Arthur G. Korteweg

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics

3670 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, CA 90089

United States

http://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/arthur-korteweg

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1.

The Costs of Financial Distress Across Industries

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Nov 2006
Arthur G. Korteweg
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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financial distress, bankruptcy, capital structure, trade-off theory, agency costs, MCMC

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Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 185, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 14-17
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 May 2014 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2015
Shai Bernstein, Arthur G. Korteweg and Kevin Laws
Harvard Business School, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and AngelList
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Angel investors, early stage firms, entrepreneurship, crowdfunding, theory of the firm, portfolio selection, correspondence testing

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Financial Leverage and Expected Stock Returns: Evidence from Pure Exchange Offers

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Oct 2004
Arthur G. Korteweg
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Financial leverage, expected returns, exchange offers, levered beta, asset beta, capital structure, modigliani-miller, market efficiency, convertible arbitrage, capital structure arbitrage

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Does It Pay to Invest in Art? A Selection-Corrected Returns Perspective

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2016
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 17 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2017
Arthur G. Korteweg, Roman Kräussl and Patrick Verwijmeren
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Universite du Luxembourg - Department of Finance and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)
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Art investing, Alternative Assets, Selection bias, Illiquidity, Portfolio Choice, Asset Allocation, MCMC

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Skill and Luck in Private Equity Performance

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Skill and Luck in Private Equity Performance

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 179
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2015
Arthur G. Korteweg and Morten Sorensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Persistence, private equity, venture capital, skill, learning

Skill and Luck in Private Equity Performance

Netspar Discussion Paper No. 04/2014-026
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 Jul 2014
Arthur G. Korteweg and Morten Sorensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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The Net Benefits to Leverage

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 30 Mar 2009
Arthur G. Korteweg
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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capital structure, leverage, financial distress, trade-off theory, agency costs, MCMC

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods in Corporate Finance

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 26 Nov 2011
Arthur G. Korteweg
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Corporate Finance

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Corporate Credit Spreads under Parameter Uncertainty

AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2009
Arthur G. Korteweg and Nick Polson
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Credit risk, credit spread, bankruptcy, default, corporate bonds, MCMC

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Sequential Learning, Predictability, and Optimal Portfolio Returns

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2013
Michael S. Johannes, Arthur G. Korteweg and Nick Polson
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Learning, predictability, optimal portfolio formation

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Risk and Return Characteristics of Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurial Companies

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Risk and Return Characteristics of Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurial Companies

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Arthur G. Korteweg and Morten Sorensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Sample Selection, Liquidity, Endogenous Trading, MCMC, Gibbs Sampling

Risk and Return Characteristics of Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurial Companies

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 3738-3772, 2011
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 27 Oct 2011
Arthur G. Korteweg and Morten Sorensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Risk and Return Characteristics of Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurial Companies

Netspar Discussion Paper No. 01/2011-033
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Arthur G. Korteweg and Morten Sorensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Venture Capital

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Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Venture Capital

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 180, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 14-10
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2015
Arthur G. Korteweg and Stefan Nagel
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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venture capital, private equity, risk-adjusted returns, performance measurement, stochastic discount factor, CAPM, PME, GMM

Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Venture Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w19347
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2021
Arthur G. Korteweg and Stefan Nagel
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Venture Capital

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 03 Sep 2013
Arthur G. Korteweg and Stefan Nagel
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Stochastic Discount Factor, Systematic Risk, Venture Capital

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The Choice between Rights-Preserving Issue Methods. Regulatory and Financial Aspects of Issuing Seasoned Equity in the UK

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 Mar 2003
Arthur G. Korteweg and Luc Renneboog
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
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seasoned equity, rights issue, open offer, capital structure, financial distress

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An Empirical Target Zone Model of Dynamic Capital Structure

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2015
Arthur G. Korteweg and Ilya A. Strebulaev
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
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Capital structure, refinancing, adjustment costs, structural models, dynamic models

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Structural Models of Capital Structure: A Framework for Model Evaluation and Testing

AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 19 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2013
Arthur G. Korteweg and Michael Lemmon
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Utah - Department of Finance
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capital structure, structural model, model testing

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Risk Adjustment in Private Equity Returns

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Risk Adjustment in Private Equity Returns

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2019
Arthur G. Korteweg
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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private equity, venture capital, risk, return

Risk Adjustment in Private Equity Returns

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 11, pp. 131-152, 2019
Posted: 12 Jan 2020
Arthur G. Korteweg
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Venture Capital Contracts

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Venture Capital Contracts

USC Marshall School of Business Research Paper Sponsored by iORB, No. Forthcoming
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 22 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2021
Michael Ewens, Alexander S. Gorbenko and Arthur G. Korteweg
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University College London - Department of Economics and School of Management and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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venture capital, contracts, entrepreneurship, matching, structural

Venture Capital Contracts

NBER Working Paper No. w26115
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2021
Michael Ewens, Alexander S. Gorbenko and Arthur G. Korteweg
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University College London - Department of Economics and School of Management and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Proactive Capital Structure Adjustments: Evidence from Corporate Filings

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 18-31
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 21 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2020
Arthur G. Korteweg, Michael Schwert and Ilya A. Strebulaev
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
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capital structure, leverage, adjustment costs

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Estimating Loan-to-Value Distributions

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Estimating Loan-to-Value Distributions

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12-15
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2014
Arthur G. Korteweg and Morten Sorensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Real Estate Prices, Loan-To-Value, Repeat-Sales Price Index, Sample Selection, Bayesian Estimation, Gibbs Sampling, MCMC

Estimating Loan-to-Value and Foreclosure Behavior

NBER Working Paper No. w17882
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2021
Arthur G. Korteweg and Morten Sorensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Shareholder Liability and Bank Failure

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Shareholder Liability and Bank Failure

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 05 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2021
Felipe Aldunate, Dirk Jenter, Arthur G. Korteweg and Peter Koudijs
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Bank Risk Taking, Limited Liability, Double Liability, Financial Crises, Great Depression

Shareholder Liability and Bank Failure

CESifo Working Paper No. 9168
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 09 Jul 2021
Felipe Aldunate, Dirk Jenter, Arthur G. Korteweg and Peter Koudijs
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Recovering Heterogeneous Beliefs and Preferences from Asset Prices

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Jul 2020
Anisha Ghosh, Arthur G. Korteweg and Qing Xu
McGill University, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management, Students
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asset pricing, beliefs, preferences, heterogeneity, business cycle, rational expectations, behavioral finance, smoothed empirical likelihood

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How Unique is VC’s American History?

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Jun 2021
Arthur G. Korteweg and Berk A. Sensoy
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Venture capital, history, development, innovation

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Asset Allocation with Private Equity

Number of pages: 95
Arthur G. Korteweg and Mark M. Westerfield
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Washington
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Asset Allocation, Private Equity, Buyout, Venture Capital, Review Article

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Shareholder Liability and Bank Failure

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
Dirk Jenter, Felipe Aldunate, Arthur G. Korteweg and Peter Koudijs
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Finance, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
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Estimating Loan‐To‐Value Distributions

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Estimating Loan‐To‐Value Distributions

Real Estate Economics, Vol. 44, Issue 1, pp. 41-86, 2016
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Jan 2016
Arthur G. Korteweg and Morten Sorensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Estimating Loan-to-Value Distributions

Real Estate Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 22 Jul 2014
Arthur G. Korteweg and Morten Sorensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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Loan-to-Value, Price Dispersion, Real Estate Indices, Sample Selection, Bayesian Estimation