Impact

Awards & Honors

  • B. Espen Eckbo: Recipient of the Batterymarch Fellowship; Harry G. Johnson Prize for best paper, Canadian Journal of Economics; Michael Brennan Prize for best paper, Review of Financial Studies; Honorary Doctorate, Norwegian School of Economics; “Bjorn Espen Eckbo Professorship in Corporate Finance” established by Woxsen University
  • Juhani Linnainmaa: Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize (2023); Graham and Dodd Scroll Award, Financial Analysts Journal (2021)

Academic Leadership

  • B. Espen Eckbo: Founding Co-editor, Review of Finance; Guest Co-editor, Journal of Financial Economics; Series Editor, Handbooks of the Economics of Corporate Finance; Founding Director, Lindenauer Center for Corporate Governance
  • Jonathan Lewellen: Co-editor, Journal of Finance; Editorial board, Critical Finance Review

Recent Papers

  • B. Espen Eckbo: “Loans to Chapter 11 Firms: Contract Design, Repayment Risk, and Pricing”, with Kai Li and Wei Wang, Journal of Law and Economics (2023); “Bidder-Specific Synergies and the Evolution of Acquirer Returns”, with Olivier Dessaint and Andrey Golubov, Management Science (2024); “Merger-Driven Listing Dynamics”, with Markus Lithell, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2024)