I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at HEC Montréal. My research interests include empirical and structural corporate finance, product markets, innovation and corporate governance.

You can download my CV here.


Contact: jakub.hajda(at)hec.ca

Publications

Asset Life, Leverage, and Debt Maturity Matching (with Thomas Geelen, Erwan Morellec and Adam Winegar)

Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 154, April 2024, 103796

Product Market Strategy and Corporate Policies (with Boris Nikolov)

Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 146, Issue 3, December 2022, pp. 932–964

Can Corporate Debt Foster Innovation and Growth? (with Thomas Geelen and Erwan Morellec)

Review of Financial Studies, Volume 35, Issue 9, September 2022, pp. 4152–4200 


Working papers

Escaping Pay-for-Performance (with Jason (Pang-Li) Chen and Joseph Kalmenovitz)

Succession (with Thomas Geelen)

Sustainable Organisations (with Thomas Geelen and Jan Starmans) 

Fundamental Risk and Capital Structure