Corporate Finance and Governance I

Dear Colleagues,

Much work has been devoted to corporate finance and corporate governance questions.

Linking the two has been slower, especially using international data.  This is a call for papers that link corporate governance and corporate finance topics. While certain questions have been tested in US data and the US context, there is a great deal of room to enhance our understanding by using international data and contexts. For example, when studying questions of diversity at the board level, the European initiatives to mandate gender diversity has provided new insights. It would be useful to collect more evidence from different institutional contexts, even if readers are less familiar with it to start with.

In the last 10 years, the empirical corporate finance and corporate governance research fields have embraced new methods and exploring test settings in order to establish causality—with great benefits for our scientific understanding—but often at the potential cost of the insights being limited to a specific situation.  Thus, beyond using international data, this call for papers is also about encouraging research, which uses different methods or events—even if the inferences are the same. This will hopefully provide theorists with better insights about important variables to model.

This Special Issue is specifically looking for empirical and theoretical contributions linking corporate finance and governance including topics of governance effectiveness, executive compensation, governance activism, M&A, and financing.

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• Governance Effectiveness
• Executive Compensation
• Governance Activism
• M&A
• Financing