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...

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...

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 aggregates prior research on the speed of adjustment (SOA) towards target capital structure, which is characterized by its heterogeneous findings. Therefore, the statistical procedures of meta-regression analysis are applied for the first time in this line of research. Summarizing...

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...