Prof. B. Espen Eckbo | Econometrics and Finance | Research Excellence Award

Dartmouth College | United States

B. Espen Eckbo is a globally recognized scholar in corporate finance and one of the field’s most influential empirical researchers. He is the Tuck Centennial Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, and has held distinguished academic appointments at leading institutions including the University of British Columbia, Stockholm School of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, MIT Sloan, UCLA, INSEAD, and Vanderbilt University. With a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the University of Rochester, Professor Eckbo has built a four-decade research career that has shaped modern understanding of takeovers, corporate governance, capital structure, bankruptcy, and competition policy. He has authored major handbooks, edited influential volumes on corporate finance, and published widely in top-tier journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Management Science, and Journal of Corporate Finance. Ranked among the world’s top finance scholars—including a 2024 ScholarGPS ranking of worldwide in Corporate Finance—he has earned numerous honors such as the Barclays Global Investors/Michael Brennan Prize, multiple Best Paper Awards, “All Star Papers” in JFE, and an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian School of Economics. Professor Eckbo is also the founding director of the Lindenauer Center and Forum for Governance Research at Dartmouth and has served on editorial boards, research councils, and scientific advisory committees across Europe and North America. With extensive keynote lectures, major research grants, and high-impact collaborations, he continues to advance empirical corporate finance through rigorous scholarship, editorial leadership, and global academic engagement.

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