Clemens Otto

Education

• 2012 Ph.D. (Finance), London Business School
  
• 2009 M.Res. (Finance), London Business School
  
• 2006 CEMS Master (International Management), University of Cologne and HEC Paris
• 2006 Dipl.-Kfm. (Business Administration), University of Cologne

Current Position(s) Held

• 2021 - Now - Associate Professor of Finance
  Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
• 2017 - 2021 -Assistant Professor of Finance
  Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

• Michael J. Brennan Award for the Best Paper Published in 2021 in the Review of Financial Studies, 2022
• Best Paper Award, Paris December Finance Meeting, 2017
• Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award, Paris December Finance Meeting, 2013
• SAC Capital Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, Western Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2012
• Doctoral Tutorial Best Paper Award, European Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2011
• Top Student Award, University of Cologne, 2006

Research Interests

• Financial Contracting
• Corporate Disclosure
• Corporate Investment
• Behavioural Finance

Journal Articles (Refereed)

• The Downstream Impact of Upstream Tariffs: Evidence from Investment Decisions in Supply Chains, 2023, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming (with Thorsten Martin)
• Do Firms Respond to Peer Disclosures? Evidence from Disclosures of Clinical Trial Results, 2022, The Accounting Review, forthcoming (with Vedran Capkun, Yun Lou, and Yin Wang)
• CAPM-Based Company (Mis)valuations, 2021, Review of Financial Studies 34, 1-66 (with Olivier Dessaint, Jacques Olivier, and David Thesmar)
• Accounting Quality and Debt Concentration, 2021, The Accounting Review 96, 377-400 (with Ningzhong Li, Yun Lou, and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman)
• Debt Heterogeneity and Covenants, 2020, Management Science 66, 70-92 (with Yun Lou)
• Marking to Market and Inefficient Investment Decisions, 2018, Management Science 64, 3756-3771 (with Paolo Volpin)
• CEO Optimism and Incentive Compensation, 2014, Journal of Financial Economics 114, 366-404
• The Unintended Effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2011, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 167, 149-164 (with Vidhi Chhaochharia and Vikrant Vig)
• A New Approach to the Measurement of Polarization for Grouped Data, 2007, AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis 91, 181-196 (with Eckart Bomsdorf)