Journal of Corporate Finance

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Volume 17, issue 5, 2011

Acquisitions and CEO power: Evidence from French networks pp. 1221-1236

Sabrina Chikh and Jean-Yves Filbien

Profit or politics? Understanding renationalizations in Russia pp. 1237-1253

Lucy Chernykh

Are better governed funds better monitors? pp. 1254-1271

Julia Chou, Lilian Ng and Qinghai Wang

BE/ME and E/P work better than ME/BE or P/E in regressions pp. 1272-1288

Jim Musumeci and Mark Peterson

Cross-country IPOs: What explains differences in underpricing? pp. 1289-1305

Suman Banerjee, Lili Dai and Keshab Shrestha

Cash holdings and share repurchases: International evidence pp. 1306-1329

Bong Soo Lee and Jungwon Suh

Blockholder dispersion and firm value pp. 1330-1339

Sander J.J. Konijn, Roman Kräussl and Andre Lucas

Are there monitoring benefits to institutional ownership? Evidence from seasoned equity offerings pp. 1340-1359

Ilhan Demiralp, Ranjan D'Mello, Frederik P. Schlingemann and Venkat Subramaniam

A stubborn persistence: Is the stability of leverage ratios determined by the stability of the economy? pp. 1360-1376

Jan Hanousek and Anastasiya Shamshur

Corporate equity ownership, investment, and product market relationships pp. 1377-1388

Matthew J. Clayton and Bjørn Jørgensen

Family control and investment–cash flow sensitivity: Empirical evidence from the Euro zone pp. 1389-1409

Julio Pindado, Ignacio Requejo and Chabela de la Torre

Perks and the informativeness of stock prices in the Chinese market pp. 1410-1429

Ferdinand Gul, Louis T.W. Cheng and T.Y. Leung

A bright side of financial constraints in cash management pp. 1430-1444

Luo, Mi (Meg)

Managerial compensation and the debt placement decision pp. 1445-1456

Susan M. Albring, Inder K. Khurana, Ali Nejadmalayeri and Raynolde Pereira

Firm- and country-level determinants of corporate leverage: Some new international evidence pp. 1457-1474

Ali Gungoraydinoglu and Ozde Oztekin

Do private equity consortiums facilitate collusion in takeover bidding? pp. 1475-1495

Audra L. Boone and J. Harold Mulherin

Financing constraints, cash-flow risk, and corporate investment pp. 1496-1509

Stefan Hirth and Marc Viswanatha

Does shareholder approval requirement of equity compensation plans matter? pp. 1510-1530

Lilian Ng, Valeriy Sibilkov, Qinghai Wang and Nataliya Zaiats

Evidence on the international evolution and convergence of corporate governance regulations pp. 1531-1557

Marina Martynova and Luc Renneboog

Stock repurchases and treasury share sales: Do they stabilize price and enhance liquidity? pp. 1558-1579

Amedeo De Cesari, Susanne Espenlaub and Arif Khurshed

Executive compensation in firms with concentrated control: The impact of dual class structure and family management pp. 1580-1594

Ben Amoako-Adu, Vishaal Baulkaran and Brian F. Smith

CEO and board chair roles: To split or not to split? pp. 1595-1618

Aiyesha Dey, Ellen Engel and Xiaohui Liu

Why are shareholders not paid to give up their voting privileges? Unique evidence from Italy pp. 1619-1635

Marco Bigelli, Vikas Mehrotra and Raghavendra Rau

Ownership structure, family control, and acquisition decisions pp. 1636-1657

Lorenzo Caprio, Ettore Croci and Alfonso Del Giudice

Volume 17, issue 4, 2011

The adverse selection effect of corporate cash reserve: Evidence from acquisitions solely financed by stock pp. 789-808

Ning Gao

Convertible security design and contract innovation pp. 809-831

Craig M. Lewis and Patrick Verwijmeren

Mergers increase default risk pp. 832-849

Craig H. Furfine and Richard Rosen

Shell games: On the value of shell companies pp. 850-867

Ioannis V. Floros and Travis R.A. Sapp

Employee ownership, board representation, and corporate financial policies pp. 868-887

Edith Ginglinger, William Megginson and Timothée Waxin

Leverage and debt maturity choices by undiversified owner-managers pp. 888-913

Richard Fu and Ajay Subramanian

Mutual funds as monitors: Evidence from mutual fund voting pp. 914-928

Angela Morgan, Annette Poulsen, Jack Wolf and Tina Yang

Does CEO reputation matter for capital investments? pp. 929-946

Ming Jian and Kin Wai Lee

Governance and innovation pp. 947-958

John R. Becker-Blease

How much is reasonable? The size of termination fees in mergers and acquisitions pp. 959-981

Jin Q. Jeon and James A. Ligon

Do more reputable financial institutions reduce earnings management by IPO issuers? pp. 982-1000

Gemma Lee and Ronald Masulis

Independent directors and the propensity to pay dividends pp. 1001-1015

Vineeta Sharma

How do managerial successions shape corporate financial policies in family firms? pp. 1016-1027

Mario Amore, Alessandro Minichilli and Guido Corbetta

U.S. takeovers in foreign markets: Do they impact emerging and developed markets differently? pp. 1028-1046

Natasha Burns and Ivonne Liebenberg

Who benefited from the disclosure mandates of the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments? pp. 1047-1063

Robert Battalio, Brian Hatch and Tim Loughran

Introduction to the special issue on managerial compensation pp. 1065-1067

Marc Goergen and Luc Renneboog

Managerial compensation pp. 1068-1077

Marc Goergen and Luc Renneboog

CEO pay incentives and risk-taking: Evidence from bank acquisitions pp. 1078-1095

Jens Hagendorff and Francesco Vallascas

Bankers' compensation and fair value accounting pp. 1096-1115

Gilad Livne, Garen Markarian and Alistair Milne

The two sides of CEO option grants at the IPO pp. 1116-1131

Salim Chahine and Marc Goergen

Us knows us in the UK: On director networks and CEO compensation pp. 1132-1157

Luc Renneboog and Yang Zhao

Executive compensation and corporate governance in China pp. 1158-1175

Martin Conyon and Lerong He

Managerial power theory, tournament theory, and executive pay in China pp. 1176-1199

Jing Chen, Mahmoud Ezzamel and Ziming Cai

Restricting CEO pay pp. 1200-1220

Ingolf Dittmann, Ernst Maug and Dan Zhang

Volume 17, issue 3, 2011

Leverage change, debt overhang, and stock prices pp. 391-402

Jie Cai and Zhe Zhang

Corporate governance, external market discipline and firm productivity pp. 403-417

Gloria Y. Tian and Garry Twite

Firm size, takeover profitability, and the effectiveness of the market for corporate control: Does the absence of anti-takeover provisions make a difference? pp. 418-437

Mark L. Humphery-Jenner and Ronan Powell

Securities litigation, withdrawal risk and initial public offerings pp. 438-456

Hao, (Grace) Qing

Do dividends matter more in declining markets? pp. 457-473

Kathleen P. Fuller and Michael Goldstein

New evidence on what happens to CEOs after they retire pp. 474-482

Changmin Lee

Optimal payout ratio under uncertainty and the flexibility hypothesis: Theory and empirical evidence pp. 483-501

Cheng-Few Lee, Manak C. Gupta, Hong-Yi Chen and Alice C. Lee

Corporate hedging versus risk-shifting in financially constrained firms: The time-horizon matters! pp. 502-525

Wolfgang Kuersten and Rainer Linde

New estimates of the cost of capital for pharmaceutical firms pp. 526-540

Carmelo Giaccotto, Joseph Golec and John Vernon

Disproportional ownership structure and pay-performance relationship: Evidence from China's listed firms pp. 541-554

Jerry Cao, Xiaofei Pan and Gary Tian

Strategic waiting in the IPO markets pp. 555-583

Gönül Çolak and Hikmet Gunay

Measuring R&D curtailment among short-horizon CEOs pp. 584-594

Richard A. Cazier

The effect of merger anticipation on bidder and target firm announcement period returns pp. 595-611

Marcia Millon Cornett, Basak Tanyeri and Hassan Tehranian

The effects of antitakeover provisions on acquisition targets pp. 612-627

Tatyana Sokolyk

Short selling around dividend announcements and ex-dividend days pp. 628-639

Benjamin Blau, Kathleen P. Fuller and Robert A. Van Ness

Financing constraints in nonprofit organisations: A 'Tirolean' approach pp. 640-648

Marc Jegers

The causes and consequences of securities class action litigation pp. 649-665

Brian C. McTier and John K. Wald

Financial flexibility and corporate liquidity pp. 667-674

David J. Denis

Corporate financial and investment policies when future financing is not frictionless pp. 675-693

Heitor Almeida, Murillo Campello and Michael Weisbach

Cash holdings and R&D smoothing pp. 694-709

James Brown and Bruce Petersen

Overinvestment, corporate governance, and dividend initiations pp. 710-724

Micah S. Officer

The determinants of corporate cash management policies: Evidence from around the world pp. 725-740

Yuanto Kusnadi and K.C. John Wei

Firm diversification and the value of corporate cash holdings pp. 741-758

Zhenxu Tong

Firm structure and corporate cash holdings pp. 759-773

Venkat Subramaniam, Tony T. Tang, Heng Yue and Xin Zhou

Financial flexibility: Do firms prepare for recession? pp. 774-787

James Ang and Adam Smedema

Volume 17, issue 2, 2011

Corporate finance and governance in emerging markets: A selective review and an agenda for future research pp. 207-214

Joseph P.H. Fan, K.C. John Wei and Xinzhong Xu

Long term changes in voting power and control structure following the unification of dual class shares pp. 215-228

Beni Lauterbach and Yishay Yafeh

Rent-seeking incentives, corporate political connections, and the control structure of private firms: Chinese evidence pp. 229-243

Charles J.P. Chen, Zengquan Li, Xijia Su and Zheng Sun

The political economy of residual state ownership in privatized firms: Evidence from emerging markets pp. 244-258

Narjess Boubakri, Jean-Claude Cosset, Omrane Guedhami and Walid Saffar

Government intervention and investment efficiency: Evidence from China pp. 259-271

Shimin Chen, Zheng Sun, Song Tang and Donghui Wu

Subsidiary divestiture and acquisition in a financial crisis: Operational focus, financial constraints, and ownership pp. 272-287

Yue Maggie Zhou, Xiaoyang Li and Jan Svejnar

Partial acquisitions in emerging markets: A test of the strategic market entry and corporate control hypotheses pp. 288-305

PengCheng Zhu, Vijay Jog and Isaac Otchere

Tunneling or propping: Evidence from connected transactions in China pp. 306-325

Winnie Qian Peng, K.C. John Wei and Zhishu Yang

Corporate choice of banks: Decision factors, decision maker, and decision process -- First evidence pp. 326-351

Steven Ongena, Günseli Tümer-Alkan and Bram Vermeer

Bank ownership and executive perquisites: New evidence from an emerging market pp. 352-370

Wei Luo, Yi Zhang and Ning Zhu

Cooking the books: Recipes and costs of falsified financial statements in China pp. 371-390

Michael Firth, Oliver Rui and Wenfeng Wu

Volume 17, issue 1, 2011

Value, valuation, and the long-run performance of merged firms pp. 1-17

Qingzhong Ma, David A. Whidbee and Athena Wei Zhang

Serial acquirer bidding: An empirical test of the learning hypothesis pp. 18-32

Nihat Aktas, Eric de Bodt and Richard Roll

In search of conclusive evidence: How to test for adjustment to target capital structure pp. 33-44

Armen Hovakimian and Guangzhong Li

Is "voting with your feet" an effective mutual fund governance mechanism? pp. 45-61

Meijun Qian

Institutional trading, information production, and the choice between spin-offs, carve-outs, and tracking stock issues pp. 62-82

Thomas Chemmanur and Mark H. Liu

Corporate governance and the cost of debt: Evidence from director limited liability and indemnification provisions pp. 83-107

Michael Bradley and Dong Chen

The informativeness and ability of independent multi-firm directors pp. 108-121

Douglas O. Cook and Wang, Huabing (Barbara)

Nonnegotiable shares, controlling shareholders, and dividend payments in China pp. 122-133

Juan Juan Huang, Yifeng Shen and Qian Sun

Can CEO dismissals be proactive? pp. 134-151

Mine Ertugrul and Karthik Krishnan

The contribution of stock repurchases to the value of the firm and cash holdings around the world pp. 152-166

In-Mu Haw, Simon S.M. Ho, Bingbing Hu and Xu Zhang

The role of shareholder proposals in corporate governance pp. 167-188

Luc Renneboog and Peter G. Szilagyi

Respondable risk and incentives for CEOs: The role of information-collection and decision-making pp. 189-205

Lan Shi