Katharina Lewellen

Associate Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Schools

Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Biography

Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Bio

Katharina Lewellen teaches Corporate Finance at Tuck.

Current Research Topics

CEO incentives
Nonprofit firms
Multinational firms' ownership structures

Professional Activities

Academic positions

Associate Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School at Dartmouth, 2010-present
Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School at Dartmouth, 2005-2010
Assistant Professor of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003–2005

Nonacademic positions

Economist, Swiss National Bank, 1995–1997

Working Papers

With A. Edmans and V. Fang, "Equity Vesting and Managerial Myopia"
With M. Adelino and B. McCartney, “Financial Condition and Product Quality: the Case of Nonprofit Hospitals”
With L. Robinson, "Internal Ownership Structures of Multinational Firms"
With D. Jenter, "Performance-Induced CEO Turnover"

Awards

Wharton School-WRDS Award for the Best Empirical Finance Paper, 2015
Multinational Finance Society Best Paper Award, 2014
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant, 2012
Nasdaq Educational Foundation Fellowship, 2002
Olin Fellowship, 1999–2000, Fellowship, 1998–2000, Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1997

Selected Publications

With D. Jenter, "CEO Preferences and Acquisitions," Journal of Finance, 70(6), 2015
With M. Adelino and A.Sundaram, "Investment Decisions of Nonprofit Firms: Evidence from Hospitals," Journal of Finance, 70(4), 2015
With J. Lewellen, "Cashflow and Investment: New Evidence," forthcoming in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
With D. Jenter and J. Warner, "Security Issue Timing: What Do Managers Know and When Do They Know It?" Journal of Finance, 66(2), 2011
"Financing Decisions When Managers Are Risk Averse," Journal of Financial Economics, 82(3), 2006
"Risk, Reputation, and IPO Price Support," Journal of Finance, 61(2), 2006
With E. Demers, "Marketing Role of IPOs: Evidence from Internet Stocks," Journal of Financial Economics, 68(3), 2003

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