Bio
Ben is Professor of Finance at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Ben's research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, law and finance, and financial intermediation. His research papers have been published in several leading finance and management journals, and have been selected for presentation at various international conferences, including EUROFIDAI Paris Finance Conference, Financial Management Association (FMA) Conferences, and European Financial Management Associations (EFMA) Annual Meeting.
Ben has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for several ABS-rated journals including Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.
Ben sits on the Editorial Board of Corporate Governance: An International Review and Finance Research Letters. Ben's research projects have won research funding from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Carnegie Trust.
Working Papers
Pay transparency and financial leverage (with Woon Sau Leung and Xuan Tian)
Biodiversity risk and small business access to finance (with Louis Nguyen, Steven Ongena, Sushen Qi, and Yibing Wang)
Employment responses to biodiversity transition risk (with Huyen Nguyen, Louis Nguyen, Trang Nguyen)
Actions after experiences: CEO abnormal climate exposure and corporate carbon reduction (with Angelica Gonzalez and Tianxi Wang)
Publications
A hedonic modelling of the effects of flood risk and energy efficiency on property value: cross-regional and sociodemographic evidence (with Andrew Goode, Gbenga Ibikunle, Vinit Jadhav, and Luke Searcy), European Journal of Finance, forthcoming.
π Based on a consultancy project commissioned by Natwest Group.
Corporate Hiring Under Uncertainty (with Louis Nguyen), Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2025, 14(4): 949-988.
π Editor's Choice; Best Registered Report on "Politics and Corporate Power" , RCFS Winter Conference 2024
Pasture green: Corporate investment in green skills and toxic plant emissions (with Jens Hagendorff and Louis Nguyen), British Journal of Management, 36(3): 1374-1389.
Little emperor CEOs: Firm risk and performance when CEOs grow up without siblings (with Angelica Gonzalez, Jens Hagendorff, and Tianxi Wang; Lead Article), Journal of Corporate Finance, 90: 102658.
Does shareholder litigation risk cause public firms to delist? Evidence from securities class action lawsuits (with Jonathan Brogaard, Nhan Le, and Louis Nguyen), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2024, 59(4): 1726-1759.
Does marriage equality promote credit access? Evidence from same-sex marriage laws (with Jens Hagendorff and Louis Nguyen), Journal of Corporate Finance, 2022, 77: 102315.
Climate change risk and the costs of mortgage credit (with Louis Nguyen, Steven Ongena, and Sushen Qi), Review of Finance, 2022, 26(6): 1509-1549.
π° Media Coverage: Duke University
ποΈ Policy impact: United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, quoted in a letter to the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; United Nations Environmental Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), quoted in Assessing Climate Transition Risk report.
Does shareholder litigation affect corporate information environments? (with Nhan Le and Louis Nguyen), Journal of Financial Markets, 2021, Β 56: 10060.
π FMA Asia Best Paper Award Finalist
Gender diversity and the spillover effects of women on boards (with Maria Boutchkova, Angelica Gonzalez, and Brain Main), Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2021, 29(1): 2-21.
π CGIR Editor's Pick / Lead Article
Does cooperation of women in top positions enhance or impede firm performance? (with Angelica Gonzalez and Lu Xing; Lead Article), British Accounting Review, 2021, 53(4): 1-20.
Do anti-bribery laws reduce the cost of equity? Evidence from the U.K. Bribery Act 2010 (with Suhee Kim and William Rees), Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 2021, 47(3-4): 438-455.
Does corporate culture affect bank risk-taking? Evidence from loan-level data (with Louis Nguyen and Linh Nguyen), British Journal of Management, 2019, 30(1): 106-133.
π° Media coverage: LSE Business Review, Scottish Financial News
Independent director reputation incentives and stock price informativeness (with Angelica Gonzalez and Jens Hagendorff),Β Journal of Corporate Finance, 2017, 47: 219-235.
Women on board: Does boardroom gender diversity affect firm risk? (with Angelica Gonzalez and Jens Hagendorff), Journal of Corporate Finance, 2016, 36: 26-53.
π° Media coverage: CFA Digest, LSE Business Review, Board Agenda
