Corporate Finance and Governance

 

Work in the area of Corporate Finance includes work undertaken by the following faculty members:-

 

Selected Working papers:

    • Price Dispersion in a Model with Middlemen and Oligopolistic Market Makers Scott Linn, J.D. Ju and Zhen Zhu. (Under revision for the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy).
    • Operating Performance Changes Associated With Corporate Mergers and the Role of Corporate Governance Scott Linn, Nicholas Carline and Pradeep Yadav. (Under revision for the Journal of Banking and Finance).
    • Institutional ownership, analyst following and share prices: Theory and evidence. Chitru Fernando, Vladimir Gatchev and Paul Spindt. Invited for presentation at the 2008 FIRS conference, 2007 FMA European meetings and the 2007 FMA meetings.
    • Governance Matching in Corporate Acquisitions and the Effect of Antitakeover Provisions Chitru Fernando, Vladimir Gatchev and Vahap Uysal.
    • Do Privatization IPO Firms Outperform in the Long-Run? William Megginson, Seung-Doo Choi and Inmoo Lee, March 2008. Being revised for third review at Financial Management.
    • Extreme Underpricing: Determinants of Chinese IPO Initial Returns,William Megginson, Lihui Tian, April 2007. Being revised for resubmission to Journal of Empirical Finance.
    • Seeking safety in bad times: Dividend initiation returns and the economy,, Evgenia Golubeva and Vahap Uysal, Working paper, 2008
    • Governance Structures and Real Gains in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions by N. Carline, S.C. Linn and P.K. Yadav.