International Journal of Managerial Finance: Volume 19 Issue 3

Does organizational form really matter to investment firms?

XiaoXiao Han, Skander Lazrak, Samir Trabelsi

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the organizational form of an investment management firm affects the performance of the mutual funds under its operation. More…

Powerful political corporate appointments and firm bribery channels

Hamish D. Anderson, Jing Liao, Jingjing Yang, Martin Young

The authors examine the influence of powerful political corporate appointments on the usage of firm bribery channels. Party Secretaries within Chinese state-owned enterprises…

Firm-level political risk and corporate innovation: evidence from US listed firms

Huson Ali Ahmed, Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan

The study examines the association between firm-level political risk and corporate innovation and also this study explores how financial constraint and growth level of a firm…

CFO credentials, stock market signaling, and firm performance

Sudip Datta, Trang Doan, Abhijit Guha, Mai Iskandar-Datta, Min-Jeong Kwon

This paper examines how “strategic” chief financial officers (CFOs) with an elite MBA (i.e. elite CFOs) influence (1) stock market reaction to CFO hiring announcements (ex ante…

Portfolio weights concentration: optimal strategies and equilibrium implications

Paskalis Glabadanidis

The purpose of this article is to help investors build less-concentrated portfolios as well as to construct optimal return-concentration portfolios.

Robust market timing tests of Canadian hybrid mutual funds

Mohamed A. Ayadi, Anis Chaibi, Lawrence Kryzanowski

Prior research has documented inconclusive and/or mixed empirical evidence on the timing performance of hybrid funds. Their performance inferences generally do not efficiently…

The influence of corporate governance on the performance of family-controlled firms: exploring the effects of legal jurisdiction

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

This study investigates effects of corporate governance on the financial performance of family-controlled firms and how these effects differ between common law and civil law…

A multi-country study of factors and threshold values affecting sovereign debt-taking behavior

Reza Tahmoorespour, Mohamed Ariff, Yaasmin Farzana Abdul Karim, Kian Tek Lee, Sharon Dharsini Anthony

This manuscript reports evidence on how debt-taking decisions of top management in a multi-country setting do affect credit rating scores assigned by credit rating agencies (CRAs…

IFRS experience and earnings quality in the GCC region

Nasser S. Kh. Al-Enzy, Reza Monem, Shamsun Nahar

This paper aims to examine the association between the adoption experience of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the quality of reported earnings in the…

Stock price crash risk and the adoption of poison pills: evidence from Brazil

Yuri Gomes Paiva Azevedo, Lucas Allan Diniz Schwarz, Hellen Bomfim Gomes, Marcelo Augusto Ambrozini

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of stock price crash risk on the adoption of poison pills.