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Dirk Hackbarth Professor of Finance CEPR Research Fellow ECGI Research Member BU Questrom School of Business 595 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Curriculum Vitae

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Profile Dirk Hackbarth is a Professor of Finance at the Boston University Questrom School of Business, where he teaches in graduate and undergraduate programs. He earned his PhD in Finance from the University of California at Berkeley, his MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and his Diplom in Business Economics from the University of Cologne. He is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of Corporate Finance and especially focuses on valuation of complex structures of risky cash flows. Dirk is a former Director of the European Finance Association, an appointed research associate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and recipient of the William F. Sharpe Award. His research has been published in a variety of academic journals, such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies.

Research Interests Bankruptcy, Capital Structure, Credit Spreads, Debt Maturity, Governance, Investment, Law and Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Product Markets, Real Options, Stock Returns, and Valuation.