Dirk Hackbarth

Professor, Finance

Dirk Hackbarth is currently a Professor of Finance at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. He holds a PhD and MS in Finance from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE); and a Diplom in Business Economics from the University of Cologne. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in corporate finance. Dirk is a distinguished scholar in corporate finance. His research focuses on bankruptcy, capital structure, corporate governance, law and finance, mergers and acquisitions, product markets, real options, and valuation.

He has given more than 150 invited talks at many top-tier conferences, such as the annual meetings of the American, European, and Western Finance Associations, and at many premier research universities in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. His work has been published in internationally leading journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies, and it has also received conference and publication awards.

Previous appointments include, for example, the May Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Finance (tenured in 2008), College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Everett Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University, as well as visits at Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Goethe University Frankfurt , Gutmann Center at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), London Business School (LBS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH).

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