Candidate Paper Listings

GROUP #1: CORPORATE FINANCE

Boards, Institutional Environment, and Ownership: Which Governance Mechanism Matters Most?   (PDF Version)
Daniel Urban, Technische Universität München, Germany
Email: daniel.urban@wi.tum.de

Corporate Governance of SMBOs: Is it Really Different? (PDF Version)
Dan Zhou, University of Birmingham, USA
Email: dxz920@bham.ac.uk

The Effects of Managerial Extraversion on Corporate Behavior  (PDF Version)
Na Young Park , University of Oxford, UK
Email: nayoung.park@sbs.ox.ac.uk

Essays in Corporate Finance   (PDF Version)
Monika Tarsalewska , Lancaster University, UK
Email: m.tarsalewska@lancaster.ac.uk

Does Board Tenure Matter?   (PDF Version)
Sterling Huang, INSEAD, France
Email: sterling.huang@insead.edu

GROUP #2: FINANCING DECISIONS

The Individual Investor and the Future Stock Market  (PDF Version)
Martin Abrahamson , Uppsala University, Sweden
Email: martin.abrahamson@fek.uu.se

European Equity Fund Managers: Luck or Skill?   (PDF Version)
Enareta Kurtbegu, University of Evry-Val d'Essonne, France
Email: enareta.kurtbegu@univ-evry.fr

Venture Capital Exit Decisions   (PDF Version)
El Bouzaidi Saloua, University of Evry-Val D’Essonne, France
Email: elbouzaidisaloua@gmail.com

Warrants in Underwritten IPOs   (PDF Version) -->
Dimitris Kostas , Manchester Business School, UK
Email: Dimitris.Kostas@postgrad.mbs.ac.uk

Three Essays on Asset Pricing: Theoretical Proposition and Empirical Analysis  (PDF Version)
Dong Jinyue , City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Email: jinyuedong@gmail.com

Essays in International Asset Pricing (PDF Version)
Ying Wu , Cornell University, USA
Email: yw263@cornell.edu

GROUP #3: SECURITY MARKETS AND INVESTMENTS

Do lockups Constrain Earnings Management by IPO Issuers   (PDF Version)
Wasim Ahmad , University of Birmingham, UK
Email: wxa855@bham.ac.uk

Managerial Overconfidence, Self-Attribution Bias and Corporate Financing Decisions   (PDF Version)
Bin Xu, Loughborough University, UK
Email: B.Xu@lboro.ac.uk

Do experience and luck affect the behavior of institutional investors in IPO markets? (PDF Version)
Fu Youyan , University of Edinburgh, UK
Email: Y.Fu-9@sms.ed.ac.uk;s1150901@sms.ed.ac.uk

Essays on Corporate Financing Decisions  (PDF Version)
Henning Schröder , University of Hamburg, Germany
Email: Henning.Schroeder@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

Why do firms buy back below average market prices?  (PDF Version)
Stefan Obernberger, University of Mannheim, Germany
Email: Obernberger@corporate-finance-mannheim.de