Managerial Finance: Volume 49 Issue 5

Gender diversity and bank risk-taking: female directors and executives

Chen Liu, Yan Wendy Wu

The authors investigate how a gender-diverse board, a gender-diverse executive team, or a female chief executive officer (CEO) impact bank balance sheet and equity risk.

Permanent layoff and consumer credit card loss forecasting

Zilong Liu, Hongyan Liang

The unemployment rate (UR) is the leading macroeconomic indicator used in the credit card loss forecasting. COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented level of volatility in…

Working capital management of IPO firms

Vivien Lefebvre

Financial constraints limit firms' ability to invest in working capital, which results in opportunity costs from lost sales or stockouts. The author examines initial public…

Do financial education workshops enhance parent–adolescent communication about money?

Harsha Vijaykumar Jariwala

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of financial education workshops (FEWs) on parent–adolescent communication about money by controlling for a parent's gender.

Pay inequality and annual report readability

KoEun Park

This study examines the relation between pay inequalities in top management teams and how efficiently firms convey valuation-relevant information to investors. Given that reward…

Impact of carbon productivity on firm performance: moderating role of industry type and firm size

Biswajit Ghose, Leo Themjung Makan, Kailash Chandra Kabra

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of carbon productivity on firms' financial performance. Secondly, the study also examines the moderating effect of…

Personality traits and investor risk behavior: moderating role of financial literacy

Muhammad Akhtar, Muhammad Umair Malik

The study aims to examine the relationship between personality traits and investor risk behavior of the individuals trading in stock markets. Furthermore, this study establishes…

Revisiting mean reversion in profitability and earnings: evidence from India (2007–2020)

Jitender Kumar, T.B. Kavya, Amit Bagga, S. Uma, M. Saiteja, Kashish Gupta, J.S. Harish Ganapathi, Ronit Roy

The purpose of this article is to revisit the mean reversion in profitability and earnings among Indian-listed firms, based on the idea that changes in profitability and earnings…