Bo Becker

Bo Becker is the Cevian Capital Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. The department of finance is housed in the Swedish House of Finance. Professor Becker's research is on corporate finance, especially corporate credit markets. Recent topics include corporate bank lending and bond issuance through the business cycle, conflicts of interest in credit ratings industry, the covenant structure of loans and bonds, comparing out-of-court restructuring to bankruptcy, and the impact of Covid-19 on corporate credit markets. His research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies and other journals. Professor Becker has been awarded several prizes and grants, including the Standard Life Prize for best paper in the ECGI Finance WP series, the Nordea Price for Best Corporate Finance Paper at the European Finance Association's annual meeting and the Lamfalussy Research Fellowship from the European Central Bank.

Professor Becker holds a masters degree from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He previously worked at the University of Illinois and at Harvard Business School. Professor Becker has served as an associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science and Financial Management, is a Research Fellow of Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He previously served on the board of directors of the Swedish National Debt Office, as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and as an expert for the inquiry into possible Swedish membership of the EU Banking Union. He serves as a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board as well as on several non-for profit and corporate boards, including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business (1999 — 2004)
• MSc Stockholm School of Economics (1991 — 1995)
• HEC Paris (1993 — 1993)

Companies

• Member Advisory Scientific Committee European Systemic Risk Board (2020)
• Board Member Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation (2019)
• Board Member Lysa AB (2016)
• Professor Stockholm School of Economics (2013)
• Program Director Mistra Financial Systems (MFS) (2016 — 2019)
• Board Member Swedish National Debt Office (2014 — 2016)
• Assistant Professor Harvard Business School (2008 — 2013)
• Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004 — 2009)
• Associate, Senior Associate Arkwright Consulting (1994 — 1998)

Skills

• Strategy
• Entrepreneurship
• Financial Analysis

Other

Higher Education, Management Consulting, Business Strategy, Quantitative Finance, Macroeconomics, Research, Data Analysis, Statistics, Stata, Quantitative Analytics, Valuation, Econometrics, Financial Modeling, Corporate Finance, Economics