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Selling to buy: Asset sales, acquisition financing, and value creation 以卖换买:资产出售、收购融资和价值创造
IF 2.1 3区 经济学
Journal of Financial Research Pub Date : 2026-06-12 Epub Date: 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1111/jfir.70002
Christos Mavrovitis (Mavis), Nathan P. McNamee, Nickolaos G. Travlos
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New evidence on the economic motives for bank mergers 银行合并的经济动机的新证据
IF 2.1 3区 经济学
Journal of Financial Research Pub Date : 2026-06-12 Epub Date: 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1111/jfir.12471
Robert Loveland, Kevin Okoeguale
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Import competition and stock price crash risk 进口竞争和股价崩盘风险
IF 2.1 3区 经济学
Journal of Financial Research Pub Date : 2026-06-12 Epub Date: 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1111/jfir.12463
Mansoor Afzali, Gonul Colak, Khalela Francis
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The role of internal capital markets during financial crises: Evidence from Korean chaebols 国内资本市场在金融危机中的作用:来自韩国财阀的证据
IF 2.1 3区 经济学
Journal of Financial Research Pub Date : 2026-06-12 Epub Date: 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1111/jfir.12464
Junyong Lee, Kyounghun Lee, Frederick Dongchuhl Oh, Jungheon Park
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Do earnouts create the right incentives? Earnings management around earnout-based acquisitions 盈利是否创造了正确的激励?围绕基于盈利的收购的盈利管理
IF 2.1 3区 经济学
Journal of Financial Research Pub Date : 2026-06-12 Epub Date: 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1111/jfir.70007
António Pedro Coelho, Gilberto Loureiro
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CEO-employee pay ratio disclosure and dividend policy ceo -员工薪酬比率披露与股利政策
IF 2.1 3区 经济学
Journal of Financial Research Pub Date : 2026-06-12 Epub Date: 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1111/jfir.70008
Rajib Chowdhury, John A. Doukas
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Economic policy uncertainty and the cost of equity capital 经济政策不确定性与股权资本成本
IF 2.1 3区 经济学
Journal of Financial Research Pub Date : 2026-03-09 Epub Date: 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1111/jfir.12460
Yizhi Wang, Jingze Zhang, Qiaoqiao Zhu
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Tournament effects in equity mutual funds: Impact of economic conditions and investment styles 股票共同基金的竞赛效应:经济状况和投资风格的影响
IF 2.1 3区 经济学
Journal of Financial Research Pub Date : 2026-03-09 Epub Date: 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1111/jfir.12466
Stéphane Chrétien, Frank Coggins, Catherine Deslauriers
{"title":"Tournament effects in equity mutual funds: Impact of economic conditions and investment styles","authors":"Stéphane Chrétien,&nbsp;Frank Coggins,&nbsp;Catherine Deslauriers","doi":"10.1111/jfir.12466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12466","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mutual funds engage in annual competitions to secure top positions in year-end performance rankings. One effect implies that losing funds increase their risk more than winning funds, hoping to improve their rankings. Another effect involves a rational response by winning funds that anticipate the actions of losing funds and take more risk to maintain their position. We propose a novel testing approach that can better capture systematic risk shifting. We find evidence of a rational response when using traditional measures, but models that account for investment-style variations weaken considerably the effects and detect more risk shifting by losing funds.</p>","PeriodicalId":47584,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Financial Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"286-325"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jfir.12466","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147618104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Local connectedness and corporate social responsibility 本地联系和企业社会责任
IF 2.1 3区 经济学
Journal of Financial Research Pub Date : 2026-03-09 Epub Date: 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1111/jfir.12456
Erdem Ucar
{"title":"Local connectedness and corporate social responsibility","authors":"Erdem Ucar","doi":"10.1111/jfir.12456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12456","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I examine the relationship between social connectedness and corporate prosocial behavior, as measured by corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using a novel connectedness measure, I empirically investigate the effect of local connectedness on CSR for a large sample of U.S. firms. I show that firms in areas with stronger connectedness have higher CSR levels. The local connectedness effect on CSR remains robust after addressing endogeneity concerns and robustness checks. My findings suggest that the link between social connectedness and individual prosocial behavior, highlighted in social science literature, exists for corporations, and local connectedness is an important predictor of CSR.</p>","PeriodicalId":47584,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Financial Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"253-285"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147618062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Do temporary changes in earnings caused by mean reversion affect firms’ refinancing decisions? 均值回归导致的暂时性收益变化是否会影响企业的再融资决策?
IF 2.1 3区 经济学
Journal of Financial Research Pub Date : 2026-03-09 Epub Date: 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1111/jfir.12452
Elettra Agliardi, Marios Charalambides, Md Shahedur R. Chowdhury, Nicos Koussis
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