Journal of Corporate Finance

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Volume 76, issue C, 2022

Foreign competition and CEO risk-incentive compensation

Tor-Erik Bakke, Felix Zhiyu Feng, Hamed Mahmudi and Caroline H. Zhu

Individualism, formal institutional environments, and bank capital decisions

Mohammad Bitar and Amine Tarazi

(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management

Joseph D. Farizo

Peer information in loan pricing

Yangming Bao

Nowhere to hide: Response of corporate restructuring activities to mandatory segment disclosure

Trinh Hue Le, Barry Oliver and Kelvin Jui Keng Tan

The role of financial constraints in firm investment under pollution abatement regulation

Tri Vi Dang, Youan Wang and Zigan Wang

Labor unemployment insurance and bank loans

Yi Shen

The sovereign wealth funds risk premium: Evidence from the cost of debt financing

Hatem H. Ghouma and Zeineb Ouni

Does extended auditor disclosure deter managerial bad-news hoarding? Evidence from crash risk

Donghui Li, Lu Xing and Yang Zhao

Societal secrecy and IPO underpricing

Yangyang Chen, Andy C. W. Chui, Abhinav Goyal and Madhu Veeraraghavan

Reference prices, relative values, and the timing of M&A announcements

Sangwon Lee and Vijay Yerramilli

Anti-market sentiment and corporate social responsibility: Evidence from anti-Jewish pogroms

Xianda Liu, Wenxuan Hou and Brian G.M. Main

Mandatory corporate social responsibility and foreign institutional investor preferences

Andrew Marshall, Sandeep Rao, Partha P. Roy and Chandra Thapa

Bubble-crash experience and investment styles of mutual fund managers

Deming Luo, Zhongwei Yao and Yanjian Zhu

Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation

Justin Hung Nguyen and Buhui Qiu

Banking liberalization and corporate tax planning: Evidence from natural experiments

Shenglan Chen, Hui Ma, Haimeng Teng and Qiang Wu

Forecasting crash risk in U.S. bank returns—The role of credit booms

Marius M. Mihai and Iqbal Mansur

Tunneling through trademarks

Sojung Kim and Woochan Kim

Too much to learn? The (un)intended consequences of RegTech development on mergers and acquisitions

Ming Gu, Dongxu Li and Xiaoran Ni

Just a short-lived glory?The effect of China's anti-corruption on the accuracy of analyst earnings forecasts

Qingsong Hou, Weifang Li, Min Teng and May Hu

Outside director social network centrality and turnover before stock performance crash: A friend in need?

Siyuan Li, Tianshu Charlotte Qu and Yingri Julia Yu

The impact of internet penetration on venture capital investments: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Wenfei Li, Donghui Li and Shijie Yang

CEO risk-seeking and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from pilot CEOs

Ghasan Baghdadi, Edward J. Podolski and Madhu Veeraraghavan

Strategic underleveraging and acquisitions

Magnus Blomkvist, Karl Felixson, Anders Löflund and Hitesh Vyas

Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions

Luca Lin

Volume 75, issue C, 2022

Venture capital and corporate social responsibility

Cheng Cheng, Yongqiang Chu, Zijie Deng and Bo Huang

Which antitakeover provisions deter takeovers?

Jonathan M. Karpoff, Robert Schonlau and Eric Wehrly

Soft activism and corporate dividend policy: Evidence from institutional investors site visits

Jerry Cao, Hanyang Wang and Sili Zhou

Unpacking the black box of ICO white papers: A topic modeling approach

James Thewissen, Prabal Shrestha, Wouter Torsin and Anna M. Pastwa

Changes in CEO stock option grants: A look at the numbers

Vasiliki Athanasakou, Daniel Ferreira and Lisa Goh

Earnings-based borrowing constraints & corporate investments in 2007–2009 financial crisis

Ankitkumar Kariya

Selling durables: Financial flexibility for limited cost pass-through

Kyeong Hun Lee, David C. Mauer and Emma Q. Xu

Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts

Qizhi Tao, K.C. John Wei, Xueman Xiang and Biao Yi

Credit default swaps and corporate performance smoothing

Wei-Shao Wu, Robert C.W. Fok, Yuanchen Chang and Chao-Jung Chen

The real effects of municipal bond insurance market disruptions11This paper was previous circulated with the title “Bond Insurance and Public Sector Employment.” I thank Gary Gorton, Andrew Metrick, Heather Tookes, William English, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Cameron LaPoint, William Goetzmann, Stefano Giglio, Kaushik Vasudevan, Thomas Bonczek, Chase Ross, and Sharon Ross for helpful conversations. I thank participants at various seminars and conferences for their questions and comments. I thank several anonymous referees for their critiques and suggestions. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve Board, or the Federal Reserve System. Any errors or omissions are the responsibility of the authors. No statements here should be treated as legal or investment advice. Data from SDC Platinum and Thomson Reuters EIKON used in this paper are licensed through Yale University

Natee Amornsiripanitch

Labor unions and real earnings management

Kiyoung Chang, Young Sang Kim, Ying Li and Jong Chool Park

Volatility of implied volatility and mergers and acquisitions

Sandra Betton, Nabil El Meslmani and Lorne N. Switzer

Risk management transparency and compensation

Chang-Mo Kang and Donghyun Kim

Pay for performance, partnership success, and the internal organization of venture capital firms

Karan Bhanot and Palani-Rajan Kadapakkam

Attitudes towards business and corporate governance

Vladimir A. Gatchev, Christo A. Pirinsky and Mengxin Zhao

Financial constraints, ownership dilution, and the method of payment in M&A transactions

Eric de Bodt, Jean-Gabriel Cousin and Micah S. Officer

Mind the sovereign ceiling on corporate performance

Thomas Y. To, Eliza Wu and Lambert Zhang

Volume 74, issue C, 2022

Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?

Junhong Yang, Alessandra Guariglia, Yuchao Peng and Yukun Shi

Venture capital investment in university spin-offs: Evidence from an emerging economy

Xiaoqing Maggie Fu, Richard T. Harrison and Dongfu Franco Li

Banks’ risk taking and creditors’ bargaining power

Yuval Heller, Sharon Peleg Lazar and Alon Raviv

What are the benefits of attracting gambling investors? Evidence from stock splits in China

Conghui Hu, Ji-Chai Lin and Yu-Jane Liu

Debt structure and debt overhang

Liu Gan, Xin Xia and Hai Zhang

Money isn't everything: Compensation of locally educated executives

Patty Bick and Ryan Flugum

Board gender diversity and responsible banking during the COVID-19 pandemic

Alper Kara, Aziidah Nanteza, Aydin Ozkan and Yilmaz Yildiz

To pollute or not to pollute: Political connections and corporate environmental performance

Gang Xiao and Sichen Shen

Bank funding strategy after the bail-in announcement

Franco Fiordelisi and Giulia Scardozzi

Cost of carry, financial constraints, and dynamics of corporate cash holdings

Ruhollah Eskandari and Morteza Zamanian

Learning and staged equity financing

Magnus Blomkvist, Timo Korkeamäki and Tuomas Takalo

Internal capital markets and predictability in complex ownership firms

Ran Chang, Angelica Gonzalez, Sergei Sarkissian and Jun Tu

Subordinate executives' horizon and firm policies

Mohamed Mekhaimer, Alex Annan Abakah, Awad Ibrahim and Khaled Hussainey

Political ties and raising capital in global markets: Evidence from Yankee bonds

Gene Ambrocio, Xian Gu and Iftekhar Hasan

Impact of venture capital holding on firm life cycle: Evidence from IPO firms

Shima Amini, Abdulkadir Mohamed, Armin Schwienbacher and Nicholas Wilson