Daniel Urban

Daniel Urban’s research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, and private equity. His work focuses on female board representation, board size, executive turnover as well as leverage decisions and private equity investment performance.

Education

• M.Sc. Technische Universität München (2006 — 2011)
• Visiting scholar at the Department of Finance Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business (2010 — 2010)
• Stay abroad Stanford University (2010 — 2010)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Finance Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (2018)
• Postdoctoral researcher Chair of Financial Management and Capital Markets, Technical University of Munich (2015 — 2018)
• Visiting Scholar The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2017 — 2017)
• Doctoral studies, finance Chair of Financial Management and Capital Markets, Technical University of Munich (2011 — 2015)
• Visiting scholar at the Department of Finance NYU Stern School of Business (2014 — 2014)
• Intern, Strategy & Structure/M&A MAN (2011 — 2011)
• Intern, Valuation & Strategy/Transactions PricewaterhouseCoopers (2009 — 2009)
• Bachelor's thesis BayernInvest Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (2009 — 2009)

Working Papers

Does board size matter?, with Dirk Jenter and Thomas Schmid FIRS 2020, AFA 2019, European Summer Symposium in Financial Markets (ESSFM) 2018, 2018 SFS Cavalcade North America, 2018 CEPR Symposium

Whom to follow: Individual manager performance and persistence in private equity investments, with Reiner Braun, Nils Dorau and Tim Jenkinson 19th Cologne Colloquium on Financial Markets, 2019 FMA, Paris December 2019 Finance Meeting, 2018 Private Equity Research Symposium

Female directors and firm value: New evidence from directors' deaths, with Thomas Schmid Revise & resubmit, Management Science AFA 2016, FIRS 2016, SGF 2016, VHB 2016, Paris December Meeting 2015 VHB Annual Meeting 2016, Best Practice Paper Award

Index creation, information, and external finance, with Vidhan K. Goyal and Wenting Zhao Revise & resubmit, Journal of Accounting Research AFA 2021, FIRS 2017, China International Conference in Finance 2017, FMA 2017, SGF 2017, FMA Europe 2017, Asian Finance Association Annual Meeting 2017 FMA 2017 and FMA Europe 2017, semi-finalist best paper award

Corporate restructuring and creditor power: Evidence from European insolvency law reforms, with Frédéric Closset, Christoph Großman and Christoph Kaserer Revise & resubmit, Journal of Banking & Finance

Does new ownership need new leadership? Performance implications of CEO turnover in private equity investments, with Reiner Braun and Nils Dorau

Investor personality and success in venture capital, with Reiner Braun, Silja Spreng and Andranik Tumasjan

Publications

The balance of power between creditors and the firm: Evidence from German Insolvency Law, with Frédéric Closset Journal of Corporate Finance, 58, 454-477, 2019

The effects of culture on CEO power: International evidence from executive turnover Journal of Banking & Finance, 104, 50-69, 2019

Finance conference quality and publication success: A conference ranking, with Sebastian J. Reinartz Journal of Empirical Finance, 42, 155-174, 2017

The value of financial flexibility and corporate financial policy, with Marc Steffen Rapp and Thomas Schmid Journal of Corporate Finance, 29, 288-302, 2014

Other Papers

Did UEFA's Financial Fair Play harm competition in European football leagues?, with Stephan Birkhäuser and Christoph Kaserer Review of Managerial Science, 13, 133-145, 2019

Work in Progress

Index membership and CSR, with Vidhan Goyal and Daniel Schmidt

Long-run effects of exogenous executive retirements, with Dirk Jenter and Thomas Schmid

Finance conference ranking 2021, with Esad Smajlbegovic