While Advances continues to publish papers from any area of Finance, the focus of this issue is on corporate governance, broadly defined as the system of controls that helps corporations and other organizations effectively manage, administer, and direct economic resources. Included in the volume...

On the existence of sub-standard security markets : the IPOs of Blinder-Robinson / James S. Ang, Stewart L. Brown -- The role of federal law enforcement actions in corporate governance / Mark Hirschey, Elaine Jones -- Empirical evidence on determinants of capital structure / Tomas Jandik, Anil...