Christopher A. Hennessy

Associate Professor

Walter A. Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley

Finance Group Chair

Contact: hennessy “at” haas.berkeley.edu or (510)643-1900

Research interests: Corporate finance, contract theory, and industrial organization.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Published/Forthcoming Papers:

"Tobin’s Q, Debt Overhang, and Investment"  Brattle Prize for Distinguished Corporate Finance Paper published in Journal of Finance, 2004.

 

"Debt Dynamics" with T. Whited. Brattle Prize for Outstanding Corporate Finance Paper published in Journal of Finance, 2005.

 

"Testing Q Theory with Financing Frictions" with A. Levy and T. Whited. Journal of Financial Economics, 2007.

 

"How Costly is External Financing? Evidence from a Structural Estimation" with T. Whited. Brattle Prize for Distinguished Corporate Finance Paper published in Journal of Finance, 2007.

 

"Why Does Capital Structure Choice Vary with Macroeconomic Conditions?" with A. Levy. Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007.

 

"Can the Tradeoff Theory Explain Debt Structure?" with D. Hackbarth and H. Leland. Review of Financial Studies, 2007.

 

"Taxation, Agency Conflicts, and the Choice Between Callable and Convertible Debt" with Y. Tserlukevich. Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Theory.

 

"Debt, Bargaining, and Credibility in Firm-Supplier Relationships" with D. Livdan. Forthcoming in Journal of Financial Economics.

 

 

Working Papers:

 

"Repeated Signaling and Firm Dynamics" with D. Livdan and B. Miranda.

 

"Acquisition Values and Optimal Financial (In)Flexibility" with U. Hege.

 

 

Links:

 

Haas Finance Group

The Finance Group at Haas  

Finance Seminar Schedule at Haas 

Vienna Graduate School of Finance: Theory of Corporate Finance