Browsing Scientific articles by Journals "Journal of Corporate Finance"
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Dividends and taxes: The moderating role of agency conflicts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We find that potential conflicts between majority and minority shareholders strongly influence how dividends respond to taxes. When the controlling shareholder has a smaller stake, the incentives to extract private benefits ... -
Does mandatory gender balance work? Changing organizational form to avoid board upheaval
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Norway is the first, and so far the only, country to mandate a minimum fraction of female and male directors on corporate boards. We find that after a new gender balance law surprisingly stipulated that the firm must be ... -
Peer-level analyst transitions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study examines the effect of peer-level analyst transitions (i.e., switching between brokerage houses) on associated regular incumbent analysts' forecasting performance. We employ a difference-in-differences research ... -
Wall street analysts as investor relations officers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper examines the practice of hiring financial analysts as investor relations officers (IRO). We posit that analysts-turned-IROs (AIROs) have a competitive advantage in communicating with investors, thereby lowering ...