Empirical 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: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 13258
Special Issue Editor
Interests: corporate finance; fixed income securities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on the broad topic of “Empirical Corporate Finance” and includes the empirical exploration of various topics related to corporate finance.
Empirical articles on a broad range of corporate finance topics, such as financing decisions, issuance behaviors, payout policy, corporate governance, managerial compensation, ownership structure, cost of capital, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, investor activism, and corporate risk management are welcome.
Contributions focusing on international corporations, impacts of regulatory changes on corporate policies, effects of major shocks to corporate policies and event, and other related topics are also encouraged.
Dr. Tao-Hsien Dolly King
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- empirical corporate finance
- corporate governance
- corporate risk management or hedging
- mergers and acquisitions
- payout policy
- financing decisions
- IPO
- managerial compensation
- ownership structure
- investor activism
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