Debt-ridden corporate growth and increased vulnerability was one of the causes of the 1997 financial crisis in Korea. Introduction of outside director system has been the core part of the corporate reforms following the crisis. Our estimation using instruments obtained from a natural experiment...

We provide evidence on whether zero-leverage firms make unique acquisition decisions in line with their unique leverage policies. We show that zero-leverage firms are more likely to acquire targets with low or zero leverage than they are to acquire other targets in order to maintain zero...

The study investigates the role of minority equity purchases on the innovation activities of the US firms. We provide evidence of an increased innovation activity following minority equity purchases targeting firms with a small size patent portfolio prior to acquisition. Using a hand collected...

This book comprises 19 papers published in the Special Issue entitled "Corporate Finance", focused on capital structure (Kedzior et al., 2020; Ntoung et al., 2020; Vintilă etal., 2019), dividend policy (Dragotă and Delcea, 2019; Pinto and Rastogi, 2019) and open-market share repurchase announcements (Ding...