Dirk Jenter

 Associate Professor of Finance

Research Interests

• Corporate Finance
• Organizational Economics
• Capital Markets

Selected Papers

• "CEO Preferences and Acquisitions" with Katharina Lewellen, Journal of Finance, Vol. 70 No. 6, 2813-2851, December 2015.

• "CEO Turnover and Relative Performance Evaluation" with Fadi Kanaan, Journal of Finance, Vol. 70 No.5, 2155-2183, October 2015. Award for the Best Corporate Finance Paper at the 2006 Western Finance Association Meeting.

• "Security Issue Timing: What Do Managers Know, and When Do They Know It?" with Katharina Lewellen and Jerold B. Warner, Journal of Finance, Vol. 66 No. 2, 413-443, April 2011.

• "Institutional Cross-holdings and Their Effect on Acquisition Decisions" with Jarrad Harford and Kai Li, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 99 No. 1, 27-39, January 2011.

• "CEO Compensation" with Carola Frydman, Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 2, 75-102, December 2010.

• "Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation" with Nittai Bergman, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 84 No. 3, 667-712, June 2007.

• "Market Timing and Managerial Portfolio Decisions", Journal of Finance, Vol. 60 No.4, 1903-1949, August 2005. Nominated for the Brattle Prize for the Best Corporate Finance Paper in the Journal of Finance.

• "Selling Company Shares to Reluctant Employees: France Telecom's Experience" with Francois Degeorge, Alberto Moel and Peter Tufano, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 71 No. 1, 169-202, January 2004.

Teaching

• Office Hours (internal LSE access only)

Lectures/classes

• FM422 Corporate Finance
• Current students click here for course information

Other webpages

• Dr Dirk Jenter's Personal webpage