evidence from India pp. 1-20

Melvin Jameson, Andrew Prevost and John Puthenpurackal

The effect of sovereign wealth funds on the credit risk of their portfolio companies pp. 21-35

Fabio Bertoni and Stefano Lugo

Merger arbitrage short selling and price pressure pp. 36-54

Tingting Liu and Wu, Juan (Julie)

Are novice private equity funds risk-takers? Evidence from a comparison with established funds pp. 55-71

Pierre Giot, Ulrich Hege and Armin Schwienbacher

The effects of corporate spin-offs on productivity pp. 72-98

Thomas Chemmanur, Karthik Krishnan and Debarshi Nandy

Top management ties with board members: How they affect pay–performance sensitivity and IPO performance pp. 99-115

Salim Chahine and Marc Goergen

The stock market speaks: How Dr. Alchian learned to build the bomb pp. 116-132

Joseph Newhard

Do markets anticipate capital structure decisions? — Feedback effects in equity liquidity pp. 133-156

Christian Andres, Douglas Cumming, Timur Karabiber and Denis Schweizer

Class action lawsuits and executive stock option exercise pp. 157-172

Daniel Bradley, Brandon N. Cline and Qin Lian

Bank lending constraints, trade credit and alternative financing during the financial crisis: Evidence from European SMEs pp. 173-193

Eddie Casey and Conor O'Toole

Initial uncertainty and the risk of setting a fixed-offer price: Implications for the pricing of bookbuilt and best-efforts IPOs pp. 194-215

Steven L. Jones and John C. Yeoman

Share repurchases and institutional supply pp. 216-230

Jared DeLisle, J.D. Morscheck and John R. Nofsinger

The effect of securities litigation on external financing pp. 231-250

Don M. Autore, Irena Hutton, David R. Peterson and Aimee Hoffmann Smith

On the value of restrictive covenants: Empirical investigation of public bond issues pp. 251-268

Natalia Reisel

Inside debt renegotiation: Optimal debt reduction, timing, and the number of rounds pp. 269-295

Franck Moraux and Florina Silaghi

Time trends and determinants of the method of payment in M&As pp. 296-304

Audra L. Boone, Erik Lie and Yixin Liu

Managerial cash use, default, and corporate financial policies pp. 305-325

Marc Arnold

Political rights and equity pricing pp. 326-344

Narjess Boubakri, Sadok El Ghoul and Walid Saffar

Declining propensity to pay? A re-examination of the lifecycle theory pp. 345-366

Monica L. Banyi and Kathleen M. Kahle

Robust determinants of IPO underpricing and their implications for IPO research pp. 367-383

Alexander Butler, Michael O'Connor Keefe and Robert Kieschnick

The effect of government quality on corporate cash holdings pp. 384-400

Deqiu Chen, Sifei Li, Jason Zezhong Xiao and Hong Zou

Volume 26, issue C, 2014

Corporate payout policy in dual-class firms pp. 1-19

Bradford Jordan, Mark H. Liu and Qun Wu

The effect of interest rate volatility and equity volatility on corporate bond yield spreads: A comparison of noncallables and callables pp. 20-35

Dong H. Kim and Duane Stock

Competition and dynamics of takeover contests pp. 36-56

Riccardo Calcagno and Sonia Falconieri

Firm size, sovereign governance, and value creation: Evidence from the acquirer size effect pp. 57-77

Mark Humphery-Jenner and Ronan Powell

What drives corporate minority acquisitions around the world? The case for financial constraints pp. 78-95

Rose C. Liao

Management earnings forecasts, insider trading, and information asymmetry pp. 96-123

Anastasia Kraft, Bong Soo Lee and Kerstin Lopatta

Contracts, governance, and country risk in project finance: Theory and evidence pp. 124-144

Soku Byoun and Zhaoxia Xu

Ownership and control in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 145-163

Klaus Gugler, Natalia Ivanova and Josef Zechner

Corporate socially responsible investments: CEO altruism, reputation, and shareholder interests pp. 164-181

Richard Borghesi, Joel F. Houston and Andy Naranjo

Capital structure, equity mispricing, and stock repurchases pp. 182-200

Alice Adams Bonaimé, Ozde Oztekin and Richard S. Warr

Getting to know each other: The role of toeholds in acquisitions pp. 201-224

Paul Povel and Giorgo Sertsios

Volume 25, issue C, 2014

Stock repurchases as an earnings management mechanism: The impact of financing constraints pp. 1-15

Kathleen Farrell, Emre Unlu and Jin Yu

Corporate fraud and the value of reputations in the product market pp. 16-39

William C. Johnson, Wenjuan Xie and Sangho Yi

Creditor rights and capital structure: Evidence from international data pp. 40-60

Seong-Soon Cho, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami and Jungwon Suh

Institutional investors as monitors of corporate diversification decisions: Evidence from real estate investment trusts pp. 61-72

Jay C. Hartzell, Libo Sun and Sheridan Titman

Acquisition finance and market timing pp. 73-91

Theo Vermaelen and Moqi Groen-Xu

Why do firms (not) hedge? — Novel evidence on cultural influence pp. 92-106

Martin Lievenbrück and Thomas Schmid

Corporate tax aggressiveness, outside directors, and debt policy: An empirical analysis pp. 107-121

Grant Richardson, Roman Lanis and Sidney Chi-Moon Leung

Product market competition and the value of corporate cash: Evidence from trade liberalization pp. 122-139

Azizjon Alimov

Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders pp. 140-154

Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang

Disagreement and the informativeness of stock returns: The case of acquisition announcements pp. 155-172

Leonce L. Bargeron, Kenneth Lehn, Sara B. Moeller and Frederik P. Schlingemann

International variation in sin stocks and its effects on equity valuation pp. 173-187

Larry Fauver and Michael B. McDonald

Block trade targets in China pp. 188-201

Liping Dong, Konari Uchida and Xiaohong Hou

Can firms learn by observing? Evidence from cross-border M&As pp. 202-215

Bill B. Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Xian Sun and Maya Waisman

Investor recognition and seasoned equity offers pp. 216-233

Don M. Autore and Tunde Kovacs

Exploitation of the internal capital market and the avoidance of outside monitoring pp. 234-250

Brandon N. Cline, Jacqueline L. Garner and Adam S. Yore

CEO age and the riskiness of corporate policies pp. 251-273

Matthew A. Serfling

Credit lines and leverage adjustments pp. 274-288

G. Brandon Lockhart

Dividends: Relevance, rigidity, and signaling pp. 289-312

Sigitas Karpavičius

Financial crisis and bank executive incentive compensation pp. 313-341

Sanjai Bhagat and Brian Bolton

The value of firms' voluntary commitment to improve transparency: The case of special segments on Euronext pp. 342-359

Abby Kim

Decoupling by clienteles and by time in the financial markets: The case of two-stage stock-financed mergers pp. 360-375

James S. Ang, Gӧnül Ҫolak and Tai-Wei Zhang

CEO turnover and the reduction of price sensitivity pp. 376-386

Michael J. Alderson, Naresh Bansal and Brian L. Betker

The risk implications of insurance securitization: The case of catastrophe bonds pp. 387-402

Bjoern Hagendorff, Jens Hagendorff, Kevin Keasey and Angelica Gonzalez

The effect of banking relationships on the future of financially distressed firms pp. 403-418

Claire M. Rosenfeld

Excess perks and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China pp. 419-434

Nianhang Xu, Xiaorong Li, Qingbo Yuan and Kam C. Chan

Stealth compensation: Do CEOs increase their pay by influencing dividend policy? pp. 435-454

Kristina Minnick and Leonard Rosenthal

IPO waves and the issuance process pp. 455-473

Kevin Boeh and Craig Dunbar

Credit ratings and the choice of payment method in mergers and acquisitions pp. 474-493

Nikolaos Karampatsas, Dimitris Petmezas and Nickolaos G. Travlos

Bias correction in the estimation of dynamic panel models in corporate finance pp. 494-513

Qing Zhou, Robert Faff and Karen Alpert