Managerial Finance: Volume 39 Issue 3

Corporate risk and corporate governance: another view

Hao Li, John S. Jahera, Keven Yost

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of corporate governance strength as measured by the Gompers governance index (gindex) and other related factors on corporate…

Board compensation, holdings and mutual fund expense ratios

Eric Fricke

The purpose of this paper is to examine how board compensation and holdings are related to mutual fund expense ratios. Previous studies find that compensation and expense ratios…

What motivates seasoned equity offerings? Evidence from the use of issue proceeds

Mark Bayless, Nancy R. Jay

The purpose of this paper is to discover how firms use issue proceeds from seasoned equity offerings (SEOs).

Value versus growth in dynamic equity investing

George W. Blazenko, Yufen Fu

The value‐premium is the empirical observation that “value” stocks (low market/book) have higher returns than “growth” stocks (high market/book). The purpose of this paper is to…

Using the Rasch model to rank firms by managerial ability

Carolin Schellhorn, Rajneesh Sharma

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate firm financial success across a broad range of performance measures and identify areas of the performance spectrum for which positive…