International Journal of Managerial Finance: Volume 11 Issue 1

The effects of a tax dividend cut on payout policies: Canadian evidence

Manon Deslandes, Suzanne Landry, Anne Fortin

– The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the significant dividend tax rate reduction for individual investors in Canada in 2006 affected firms’ payout policies.

Governance and the corporate life-cycle

Thomas O'Connor, Julie Byrne

– The purpose of this paper is to examine whether corporate governance changes along the corporate life-cycle.

Institutional investors, information asymmetry and stock market liquidity in France

Aymen Ajina, Faten Lakhal, Danielle Sougné

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of institutional investors’ ownership and type on information asymmetry and stock market liquidity in France.

Working capital and firm value in an emerging market

Shaista Wasiuzzaman

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between working capital efficiency and firm value and the influence of financing constraints on this relationship.

Are controlling shareholders extracting private benefits from European public acquisitions?

Mohamed Firas Thraya

The purpose of this paper is to examine the incentives of controlling shareholders in the market for corporate control. The author investigates the takeover premiums paid by a…

Looking at new markets for international diversification: frontier markets

Aswini Sukumaran, Rakesh Gupta, Thadavilil Jithendranathan

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether there exist significant benefits from diversification into frontier markets for an Australian investor in comparison to a US…

Broker ID transparency and price impact of trades: evidence from the Korean Exchange

Thu Phuong Pham

The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes in the price impact of trades in the major Korean stock market following the introduction of disclosure to all traders of the…