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We examine whether the Canadian banking sector was afflicted by financial contagion from the 2008 sub-prime crisis in the United States financial sector. We find that Canadian banks were affected by contagion, though those with higher liquidity withstood better its adverse effects. Our results...

We examine the determinants of target ownership plans and their association with earnings management. We find that firms adopt target ownership plans not only in response to poor performance as documented by prior research, but also as a means to mitigate moral hazard concerns and in response to...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how a firm’s investment behavior relates to its subsequent bank loan contracting. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of US firms during the period 1992-2011, the authors examine the association between overinvestment (underinvestment) and...