The Journal of Finance

Articles

1537  Presidential Address: The Cost of Active Investing

Kenneth R. French

1575  Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure

         Michael L. Lemmon, Michael R. Roberts, and Jaime F. Zender

1609  Asset Growth and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

         Michael J. Cooper, Huseyin Gulen, and Michael J. Schill

1653  Dissecting Anomalies

         Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French

1679　Corporate Governance and Risk-Taking

 Kose John, Lubomir Litov, and Bernard Yeung

1729　Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance

         Alon Brav, Wei Jiang, Frank Partnoy, and Randall Thomas

1777　Hedge Funds: Performance, Risk, and Capital Formation

         William Fung, David A. Hsieh, Narayan Y. Naik, and Tarun Ramadorai

1805　The Selection and Termination of Inveatment Management Firms by Plan Sponsors

         Amit Goyal and Sunil Wahal

1849　Optimal Decentralized Investment Management

         Jules H. van Binsbergen, Michael W. Brandt, and Ralph S. J. Koijen

1897　International Cross-Listing, Firm Performance, and Top Management Turnover: A Test of the Bonding Hypothesis

         Ugur Lel and Darius P. Miller

1939　Feedback Effects and Asset Prices

         Emre Ozdenoren and Kathy yuan

1977　Economic Links and Predictable Returns

         Lauren Cohen and Andrea Frazzini

2013　Market Liquidity, Investor Participation, and Managerial Autonomy: Why Do Firms Go Private?

         Arnoud W. A. Boot, Radhakrishnan Gopalan, and Anjan V. Thakor

Reports of the American Finance Association

2061  Report of the Editor of The Journal of Finance for the Year 2007

         Campbell R. Harvey

2075  Minutes of the Annual Membership Meeting, January 5, 2008

         David H. Pyle

2077  Report of the Executive Secretary and Treasurer for the Year Ending September 30, 2007

         David H. Pyle

2081　Miscellanea