WELCOME!

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at ESCP Business School. I obtained my Ph.D. in Finance from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). My research interest is in corporate finance and its interaction with various related fields.

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RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

Axenrod, M., & Kisser, M. (2025). Does mandatory recognition of off–balance sheet liabilities affect capital structure choice? Evidence from SFAS 158. Contemporary Accounting Research, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.13060

WORKING PAPERS

Cornerstone investors (with Carsten Bienz and Francesca Cornelli)

Do corporate pension decisions affect rivals? Evidence from DB plan freezes

Venture debt pricing (with Giang Nguyen and Hannah Nguyen)

Measuring performance in crisis: How Russian SMEs adopt to sanctions (with Siamak Soudani)

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

Axenrod, Michael, Christopher Hossfeld, Gladie Lui, and Francesco Venuti, (2024) "ESG ratings: From fog to sunshine?", ESCP Impact Paper No.2024-58-EN

TEACHING

ESCP Business School: Principles of Finance (Master in Energy Management, since 2022); Financial Accounting and International Reporting (MBA, Fall 2022); Advanced Course in Corporate Finance (Ph.D., since 2022), Security Analysis (Bachelor in Management, since 2024)

NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Teaching Assistance): Financial Econometrics (Fall 2019, 2020; Spring 2020, 2021); Applied Textual Data Analysis for Bus. and Fin. (Fall 2019, 2020); International Finance (Spring 2018, 2019); Corporate Finance (Fall 2018); FinTech (Spring 2018)