Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

Current editor(s): A. Poulsen and J. Netter

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Volume 73, issue C, 2022

When rain matters! Investments and value relevance

Sandeep Rao, Santosh Koirala, Chandra Thapa and Suman Neupane

Political corruption, Dodd–Frank whistleblowing, and corporate investment

Qingjie Du and Yuna Heo

Property rights protection, financial constraint, and capital structure choices: Evidence from a Chinese natural experiment

Yixin Liu, Yu Liu and Zuobao Wei

Executive social connections and gender pay gaps

David Javakhadze and Austin Shelton

Does air quality affect inventor productivity? Evidence from the NOx budget program

Yue Luo, Yangyang Chen and Ji-Chai Lin

The real effects of credit constraints: Evidence from discouraged borrowers

Annalisa Ferrando and Klaas Mulier

Too much of a good thing? Corporate social responsibility and the takeover market

Fairhurst, Douglas (dj) and Daniel T. Greene

CSR contracting and performance-induced CEO turnover

Bo Qin and Lu Yang

Do the resignations of politically connected independent directors affect corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China

Qian Li and Mengting Guo

Lending when relationships are scarce: The role of information spread via bank networks

Yan Alperovych, Anantha Divakaruni and Sophie Manigart

Product market competition with CDS

Jay Y. Li and Dragon Yongjun Tang

CEO power and the likelihood of paying dividends: Effect of profitability and cash flow volatility

Shahbaz Sheikh

Local peer effects of corporate social responsibility

Chengcheng Li and Xiaoqiong Wang

Duration of executive compensation and maturity structure of corporate debt

Xudong Fu, Minjie Huang and Tian Tang

Corporate divestitures around acquisitions

Nihat Aktas, Aleksandra Baros and Ettore Croci

Do founding families downgrade corporate governance? The roles of intra-family enforcement

Joseph P.H. Fan and Xin Yu

Does corrupt practice increase the implied cost of equity?

Rajabrata Banerjee, Kartick Gupta and Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti

One false step can make a great difference: Does corporate litigation cause the exit of the controlling shareholder?

Ruiming Liu, Haiping Si and Miao Miao

Asset growth and stock returns in european equity markets: Implications of investment and accounting distortions

Panagiotis Artikis, Lydia Diamantopoulou, Georgios A. Papanastasopoulos and John N. Sorros

Fintech, financial constraints and innovation: Evidence from China

Na Ding, Leilei Gu and Yuchao Peng

Unique bidder-target relatedness and synergies creation in mergers and acquisitions

Tingting Liu, Lu, Zhongjin (Gene), Tao Shu and Fengrong Wei

Volume 72, issue C, 2022

Concierge treatment from banks: Evidence from the paycheck protection program

Ran Duchin, Xiumin Martin, Roni Michaely and Hanmeng Wang

Can a not-for-profit minority institutional shareholder make a big difference in corporate governance? A quasi-natural experiment

Wenxia Ge, Caiyue Ouyang, Zhenyang Shi and Zhanliao Chen

Why are distressed firms acquisitive?

Eden Quxian Zhang

New active blockholders and adjustment of CEO relative incentive ratios

Phuong L. Nguyen, Neal Galpin and Garry Twite

Dividend sentiment, catering incentives, and return predictability

Alok Kumar, Zicheng Lei and Chendi Zhang

Non-financial corporations and systemic risk

Mardi Dungey, Thomas Flavin, Thomas O'Connor and Michael Wosser

Corporate investment and growth opportunities: The role of R&D-capital complementarity

Anthony Sanford and Mu-Jeung Yang

The effect of geographic proximity on corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from China

Hanwen Chen, Siyi Liu, Junjie Wang and Zhijuan Wu

The role of divestitures in horizontal mergers11We thank Jon Garfinkel, Jayant Kale, Kai Li, Gordon Philips, Anand Vijh, Thomas Wollmann, David Ravenscraft and participants at the 2016 American Finance Association Meetings, Mitsui Finance Symposium 2016, University of Iowa seminar for helpful comments, and an anonymous referee for helpful comments. All errors are our own

Mosab Hammoudeh, Amrita Nain and Yiming Qian

Stock liquidity and corporate labor investment

Mong Shan Ee, Iftekhar Hasan and He Huang

The party school education and corporate innovation: Evidence from SOEs in China

Hamid Beladi, Qingsong Hou and May Hu

Are all activists created equal? The effect of interventions by hedge funds and other private activists on long-term shareholder value

Edward P. Swanson, Glen M. Young and Christopher G. Yust

Association of related party transactions with sensitivity of investments and external financing

Avishek Bhandari, Mark Kohlbeck and Brian Mayhew

Corporate hedging and the variance of stock returns

Kizkitza Biguri, Christian Brownlees and Filippo Ippolito

Bank deregulation and stock price crash risk

Viet Dang, Edward Lee, Yangke Liu and Cheng Zeng

Short seller attention

Rui Dai, Lilian Ng and Nataliya Zaiats

Corporate diversification and stock risk: Evidence from a global shock

Enrico Onali and Danilo V. Mascia

Corporate dividend smoothing: The role of cross-listing

Faruk Balli, Abraham Agyemang, Russell Gregory-Allen and Hatice Balli

Natural disasters, risk salience, and corporate ESG disclosure

Qiping Huang, Yongjia Li, Meimei Lin and Garrett A. McBrayer

The JOBS Act and mergers and acquisitions

Yongqiang Chu, Ming Liu and Shu Zhang

Simultaneous debt–equity holdings and corporate tax avoidance

Tian Tang, Liang Xu, Xinyan Yan and Haoyi Yang

Does individualism matter for hedge funds? A cross-country examination

Na Dai, Rajarishi Nahata and Aaron Brauner

Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme

Hongqi Yuan, Yiyuan Zhou and Hong Zou

Supply of credit and corporate bond covenants

Evrim Akdoğu and Aysun Alp Paukowits

Mandatory CSR expenditure and stock market liquidity

Partha P. Roy, Sandeep Rao and Min Zhu

How IPO firms' product innovation strategy affects the likelihood of post-IPO acquisitions?

Maher Kooli, Aoran Zhang and Yunfei Zhao

Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S

Thorsten Beck and Jan Keil

Political Control, Corporate Governance and Firm Value: The Case of China

Sujuan Xie, Bingxuan Lin and Jingjing Li

May the force be with you: Investor power and company valuations

Thomas Hellmann and Veikko Thiele

Real options, risk aversion and markets: A corporate finance perspective

Christian-Oliver Ewald and Bart Taub

Higher education and corporate innovation

Dongmin Kong, Bohui Zhang and Jian Zhang

Nondisclosure and analyst behavior: Evidence from redaction of proprietary information from public filings

Xingyuan Fei

Governance, information flow, and stock returns

Ariadna Dumitrescu and Mohammed Zakriya