Moqi Xu

Assistant Professor of Finance

Research interests

• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Finance: Capital Structure, M&A, SEOs

Selected papers

• Strategic News Releases in Equity Vesting Months (with Alex Edmans, Luis Goncalves-Pinto and Yanbo Wang)
  In the Press: Financial Times  ; DiePresse.com ; Market Watch / Wall Street Journal ; Alex Edmans on Bloomberg TV ; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; Brookings Institution

• Acquisition Finance, Capital Structure and Market Timing (with Theo Vermaelen) Journal of Corporate Finance, volume 25, April 2014, p. 73-91

• The Costs and Benefits of Long-Term CEO Contracts

• The value of (stock) liquidity in the M&A market (with Massimo Massa), forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

• Rights Offerings, Trading, and Regulation: A Global Perspective (with Massimo Massa and Theo Vermaelen)

• CEO Job Security and Risk-Taking (with Peter Cziraki)

Teaching

• Office Hours (internal LSE access only)

Lectures/classes

• FM474 Finance II
  Current students click here for course information

Other webpages

• Dr Moqi Xu's personal webpage