Special issue: Capital formation
The International Journal of Managerial Finance provides a forum for the dialogue and discourse of research and new insight into the financing decision. It is not only important to understand the functioning of financial markets and instruments, but also the process by which investment and business financing decisions are reached. The Journal is interested in any area of business research that focuses on the financial decision-making process.
Currently the journal has issued two calls for papers:
Special issue: Capital formation
Guest Editor: Laurie Krigman, Babson CollegeDeadline: June 30, 2006
The International Journal of Managerial Finance invites paper submissions for a special issue devoted to papers that address capital formation around the world and the efficacy of rules, regulatory systems and structures that either impede or promote capital raising activity. The goal of the issue is to understand why particular mechanisms work in some environments and not in others.
Topics
Topics suitable for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
The impact of different disclosure rules on the speed and/or cost of raising or retiring capital
The impact of Sarbanes Oxley on capital formation activity, and the propensity of foreign firms to list securities or raise capital in the U.S.
The role of mechanism design in securities issuance: comparisons of book building, fixed priced and auction offerings
The effects of local vs international security offerings
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