Laurence Booth

Professor of FinanceCIT Chair in Structured Finance at Rotman School of Management

Schools

Rotman School of Management

Biography

Rotman School of Management

Bio

Laurence Booth is the CIT Chair in Structured Finance at Rotman. His major research interests are in corporate finance and the behaviour of regulated industries. He has published extensively in top academic and professional journals, and is the co-author of two major textbooks: International Business and Introduction to Corporate Finance. The latter book will be the first Wiley Canada text to be edited for U.S. sale. Laurence is on the editorial board of four academic journals and in 2003 was awarded the Financial Post’s Leader in Management Education Award.

Academic Positions

1987-Present Professor of Finance; Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

1999-Present CIT Chair in Structured Finance; Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Honors and Awards

1999 Best Corporate Finance Paper; Southern Finance Association Annual Conference

1988-1990 Director of Financial Management Association

1990 ASAC (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada) Distinguished Professor Address

2011 Teaching Excellence; Rotman

1996, 1998, 2000 Graduate Business Council MBA (2nd year) Teaching Award

2002 CBV; CICBV

2012 Teaching Excellence; Rotman

2014 Teaching Excellence; Rotman

2003 Leader in Management Education; Financial Post

2010/11 President; Multinational Finance Association

2015 Teaching Excellence; Rotman

2016 Teaching Excellence award; Rotman

2015/16 President; Midwest Finance Association

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Books

Introuction to Corporate Finance; with Sean Cleary and Ian Rakita; John Wiley & Sons; Issue: 4th Edition; 2016

An Overview of Value Based Management,; in Advanced Corporate Finance; Prentice Hall International; 2009

Sub-prime market meltdown and learning from the past; in The Financial Crisis and Rescue; U of T Press; 2008

Competition and Profitability in the Financial Services Industry in Canada; in Putting Canadians First (J. Mintz & J. Pesando Ed) C.D. Howe Institute (September); 1996

Regulation of Transmission and Distribution Activities of Ontario Hydro; in R. Daniels, Editor, Ontario Hydro at the Millenium: Has Monopoly''s Moment Passed? McGill-Queens University Press (with P. Halpern) Fall; 1996

Taxes, Funds Positioning and the Cost of Capital; in R. Aggarwal (Ed) Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting, JAI Press; 1990

The Cost of Equity Capital and Fair Rate of Return on Equity (ROE) for a Canadian Utility; in Energy Law and Policy (G Kaiser editor); Carswell; Issue: 2011

Corporate Finance; Sean Cleary & Pamela Drake Petersen; John Wiley & Sons US; Issue: 2014

Papers

Introuction to Corporate Finance; with Sean Cleary and Ian Rakita; John Wiley & Sons; Issue: 4th Edition; 2016
An Overview of Value Based Management,; in Advanced Corporate Finance; Prentice Hall International; 2009
Sub-prime market meltdown and learning from the past; in The Financial Crisis and Rescue; U of T Press; 2008
Competition and Profitability in the Financial Services Industry in Canada; in Putting Canadians First (J. Mintz & J. Pesando Ed) C.D. Howe Institute (September); 1996
Regulation of Transmission and Distribution Activities of Ontario Hydro; in R. Daniels, Editor, Ontario Hydro at the Millenium: Has Monopoly''s Moment Passed? McGill-Queens University Press (with P. Halpern) Fall; 1996
Taxes, Funds Positioning and the Cost of Capital; in R. Aggarwal (Ed) Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting, JAI Press; 1990
The Cost of Equity Capital and Fair Rate of Return on Equity (ROE) for a Canadian Utility; in Energy Law and Policy (G Kaiser editor); Carswell; Issue: 2011
Corporate Finance; Sean Cleary & Pamela Drake Petersen; John Wiley & Sons US; Issue: 2014

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