International Journal of Managerial Finance: Volume 14 Issue 1

Payout and firm’s catering

Maria Elisabete Duarte Neves

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether investor sentiments exert significant influence on corporate dividend policy. Additionally it provides further evidence on the…

The endogeneity of poison pill adoption and unsolicited takeovers

Duc Giang Nguyen

Poison pill adoption is often considered as the most effective tactic to fend off an unsolicited takeover bid. However, it is difficult to identify the deterrent effect because…

Financial constraints and optimal working capital – evidence from an emerging market

Gaurav S. Chauhan, Pradip Banerjee

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of an optimal or target level of working capital for the Indian manufacturing firms, and whether firms intensely follow…

CEO pay-risk sensitivity, firm policies, and 2009 Australian tax reforms

Chao Bian, Christopher Gan, Zhaohua Li, Baiding Hu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of chief executive officer (CEO) vega on firm policies in the Australian share market based on a panel data set drawn from the…

Asymmetric and nonlinear inter-relations of US stock indices

Dimitrios Vortelinos, Konstantinos Gkillas (Gillas), Costas Syriopoulos, Argyro Svingou

The purpose of this paper is to examine the inter-relations among the US stock indices.

The impact of social influence on the relationship between personality traits and perceived investment performance of individual investors: Evidence from Indian stock market

Fatima Akhtar, K.S. Thyagaraj, Niladri Das

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between an individual investor’s personality trait and his perceived investment performance. It proposes a novel…