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Martin Holmén

Head of Department

Department of
Economics
Telephone
+46 31-786 64 42
Mail
martin.holmen@economics.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 640
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of
Economics
Telephone
+46 31-786 64 42
Mail
martin.holmen@economics.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Room number
E514
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

Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Among Finance Professionals and the General Population (with Felix Holzmeister, Michael Kirchler, Matthias Stefan, and Erik Wengström), Economic Journal 133, 2023, 2949–2977.

Delegation Decisions in Finance (with Felix Holzmeister, Michael Kirchler, Matthias Stefan, and Erik Wengström), Management Science 69, 2023, 4828-4844.

Cognitive Skills and Economic Preferences in the Fund Industry (with Adam Farago, Felix Holzmeister, Michael Kirchler, and Michael Razen), Economic Journal 132, 2022, 1737-1764.

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

A Law and Finance Analysis of Initial Public Offerings (with Peter Högfeldt), Journal of Financial Intermediation 13, 2004, 324-358.