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 :...

The "Dogs of the Dow" (or "Dow Dog") investment strategy, is a popular investment approach that promises huge abnormal returns for investors in the ten top yielding stocks from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). However, periods of evident outperformance are balanced by periods of...

In line with theory suggested by Miller and Modigliani (1961), this paper finds generally positive and statistically significant effects of growth on the current market value of the firm over the 1974-90 period. This intuitive result is not surprising, but the lack of a simple link between the...