International Journal of Managerial Finance: Volume 17 Issue 3

A tale of two emerging market economies: evidence from payout smoothing in China and Taiwan

Edward C. Hoang, Indrit Hoxha

The purpose of this paper is to investigate payout smoothing in two emerging markets – China and Taiwan. The authors conduct a comparative study of two emerging market economies…

Crash risk and debt maturity: evidence from Australia

Mostafa Hasan, Dewan Rahman, Grantley Taylor, Barry Oliver

The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between debt maturity structure and stock price crash risk in Australia.

The preventive effect of hedge fund activism: investment, CEO compensation and payout policies

Caroline Heqing Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of hedge fund activism (HFA) in preventing corporate policy deviations.

Overreaction effect: evidence from an emerging market (Shanghai stock market)

Krishna Reddy, Muhammad Ali Jibran Qamar, Nawazish Mirza, Fangwei Shi

The purpose of the study is to examine overreaction effect in the Chinese stock market after the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007 for all the stocks listed in Shanghai Stock…

The relationship between financial risk management and succession planning in family businesses

George Mihaylov, Ralf Zurbruegg

This article examines the relationship between financial risk management and succession planning in family businesses. Motivated by the Theory of Planned Behaviour, we hypothesize…

Working capital management and managerial talent

Nacasius U. Ujah, Augustine Tarkom, Collins E. Okafor

Talented managers arguably remain quintessential to firm value and performance. While the literature offers evidence for the long-term orientation of talented managers, there is a…

Comparing sentiment measures in mutual fund performance

Qiang Bu, Jeffrey Forrest

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the direct and indirect sentiment measures are similar in explaining mutual fund performance.