Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Financial Management, Ownership Structure and Family Control, Corporate Social Responsibility.
Stringency of Family Firms and Owner-managers in the Transition to Low-carbon Emissions (Joint with Morten Bennedsen and John Doukas)
Pricing of carbon-transition risk in Multinationals with geographical carbon dispersion (Joint with Gizem Ari and Asad Rauf)
Spillover Effects of State-owned Enterprises under Imperfect Competition: Evidence from China (Joint with Yan Di & Abe de Jong)
Dark Side of the Day: Overnight Price Jumps and Short-Term Return Predictability (Joint with Hulusi Bahcivan and Lammertjan Dam)
Academic Director of the MSc programme in International Financial Management (IFM), Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen
Professor and member of PhD committee, School of Economics and Business, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Editorial Board Member, Borsa Istanbul Review
2012 Best paper award: Corporate Governance - An International Review, Seifert, B., & Gonenc, H. (2012). Creditor rights and R&D expenditures, 20(1), 3 - 20.
1999 Outstanding Phd Student of the Year. College of Business Administration, Old Dominion University, U.S.A