International Journal of Managerial Finance
The Editors would like to invite submissions to the International Journal of Managerial Finance (IJMF) to celebrate its fifth birthday in 2009. The journal has gone from strength to strength under the editorship of Ralf Zurbruegg and Dave Michayluk, registering over 8,000 article downloads for 2007 and attracting an increasing number of quality submissions from all round the world. The journal would like to invite papers in particular covering the following areas:
Treasury and Financial Risk Management
- Redefining, measuring and identifying new methods to manage risk for financing decisions
- The role, costs and benefits of insurance and hedging financing decisions
- The role of rating agencies in managerial decisions
Investment and Financing Decision Making
- The uses and applications of forecasting to examine financing decisions
measurement and comparisons of various financing options - The public versus private financing decision
- The decision of where to be publicly traded - including comparisons of market structures and exchanges
- Short term versus long term portfolio management - choice of securities (debt vs equity, convertible vs non-convertible)
Corporate Finance
- Managerial finance responses to the tightening of regulation in the wake of recent financial scandals
- The relationship between the capital budgeting decision and financing decisions
- The role of corporate governance when designing new financing projects and establishing executive compensation
- Costs and benefits to mergers and acquisitions. Measurement of anticipated efficiency gains from restructuring
- The decision to initiate dividends versus share repurchases
Topicality
The manager's financing decision is an often over-looked process. This is despite the complex nature of understanding the numerous motivations, constraints, incentives and influences the manager is faced with; while operating in an environment of imperfect information and uncertainty. Therefore, by its very nature, the study of managerial finance spans several discipline areas, ranging from corporate finance and governance to risk and investment management. The journal provides an outlet for theoretical and empirical research into understanding the operation of managerial finance and its implications for all firm stakeholders.