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Research Members' research interests

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Professor of Finance, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Research interests: Regulation of banks and financial institutions; Corporate finance ; Credit risk and valuation of corporate debt ; Asset pricing with a focus on the effects of liquidity risk ; International finance

Professor of Finance, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland
Research interests: Corporate governance ; Governance of financial institutions ; Corporate finance ; Economics of organisations

Associate Professor of Finance and Economics, Boston University
Research interests: International finance and economics ; Capital market imperfections ; Corporate governance

Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Asset pricing ; Economics of information

Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
Research interests: Company law ; Corporate finance ; Corporate insolvency

Abraaj Capital Reader in Finance and Private Equity, London School of Economics and Political Science
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Private equity ; Financial innovation and security interests design ; Auction theory ; Financial intermediation ; Industrial organisation of financial markets

Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Research interests: Japanese law ; German and European commercial and economic Law ; Private international law and procedure ; Comparative law

Director of the Institute for Law and Finance, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Research interests: German and European corporate law ; Corporate governance ; Law of corporate finance

William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard Law School
Research interests: Corporate governance, law and finance ; Law and economics

Professor of Finance and Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Research interests: Corporate governance, law and finance

André and Rosalie Hoffmann Chaired Professor of Family Enterprise, INSEAD
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Political economy ; Applied microeconomic theory

Ufficio Diritto dell'economia, Banca d'Italia
Research interests: Corporate governance ; Company law ; Economics of bankruptcy ; Economics of civil justice

Chabraja Professor, Northwestern University Law School and Kellogg School of Management Law School
Research interests: Law and finance ; Corporate and securities law ; International corporate governance ; Corporate acquisitions

Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Vanderbilt University Law School
Research interests: Legal structure of business organisations ; Corporate governance ; Role of corporations in globalisation ; Excessive leverage in financial markets

Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
Research interests: Industrial organisation and antritrust ; Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Political economy ; Sovereign debt ; Economic theory ; Economics of transition and development ; Contract theory

Professor of Finance, IMD
Research interests: International financial regulation ; Bankruptcy, short sales, insider trading and merger laws

Gösta Olson Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics
Research interests: Corporate governance ; Financial contracting

Senior Lecturer in Finance, Cass Business School
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Industrial organisation ; Contract theory

S J Berwin Professor of Corporate Law, Faculty of Law, Cambridge University
Research interests: Company law ; Corporate governance ; Law and economics

John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
Research interests: Purchasing of legal services ; Mergers and acquisitions ; Mutual funds ; CEO and CLO turnover

Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Research interests: Corporations ; Securities regulation ; Class actions ; Criminal law ; White-collar crime

Professor of Commercial and Company Law, Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg
Research interests: Company law ; Comparative company law ; Financial regulation ; Securities regulation

Lecturer, Department of Finance, London School of Economics
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Applied theory ; Applied econometrics ; Industrial organisation ; Labour and personnel economics

Associate Professor of Finance, Tilburg University
Research interests: Venture capital ; Financing of innovative companies ; Private equity ; Public policy

Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Research interests: Company law ; Labour law ; Securities regulation

Professor of Corporate Finance, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Research interests: Empirical corporate finance ; Corporate governance

Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance, University of Cambridge
Research interests: Labour law ; Company law ; Tort law ; Contract law ; Law and economics ; EU law

Professor of Finance, Swiss Finance Institute, University of Lugano
Research interests: Corporate finance

Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Research interests: Theory of financial intermediaries, financial crises, and liquidity ; Bank regulation and deposit insurance ; Debt maturity structure and the role of short-term debt

Tuck Centennial Professor of Finance and Founding Director, Center for Corporate Governance, Dartmouth College
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Capital markets ; Investment banking ; Corporate governance ; Mergers and acquisitions ; Portfolio management and performance evaluation

Assistant Professor of Finance , The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: Corporate governance ; Executive compensation ; Mergers and acquisitions ; Behavioural finance

Associate Professor of Finance and Fred T. Greene Distinguished Scholar, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Research interests: Institutional investors ; Market microstructure ; Ownership structures and governance ; Family firms

Commissioner, Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa
Research interests: Securities regulation ; Corporate governance ; Corporate law ; EC company law ; Mergers and acquisitions

Professor of Company and Securities Law, University of Cambridge Law Faculty and Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL)
Research interests: Corporate finance law ; General company law ; Financial regulation ; Insolvency

Professor of Business Law and Capital Markets Law, University of Genoa
Research interests: Financial markets law ; Corporate law ; Business law and regulation ; Executive remuneration

Professor of Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Research interests: Empirical and theoretical corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Financial intermediation ; Organisational economics ; Personnel economics ; Applied microeconomics ; Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; International finance

Harvey Greenfield Professor of Securities Law, Harvard Law School
Research interests: Corporate governance ; Finance ; Regulation of financial institutions ; Securities regulation

Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Research interests: German and European company law and securities regulation ; Commercial law including accounting law, economic analysis of the law and comparative law

Michael E. Patterson Professor of Law, NASDAQ Professor for Law and Economics of Capital Markets, Columbia Law School
Research interests: Corporate and securities law ; Law and economics ; International finance

Professor of Finance, London Business School
Research interests: Bankruptcy and financial distress ; Ownership and control ; Family ownership ; Shareholder activism

Professor of Finance, University of North Carolina
Research interests: Interaction of corporate finance with investment and commercial banking

Martin J. Gruber Professor of Finance, Department of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University
Research interests: Asset pricing ; Behavourial economics ; Executive compensation ; Macroeconomics origins and consequences of scaling behaviour

Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University Law School
Research interests: Corporate law ; Corporate governance ; Law and economics ; Law and accounting

Professor of Finance , Stockholm School of Economics
Research interests: Corporate finance ; International finance ; Development economics

Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School
Research interests: Business and corporate law ; Securities regulation

Professor of Finance, Cardiff Business School
Research interests: Corporate governance and corporate control ; Initial public offerings (IPOs) ; Corporate investment models ; Dividend policy ; Mergers and acquisitions ; Insider trading ; Human capital issues across corporate governance systems

Associate Professor of Finance , Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Research interests: Finance

Professor of Business Administration and Director of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University
Research interests: Private equity funds ; Sources of financing, incentive design, and performance of private firms ; Long-run performance evaluation for newly public companies

Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Research interests: Corporations ; Mergers and acquisitions ; Foundations of the regulatory state ; Contemporary corporate law scholarship reading group

Professor of Finance, INSEAD
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Banking ; Limited arbitrage ; Economics of organisations

Associate Professor, University of Vienna
Research interests: Industrial economics ; Corporate governance ; Mergers

Associate Professor, Department of Business and Finance, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Research interests: Corporate governance ; Law and economics

Associate Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: International accounting ; Financial disclosure and capital markets ; Cost of capital ; Accounting harmonisation ; Law and finance

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
Research interests: Corporate governance ; Securities regulation ; White-collar crime

August E. Lines Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Research interests: Organisational ownership and structure ; Property rights

Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Research interests: Economic theory ; Mathematical economics ; Theory of the firm ; Law and economics ; Corporate finance

Associate Professor in Finance, HEC School of Management
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Financial economics ; Contract theory ; Law and economics

Director, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Research interests: General economic thoery ; Macroeconomics and monetary theory

Professor of Finance , London Business School
Research interests: Taxation ; Valuation of convertible and callable debt ; Dynamic capital structure ; Information economics

Professor of Law and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Research interests: Banking and financial services ; Corporate governance ; European integration

Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School
Research interests: Corporate law ; Corporate theory ; Corporate governance ; Comparative corporate governance ; Executive remuneration ; Corporate crime ; US corporate law

Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT
Research interests: Theory of the firm ; Contracting and incentives ; Corporate governance ; Corporate finance ; Supply of liquidity

Emeritus Professor, Max-Planck Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht
Research interests: German and European corporate markets ; German and European capital markets ; Banking and business law

 
Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Law and finance

Professor of Finance and Economics, University of Frankfurt and
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Banking ; Competition policy ; Information economics

James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law , Harvard Law School
Research interests: Regulation of financial institutions and financial markets ; International finance ; Social security reform ; Federal budget policy

Professor of Economics, Center for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Salerno
Research interests: Liquidity constraints ; Saving ; Intergenerational transfers ; Portfolio choice ; Banking ; Applied econometrics and macroeconomics

Professor of Finance , Saïd Business School, Oxford University
Research interests: Initial public offerings (IPOs) ; Impact of taxation on corporate financing decisions ; Cost of capital ; Private equity

Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University
Research interests: Coordination, control and the management of organisations ; Organisational change

George T. Lowy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Research interests: Corporate bonds ; Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Hedge funds ; Mergers and acquisitions

Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
Research interests: Corporate and securities law ; Mergers and acquisitions ; Corporate governance

Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Research interests: Commercial law ; Securities law ; Financial law ; Law and economics

Director, Center for Corporate Governance, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research interests: Information in financial markets ; Market microstructure ; Financial intermediation ; Industrial organisation ; Contract theory

Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Research interests: Private equity ; Entrepreneurial finance ; Corporate governance ; Mergers and acquisitions ; Corporate finance

Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Research interests: Business law ; Comparative company law ; Corporate governance ; Corporate takeovers ; Limited liability ; Shareholder-derivative suits ; Third-party enforcement strategies

Chair of Corporate Finance, Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Research interests: Corporate finance and banking ; Structured finance and financial stability ; Rating and capital markets

Senior Economist, Research Department , International Monetary Fund
Research interests: International banking ; Corporate finance

Professor, Toulouse School of Economics
Research interests: Corporate finance and governance ; Asset management ; Organisations ; Behavioural economics

Professor in Finance, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Research interests: Contract theory ; Corporate finance ; Risk management ; Insurance ; Organisation of the firm ; Theory of the firm

Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School
Research interests: Structure and role of venture capital and private equity organisations

J. Sondheimer Professor of International Economics, Finance and Accounting, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Research interests: Corporate disclosures ; Accounting transparency ; Disclosure regulation ; Corporate governance and financing ; International accounting

Dean and Professor of Law, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Research interests: Value dimensions of social institutions ; Comparative corporate governance ; International securities regulation

Ira Rennert Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Research interests: Financial intermediation ; Investment banking ; Initial public offerings (IPOs) ; Entrepreneurial finance ; Corporate governance ; Behavioural corporate finance

Professor of Finance, Institut für Finanzmanagement, Universität Bern
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Risk management ; Compensation policies

Assistant Professor of Economic Law, Free University of Bolzano
Research interests: Company law ; Capital market law ; Corporate governance ; Law and finance

Scientia Professor in Finance, School of Banking and Finance, Australian School of Business
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Investment banking ; Venture capital ; International finance

Professor for Corporate Finance, Mannheim Business School, University of Mannheim
Research interests: Corporate finance theory ; Corporate governance

Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Corporate taxation ; Regulation of financial institutions

Professor of International Economic Law and Professor of Financial Market Regulation, Tilburg University Faculty of Law and Tilburg Law and Economics Center
Research interests: Corporate law ; Corporate finance ; International securities and banking regulation ; European business law

Aschenbrener Fellow and Associate Professor of Finance, University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business
Research interests: Corporate financial strategy and hedging ; Arbitrage and liquidity

Director, Instituts für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht, University of Freiburg
Research interests: Private law ; Commercial law ; Corporations ; Securities regulation ; Conflicts ; Comparative law

Professor of Capital Markets Law, University of Nottingham School of Law
Research interests: Securities regulation ; Financial services regulation ; European community Law ; Commercial law ; Executive remuneration

Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Chair in Finance, School of Busines, University of Alberta
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Political economy ; Business history

Professor of Finance, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Research interests: Bank regulation ; Mechanism design ; Corporate finance ; Corporate governance

Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for German and International Law of Financial Services, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Research interests: German and European corporate law ; Capital market law ; Banking law ; Business law

Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Financing decisions ; Capital allocation

Professor of Financial Economics, Università di Torino
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Portfolio choice ; Incomplete capital markets

Ernest Butten Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School Oxford
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Financial security design ; Game theory ; Artificial agent economies

Professor of Law and Finance, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Research interests: Economic analysis of law ; Torts ; Contracts ; Banking and securities regulation ; Corporate governance

Professor of Economics, Facoltà di Economia, Università di Napoli Federico II
Research interests: Market microstructure ; Banking and corporate finance ; Law and finance

Professor of Economics, Istituto di Economia Politica & IGIER, Università Bocconi
Research interests: Corporate theory ; Corporate finance ; Contract theory

Associate Professor of Finance, INSEAD
Research interests: Empirical corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Executive compensation ; Firm diversification ; Internal capital markets ; Share repurchases

Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Research interests: Lawyering across multiple legal orders ; Globalisation in comparative perspective ; Global governance

Professor of Finance, Toulouse School of Economics
Research interests: Financial institutions ; Financial innovation ; Insurance ; Liquidity ; Risk management ; Financial stability

Joseph L. Gidwitz Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
Research interests: Economic growth

Professor of Corporate Finance, Tilburg University
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Initial public offerings (IPOs) ; Mergers and acquisitions ; Rights issues ; Pricing anomalies ; Law and economics ; Economics of sports ; Ethical investing ; Financial distress ; Economics of art

Professor of Economics, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)
Research interests: Banking theory and regulation ; Corporate finance ; Monetary economics ; Theory of incentives and information

Visiting Professor in corporate law, London School of Economics
Research interests: Comparative corporate law ; EU company law ; Cross-border restructuring of corporations in the EU

IDEI Researcher Member of the Toulouse School of Economics and Professor of Mathematics and Economic, University Toulouse I
Research interests: Banks, finance and insurance ; Industrial organisation

David Burg Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Research interests: Corporate bankruptcy and reorganisation ; Corporate finance ; Corporate law

Professor of international and public affairs, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; International finance

Sterling Professor of Law and Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, Yale Law School
Research interests: Corporate governance ; Corporate law ; Law and economics

Assistant Professor of Finance, Imperial College Business School
Research interests: Law and finance ; Corporate governance ; Bankruptcy ; International finance ; Technological innovations

Zurack Professor of Finance and Economics, Binghamton University School of Management
Research interests: Auctions ; Tax arbitrage ; Proxy voting

Michael Koerner '49 Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
Research interests: Capital flows in the venture capital industry ; Impact of top managers on corporate strategy ; Capital budgeting decisions in firms

Professor of Finance, London Business School
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Corporate control ; Financial institutions ; Investments

S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania - School of Law
Research interests: Bankruptcy ; Corporate law ; Debt relief and sovereign bankruptcy ; Law and poetry ; Law and religion

Assistant Professor, University of Vienna
Research interests: Corporate finance and financial institutions ; Law and finance

Director, Institute for Financial Research (SIFR)
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Costs of bankruptcy and financial distress ; Venture capital ; Entrepreneurial finance ; Corporate governance

 
Associate Professor of Economics, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)
Research interests: Banking theory and regulation ; Corporate finance ; Credit cycles ; Financial contracts ; Venture capital

Senior Associate Dean, John E. Simon Professor of Finance, John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Financial intermediation ; Economics of asymmetric information

Associate Professor, Finance and Economics, HEC Paris
Research interests: Behavioural finance ; Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Economics of organisations

John S. Beasley Professor of Law and Business, Vanderbilt University Law School and Owen School of Management
Research interests: Shareholder activism ; Corporate and securities litigation ; Executive compensation ; Corporate voting

Professor of Finance, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH)
Research interests: Corporate bankruptcy ; Corporate governance ; Takeovers ; Corporate restructuring ; Environmental economics

Scientific Director, Institut d'Economie Industrielle
Research interests: Finance ; Game theory ; Industrial organisation ; Macroeconomics ; Organisation theory ; Psychology ; Regulation

Professor of Business Law, Tilburg University
Research interests: Business transactions ; Corporate governance ; Enterprises ; Law and economics ; Legal persons law

Professor of Law, Paolo Baffi Center on Financial Regulation, Bocconi University Law Department
Research interests: Company law ; Securities regulation ; Comparative corporate law

The Schroders Chaired Professor of International Finance and Asset Management, INSEAD
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Share repurchase ; Death spirals ; Initial public offerings (IPOs)

Associate Professor, Berol Corporation Fellow, Harvard Business School
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Corporate strategy ; Diversification ; Family business

Professor of Economics and Financial Management , IESE Business School, University of Navarra
Research interests: Innovation and competition ; Banking crisis and regulation ; Information and financial markets ; Competition policy ; The location of headquarters

Associate Professor of Finance, Institute of Finance and Accounting, London Business School
Research interests: International corporate finance ; Corporate governance ; Political economy of corporate finance

Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim
Research interests: Corporate finance ; Capital markets ; Financial institutions ; Theory of the firm ; Game theory ; Contract theory ; Industrial economics ; Political economy ; Law and finance

Senior Lecturer, School of Business Administration and Department of East Asian Studies, the Hebrew University
Research interests: Comparative financial systems ; Financial intermediation and banking ; Japanese economy and the economies of East Asia ; Economic and financial history

Chair of Banking and Finance, Department of Business Administration, University of Vienna
Research interests: Corporate finance and international institutions ; Financial regulation ; Capital structure choice ; Corporate governance ; Initial public offerings (IPOs) ; Risk management

Robert C. McCormack Professor Entrepreneurship & Finance, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Research interests: Media and financial market ; Culture and economics ; Financial development: causes and effects ; Corporate governance ; Organisations, power and theory of the firm ; International corporate finance ; Corporate control ; Financing constraints, investments and growth ; Research productivity