Emmanuel Yimfor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Entrepreneurial Finance, Private Equity, Financial Intermediation, Corporate Finance

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Rice Business - Jones Graduate School of Business (2015 — 2020)
• Master’s Degree Kent State University (2013 — 2015)

PUBLISHED AND ACCEPTED PAPERS

• Discounting Restricted Securities” with Tarik Umar and Rustam Zufarov
  Conditionally Accepted at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

WORKING PAPERS

• “Brokered Private Placements”
• “Misconduct Synergies” with Heather Tookes
• “Diversity in Private Capital” with Johan Cassel and Josh Lerner
• “Startup Experience, Venture Capital Experience, and First-time Venture Fund Founders’ Success” with David Brophy and Shane Miller
• “The Dark Side of Local Representation” with Tarik Umar and Jefferson Duarte
• “Bank Loans and Bond Prices” with James Weston

WORK IN PROGRESS

• “Alumni Networks, School Quality, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes,” with Jon Garfinkel and Erik Mayer
  
• “Black Inventors and the Innovation to Commercialization Cycle: The Role of Government and Private Funding” with Lisa Cook and Steven Wu-Chaves