Managerial Finance: Volume 41 Issue 3

VIX and the variance of Dow Jones industrial average stocks

Andre Mollick

The purpose of this paper is to examine what happens to the variance of individual stocks forming the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) allowing for aggregate uncertainty…

Corporate boards and acquirer returns: international evidence

Mihail Miletkov, Sviatoslav Moskalev, M. Babajide Wintoki

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of board structure on non-US acquirer returns in 11,499 acquisition transactions from 60 countries during the period from 2001…

Corporate governance and financial policies: Influence of board characteristics on the dividend policy of Australian firms

Subba Reddy Yarram, Brian Dollery

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of board structure on dividend policy of Australian corporate firms. It also considers the traditional explanations of…

Impact of firm characteristics on capital structure choice of Turkish SMEs

Ali Uyar, Mustafa Kemal Guzelyurt

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether SMEs have a target debt ratio or not; who makes financing decisions for investments; the financing preferences; and which…

Does corporate governance matter in determining CEO compensation in the publicly listed companies in New Zealand? An empirical investigation

Krishna Reddy, Sazali Abidin, Linjuan You

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs) compensation and corporate governance practices of publicly listed companies…

Can coase govern the Green Bay Packers?

Jia-Yuh Chen, Manish Khadka

The agency problem inherent in governing public corporations predicts a management not acting in shareholders’ best interest. The purpose of this paper is to use the Green Bay…