Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
University of Chicago GSB
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
E-Mail: skaplan@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-4513
Recent Presentations
“How Big a Problem Is U.S. Corporate Governance?”, September 2006
“Should You Bet on the Jockey or the Horse? Or What Are Firms? Evolution from Early Business Plan to Public Companies” , with Berk Sensoy and Per Strömberg, July 2006
Research Articles
“Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?” with Mark Klebanov and Morten Sorensen, June 2007.
“Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?” with Josh Rauh, July 2007.
“Should Investors Bet on the Jockey or the Horse? Evidence from the Evolution of Firms from Early Business Plans to Public Companies,” with Berk Sensoy and Per Strömberg, forthcoming, Journal of Finance.
“ How has CEO Turnover Changed? Increasingly Performance Sensitive Boards and Increasingly Uneasy CEOs” , with Bernadette Minton, July 2006.
“How Do Legal Differences and Learning Affect Financial Contracts?” , with Frederic Martel and Per Strömberg, January 2006.
“Do Mutual Funds Time Their Benchmarks?” , with Berk Sensoy, November 2005
"Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence, and Capital Flows", with Antoinette Schoar, Journal of Finance, August 2005.
"Characteristics, Contracts, and Actions: Evidence From Venture Capitalist Analyses ", with Per Strömberg, Journal of Finance, October 2004.
“What is the Price of Hubris? Using Takeover Battles to Infer Overpayments and Synergies,” with Pekka Hietala and David T. Robinson, Financial Management, Autumn 2003.
"The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What’s Right and What’s Wrong?", with Bengt Holmström, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Spring 2003.
"Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: Evidence From Venture Capital Contracts," with Per Strömberg. Review of Economic Studies, April 2003.
"How well do venture capital databases reflect actual investments?", with Berk Sensoy and Per Strömberg, September 2002.
" Valuation and New Economy Firms", in Asset Price Bubbles, edited by William Hunter, George Kaufman and Michael Pomerleano, MIT Press, 2003.
" The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs", with Luis Garicano. Journal of Industrial Economics, 2001.
"Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the U.S", with Bengt Holmstrom. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001.
"A framework for analyzing B2B e-commerce", with Luis Garicano
"B2B E-Commerce Hubs: Towards a Taxonomy of Business Models," with Mohanbir Sawhney. Harvard Business Review, 2000.
"The Emerging Landscape of Business to Business E-Commerce", with Mohanbir Sawhney. Business 2.0, 1999.
"How Costly is Financial (not Economic) Distress? Evidence from Highly Leveraged Transactions that Became Distressed," (with Gregor Andrade), Journal of Finance, Volume 53, (October 1998), 1443-1494. (Lead Article). Awarded Smith Breeden prize for First Prize Paper in 1998.
"A Clinical Exploration of Value Creation and Destruction in Acquisitions: Integration, Organization Design, and Internal Capital Markets," with Mark Mitchell and Karen Wruck, in Mergers and Productivity, 1997, Steven Kaplan, editor, National Bureau of Economic Research.
"The Evolution of U.S. Corporate Governance: We are All Henry Kravis Now," Journal of Private Equity, Fall, 1997, 7-14.
"Top Executive Rewards and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Japan and the U.S.," Journal of Political Economy, Volume 102, No. 3, (June, 1994), 510-546.
"The Value Maximizing Board," with Robert Gertner, December, 1996.
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