Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

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Volume 79, issue C, 2023

Investment sensitivity to lender default shocks

Hursit S. Celil, Brandon Julio and Srinivasan Selvam

Innovation Success and Capital Structure

Harshit Rajaiya

Credit default swaps, the leverage effect, and cross-sectional predictability of equity and firm asset volatility

Santiago Forte and Lidija Lovreta

Managerial talent and managerial practices: Are they complements?

Audinga Baltrunaite, Giulia Bovini and Sauro Mocetti

CSRC oral communication and corporate disclosure

Chenxue Hou and Qijian Wang

The effect of social connections on capital structure in supplier-customer relationships

Tomas Jandik and Tatiana Salikhova

What drives risk-taking incentives embedded in bank executive compensation? Some international evidence

Ramón Abascal and Francisco González

The rise of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges: Evaluating the role of airdrops and governance tokens

Christos Makridis, Michael Fröwis, Kiran Sridhar and Rainer Böhme

Lending relationships when creditors are in control

Jan Keil

Do gender diverse boards enhance managerial ability?

Ghasan A. Baghdadi, Md Safiullah and Mariano L.M. Heyden

Historical social capital and contemporary private investment choices

Chen Feng, Caiquan Bai and Yankun Kang

Technology centrality, bilateral knowledge spillovers and mergers and acquisitions

Jingong Huang and Taojun Xie

Do younger CEOs really increase firm risk? Evidence from sudden CEO deaths

Sebastian Trabert

Are family and friends the wrong investors? Evidence from U.S. start-ups

Luana Zaccaria

Lean against the wind: The effect of policy uncertainty on a firm's corporate social responsibility strategy

Daoju Peng, Gonul Colak and Jianfu Shen

Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms

Lisa Hillmann

Outside directors' equity incentives and strategic alliance decisions

Konan Chan, Vincent Y.S. Chen, Yu-Fang Huang and Jia-Wen Liang

Syndicate structure and IPO outcomes: The impact of underwriter roles and syndicate concentration

Craig G. Dunbar and Michael King

Bondholder governance, takeover likelihood, and division of gains

Evrim Akdoğu, Aysun Alp Paukowits and Ugur Celikyurt

The stock market valuation of human capital creation

Matthias Regier and Ethan Rouen

Corporate site visit and tax avoidance: The effects of monitoring and tax knowledge dissemination

Yingwen Guo, Jingjing Li and Bingxuan Lin

Liability taxes, risk, and the cost of banking crises

Andrea Bellucci, Serena Fatica, Wouter Heynderickx, Virmantas Kvedaras and Andrea Pagano

Firms' access to informal financing: The role of shared managers in trade credit access

Feng Ding, Qiliang Liu, Hanzhong Shi, Wenming Wang and Shan Wu

The equity value implications of court ideology: Evidence from federal judge turnover

Stefano Cassella and A. Emanuele Rizzo

Volume 78, issue C, 2023

The informational consequences of good and bad mergers

Samer Adra and Leonidas G. Barbopoulos

Prosocial CEOs and the cost of debt: Evidence from syndicated loan contracts

Chunbo Liu, Liang Xu, Haoyi Yang and Wenqiao Zhang

The impact of delay: Evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring

Stjepan Srhoj, Dejan Kovač, Jacob N. Shapiro and Randall Filer

CEO tournament incentives and corporate debt contracting

Chinmoy Ghosh, Di Huang, Nam H. Nguyen and Hieu V. Phan

Unintended consequences of compensation peer groups on corporate innovation

Yuan-Teng Hsu, Chia-Wei Huang and Kees G. Koedijk

Wage gap and stock returns: Do investors dislike pay inequality?

Ingolf Dittmann, Maurizio Montone and Yuhao Zhu

Firm-level political risk and debt choice

Guan-Ying Huang, Carl Hsin-han Shen and Zhen-Xing Wu

Collateral-based monetary policy and corporate employment: Evidence from Medium-term Lending Facility in China

Xiaoling Liu, Yuhui Wu and Huan Zhang

Making honest men of them: Institutional investors, financial reporting, and the appointment of female directors to all-male boards

Karen M.Y. Lai, Mehdi Khedmati, Ferdinand A. Gul and Matthew P. Mount

Relationship-based debt financing of Chinese private sector firms: The role of social connections to banks versus political connections

Haoyuan Ding, Yichuan Hu, Kenneth Kim and Mi Xie

Information asymmetry, external certification, and the cost of bank debt

Andrea Bellucci, Alexander Borisov, Germana Giombini and Alberto Zazzaro

Financing constraints and share pledges: Evidence from the share pledge reform in China

Yang Shi, Jiachen Li and Ruiming Liu

Credit ratings and social capital

Ashrafee Hossain, Takdir Hossain, Anand Jha and Mbodja Mougoué

A shot in the arm: Economic support packages and firm performance during COVID-19

Deniz Igan, Ali Mirzaei and Tomoe Moore

Employee approval of CEOs and firm value: Evidence from Employees' choice awards

Spencer Barnes and Yingmei Cheng

CEO marital status and dividend policy

Md Noman Hossain, Monika K. Rabarison, Brandon Ater and Christian K. Sobngwi

Asymmetric response to earnings news across different sentiment states: The role of cognitive dissonance

Zhuo Li, Fenghua Wen and Zhijian James Huang

Regional redistribution through SBA guaranteed loan programs

Churn Ken Lee and Munseob Lee

Callable or convertible debt? The role of debt overhang and covenants

Christian Flor, Kirstine Boye Petersen and Alexander Schandlbauer

Gender bias, board diversity, and firm value: Evidence from a natural experiment

Edward R. Lawrence and Mehul Raithatha

Corporate diversification, investment efficiency and the business cycle11This work is supported by Shenzhen Humanities & Social Sciences Key Research Bases

Yolanda Yulong Wang

When green meets green

Hans Degryse, Roman Goncharenko, Carola Theunisz and Tamas Vadasz

The bright side of the internal labor market: Evidence from the labor cost stickiness of firms affiliated with privately owned business groups in China

Hui Xu, Kam C. Chan, Chaohong Na and Qiaoling Fang

Volume 77, issue C, 2022

Speculative bubbles under supply constraints, background risk and investment fraud in the art market

Alejandro Bernales, Lorenzo Reus and Víctor Valdenegro

Naïve or sophisticated? Information disclosure and investment decisions in peer to peer lending

Xiao Chen, Bihong Huang and Mohamed Shaban

Seasoned equity crowdfunded offerings

Jerry Coakley, Aristogenis Lazos and José M. Liñares-Zegarra

Confidence and capital raising

Winifred Huang, Silvio Vismara and Xingjie Wei

Crowdfunding as gambling: Evidence from repeated natural experiments

Tolga Demir, Ali Mohammadi and Kourosh Shafi

The relevance of investor rights in crowdinvesting

Lars Hornuf, Tobias Schilling and Armin Schwienbacher

What drives the active involvement in business angel groups? The role of angels' decision-making style, investment-specific human capital and motivations

Christophe Bonnet, Vincenzo Capizzi, Laurence Cohen, Aurelien Petit and Peter Wirtz

Effectiveness of monitoring, managerial entrenchment, and corporate cash holdings

Panagiotis Couzoff, Shantanu Banerjee and Grzegorz Pawlina

The role of personal income taxes in corporate investment decisions

Martin Jacob and Robert Vossebürger

Contingent convertible bonds: Optimal call strategy and the impact of refinancing

Christian Koziol and Philipp Roßmann

CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions

Sheng-Syan Chen, Keng-Yu Ho, Po-Hsin Ho and Wei-Ying Nie

Pricing and value creation in private equity-backed buy-and-build strategies

Benjamin Hammer, Nikolaus Marcotty-Dehm, Denis Schweizer and Bernhard Schwetzler

Stakeholder preference and strategic corporate social responsibility

Shantanu Banerjee, Swarnodeep Homroy and Aurélie Slechten

Agglomeration, knowledge spillovers, and corporate investment

William Grieser, Gonzalo Maturana, Ioannis Spyridopoulos and Santiago Truffa

Options trading and earnings management: Evidence from the penny pilot program

Hao, (Grace) Qing and Keming Li

Early-stage venture financing

Alvaro Parra and Ralph Winter

Hostile takeovers or friendly mergers? Real options analysis

Takeshi Ebina, Yuya Kumakura and Katsumasa Nishide

Lumpy investment and credit risk

Feng Jiao and Chuanqian Zhang

The asset reallocation channel of quantitative easing. The case of the UK

Simone Giansante, Mahmoud Fatouh and Steven Ongena

Gendered performance evaluation in CEO turnover

Mingze Ma

Does gender diversity in the workplace mitigate climate change?

Yener Altunbas, Leonardo Gambacorta, Alessio Reghezza and Giulio Velliscig

Risk management in the shadow economy: Evidence from the sport betting market

Robert Arscott

Benchmarking of pay components in CEO compensation design

Yaniv Grinstein, Beni Lauterbach and Revital Yosef

The importance of target information in the acquisition of privately held firms

Paul Mason and Mike Stegemoller

Do idiosyncratic technology shocks induce peer effects?

Sigitas Karpavičius and Fan Yu

Geographic networks and spillovers between banks

Shasta Shakya

Societal equality sentiment and executive compensation

Bunyamin Onal, Dimitris Petmezas and Nan Xiong

Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws

Jens Hagendorff, Duc Duy Nguyen and Vathunyoo Sila