Faculty profiles
Julian Franks
BA (Sheffield) MBA (Columbia) PhD (London)
Professor of Finance; MBA93 Term Chair
- Subject area:
- Finance
- Research activity:
- Centre for Corporate Governance
Publications
Ownership:Evolution and Regulation (with C Mayer and S Rossi), The Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming); Returns to Shareholder Activism Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund (with M Becht, C Mayer and S Rossi), Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming); Do Bankruptcy Codes Matter? A study of France, Germany and the UK (with S Davydenko), Journal of Finance (2008); The Origins of the German Corporation - Finance, Ownership and Control (with C Mayer and H Wagner), Review of Finance (2006); Financial Innovations and Corporate Insolvency (with O Sussman), Journal of Financial Intermediation (2005); Financial Distress and Bank Restructuring of Small to Medium Sized Companies (with O Sussman), Review of Finance (2005) Underpricing, Ownership and Control in Initial Public Offerings of Equity Securities in the UK (with M J Brennan), Journal of Financial Economics (1997); Hostile Takeovers and the Correction of Managerial Failure (with C Mayer), Journal of Financial Economics (1996); Debt Structure and the Loss of Private Benefits: the Case of the UK Insolvency Code (with K G Nyborg), Review of Financial Studies; A Comparison of Financial Recontracting in Workouts and Chapter 11 Reorganizations (with W Torous), Journal of Financial Economics (1994); Capital Markets and Corporate Control: a Study of France, Germany and the UK (with C Mayer), Economic Policy (1990).
Other activities
Associate Editor of Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Empirical Finance.
Formerly
Director of Institute of Finance and Accounting; Visiting Associate Professor, Universities of North Carolina and California (Berkeley); Visiting Professor, University of California at Los Angeles.
