Bo Becker
Bo Becker is the Cevian Capital Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at the and Director if the . Professor Becker's research is on corporate finance, especially corporate credit markets. Recent topics include corporate bank lending and bond issuance through the business cycle, credit ratings, covenant structures of loans and bonds, in-court and out-of-court restructuring, and the impact of Covid-19 on corporate credit markets. His research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies and other journals. Professor Becker has been awarded several prizes and grants, including the Standard Life Prize for best paper in the ECGI Finance WP series, the Nordea Price for Best Corporate Finance Paper at the European Finance Association's annual meeting and the Lamfalussy Research Fellowship from the European Central Bank.
Professor Becker previously worked at the University of Illinois and at Harvard Business School. Professor Becker has served as an Associate Editor of the , Management Science and , and is Department Editor for finance at Management Science. He is a Research Fellow of Center for Economic Policy Research (), a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (). He previously served on the board of directors of the Swedish National Debt Office, as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (), and as an expert for public inquiries into and on the . He serves as a member of the of the as well as on several non-for profit and corporate boards, including the .
Publications
Dong Yan, Bo Becker, Murillo Campello, and Viktor Thell (2024).
Bo Becker, Ramin Baghai and Stefan Pitschner (2024).
Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina (2023).
Marcus Opp, Bo Becker and Farzad Saidi (2022).
Bo Becker, Marieke Bos and Kasper Roszbach (2020).
Ramin Baghai and Bo Becker (2020).
Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina (2017).
Ramin Baghai and Bo Becker (2017).
Bo Becker and Jens Josephson (2016).
Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina (2015).
Bo Becker, Torbjörn Becker, Marieke Bos, Peter Englund (Ed.) and Pehr Wissén (2015).
Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina (2014).
Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob and Martin Jacob (2013).
Bo Becker, Dan Bergstresser and Guhan Subramanian (2013).
Bo Becker and Guhan Subramanian (2013).
Bo Becker, Jinzhu Chen and David Greenberg (2013).
Bo Becker and Per Strömberg (2012).
Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist and Rudiger Fahlenbrach (2012).