Handbook of Empirical Corporate Finance, vol. 1C
- 1st Edition, Volume 1 - October 1, 2025
- Imprint: North Holland
- Editor: Bjørn Espen Eckbo
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 1 5 1 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 2 1 0 - 4
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Request a sales quoteThe growing interest in everything "corporate" is fueled by a healthy combination of fundamental theoretical developments and recent widespread access to large transactional data bases. A less scientific—but nevertheless important—source of inspiration is a growing awareness of the important social implications of corporate behavior and governance. This Handbook takes stock of the main empirical findings to date across a spectrum of corporate finance issues ranging from econometric methodology to raising capital and capital structure choice. Other volumes examine corporate investment behavior and governance. Our three-volume survey captures the results of progress through a combination of large-sample data descriptions, informal hypothesis testing, as well as structural tests of theory. With researchers employing a wide spectrum of econometric techniques, institutional settings, and market structures in order to distill the central message in the data, these volumes represent an enormous effort in systematizing and analyzing the most important subjects in corporate finance.
- Presents authoritative surveys and reviews of advances in theory and econometrics
- Reviews recent research on capital raising methods and institutions
- Includes developing countries
Graduate students and professors worldwide studying financial economics, in particular corporate finance
PART 4—Corporate Takeovers and Restructurings
25. Financial Restructurings
26. Corporate Takeovers and Economic Efficiency
27. Takeovers and Corporate Innovation
28. Bankruptcy Resolution
PART 5—Corporate Governance
29. Corporate Governance and Control
30. Governance of Financial Institutions
31. Blockholders in Corporate Governance
32. Family Firms
33. Executive Compensation and Incentives
34. Investor Activism
35. Takeover Defenses
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 1
- Published: October 1, 2025
- Imprint: North Holland
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128201510
- eBook ISBN: 9780128202104
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Bjørn Espen Eckbo
Professor B. Espen Eckbo holds the Tuck Centennial Chair in Finance. He is also Faculty Director of Tuck's Lindenauer Center for Corporate Governance, which he founded in 1999. He teaches advanced MBA courses in the areas of corporate finance, corporate takeovers and international corporate governance. Professor Eckbo, who received a PhD in financial economics from the University of Rochester in 1981, has published extensively in the top finance journals in the areas of corporate finance, investment banking, and the market for corporate control. He is a recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Norwegian School of Economics, the prestigious Batterymarch Fellowship, as well as several outstanding-paper awards. He is a research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a frequent keynote and invited seminar speaker. He was called in 2009 by the U.S. Congress to testify on issues concerning the government’s large equity ownership positions in companies rescued under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Affiliations and expertise
Center for Corporate Governance, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA