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Overview

Murray Z. Frank is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics within Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. The scientist's work spans several subfields, including Accounting, Finance, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their research topics cover various areas such as Corporate Finance and Governance, Financial Reporting and Valuation Research, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Stock Market Forecasting Methods, Capital Investment and Risk Analysis, Corporate Taxation and Avoidance, and Banking stability, regulation, and efficiency.

They have contributed multiple papers to well-known publication venues. The frequent venues for their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
  • Review of Financial Studies
  • The Review of Corporate Finance Studies

Some of the recent papers authored by Murray Z. Frank include:

  • The Pecking Order Theory of Capital Structure: Where Do We Stand? (2020) in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Financing Corporate Growth (2020) in Review of Financial Studies
  • The Pecking Order Theory of Capital Structure (2020) in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance

Frequent co-authors associated with Murray Z. Frank include Vidhan K. Goyal, Ali Sanati, Keer Yang, Tao Shen, and Hengjie Ai.

Best Publications

  • Testing the pecking order theory of capital structure

    Murray Z Frank;Vidhan K Goyal

  • Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors Are Reliably Important?

    Murray Z. Frank;Vidhan K. Goyal

  • Is All That Talk Just Noise? The Information Content of Internet Stock Message Boards

    Werner Antweiler;Murray Z. Frank

  • Trade-Off and Pecking Order Theories of Debt

    Murray Z. Frank;Vidhan K. Goyal

  • Is All That Talk Just Noise? The Information Content of Internet Stock Message Boards

    Murray Z. Frank;Murray Z. Frank;Werner Antweiler

  • What Actually Happened to the Inventories of American Companies Between 1981 and 2000

    Hong Chen;Murray Z. Frank;Owen Q. Wu

  • Why do stock prices drop by less than the value of the dividend? Evidence from a country without taxes

    Murray Z Frank;Ravi Jagannathan;Ravi Jagannathan

  • Testing the Pecking Order Theory of Capital Structure

    Murray Z. Frank;Vidhan K. Goyal

  • Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors are Reliably Important?

    Murray Z. Frank;Vidhan K. Goyal

  • Trade-Off and Pecking Order Theories of Debt

    Murray Z. Frank;Murray Z. Frank;Vidhan K. Goyal

  • Measuring the Strangeness of Gold and Silver Rates of Return

    Murray Frank;Thanasis Stengos

  • The effect of market conditions on capital structure adjustment

    Murray Z. Frank;Vidhan K. Goyal

  • Trade Credit, Collateral, and Adverse Selection

    Vojislav Maksimovic;Murray Z. Frank;Murray Z. Frank

  • An Intertemporal Model of Industrial Exit

    Murray Z. Frank

  • Investment and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital

    Murray Z. Frank;Tao Shen

  • Corporate Leverage: How Much Do Managers Really Matter?

    Murray Z. Frank;Murray Z. Frank;Vidhan K. Goyal

  • Monopoly pricing when customers queue

    Hong Chen;Murray Frank

  • U.S. Retail and Wholesale Inventory Performance from 1981 to 2004

    Hong Chen;Murray Z. Frank;Owen Q. Wu

  • CHAOTIC DYNAMICS IN ECONOMIC TIME‐SERIES

    Murray Z Frank;Thanasis Stengos

  • Do US Stock Markets Typically Overreact to Corporate News Stories

    Werner Antweiler;Murray Z. Frank;Murray Z. Frank

  • Monopoly Pricing When Customers Queue

    Murray Z. Frank;Murray Z. Frank;Hong Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Thanasis Stengos
Thanasis Stengos University of Guelph
Ravi Jagannathan
Ravi Jagannathan Northwestern University
Vojislav Maksimovic
Vojislav Maksimovic University of Maryland, College Park
Iain M. Cockburn
Iain M. Cockburn Boston University
Thomas W. Ross
Thomas W. Ross University of British Columbia
Randall Morck
Randall Morck University of Alberta

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