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Dirk Jenter is a Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics, an elected fellow and research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a former research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He was previously an Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT and an Associate Professor of Finance at Stanford.
His main research areas are corporate governance, the selection and compensation of top executives, sustainable finance, corporate boards, mergers and acquisitions, and the interactions of firms with capital markets. A theme across many of his papers is the importance of top executives’ incentives, beliefs, and preferences for firm behavior. He has co-authored two highly cited survey papers on the economics of executive compensation, and he has co-organized a series of NBER conferences and junior workshops on the same topic. His work has been published in all top finance journals, has received numerous awards, and has been featured in, among others, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the Economist.
He has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies, and he has served on the Executive Committee of the European Finance Association and on the AFA’s Nominating Committee. He is an accomplished teacher with teaching awards from MIT, Stanford, and LSE, he has been an adviser to numerous Ph.D. students, and he is LSE’s Academic Director of Executive Education. He received an M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Cambridge and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Business Economics from Harvard University.
Research Interests
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Finance
- Organizational Economics
Teaching
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