Research
CeFiMS faculty members have a strong commitment to academic research and publication.Our research interests, publications, and expertise are wide-ranging. Our current, active research interests lie within five main areas:
- Corporate governance: finance, law, and regulation (in developed and developing countries)
- Corporate finance: determinants of firms' capital structure
- Finance and economic growth
- Financial regulation, central banking and bank supervision
- Management in China; Management in Japan; and Management in the Middle East and North Africa
Publications
The output of CeFiMS research is accessible from this site as CeFiMS Working papers (downloadable as pdf documents). Recent publications by academic staff can be found listed on their respective staff pages.Research students
The PhD program at CeFiMS is designed to ensure PhD students are an integral part of CeFiMS' research activity.Recent theses include:
- Nhat To Van (2008) 'Financial Constraints and Investment: Evidence from Vietnamese Small and Medium Enterprises'
- Eunsuk Hong (2008) 'Location of Foreign Direct Investment in China: A Spatial Dynamic Analysis by Country of Origin'
- Sebastian Brück (2008) 'The Making of Banking Scope Regulation: A Comparative Political Economy Analysis across Mainland China, Korea and Taiwan'
- Franka Klingel (2007) 'Driving Forces of Privatization and Liquidation: Evidence from the Chinese State Sector'
- Jeo Lee (2006) 'Exchange Rate Volatility and Currency Risk Management. The Case of Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand'
- Damian Tobin (2006) 'Corporate Restructuring, Governance Reform and International Listing in China's Leading Corporations'
- Tho Dinh Nguyen (2005) 'Real Options and Investment under Uncertainty. A Study Using Firm-Level Data for Thailand'
Please visit our section on PhD theses to read more about the areas of research recently conducted by our students.
