Karin Thorburn on teaching
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Karin S. Thorburn is Research Chair Professor of Finance at Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Adjunct Full Professor of Finance at The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining NHH in 2009, she was a faculty member at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where she still teaches M&A.
Thorburn’s research focuses on M&A, credit, bankruptcy, IPOs, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. She regularly publishes in the top academic journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Thorburn is a Council member of the Society for Financial Studies, a Research Associate of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, a Research Affiliate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) in Brussels, and previously served as a director of the Executive Committee of the European Finance Association. She is a Director of the Board of Maritime & Merchant Bank ASA, Global LNG Services AS, and SEB Investment Management AB. In 2016, she served on a committee appointed by the Norwegian government to assess the portfolio allocation of the $1 trillion Government Pension Fund Global. Thorburn holds a PhD in financial economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.
Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
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Eckbo, B. Espen; Tanakorn, Makaew; Thorburn, Karin S. | Are stock-financed takeovers opportunistic? | Journal of Financial Economics Volume 128 (3); page 443 - 465; 2018 |
Bakke, Einar; Leite, Tore; Thorburn, Karin S. | Partial adjustment to public information in the pricing of IPOs | Journal of Financial Intermediation Volume 32; page 1339 - 1351; 2017 |
Eckbo, B. Espen; Thorburn, Karin S.; Wang, Wei | How Costly Is Corporate Bankruptcy for the CEO? | Journal of Financial Economics Volume 121 (1); page 210 - 229; 2016 |
Betton, Sandra; Eckbo, B. Espen; Thompson, Rex; Thorburn, Karin S. | Merger negotiations with stock market feedback | Journal of Finance Volume 69 (4); page 1705 - 1745; 2014 |
Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Thorburn, Karin S. | Voluntary corporate environmental initiatives and shareholder wealth | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Volume 62 (3); page 430 - 445; 2011 |
Thorburn, Karin S.; Eckbo, B. Espen; Betton, Sandra | Merger Negotiations and the Toehold Puzzle | Journal of Financial Economics Volume 91 (2); page 158 - 178; 2009 |
Eckbo, B. Espen; Thorburn, Karin S. | Creditor financing and overbidding in bankruptcy auctions: Theory and tests | Journal of Corporate Finance Volume 15 (1); page 10 - 29; 2009 |
Eckbo, B. Espen; Thorburn, Karin S. | Automatic bankruptcy auctions and fire-sales | Journal of Financial Economics Volume 89 (3); page 404 - 422; 2008 |
Eckbo, B. Espen; Thorburn, Karin S. | Control benefits and CEO discipline in automatic bankruptcy auctions | Journal of Financial Economics Volume 69 (1); page 227 - 258; 2003 |
Thorburn, Karin S. | Bankruptcy Auctions: Costs, Debt Recovery, and Firm Survival | Journal of Financial Economics Volume 58 (3); page 337 - 368; 2000 |
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PhD level course:
Empirical Research in Corporate Finance
Research into higher education suggests that students learn best when they are actively participating, whether that be through focused listening, discussion, problem solving or explaining to others.
Who should manage Norway’s enormous oil wealth? Should Norway’s ‘Oil Fund’ be moved out of Norges Bank? Three NHH researchers outline possible solutions.
Read new chronicle by Karin S. Thorburn and B. Espen Eckbo. In Norwegian.
The article "Are stock-financed takeovers opportunistic?" by Eckbo, B. Espen, Tanakorn Makaew, and Karin S. Thorburn is forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics.
Professor Karin Thorburn has been elected member of Society for Financial Studies council for the next two years.