Karin S. Thorburn

Norwegian School of Economics

Research Chair Professor of Finance

Helleveien 30

N-5045 Bergen

Norway

http://www.nhh.no/cv/thorburn

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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London

United Kingdom

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Research Associate

c/o the Royal Academies of Belgium

Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

Belgium

http://www.ecgi.org

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1.

Corporate Takeovers

HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE FINANCE: EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE, Vol. 2, Chapter 15, pp. 291-430, B. E., Eckbo, ed., Elsevier/North-Holland Handbook of Finance Series, 2008, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2008-47
Number of pages: 172 Posted: 12 May 2008 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2019
Sandra Betton, B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Concordia University, Quebec - Department of Finance, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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Takeover, merger, tender offer, auction, offer premium, bidder gains, toeholds, markups

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Bankruptcy and the Resolution of Financial Distress

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 24 Jan 2008
Edith S. Hotchkiss, Kose John, Karin S. Thorburn and Robert M. Mooradian
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Norwegian School of Economics and Northeastern University, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Finance Area
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Bankruptcy, financial distress, bankruptcy costs, fire-sales, bankruptcy auctions, reorganizations, Chapter 11

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Valuation Effects of Norway’s Board Gender-Quota Law Revisited

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Valuation Effects of Norway’s Board Gender-Quota Law Revisited

Management Science, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 463/2016
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
B. Espen Eckbo, Knut Nygaard and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University and Norwegian School of Economics
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gender quota; board diversity; valuation effect; return correlation; long-run performance

Does Gender-Balancing the Board Reduce Firm Value?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11176
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 18 Apr 2016
B. Espen Eckbo, Knut Nygaard and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University and Norwegian School of Economics
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;ong-run performance, busy directors, corporate conversion, director independence, director network power, Gender quota, valuation effect

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Corporate Restructuring: Breakups and LBOs

HANDBOOK OF CORPORATE FINANCE: EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE, Vol. 2, Chapter 16, pp. 431-496, B. E. Eckbo, ed., Elsevier/North-Holland Handbook of Finance Series, 2008, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2008-49
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 15 May 2008 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2011
B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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Restructuring, breakup, divestiture, spinoff, equity carveout, tracking stock, leveraged

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Corporate Restructuring

Foundations and Trends in Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 109 Posted: 02 Jun 2013
B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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Restructuring, LBO, divestiture, spinoff, carveout

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Governance in Financial Distress and Bankruptcy

Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance, Forthcoming, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 12-37
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2012
Kenneth Ayotte, Edith S. Hotchkiss and Karin S. Thorburn
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Boston College - Carroll School of Management and Norwegian School of Economics
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bankruptcy, reorganization, corporate finance, corporate governance, Chapter 11

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Merger Negotiations and the Toehold Puzzle

Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2005-16, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 85/2005, EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings, Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 26 May 2005 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2018
Sandra Betton, B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Concordia University, Quebec - Department of Finance, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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Bidding strategy, tender offer, merger, toehold, termination fee, bid failure

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How Costly Is Corporate Bankruptcy for the CEO?

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Citation 62

How Costly Is Corporate Bankruptcy for the CEO?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2016
B. Espen Eckbo, Karin S. Thorburn and Wei Wang
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Norwegian School of Economics and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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labor market capital, personal bankruptcy costs, turnover, career change, CEO compensation, wealth loss

How Costly is Corporate Bankruptcy for the CEO?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10985
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Dec 2015
B. Espen Eckbo, Karin S. Thorburn and Wei Wang
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Norwegian School of Economics and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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career change, CEO compensation, labor market capital, personal bankruptcy costs, turnover, wealth loss

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Markup Pricing Revisited

Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2008-45, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 199
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2018
Sandra Betton, B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Concordia University, Quebec - Department of Finance, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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Bidder returns, target runup, takeover, markup pricing, toehold bidding

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Are Stock-Financed Takeovers Opportunistic?

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Are Stock-Financed Takeovers Opportunistic?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 393/2013, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2013-121
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 21 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2017
B. Espen Eckbo, Tanakorn Makaew and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, University of Southern California and Norwegian School of Economics
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Takeovers, payment method, mispricing, capital structure, industry relatedness, geographic location

Are Stock-Financed Takeovers Opportunistic?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11974
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Apr 2017
B. Espen Eckbo, Tanakorn Makaew and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, University of Southern California and Norwegian School of Economics
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cash payment, governance, information asymmetry, mispricing, mutual fund flow, opportunism, payment method, stock payment, Takeover bidding

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Creditor Financing and Overbidding in Bankruptcy Auctions: Theory and Tests

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 15, pp. 10-29, 2009, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2004-13, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 68/2005
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2018
B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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Bankruptcy, auctions, overbidding, fire sale, saleback, governance, premiums, recovery rates, bank bidding

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Merger Negotiations with Stock Market Feedback

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 392/2013, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2011-94
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 10 May 2011 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2013
Sandra Betton, B. Espen Eckbo, Rex Thompson and Karin S. Thorburn
Concordia University, Quebec - Department of Finance, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Norwegian School of Economics
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Merger negotiations, market feedback loop, takeover bid, offer price markup, target runup, rational bidding, market efficiency, nonlinear test

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Public Information and IPO Underpricing

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Public Information and IPO Underpricing

24th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2011 Paper, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 322/2011
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2018
Einar Bakke, Tore E. Leite and Karin S. Thorburn
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Norwegian School of Economics
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public information, partial adjustment, underpricing, IPOs, bookbuilding

Public Information and IPO Initial Returns: Theory and Tests

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 10 May 2015
Einar Bakke, Tore E. Leite and Karin S. Thorburn
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Norwegian School of Economics
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IPO, underpricing, bookbuilding, public information, private information, partial adjustment

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Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth

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Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Jun 2010
Karen Fisher-Vanden and Karin S. Thorburn
Dartmouth College and Norwegian School of Economics
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Corporate social responsibility, Environmentally responsible investing, Climate change, Greenhouse gas emissions, Capital expenditures, Shareholder wealth

Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6698
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 Jun 2008
Karen Fisher-Vanden and Karin S. Thorburn
Dartmouth College and Norwegian School of Economics
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capital expenditures, climate change, corporate social responsibility, environmentally responsible investing, shareholder wealth

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Does Mandatory Board Gender-Balancing Reduce Firm Value?

Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 4039292, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 629/2022
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2022
B. Espen Eckbo, Knut Nygaard and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University and Norwegian School of Economics
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Gender quota; board diversity; valuation effect; return correlation; long-run performance, operating performance, legal conversion

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Bankruptcy Auctions: CEO Turnover, Compensation Changes and Firm Performance

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Dec 1998
Karin S. Thorburn
Norwegian School of Economics
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Bank Compensation for the Penalty-Free Loan-Prepayment Option: Theory and Tests

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Bank Compensation for the Penalty-Free Loan-Prepayment Option: Theory and Tests

Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 1964843, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 770/2021
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 16 May 2024
B. Espen Eckbo, Xunhua Su and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Norwegian School of Economics
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bank loans, prepayment, credit rationing, upfront fee, performance-pricing

Bank Compensation for Penalty-Free Loan Prepayment: Theory and Tests

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16300
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
B. Espen Eckbo, Xunhua Su and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Norwegian School of Economics
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Gains to Bidder Firms Revisited: Domestic and Foreign Acquisitions in Canada

Amos Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 00-04
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2015
B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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Partial Adjustment to Public Information in the Pricing of IPOs

Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2016
Einar Bakke, Tore E. Leite and Karin S. Thorburn
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Norwegian School of Economics
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IPO, underpricing, bookbuilding, public information, partial adjustment

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Economic Effects of Auction Bankruptcy

Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2009-63
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2009
B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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Bankruptcy, auction, reorganization, liquidation, risk-shifting, asset substitution, fire-sale, bankruptcy costs

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Strategic Decisions in Takeover Auctions

Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3474091 (2019), Annual Review of Financial Economics, forthcoming
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 24 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2020
B. Espen Eckbo, Andrey Malenko and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Boston College and Norwegian School of Economics
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takeover initiation, auction, negotiation, optimal bidding, payment method, competition premption, bidder opportunism

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Control Benefits and CEO Discipline in Automatic Bankruptcy Auctions

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Control Benefits and CEO Discipline in Automatic Bankruptcy Auctions

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 69, pp. 227-258, 2003, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 02-16
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Jul 2002 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2008
B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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CEO Turnover, Executive Compensation, Private Benefits of Control, Risk-shifting Incentives, Bankruptcy, Post-bankruptcy Performance

Control Benefits and CEO Discipline in Automatic Bankruptcy Auctions

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Nov 2002
B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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Post-bankruptcy performance, CEO turnover, bankruptcy, executive compensation, private benefits of control, risk-shifting incentives

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Auction Bankruptcy and the CEO

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Jul 2000
Karin S. Thorburn
Norwegian School of Economics
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Bankruptcy auctions, CEO turnover, executive

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The Changing Face of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Insights from Recent Trends and Research

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The Changing Face of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Insights from Recent Trends and Research

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 15, pp. 351-367, 2023
Posted: 07 Nov 2023
Edith S. Hotchkiss, Karin S. Thorburn and Wei Wang
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Norwegian School of Economics and Queen's University - Smith School of Business

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The Changing Face of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Insights from Recent Trends and Research

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Nov 2022
Edith S. Hotchkiss, Karin S. Thorburn and Wei Wang
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Norwegian School of Economics and Queen's University - Smith School of Business
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Bankruptcy, Chapter 11, Defaults, Distressed Debt, Recovery Rate, 363 Sales, Private Equity, Creditor Rights, Leveraged Loans

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Automatic Bankruptcy Auctions and Fire-Sales

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 89, pp. 404-422, 2008, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2007-36
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 07 May 2009
B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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Bankruptcy, auction, going-concern sale, piecemeal liquidation, fire-sale

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Labor Market Agglomeration and Employee-Retention Policies

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 16 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2022
Kose John, Kyeong Hun Lee, Karin S. Thorburn and Emma Xu
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Norwegian School of Economics and University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics
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Labor Force Composition, Labor Market Agglomeration, Stock Options, Corporate Social Responsibility, Working Conditions, Financing

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Fund Ownership, Wealth, and Risk Taking: Evidence on Private Equity Managers

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Fund Ownership, Wealth, and Risk Taking: Evidence on Private Equity Managers

SAFE Working Paper No. 126
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2021
Carsten Bienz, Karin S. Thorburn and Uwe Walz
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Goethe University Frankfurt - Institute of Economics
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Private equity, incentives, fund manager, ownership, risk taking, wealth

Fund Ownership, Wealth, and Risk-Taking: Evidence on Private-Equity Managers

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 May 2022
Carsten Bienz, Karin S. Thorburn and Uwe Walz
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Goethe University Frankfurt - Institute of Economics
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Private equity, incentives, fund manager, ownership, risk-taking, wealth

Ownership, Wealth, and Risk Taking: Evidence on Private Equity Fund Managers

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13944
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Oct 2019
Carsten Bienz, Karin S. Thorburn and Uwe Walz
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Goethe University Frankfurt - Institute of Economics
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buyouts, general partner, incentives, ownership, private equity, Risk Taking, Wealth

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Gains to Bidder Firms Revisited: Domestic and Foreign Acquisitions in Canada

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2000
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 Dec 1999 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2016
B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics
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The covenant removal option in corporate bonds * †

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 07 Aug 2024
Carsten Bienz, Zsuzsanna Fluck and Karin S. Thorburn
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Michigan State University and Norwegian School of Economics
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Financial contract design, corporate bonds, action-limiting covenants, covenant defeasance, callability, bond yields JEL Classification: G32, D86, G12

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The Toehold Puzzle

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5084
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Oct 2005
Sandra Betton, Karin S. Thorburn and B. Espen Eckbo
Concordia University, Quebec - Department of Finance, Norwegian School of Economics and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
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Strategic Decisions in Takeover Auctions: Recent Developments

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 12, pp. 237-276, 2020
Posted: 10 Dec 2020
B. Espen Eckbo, Andrey Malenko and Karin S. Thorburn
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Boston College and Norwegian School of Economics

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Bankruptcy Auctions: Costs, Debt Recovery, and Firm Survival

Posted: 11 Jul 1999
Karin S. Thorburn
Norwegian School of Economics

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