Betton, Sandra, B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn, 2008, “Merger Negotiations and the Toehold Puzzle,” Journal of Financial Economics 91, 158-178.

Eckbo, B. Espen, and Karin S. Thorburn, 2009, “Creditor Financing and Overbidding in Bankruptcy Auctions,” Journal of Corporate Finance 15, 10-29.

• Received Best Paper Award, Journal of Corporate Finance.

Eckbo, B. Espen, and Karin S. Thorburn, 2008, “Automatic Bankruptcy Auctions and Fire-Sales,” Journal of Financial Economics 89, 404-422.

Eckbo, B. Espen, and Karin S. Thorburn, 2003, “Control Benefits and CEO Discipline in Automatic Bankruptcy Auctions,” Journal of Financial Economics 69, 227-258.

Thorburn, Karin S., 2003, “Corporate Governance Practices in Europe: ‘Enron’ Antidote?,” Vermont Law Review 27, 887-907.

Thorburn, Karin S., 2000, “Bankruptcy Auctions: Costs, Debt Recovery, and Firm Survival,” Journal of Financial Economics 58, 337-368, lead article.

Reprinted in John J. McConnell and David J. Denis (eds.), 2005, Corporate Restructuring, The International Library of Critical Writings in Financial Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, U.K., 555-586.

Eckbo, B. Espen, and Karin S. Thorburn, 2000, “Gains to Bidder Firms Revisited: Domestic and Foreign Acquisitions in Canada,” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 35, 1-25, lead article.

Thorburn, Karin S., 1999, ”Konkurs med auktion: Kostnader, utdelning och VD:s incitament,” Beta 13, 1-16, lead article.

Reprinted in Karl Gratzer and Hans Sjögren (red), 1999, Konkursinstitutets betydelse i svensk ekonomi, Gidlunds Förlag, 100-121.

Thorburn, Karin S., 1997, "Comment on 'Top Management Compensation and the Structure of the Board of Directors in Commercial Banks,'" European Finance Review 1, 261-264.

Hotchkiss, Edith S., Kose John, Robert M. Mooradian and Karin S. Thorburn, 2008, “Bankruptcy and the Resolution of Financial Distress,” in B. Espen Eckbo (ed.), Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance, Vol. 2, Elsevier/North-Holland, Ch. 14, 234-287.

Betton, Sandra, B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn, 2008, “Corporate Takeovers,” in B.E. Eckbo (ed.) Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance, Vol. 2, Elsevier/North-Holland, Ch. 15, 289-427.

Eckbo, B. Espen, and Karin S. Thorburn, 2008, “Corporate Restructuring: Breakups and LBOs,” in B.E. Eckbo (ed.) Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance, Vol. 2, Elsevier/North-Holland, Ch. 16, 429-493.

Thorburn, Karin S., 2006, “Transparency in Bankruptcy Law: A Perspective on Bankruptcy Costs across Europe”, in Lars Oxelheim (ed.), Corporate and Institutional Transparency for Economic growth in Europe, International Business and Management, Vol. 19, Elsevier, 155-172.

Thorburn, Karin S., 2004, "Corporate Governance and Financial Distress", in Leif Appelgren, Hans Sjögren, and Göran Skogh (eds.), New Perspectives on Economic Crime, Edward Elgar Publishing, 76-94.

Eckbo, B. Espen, and Thorburn, Karin S., 2000, "Are Mandatory Bankruptcy Auctions More Efficient?", in Bo Green (ed.), Risk Behaviour and Risk Management in Business Life, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 288-295.

Thorburn, Karin S., 2000, "Cash Auction Bankruptcy: Summary of the Swedish Evidence", in Bo Green (ed.), Risk Behaviour and Risk Management in Business Life, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 276-279.

Thorburn, Karin S., 1999, ”En empirisk analys av utdelning i svenska konkurser,” in Nya förmånsrättsregler SOU 1999:1, white paper published by the Swedish Ministry of Justice, Elanders Gotab, Stockholm, Bilaga 5, 1-60.

Thorburn, Karin S., 1997, ”Företag i finansiell kris och konkurs”, in Från optionsprissättning till konkurslagstiftning, EFI’s Annual, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, 15-30, lead article.

Thorburn, Karin S., Eva Redhe and Lena Torlegård, 2002, "Folkligt ägande har minskat inflytandet," Axess 1, 18-21

Reprinted in Axess 2002: Från stoicism till konsumkapitalism, Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse för allmännyttiga ändamål, 309-322.

Thorburn, Karin S., 2002, ”När grå ekonomi blev svart”, Axess 1, 34-35.

Thorburn, Karin S., 1999, Kommentar till "Konkurser och företagsrekonstruktioner ur ett rättsekonomiskt perspektiv – en litteraturöversikt", in Karl Gratzer and Hans Sjögren (red), Konkursinstitutets betydelse i svensk ekonomi, Gidlunds Förlag, 75-77.