Paul Halpern

Paul Halpern is a Professor Emeritus of Finance at Rotman. He is Senior Advisor at the Capital Markets Institute. His research interests include capital market policy issues and corporate restructurings. Outside of academia, Paul is the Chair of the Advisory Board for the Canadian Investment Review and Director, Portfolio Client Services, Canada for LSV Asset Management.

Selected Publications - Papers

• Quality Standards for Index Products
  with Eric Kirzner
  Barclays Global Investors
  2001

• The Evolution of Equity Markets: A Canadian Perspective,
  in New Investment Opportunities, Bonham Centre for Finance
  2001

• Are all index funds created equally?
  Canadian Investment Review
  Issue:Winter
  2000

• Implicit Claims: The Role of Corporate Reputation in Value Creation
  with Irene Devine
  Corporate Reputation Review
  Issue:Spring
  2000

• Strip Bonds and Arbitrage Bounds
  with John Rumsey
  Canadian Journal of Adminstrative Studies
  Issue:June
  2000

• On the Heterogeneity of Levered Going Private Transactions
  with R. Kieschnick and W. Rotenberg
  Review of Financial Studies
  Issue:Summer
  1999

• Poison Pills: The Next Round
  Canadian Investment Review
  Pages: pp. 43-46
  1999

• On the Heterogeneity of Levered Going Private Transactions
  with R. Elitzur, R. Kieschnik and W. Rotenberg
  Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization
  Issue:Vol. 36
  1998

• Poison Pills: The Next Decade
  Canadian Investment Review
  Pages: pp. 69-70 1998

• A note on Market Efficiency, Institutional Practice and Economic constraints in the Experience of the Canadian Bond Market
  with J. Rumsey
  Journal of Banking and Finance
  Issue:vol 21
  1997

• Selected Publications - Books and Chapters
  Financing Growth Growth in Canada, editor, Industry Canada, University of Calgary Press, 1998
  Systemic Perspectives on Corporate Governance Systems
  in S. Chen and G. Boyd (eds.) Corporate Governance and Globalization, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K. forthcoming
  2000

• Tax Incentives and Comparative Advantage
  with J. Mintz in J. MacIntosh, Competitive Industrial Development: The Role of Cooperation in the Technology Sector, forthcoming
  1999

• Limited Liability
  in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Law and Economics, MacMillian Press, Fall
  1998

Research and Teaching Interests

Teaches courses in corporate finance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and financial strategy. Research interests centre on corporate governance issues, capital merkets, leveraged buyouts, and share recapitalization.