Impact
Awards & Honors
- Gordon Phillips: Keynote address, Actuarial, Finance, Risk and Insurance Congress (AFRIC), (June 2025); Keynote address to the FMARC conference (May 2025); Keynote address, Paris Dauphine University-PSL (June 2024); Keynote address, 35th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC) (December 2022); Keynote address, Financial Management Association Asia (July 2019)
- 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
- Gordon Phillips: Co-editor, special issue, Review of Finance
- 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
- Gordon Phillips: “Scope, Scale, and Concentration: The 21st Century Firm”, with Gerard Hoberg, Journal of Finance (January 2025); “Can the Unemployed Borrow: Implications for Public Insurance”, with Carter Braxton and Kyle Herkenhoff, Journal of Political Economy (September 2024); “How Credit Constraints Impact Job Finding Rates, Sorting and Aggregate Output”, with Kyle Herkenhoff and Ethan Cohen-Cole, the Review of Economic Studies (October 2024); “Production and Learning in Teams”, with Kyle Herkenhoff, Jeremy Lise, and Guido Menzio (March 2024); “Venture Capital Investments and Merger and Acquisition Activity around the World”, with Alexei Zhdanov, the Review of Corporate Financial Studies (May 2024)
- 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)