The number of empirical research studies in finance exhibits a strong upward trajectory, producing large differences in empirical results, which often impedes the drawing of consistent conclusions in relation to the phenomenon under examination. This creates demand for methods like meta-analysis...

This study is a quantitative review of the empirical literature analyzing firm value effects of corporate financial hedging. Using meta-regression analysis to accumulate a hand-collected data set of 1016 estimates for the hedging premium reported in 71 previous studies, we find that reported...

Research on the relationship between corporate environmental performance (CEP) and financial performance (CFP) continuously receives high attention in both general media and academic publications. One central issue concerns the causal effects between the two constructs. Since existing primary...

This study analyzes the interaction effects of corporate hedging activities of electric utility firms facing a manifold risk exposure consisting of several market price risks. We employ 16 recent introductions of markets for trading electricity derivatives as a quasi-natural experiment. The...

The aim of this study is to analyze the interaction between capital structure decisions and risk management decisions as well as the channels through which they add value to firms. Therefore, competing theories are considered in an integrated path model, which we test by means of meta-analytic...

Although the existing body of empirical literature on the relation between corporate environmental performance (CEP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) is continuously growing, results are still inconclusive about this fundamental question in industrial ecology. Comparisons are difficult...

We apply autoregressive distributed lag regression (ARDL) and several methods of structural break analysis on a daily data set between 1995 and 2014 to explore various supply and demand factors as drivers of the price differential between WTI and Brent crude oil. In line with previous...

We examine the drivers of heterogeneity among the determinants of corporate hedging by applying meta-regression analysis on a sample of 175 primary studies. Taken all previous findings together, hedgers are large, profitable and geographically diversified firms with high capital expenditures and...

This paper employs meta-analysis to aggregate and systematically analyze the mixed empirical evidence on the determinants of corporate hedging reported in 132 previously published studies covering data from more than 73,000 firms. Among the fourteen proxy variables analyzed by multivariate...