Managerial Finance: Volume 48 Issue 3

CFO gender in curbing CEO dominance on overpriced acquisition premiums

Amanda Grossman, Christine Naaman, Najib Sahyoun

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the tempering effect of the presence of a female chief financial officer (CFO) on potentially dominant chief executive officer (CEO…

Assessing the impact of market logic and long-term strategic plans of top management in share buyback decisions

Istemi Demirag, Thanamas Kungwal, Yassine Bakkar

This paper investigates stakeholders' perspectives of share buybacks in the context of time-horizons of investment decisions and strategy.

Choice between rights issue and private placements of equity and the role of information asymmetry

Bipin Sony, Saumitra Bhaduri

The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of information asymmetry in the equity selling mechanisms chosen by the firms from an important emerging market, India…

The determinants of corporate cash holdings: evidence from Shariah-compliant and non-Shariah-compliant corporations

Faisal Alnori, Abdullah Bugshan, Walid Bakry

The purpose of this study is to investigate the difference between the determinants of cash holdings of Shariah-compliant and non-Shariah-compliant firms, for non-financial…

Do risk attitude and trust moderate bank managers' risk perceptions in lending to micro, small, medium enterprises?

Harsha Talaulikar, Purva Hegde Desai, Nilesh Borde

The purpose of this research is to study the antecedents of risk perceptions of bank managers towards micro, small, medium enterprise (MSME) lending, in the situation of…

Getting the valuation formulas right when it comes to annuities

Denis Mike Becker

The purpose of this paper is to establish the flow-to-equity method, the free cash flow (FCF) method, the adjusted present value method and the relationships between these methods…

Bank asset allocation and finance structure under uncertainty in Vietnam

Van Dan Dang, Hoang Chung Nguyen

The paper investigates the link between uncertainty and banks' balance sheet reactions.

Low-risk investment strategy: sector bets or stock bets?

Shilpa Peswani, Mayank Joshipura

The portfolio of low-risk stocks outperforms the portfolio of high-risk stocks and market portfolios on a risk-adjusted basis. This phenomenon is called the low-risk effect. There…