FRONT MATTER

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.12116
• Published date: 01 December 2013
• Date: 01 December 2013

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ARTICLES

ULF AXELSON , TIM JENKINSON , PER STRÖMBERG ,

and MICHAEL S. WEISBACH

Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts

TAREK A. HASSAN

Country Size, Currency Unions, and International Asset Returns

NICOLAE GÂRLEANU and LASSE HEJE PEDERSEN

Dynamic Trading with Predictable Returns and Transaction Costs

GRACE XING HU , JUN PAN, and JIANG WANG

Noise as Information for Illiquidity

ITZHAK BEN-DAVID , FRANCESCO FRANZONI , AUGUSTIN LANDIER ,

and RABIH MOUSSAWI

Do Hedge Funds Manipulate Stock Prices?

AYSUN ALP

Structural Shifts in Credit Rating Standards

I. SERDAR DINC and ISIL EREL

Economic Nationalism in Mergers and Acquisitions

SREEDHAR T. BHARATH , SUDARSHAN JAYARAMAN , and VENKY NAGAR

Exit as Governance: An Empirical Analysis

RICARDO J. CABALLERO, and ALP SIMSEK

Fire Sales in a Model of Complexity

OLIVER BOGUTH and LARS-ALEXANDER KUEHN

Consumption Volatility Risk

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