Breaking Barriers: New Research Topics in Corporate Finance
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Economics and Finance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 1006
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is to provide space for research topics that are original and empirical results that are thought-provoking, albeit not necessarily complete or without flaws, for the editors and reviewers of most other journals. The scope is broad—examples of directions of interest include:
- Reconciling corporate finance theory with evidence. Why do some of the highest valuation companies, presumably with profitable growth opportunities, also have a very high free cash flow? How do we reconcile declining returns from corporate investments and long-term high valuations of corporate stocks? Why do stock prices overestimate the present value of future streams of dividends?
- Solving corporate finance puzzles, from the classic dividend puzzle originally proposed by Fisher Black, with more recent data, to the near-extinction of stock dividends, which are more tax efficient than cash dividends.
- Exploring new topics. For a list of new issues, see, for example, James S. Ang, 100 research ideas: extending the frontiers of research in corporate finance, Global Finance Journal, Volume 48, May 2021.
- Reconciling theory vs practice in corporate finance.
- Original topics that have not been published elsewhere.
- Innovations in the practice of corporate finance: a historical survey.
- Case studies of a single firm with noteworthy corporate finance accomplishments or blunders.
About the Guest Editor:
James S. Ang is the Bank of America Eminent Scholar and Professor of Finance at Florida State University. He was a two-term editor of Financial Management and a former president of the Financial Management Association. He has published numerous articles in corporate finance, investments, and financial institutions. His research has an H-index score of 36.
Prof. Dr. James Ang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- original research topics, albeit controversial
- reconciling theory with evidence
- case studies in corporate finance
- puzzles in corporate finance
- theory vs. practice
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