Managerial Finance: Volume 47 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Andy Naranjo

The unexpected and stickiness behavior of institutional investors in index funds

Eddie Sanchez, Junho Oh

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the behavior of institutional and retail investors in S&P 500 index funds separately to determine why they behave differently.

Transaction-based lending and accrual quality

Stephen Gray, Arjan Premti

This study examines how lenders modify their behavior and their use of traditional, transaction-based lending models in credit decisions when faced with low earnings quality.

Measuring the effect of investor sentiment on liquidity

Lee M. Dunham, John Garcia

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of firm-level investor sentiment on a firm's share liquidity.

Hybrid Balanced Justified Treynor ratio

Saeid Tajdini, Mohsen Mehrara, Reza Tehrani

Risk and return are the most important components in the financial and investment world and the existence of a better balance between them with the goal of the best solution for…

Bridging the gap between management and finance: entrepreneurial orientation and idiosyncratic risk

Steve Kihm, Rashiqa Kamal

Management theorists suggest that entrepreneurially oriented firms manifest higher risk levels than more conservative companies, but executives of such firms and their consultants…