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...

Related party transactions and corporate governance / Elizabeth A. Gordon, Elaine Henry, Darius Palia -- Does corporate governance matter in the market response to merger announcements? Evidence from the U.S. and Germany / Paul Lowengrub, Torsten Luedecke, Michael Melvin -- Clientelism, debt...

Foreign ownership and firm value : evidence from Japan / Stephen P. Ferris, Kwangwoo Park -- The impact of regulatory change on insider trading profitability : some early evidence from New Zealand / Aaron Gilbert, Alireza Tourani-Rad, Tomasz Piotr Wisniewski -- Corporate governance mechanisms in...

Corporate downsizing and CEO compensation / Alexandros P. Prezas, Murat Tarimcilar, Gopala K. Vasudevan -- The external monitoring bodies' view of the board independence in the new public family firms / Imants Paeglis, Dogan Tirtiroglu -- Ownership structure, financial rent and performance :...

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...