Contents: European Financial Management 1/2016

• Date: 01 January 2016
• Published date: 01 January 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/eufm.12073

EUROPEAN

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

The Journal of the European Financial Management Association

VOLUME 22, NUMBER 1

JANUARY 2016

Mandatory Gender Balance and Board Independence 3

ØYVIND BØHREN and SIV STAUBO

Equity Issues and Stock Repurchases of Initial Public Offerings 31

WOLFGANG BESSLER, WOLFGANG DROBETZ,

MARTIN SEIM and JAN ZIMMERMANN

Envy-Motivated Merger Waves 63

JOHN A. DOUKAS and WENJIA ZHANG

High-Frequency Exchange Rate Forecasting 120

CHARLIE X. CAI and QI ZHANG

The Impact of Sovereign Rating News on European Banks 142

STEFANO CASELLI, GINO GANDOLFI and MARIA GAIA SOANA

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