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Martin Holmén

Head of Department

Department of
Economics
Telephone
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 640
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of
Economics
Telephone
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Room number
D-508
Postal address
Box 640
40530 Göteborg

About Martin Holmén

Professor Martin Holmen received his Ph.D. from University of Gothenburg in 1998 and after ten years at Stockholm University and Uppsala University he returned to University of Gothenburg in 2009. He is professor of corporate finance and 2011-2020 he was the director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Finance. His main research areas are corporate governance and experimental finance.

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Research areas

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Experimental Finance

Teaching areas

  • Corporate Finance
  • International Finance
  • Portfolio Management and Investments

Selected publications

Minority Shareholder Protection and Private Benefits of Control for Swedish Mergers. Holmén, Martin, Knopf, John, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 39, s. 167-191, 2004

A Law and Finance Analysis of Initial Public Offerings. Holmén, Martin, Högfeldt, Peter, Journal of Financial Intermediation 13, s. 324-358, 2004

Do option-like incentives induce overvaluation? Evidence from experimental asset markets. Holmén, Martin, Kirchler, Michael, Kleinlercher, Daniel, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 40, s. 179-194, 2014

Inside Shareholders’ Effective Tax Rates and Dividends. Holmén, Martin, Knopf, John, Peterson, Stefan, Journal of Banking and Finance 32, s. 1860-1869, 2008

Rank matters-The impact of social competition on portfolio choice. Dijk, Oege, Holmén, Martin, Kirchler, Michael, European Economic Review 66, s. 97-110, 2014