Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Tuck Dartmouth

Karin S. Thorburn

Associate Professor of Finance
Associate Director, Center for Corporate Governance

 
Current Research    

Professor Thorburn's research focuses on takeovers, bankruptcy, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, and environmental economics.

Working Papers
Article

Vox column on the U.S. policy for climate change

Fisher-Vanden, Karen, and Karin S. Thorburn, 2008, “Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth.”

Betton, Sandra, B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn, 2008, “Markup Pricing Revisited.”

Eckbo, B. Espen, and Karin S. Thorburn, 2008, “Creditor Pre-filing Actions, Asset Dispositions and CEO Wealth Effects of Bankruptcy.”

Other Work in Progress

Betton, Sandra, B. Espen Eckbo, Karin S. Thorburn and Melissa Toffanin, “Bidder Returns and the Source of Cash-Financing in Takeovers.”

Eckbo, B. Espen, and Karin S. Thorburn, “Chapter 11 Targets.”

Eckbo, B. Espen, Darius Palia and Karin S. Thorburn, “CEO Compensation, Pay-Performance Sensitivity and Total Executive Wealth.”

Betton, Sandra, B. Espen Eckbo and Karin S. Thorburn, “Effects of Industry Competition on Deal Structure, Offer Premiums, and Bidder Gains in Takeovers.”

Eckbo, B. Espen, Oyvind Norli and Karin S. Thorburn, “Initiating takeovers.”