Research & Publications

Corporate Governance

Review Articles | Journal Publications

Review Articles

Eckbo, B. Espen, Giulia Paone and Runa Urheim, 2011, “Efficiency of Share-Voting Systems: Report on Sweden,” http://ssrn.com/abstract=1651582

Eckbo, B. Espen, Giulia Paone and Runa Urheim, 2011, “Efficiency of Share-Voting Systems: Report on Italy,” http://ssrn.com/abstract=1431733

Eckbo, B. Espen, and Gulia Paone, 2011, “Reforming Share-Voting Systems: The Case of Italy”, in Evolution of Ownership Structures and Activism of Minority Shareholders, (Georgeson)

Eckbo, B. Espen, 2009, “The Government as Active Shareholder”, U/S Congressional Testimony given to The Congressional Domestic Policy Subcommittee of The Oversight and Governance Reform Committee, U.S. Congress, December 16. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1529010

Betton, Sandra, B. Espen Eckbo, and Karin S. Thorburn, 2008, “Corporate Takeovers”, in B. Espen Eckbo (ed.), Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance, Volume 2, (Elsevier/North-Holland Handbook of Finance Series), Ch. 15, 291-430, 2008 http://ssrn.com/abstract=1131033  

Eckbo, B. Espen and Karin S. Thorburn, 2008, “Corporate Restructuring: Breakups and LBOs”, in B. Espen Eckbo (ed.), Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance Volume 2, (Elsevier/North-Holland Handbook of Finance Series), Ch. 16, 431-496.

Eckbo, B. Espen and Karin S. Thorburn, 2000, “Are Mandatory Bankruptcy Auctions More Efficient?” in B. Green (ed.), Risk Behavior and Risk Management in Business Life (Kluwer Academic Publ.), 288-295.

Journal Publications

Dessaint, Olivier, B. Espen Eckbo and Andrey Golubov, 2023, “Bidder-Specific Synergies and the Evolution of Acquirer Returns”, Management Science, in press. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3437865

Eckbo, B. Espen, Kai Li and Wei Wang, 2023, “Loans to Chapter 11 Firms: Contract Design, Repayment Risk, and Pricing”, Journal of Law and Economics 66, 465-509. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3384389

Eckbo, B. Espen, Knut Nygaard and Karin S. Thorburn, 2022, “Does Mandatory Board Gender- Balancing Reduce Firm Value?” Harvard Business Law Review 12 (summer), 407 – 437. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4039292  

Eckbo, B. Espen. Knut Nygaard and Karin S. Thorburn, 2022, “Valuation Effects of Norway’s Board Gender-Quota Revisited” Management Science 68, 4112-4134. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2746786

Eckbo, B. Espen, Tanakorn Makaew and Karin S. Thorburn, 2018, “Are Stock-Financed Takeovers Opportunistic?”  Journal of Financial Economics 128, 443-465. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2356900#%23

Eckbo, B. Espen, Karin S. Thorburn and Wei Wang, 2016, “How Costly is Corporate Bankruptcy for the CEO?” Journal of Financial Economics 121, 210-229. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2138778

Eckbo, B. Espen, 2014, “Corporate Takeovers and Economic Efficiency”, Annual Review of Financial Economics 6, 51-74. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2340754

Eckbo, B. Espen, and Karin S. Thorburn, 2013, “Corporate Restructuring,” Foundations and Trends in Finance 7, 159-288. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2272970

Eckbo, B. Espen, 2010, “Banking System Bailout – Scandinavian Style,” Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 22 (3), 85-93. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1674933

Eckbo, B. Espen and Karin S. Thorburn 2003, “Control Benefits and CEO Discipline in Automatic Bankruptcy Auctions”, Journal of Financial Economics 69, 227-258. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=318488

Eckbo, B. Espen and David C. Smith, 1998, “The Conditional Performance of Insider Trades”, Journal of Finance 53, 467-498. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=98727

Eckbo, B. Espen, 1997, “Comment on ‘Determinants of Intercorporate Shareholdings’”, Review of Finance 1, 289-293.

Eckbo, B. Espen and Savita Verma, 1994, “Managerial Shareownership, Voting Power, and Corporate Dividends”, Journal of Corporate Finance 1, 33-62. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1288731

Eckbo, B. Espen, 1991, “Anatomy of a Takeover Defense: The Southam-Torstar Standstill Agreement”, Canadian Investment Review 4 (Fall), 73-78.

Eckbo, B. Espen, 1990, “Valuation Effects of Greenmail Prohibitions”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 25, 491-505. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1299865