Professor B. Espen Eckbo holds the Tuck Centennial Chair in Finance. He is also Faculty Director of Tuck's Lindenauer Center for Corporate Governance, which he founded in 1999. He teaches advanced MBA courses in the areas of corporate finance, corporate takeovers and international corporate governance. Professor Eckbo, who received a PhD in financial economics from the University of Rochester in 1981, has published extensively in the top finance journals in the areas of corporate finance, investment banking, and the market for corporate control. He is a recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Norwegian School of Economics, the prestigious Batterymarch Fellowship, as well as several outstanding-paper awards. He is a research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a frequent keynote and invited seminar speaker. He was called in 2009 by the U.S. Congress to testify on issues concerning the government’s large equity ownership positions in companies rescued under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

“This is an excellent collection of articles with very good authors and breadth of coverage. It is an important book for all scholars of corporate finance.” --Franklin Allen, University of Pennsylvania"This is an excellent collection of articles. These surveys will be very valuable for both research and teaching." --Michael J. Fishman, Northwestern University

• VOLUME 1PREFACE: EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCEB. ESPEN ECKBOPART 1 – ECONOMETRIC ISSUES AND METHODOLGICAL TRENDSChapter 1Econometrics of event studiesS.P. KOTHARI and JEROLD B. WARNERChapter 2Self-selection models in corporate financeKAI LI and NAGPURNANAND R. PRABHALAChapter 3Auctions in corporate financeSUDIPTO DASGUPTA and ROBERT G. HANSENChapter 4Behavioral corporate financeMALCOLM BAKER, RICHARD S. RUBACK and JEFFERY WURGLERPART 2 – BANKING, PUBLIC OFFERINGS, AND PRIVATE SOURCES OF CAPITALChapter 5Banks in capital marketsSTEVEN DRUCKER and MANJU PURIChapter 6Security Offerings B. ESPEN ECKBO, RONALD W. MASULIS and ØYVIND NORLIChapter 7IPO underpricingALEXANDER LJUNGQVISTChapter 8Conglomerate firms and internal capital marketsVOJISLAV MAKSIMOVIC and GORDON PHILLIPSChapter 9Venture capitalPAUL GOMPERSEMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE

Professor B. Espen Eckbo holds the Tuck Centennial Chair in Finance. He is also Faculty Director of Tuck's Lindenauer Center for Corporate Governance, which he founded in 1999. He teaches advanced MBA courses in the areas of corporate finance, corporate takeovers and international corporate governance. Professor Eckbo, who received a PhD in financial economics from the University of Rochester in 1981, has published extensively in the top finance journals in the areas of corporate finance, investment banking, and the market for corporate control. He is a recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Norwegian School of Economics, the prestigious Batterymarch Fellowship, as well as several outstanding-paper awards. He is a research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a frequent keynote and invited seminar speaker. He was called in 2009 by the U.S. Congress to testify on issues concerning the government’s large equity ownership positions in companies rescued under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

“This is an excellent collection of articles with very good authors and breadth of coverage. It is an important book for all scholars of corporate finance.” --Franklin Allen, University of Pennsylvania"This is an excellent collection of articles. These surveys will be very valuable for both research and teaching." --Michael J. Fishman, Northwestern University

• VOLUME 1PREFACE: EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCEB. ESPEN ECKBOPART 1 – ECONOMETRIC ISSUES AND METHODOLGICAL TRENDSChapter 1Econometrics of event studiesS.P. KOTHARI and JEROLD B. WARNERChapter 2Self-selection models in corporate financeKAI LI and NAGPURNANAND R. PRABHALAChapter 3Auctions in corporate financeSUDIPTO DASGUPTA and ROBERT G. HANSENChapter 4Behavioral corporate financeMALCOLM BAKER, RICHARD S. RUBACK and JEFFERY WURGLERPART 2 – BANKING, PUBLIC OFFERINGS, AND PRIVATE SOURCES OF CAPITALChapter 5Banks in capital marketsSTEVEN DRUCKER and MANJU PURIChapter 6Security Offerings B. ESPEN ECKBO, RONALD W. MASULIS and ØYVIND NORLIChapter 7IPO underpricingALEXANDER LJUNGQVISTChapter 8Conglomerate firms and internal capital marketsVOJISLAV MAKSIMOVIC and GORDON PHILLIPSChapter 9Venture capitalPAUL GOMPERSEMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE

Professor B. Espen Eckbo holds the Tuck Centennial Chair in Finance. He is also Faculty Director of Tuck's Lindenauer Center for Corporate Governance, which he founded in 1999. He teaches advanced MBA courses in the areas of corporate finance, corporate takeovers and international corporate governance. Professor Eckbo, who received a PhD in financial economics from the University of Rochester in 1981, has published extensively in the top finance journals in the areas of corporate finance, investment banking, and the market for corporate control. He is a recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Norwegian School of Economics, the prestigious Batterymarch Fellowship, as well as several outstanding-paper awards. He is a research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a frequent keynote and invited seminar speaker. He was called in 2009 by the U.S. Congress to testify on issues concerning the government’s large equity ownership positions in companies rescued under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

“This is an excellent collection of articles with very good authors and breadth of coverage. It is an important book for all scholars of corporate finance.” --Franklin Allen, University of Pennsylvania"This is an excellent collection of articles. These surveys will be very valuable for both research and teaching." --Michael J. Fishman, Northwestern University

• VOLUME 1PREFACE: EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCEB. ESPEN ECKBOPART 1 – ECONOMETRIC ISSUES AND METHODOLGICAL TRENDSChapter 1Econometrics of event studiesS.P. KOTHARI and JEROLD B. WARNERChapter 2Self-selection models in corporate financeKAI LI and NAGPURNANAND R. PRABHALAChapter 3Auctions in corporate financeSUDIPTO DASGUPTA and ROBERT G. HANSENChapter 4Behavioral corporate financeMALCOLM BAKER, RICHARD S. RUBACK and JEFFERY WURGLERPART 2 – BANKING, PUBLIC OFFERINGS, AND PRIVATE SOURCES OF CAPITALChapter 5Banks in capital marketsSTEVEN DRUCKER and MANJU PURIChapter 6Security Offerings B. ESPEN ECKBO, RONALD W. MASULIS and ØYVIND NORLIChapter 7IPO underpricingALEXANDER LJUNGQVISTChapter 8Conglomerate firms and internal capital marketsVOJISLAV MAKSIMOVIC and GORDON PHILLIPSChapter 9Venture capitalPAUL GOMPERSEMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE