Regulatory Shocks, Corporate Misconduct, and Real Effects
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Economics and Finance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2027 | Viewed by 789
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Interests: empirical corporate finance (family firm; corporate governance; corporate fraud; ESG; CEO; emerging markets; taxation; private equity); banking; investment
Interests: ethics; international accounting; information technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Regulatory interventions play a key role in mitigating corporate misconduct, including financial fraud, earnings manipulation, and other unethical behaviors. Recent regulatory shocks such as legal reforms, enforcement changes, and disclosure requirements provide valuable settings to examine the causal impact of regulation on firm behavior.
This Special Issue aims to bring together high-quality theoretical and empirical research that investigates how regulatory shocks influence corporate misconduct and how such changes translate into real economic effects. In particular, we encourage studies that exploit regulatory changes as natural experiments to identify the causal relationships between regulation, corporate behavior, and firm-level outcomes.
We welcome contributions that examine the role of governance structures, ownership characteristics, and information environments in shaping firms’ responses to regulatory shocks. We are also interested in research that explores the real effects of corporate misconduct, including its implications for investment, innovation, employment, financing decisions, and risk-taking.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Regulatory reforms and corporate misconduct;
- Enforcement, litigation, and disclosure regulation;
- Corporate fraud, earnings management, and unethical behavior;
- Governance and ownership structure (e.g., family firms, business groups);
- Information environment and transparency;
- Real effects of misconduct on firm outcomes;
- ESG disclosure and reputational consequences of misconduct;
- Political shocks, partisan geographic sorting, and their real economic effects;
- Institutional and behavioral responses to natural disasters, environmental shocks, and social capital;
- Cross-country and emerging market evidence.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Hojong Shin
Prof. Dr. Lawrence Murphy Smith
Prof. Dr. Katherine Taken Smith
Prof. Dr. Harley Ryan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- regulatory shocks
- corporate misconduct
- corporate fraud
- governance
- ownership structure
- legal reforms
- enforcement
- natural experiments
- ESG disclosure
- information environment
- real effects
- political shocks
- partisan geographic sorting
- social capital
- natural disasters
- environmental shocks
- emerging markets
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