Managerial Finance: Volume 44 Issue 10

Does boardroom gender diversity affect the risk profile of acquiring banks?

Adnène Sghaier, Taher Hamza

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of gender diversity on the boardroom and in top management positions on the risk profile (RP) of acquiring banks.

A look at corporate control: the case of Hertz Global Holdings

Travis L. Jones, Marcus T. Allen

The purpose of this paper is to focus on issues of corporate control around the announcement of the decision of Hertz Global Holdings to relocate its corporate headquarters from…

Risk shifting elimination and risk sharing exposure in equity-based financing – a theoretical exposition

Siti Raihana Hamzah, Norizarina Ishak, Ahmad Fadly Nurullah Rasedee

The purpose of this paper is to examine incentives for risk shifting in debt- and equity-based contracts based on the critiques of the similarities between sukuk and bonds.

Stock liquidity and free float: evidence from the UK

Ghaith El-Nader

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interactions between free float and stock liquidity in the UK stock market over the period 2002–2016.

Do the S&P 500 index revisions affect corporate bonds and earnings performance?

Keith Chan, Ruoyun Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to examine the information content in the Standard & Poor (S&P) 500 index revision and its impact on the corporate bonds and earnings of the firms…

The effects of liquidity trading on insider trade timing when an underlying option is present

Han Ching Huang, Pei-Shan Tung

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the underlying option impacts an insider’s propensity to purchase and sell before corporate announcements, the proportion of…