International Journal of Managerial Finance: Volume 19 Issue 1

Corporate governance and innovation investment in publicly listed firms: the moderating effect of ownership type and legal jurisdiction

Ella Guangxin Xu, Chris Graves, Yuan George Shan, Joey W. Yang

The paper aims to examine the effect of corporate governance (CG) on innovation investment, with consideration of ownership types and legal jurisdictions.

Debt structure: a solution to the puzzle of capital structure

Ehsan Poursoleyman, Gholamreza Mansourfar, Sazali Abidin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relation between debt structure and future external financing and investment. Furthermore, it aims to analyze the association…

Corporate risk-taking after changes in credit rating

Hardjo Koerniadi

The paper aims to investigate corporate risk-taking following changes in firms' credit ratings (CR) and the mechanisms the firms use in implementing the risk-taking.

Does corporate social responsibility transparency mitigate corporate cash holdings?

Mohammad Hendijani Zadeh, Michel Magnan, Denis Cormier, Ahmad Hammami

This article aims to explore whether a firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) transparency alleviates a firm's cash holdings.

Stock derivatives and seasoned equity offerings

Robert Martin Hull, Sungkyu Kwak, Rosemary Walker

The article aims to explore if stock derivative types (stock options and stock warrants) are associated with stock returns for firms undergoing seasoned equity offerings (SEOs).

The impact of institutional factors on corporate mechanism of cash adjustment – New evidence from emerging Asia

Santanu Das, Ashish Kumar, Asit Bhattacharyya

The purpose of this study is to understand how the business environment of a country has an impact on cash management policies of the firms and also to investigate if there is any…

The impact of natural disasters on the performance and solvency of US banks

Thomas Walker, Yixin Xu, Dieter Gramlich, Yunfei Zhao

This paper explores the effect of natural disasters on the profitability and solvency of US banks.

The effect of investor sentiment and the structure of shareholder ownership on corporate investment

Hui Li, Bruce Grundy

This paper aims to investigate the relations amongst investor sentiment, the structure of shareholder ownership and corporate investment.

Investors' responses to macroeconomic news: the role of mandatory derivatives and hedging activities disclosure

Abiot Tessema, Ghulame Rubbaniy

The purpose of this study is to investigate how changes in the firm's information disclosure practices impact the way investors process macroeconomic news. Specifically, the…

Testing factor models in an emerging market: evidence from India

Kewal Singh, Anoop Singh, Puneet Prakash

This paper aims to investigate the explanatory power of the Fama-French five-factor model and compares it to the other asset pricing models. In addition, the paper examines the…