Katharina Lewellen

Bio

Katharina Lewellen teaches Corporate Finance at Tuck.

Current Research Topics

• CEO incentives
• Nonprofit firms
• Multinational firms' ownership structures

Professional Activities

Academic positions

• Associate Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School at Dartmouth, 2010-present
• Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School at Dartmouth, 2005-2010
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003–2005

Nonacademic positions

• Economist, Swiss National Bank, 1995–1997

Working Papers

• With A. Edmans and V. Fang, "Equity Vesting and Managerial Myopia"
• With M. Adelino and B. McCartney, “Financial Condition and Product Quality: the Case of Nonprofit Hospitals”
• With L. Robinson, "Internal Ownership Structures of Multinational Firms"
• With D. Jenter, "Performance-Induced CEO Turnover"

Awards

• Wharton School-WRDS Award for the Best Empirical Finance Paper, 2015
• Multinational Finance Society Best Paper Award, 2014
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant, 2012
• Nasdaq Educational Foundation Fellowship, 2002
• Olin Fellowship, 1999–2000, Fellowship, 1998–2000, Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester
• Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1997

Selected Publications

• With D. Jenter, "CEO Preferences and Acquisitions," Journal of Finance, 70(6), 2015
• With M. Adelino and A.Sundaram, "Investment Decisions of Nonprofit Firms: Evidence from Hospitals," Journal of Finance, 70(4), 2015
• With J. Lewellen, "Cashflow and Investment: New Evidence," forthcoming in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
• With D. Jenter and J. Warner, "Security Issue Timing: What Do Managers Know and When Do They Know It?" Journal of Finance, 66(2), 2011
• "Financing Decisions When Managers Are Risk Averse," Journal of Financial Economics, 82(3), 2006
• "Risk, Reputation, and IPO Price Support," Journal of Finance, 61(2), 2006
• With E. Demers, "Marketing Role of IPOs: Evidence from Internet Stocks," Journal of Financial Economics, 68(3), 2003