My research areas are Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Firm Strategy, Innovation and Finance, Financial Institutions and Banking.
My current research topics include Mutual Funds, Institutional Investors, Technological Innovation, Boards of Directors, Takeover, Product Market Competition, Hedge Fund activism, Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets. Most of my research papers can be downloaded from this website. You may be want to read them first.
I will be glad to be your tutor if 1) you have a specific research idea/question related to my research area and 2) we are both happy with it.
Previously, students worked with me on topics including Corporate Finance, Fintech, Bitcoin, Corporate Governance, Firm Strategy, Innovation and Finance.
To come up with a good specific research question, I strongly suggest you to read the slides and follow the Steps here (https://sites.google.com/site/zhaoshan75/mergers/ses1_up_RM.pptx )
However, if you do not have a specific research idea/question, please read related literature below to try to find one or talk/email (shan.zhao at grenoble-em.com) to me to get help.
Finally, the thesis here is a good example of FMP (or grand memoire) (http://arc.hhs.se/download.aspx?MediumId=2059). You can follow its format and structure.
You can find some useful suggestions below.
1. Steps to search and download academic research papers
1. The slides below explain clearly how to search and download academic research papers on-line.
https://sites.google.com/site/zhaoshan75/courses/fmp/search_download.pptx
2. Use Google Scholar to search the article according to my slides. Google scholar sometimes provides you the link to the PDF version of the paper when it exists. Otherwise, move to next step
3. Use the academic journal database bought by the school (http://library.grenoble-em.com/EXPLOITATION/revues-academiques-en.aspx ). You can search the paper in these databases. The most important databases are
1) JSTOR
Many good journals but with 3-year embargo (which means that you cannot download the latest 3-year articles)
2) Sciencedirect : Journals published by Elsevier publishing company
3) EBSCOhost
Please note that Google scholar provides related links if it exists at JSTOR, Elsevier, and SSRN (read page 27 of my slides)
2. Useful Literature
0) Bitcoin, Blockchain, Crowdfunding and P2P lending
Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding http://ssrn.com/abstract=2281044
Crowdfunding: Tapping the Right Crowd http://ssrn.com/abstract=1578175
1) To understand what corporate governance is, you can read
CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE by Becht, Bolton, and Roell (2007) (focus on section 7 and ignore section 5)
http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/pbolton/BBRLE.pdf
the related chapters at Berk and DeMarzo's Corporate Finance book
the recent book by Larcker and Tayan
http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780132180269/samplepages/013218026X.pdf
More survey papers
https://sites.google.com/site/zhaoshan75/courses/fmp/survey_governance.zip
2) To understand the research on takeover, please have a look at the papers below.
“Corporate Takeovers,” Eckbo, Sandra Betton and Karin S. Thorburn, to appear in B. E. Eckbo (ed.), Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance, Volume 2, (Elsevier/North-Holland Handbook of Finance Series), Ch. 15, 291-430, 2008
"Takeover" by Mike Burkart Fausto Panunzi (2006) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=884080
3) Hedge fund activism
http://www.columbia.edu/~wj2006/activism_review.pdf
http://www.columbia.edu/~wj2006/ARFE_review.pdf
4) To understand what finance and innovation research is, you can read
William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda, 2014 Financing Innovation, working paper
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2519572
Hall, B., & Lerner, J. (2010). The financing of R&D and innovation. In Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, eds. Hall, B., & Rosenberg. N., Netherlands: Elsevier, 609-639.
http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:33/wp2010-012.pdf
Atanassov, J., forthcoming. Do hostile takeovers stifle innovation? Evidence from antitakeover legislation and corporate patenting. Journal of Finance.
Hirshleifer, D. A., Low, A., Teoh, S.H., 2012. Are overconfident CEOs better innovators? Journal of Finance 67, 1457-1498.
Lerner, J., Sorensen, M., Stromberg, P., 2011. Private equity and long-run investment: the case of innovation. Journal of Finance 66, 445-477.
Bernstein, Shai, 2012, Does going public affect innovation? Working Paper, Stanford University.