Henri Servaes
Institute
of Finance
Sussex Place, Regent's Park
London NW1 4SA
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7000-8268
Fax: +44 (0)20 7000-8201
e-mail: hservaes(at)london(dot)edu
Web: http://faculty.london.edu/hservaes/
SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=16847
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=huuLoeoAAAAJ&hl=en
CitEc: http://citec.repec.org/p/s/pse218.html
RePEc: https://ideas.repec.org/f/pse218.html
Curriculum Vitae
Working Papers
Sexism, Culture, and Firm Value: Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein Scandal and the #MeToo Movement, co-authored with Karl Lins, Lukas Roth, and Ane Tamayo, September 2023. PDF
Do Consumers Care about ESG: Evidence from Barcode Level Sales, co-authored with Jean-Marie Meier, Jiaying Wei, and Steven Chong Xiao, July 2023. PDF
Intra-Industry Effects of Control Threats on Investment, Financing, and Financial Reporting Quality, co-authored with Ane Tamayo, May 2009. PDF
Portfolio Manager Ownership and the Pricing of Closed-End Funds, July 2009. PDF
The Stock Market Response to Changes in Business Combinations Accounting, co-authored with Ronnie Barnes, February 2002. PDF
The Characteristics of Successful Bidders, May 1996.
Publications
Trust, Social Capital, and the Bond Market Benefits of ESG Performance, co-authored with Hami Amiraslani, Karl Lins, and Ane Tamayo, Review of Accounting Studies, 2023. PDF
The Costs and Benefits of Performance Fees in Mutual Funds, co-authored with Kari Sigurdsson, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2022. PDF
Credit Ratings and Acquisitions, co-authored with Nihat Aktas, Dimitris Petmezas, and Nikolaos Karampatsas, forthcoming, Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021. PDF
The Benefits of Buying Distressed Assets, co-authored with Jean-Marie Meier, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 32, 2020. PDF
The Bright Side of Fire Sales, co-authored with Jean-Marie A. Meier, Review of Financial Studies 32, 2019. PDF
Social Capital, Trust, and Corporate Performance: How CSR Helped Companies During the Financial Crisis (And Why It Can Keep Helping Them), co-authored with Karl Lins and Ane Tamayo, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 31, 2019. PDF
Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility during the Financial Crisis, co-authored with Karl Lins and Ane Tamayo, Journal of Finance 72, 2017. PDF
The Role of Social Capital in Corporations: A Review, co-authored with Ane Tamayo, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 33, 2017. PDF
Have Rating Agencies Become More Conservative ? Implications for Capital Structure and Debt Pricing, co-authored with Ramin Baghai and Ane Tamayo, Journal of Finance 69, 2014. PDF
How Do Industry Peers Respond to Control Threats?, co-authored with Ane Tamayo, Management Science 60, 2014. PDF
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Value: The Role of Customer Awareness, co-authored with Ane Tamayo, Management Science 59, 2013. PDF
What Drives Market Share in the Mutual Fund Industry?, co-authored with Ajay Khorana, Review of Finance 16, 2012. PDF
Does Fair Value Reporting Affect Risk Management? International Survey Evidence, co-authored with Karl Lins and Ane Tamayo, Financial Management 40, 2011. PDF
What Drives Corporate Liquidity? An International Survey of Cash Holdings and Lines of Credit, co-authored with Karl Lins and Peter Tufano, Journal of Financial Economics 98, 2010. PDF
The Theory and Practice of Corporate Risk Management, co-authored with Ane Tamayo and Peter Tufano, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 21, 2009. PDF
Mutual Fund Fees Around the World, co-authored with Ajay
Khorana and Peter Tufano, Review of
Financial Studies, 2009. PDF
Letter to President and CEO of The Investment Funds Institute of Canada
responding to her comments on previous draft of the paper, May 2007. PDF
Letter to Dan Hallett, who raised questions about the paper, May 2008. PDF
On the Future of the Mutual Fund Industry Around the World, co-authored with Ajay Khorana, in Yasuyuki Fuchita and Robert E. Litan, eds., Pooling Money: The Future of Mutual Funds (Brookings Institution), 2008. PDF
Changes in Insider Ownership and Changes in the Market Value of the Firm, co-authored with John McConnell and Karl Lins, Journal of Corporate Finance 14, 2008. PDF
Private Equity: Boom and Bust, co-authored with Viral Acharya and Julian Franks, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 19, 2007. PDF
Portfolio Manager Ownership and Fund Performance, co-authored with Ajay Khorana and Lei Wedge, Journal of Financial Economics 85, 2007. PDF
Ranking Risk and Finance, co-authored with Peter Tufano, Financial Times, June 9, 2006.
Explaining the Size of the Mutual Fund Industry Around the World, co-authored with Ajay Khorana and Peter Tufano, Journal of Financial Economics 78, 2005. PDF
Corporate Governance, Incentives, and Industry Consolidations, co-authored with Keith C. Brown and Amy Dittmar, Review of Financial Studies 18, 2005. PDF
The Effect of Market Conditions on Initial Public Offerings, co-authored with Raghuram Rajan, in J. McCahery and L. Renneboog, eds, Venture capital contracting and the valuation of high-tech firms, Oxford University Press, 2003. Published version. PDF working paper.
International Corporate Governance and Corporate Cash Holdings, co-authored with Amy Dittmar and Jan Mahrt-Smith, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 38, 2003. PDF
Is Corporate Diversification Beneficial in Emerging Markets, co-authored with Karl Lins, Financial Management 31, 5-31,2002. PDF
The Cost of Diversity: The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment, co-authored with Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales, Journal of Finance 55, 35-80, 2000. PDF
The Determinants of Mutual Fund Starts, co-authored with Ajay Khorana, Review of Financial Studies 12, 1043-1074, 1999. PDF
International Evidence on the Value of Corporate Diversification, co-authored with Karl Lins, Journal of Finance 54, 2215-2240, 1999. PDF
Analyst Following of Initial Public Offerings, co-authored with Raghuram Rajan, Journal of Finance 52, 507-529,1997. Abstract published in Journal of Finance 52, 1997. PDF
The Value of Diversification during the Conglomerate Merger Wave, Journal of Finance 51, 1201- 1225, 1996. Abstract published in Journal of Finance 51, 1996. PDF
The Role of Investment Banks in Acquisitions, co-authored with Marc Zenner, Review of Financial Studies 9, 787-815, 1996. PDF
Equity Ownership and the Two Faces of Debt, co-authored with John McConnell, Journal of Financial Economics 39, 1995. PDF
Taxes and the Returns to Foreign Acquisitions in the U.S., co-authored with Marc Zenner, Financial Management 23, 1994, 42-56. PDF
Ownership Structure, co-authored with Marc Zenner, Finanzmarkt und Portfolio Management 8, 1994, 184-196.
Do Takeover Targets Overinvest?, Review of Financial Studies 7, 1994, 253-277. Abstract published in Journal of Finance 48, 1993. PDF
The Economics of Pre-Packaged Bankruptcy, co-authored with John McConnell, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 4, 1991, 93-97; reprinted in D. Chew, ed., The New Corporate Finance: Where Theory Meets Practice (McGraw-Hill), 1993; reprinted in Jagdeep S. Bhandari and Lawrence A. Weiss, eds., Corporate Bankruptcy: Economic and Legal Perspectives Cambridge University Press), 1996. PDF
What do we know about Corporate Performance and Ownership Structure?, co-authored with John McConnell, in. R.P. Chang and G. Rhee, eds., Pacific Basin Capital Markets Research: Volume II, 1991, 633-658.
Tobin's Q and the Gains from Takeovers, Journal of Finance 46, 1991, 409-419. PDF
Additional Evidence on Equity Ownership and Corporate Value, co-authored
with John McConnell, Journal of
Financial Economics 27, 1990, 595-612. PDF
Global Survey of
Corporate Financial Policies and Practices