Journal of Corporate Finance

1994 - 2025

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Volume 68, issue C, 2021

Does bankruptcy law improve the fate of distressed firms? The role of credit channels

Udichibarna Bose, Stefano Filomeni and Sushanta Mallick

The round number heuristic and entrepreneur crowdfunding performance

Tse-Chun Lin and Vesa Pursiainen

CEO political preference and credit ratings

Avishek Bhandari and Joanna Golden

Forgive me all my sins: How penalties imposed on banks travel through markets

Christian Flore, Hans Degryse, Sascha Kolaric and Dirk Schiereck

Behavioral spillover between firms with shared auditors: The monitoring role of capital market investors

Viet Nga Cao and Anh Viet Pham

The dark side of CEO social capital: Evidence from real earnings management and future operating performance

Paul A. Griffin, Hyun A. Hong, Yun Liu and Ji Woo Ryou

Online social networks and corporate investment similarity

Wei Jing and Xueyong Zhang

Are bonds blind? Board-CEO social networks and firm risk

Yaoyao Fan, Agyenim Boateng, Kim Cuong Ly and Yuxiang Jiang

Firm opacity and the opportunity cost of cash

Felipe Cortes

What determines the composition of a firm's cash reserves?

Laura Cardella, Douglas Fairhurst and Sandy Klasa

Corporate financial policy: What really matters?

Harry DeAngelo

Corporate Twitter use and cost of equity capital

Mohamed Al Guindy

CEO early-life disaster experience and stock price crash risk

Yangyang Chen, Qingliang (Michael) Fan, Xin Yang and Leon Zolotoy

The value of bond underwriter relationships

Jens Dick-Nielsen, Mads Stenbo Nielsen and Stine Louise von Rüden

Does an anti-corruption campaign increase analyst earnings forecast optimism?

Nian Li, Nianhang Xu, Rui Dong, Kam C. Chan and Xiaowei Lin

Pension risk and corporate investment distortion

Demian Berchtold, Oliver Dichter, Claudio Loderer and Urs Waelchli

Does good luck make people overconfident? Evidence from a natural experiment in the stock market

Huasheng Gao, Donghui Shi and Bin Zhao

The effect of managers on M&As

Feng Dong and John Doukas

Mandatory governance reform and corporate risk management

Ulrich Hege, Elaine Hutson and Elaine Laing

Do facilitation payments affect earnings management? Evidence from China

Juncheng Hu

The effect of bank relationships on bond spreads: Additional evidence from Japan

Yasuharu Aoki

Female directors: Why are some less informed than others?

Shawn Mobbs, Yongxian Tan and Shage Zhang

Does it pay to be socially connected with wall street brokerages? Evidence from cost of equity

Thanh Son Luong, Buhui Qiu and Wu, Yi (Ava)

Mimicking insider trades

Biwesh Neupane, Chandra Thapa, Andrew Marshall and Suman Neupane

Fintech and access to finance

Helen Bollaert, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Armin Schwienbacher

Managerial ability, corporate social culture, and M&As

John A. Doukas and Rongyao Zhang

Short selling constraints and politically motivated negative information suppression

Xiaohu Deng, Christine Jiang and Danqing Young

Dollar borrowing, firm credit risk, and FX-hedged funding opportunities

Julio Galvez, Leonardo Gambacorta, Sergio Mayordomo and Jose Maria Serena

Does the market understand the ex ante risk of expropriation by controlling shareholders?

Yan-Leung Cheung, Raghavendra Rau, Aris Stouraitis and Weiqiang Tan

Tapping into financial synergies: Alleviating financial constraints through acquisitions

Rohan Williamson and Jie Yang

Investor rewards to environmental responsibility: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis

Alexandre Garel and Arthur Petit-Romec

Money chasing hot industries? Investor attention and valuation of venture capital backed firms

Jiangjing Que and Xueyong Zhang

The effect of cultural and institutional factors on initiation, completion, and duration of cross-border acquisitions

Edward R. Lawrence, Mehul Raithatha and Ivan Rodriguez

The dynamism of partially state-owned enterprises in East Asia

Richard W. Carney, Travers B. Child, Wai-Man Liu and Phong T.H. Ngo

Which buy-side institutions participate in public earnings conference calls? Implications for capital markets and sell-side coverage

Andrew C. Call, Nathan Y. Sharp and Thomas D. Shohfi

Credit risk spillovers and cash holdings

Jin Lei, Jiaping Qiu, Chi Wan and Fan Yu

Foreign institutional ownership and the speed of leverage adjustment: International evidence

Zhe An, Chen Chen, Donghui Li and Chao Yin

Managerial conservatism and corporate policies

Kiet Tuan Duong, Chiara Banti and Norvald Instefjord

CEO inside debt and internal capital market efficiency

Steven Freund, Hien T. Nguyen, Hieu V. Phan and Hien T. Tang

Confidential marketing in seasoned equity offers

Don M. Autore, Timothy Jones, Tunde Kovacs and David R. Peterson

Volume 67, issue C, 2021

Why do investment banks buy put options from companies?

Stanley B. Gyoshev, Todd Kaplan, Samuel H. Szewczyk and George P. Tsetsekos

Loan price in mergers and acquisitions

Ning Gao, Chen Hua and Arif Khurshed

Analyst talent, information, and insider trading

Chongyu Dang, Stephen Foerster, Li, Zhichuan (Frank) and Zhenyang Tang

Do managers seek control and entrenchment?

Paul Borochin and John D. Knopf

Convertible debt and asset substitution of multinational corporations

Jonathan Batten, Karren Lee-Hwei Khaw and Martin R. Young

Market manipulation rules and IPO underpricing

Huu Nhan Duong, Abhinav Goyal, Vasileios Kallinterakis and Madhu Veeraraghavan

The Economics of Law Enforcement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Corporate Takeover Law

Gishan Dissanaike, Wolfgang Drobetz, Paul P. Momtaz and Jörg Rocholl

Does venture capital syndication affect mergers and acquisitions?

Giang Nguyen and Le Vu

Do CFOs matter? Evidence from the M&A process

Stephen P. Ferris and Sushil Sainani

Can CFOs resist undue pressure from CEOs to manage earnings?

Chris Florackis and Sushil Sainani

Bragging rights: Does corporate boasting imply value creation?

Pratik Kothari, Don M. Chance and Stephen P. Ferris

Getting on board: The monitoring effect of institutional directors

George J. Jiang and Chang Liu

Information manipulation in equity crowdfunding markets

Michele Meoli and Silvio Vismara

Economic policy uncertainty and cross-border lending

Sonny Biswas and Wei Zhai

Financial analysts' career concerns and the cost of private debt

Bill Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Liuling Liu, Qiang Wu and Yijiang Zhao

Financial distress risk and stock price crashes

Christoforos K. Andreou, Panayiotis C. Andreou and Neophytos Lambertides

Stakeholders and the stock price crash risk: What matters in corporate social performance?

Ariadna Dumitrescu and Mohammed Zakriya

Corporate failures: Declines, collapses, and scandals

Rebel Cole, Sofia Johan and Denis Schweizer

Investment, leverage and political risk: Evidence from project-level FDI

Timothy King, Tiago Loncan and Zaheer Khan

Institutional investment horizons, corporate governance, and credit ratings: International evidence

Hamdi Driss, Wolfgang Drobetz, Sadok El Ghoul and Omrane Guedhami

Does CSR matter in times of crisis? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Kee-Hong Bae, Sadok El Ghoul, Gong, Zhaoran (Jason) and Omrane Guedhami

Does securities enforcement improve disclosure quality? An examination of Chinese listed companies' restatement activities

Ning Cao, Paul B. McGUINNESS and Chao Xi

SEC scrutiny shopping

Paul Calluzzo, Wei Wang and Serena Wu

How alternative finance informs central themes in corporate finance

Hisham Farag and Sofia Johan

Dynamic ownership and private benefits

Matthijs Breugem and Raffaele Corvino

Politically motivated corporate decisions as tournament participation/inclusion games

David Feldman, Chang-Mo Kang, Jiaming Li and Konark Saxena

Institutional trading, information production, and forced CEO turnovers

Thomas Chemmanur, Gang Hu, Yingzhen Li and Jing Xie

Do CEO beliefs affect corporate cash holdings?

Sanjay Deshmukh, Anand Goel and Keith M. Howe

Financial hedging and corporate investment

George Alexandridis, Zhong Chen and Yeqin Zeng

The consequences of political donations for IPO premium and performance

Dimitrios Gounopoulos, Khelifa Mazouz and Geoffrey Wood

Outsourcing flexibility under financial constraints

Jongmoo Jay Choi, Ming Ju, Lenos Trigeorgis and Xiaotian Tina Zhang

Strategic insider trading: Disguising order flows to escape trading competition

Dingwei Gu, Xin Liu, Hanwen Sun and Huainan Zhao

U.S. stock prices and the dot.com-bubble: Can dividend policy rescue the efficient market hypothesis?

Tobias Basse, Tony Klein, Samuel A. Vigne and Christoph Wegener

Wall Street analysts as investor relations officers

Ole-Kristian Hope, Zhongwei Huang and Rucsandra Moldovan

The relation between CEO equity incentives and the quality of accounting disclosures: New evidence

Karen H. Wruck and YiLin Wu

Do multiple credit ratings reduce money left on the table? Evidence from U.S. IPOs

Marc Goergen, Dimitrios Gounopoulos and Panagiotis Koutroumpis

Let us work together: The impact of customer strategic alliances on IPO underpricing and post-IPO performance

Xuan Peng, Yibo Jia, Kam C. Chan and Xiongyuan Wang

Does aggressiveness help? Evidence from IPO corruption and pricing in China

Yong Huang, Chao Yan and Kam C. Chan

Annual report readability and the cost of equity capital

Hatem Rjiba, Samir Saadi, Sabri Boubaker and Ding, Xiaoya (Sara)

Crossing boundaries beyond the investment grade: Induced trading by rating-contingent investment constraints

Pilar Abad, Antonio Díaz, Ana Escribano and M. Dolores Robles Fernandez

Gauging the effects of stock liquidity on earnings management: Evidence from the SEC tick size pilot test

Dan Li and Ying Xia

Political power, local policy uncertainty and IPO pricing

Gonul Colak, Dimitrios Gounopoulos, Panagiotis Loukopoulos and Georgios Loukopoulos

IPO withdrawals: Are corporate governance and VC characteristics the guiding light in the rough sea of volatile markets?

Annika Reiff and Tereza Tykvova

Another game in town: Spillover effects of IPOs in China

Yi Li and Wei Zhang

The role of directors with related supply chain industry experience in corporate acquisition decisions

Natasha Burns, Kristina Minnick and Aimee Hoffmann Smith

ESG government risk and international IPO underpricing

Edward D. Baker, Thomas J. Boulton, Marcus V. Braga-Alves and Matthew R. Morey

Generalists vs. specialists: Who are better acquirers?

Yan Xu, Nianhang Xu, Kam C. Chan and Zhe Li

The information transfer effects of political connections on mitigating policy uncertainty: Evidence from China

Guanchun Liu, May Hu and Chen Cheng

Culture and the regulation of insider trading across countries

Brandon N. Cline, Claudia R. Williamson and Haoyang Xiong

Varieties in state capitalism and corporate innovation: Evidence from an emerging economy

Yongjia Lin, Xiaoqing Fu and Xiaolan Fu