b.espen.eckbo@tuck.dartmouth.edu
603-646-3953
http://faculty.tuck.dartmouth.edu/espen-eckbo/
PhD, University of Rochester, 1981; MSc, University of Rochester, 1980; MSc, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 1977; BSc, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 1975
Finance, economics, industrial organization, governance
Advanced Corporate Finance and Governance; Research to Practice: Corporate Takeovers
B. Espen Eckbo is the Tuck Centennial Professor of Finance who studies corporate finance with a particular emphasis on transactions in the market for corporate control (M&As and corporate restructurings), how firms raise capital to fund investments, capital structure choice, and issues in international corporate governance. He joined the Tuck School of Business faculty in 1998. He is a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute and is the recipient of the Batterymarch Fellowship and a Honorary Doctorate awarded by the Norwegian School of Economics. Before coming to Tuck, he was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia (1981 through 1996) and at the Stockholm School of Economics (1996-1998). He founded Tuck’s Lindenauer Center for Corporate Governance in 1999, which was renamed the Lindenauer Forum for Governance Research in 2020. He teaches MBA electives on advanced corporate finance and governance, and on corporate takeovers
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