Sauder School of Business

Hernan  Ortiz-Molina

Hernan Ortiz-Molina
BS (Buenos Aires), MA (CEMA), PhD (Maryland)


Assistant Professor


Office:    Henry Angus 862
Phone:     +1-604-822-6095
Fax:    +1-604-822-4695
Email:    < hernan.ortiz-molina at sauder.ubc.ca >


University of British Columbia
Sauder School of Business
2053 Main Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z2




Curriculum Vitae


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Research Interests
Current Research Interests include Corporate Finance and Governance, Executive Compensation, Industrial Organization, Interaction between Real and Financial Decisions, and Economics of Information.


Selected Publications
M. Martin Boyer and Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Career Concerns of Top Executives, Managerial Ownership and CEO Succession
Corporate Governance: An International Review, forthcoming

Kai Li, Hernan Ortiz-Molina, and Xinlei Zhao
Do Shareholder Rights Affect Institutional Investment Decisions? Evidence from Dual-Class Firms
Financial Management, forthcoming

Hernan Ortiz-Molina and Maria F. Penas
Lending to Small Businesses: The Role of Loan Maturity in Addressing Information Problems
Small Business Economics, forthcoming

Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Executive Compensation and Capital Structure: The Effects of Convertible Debt and Straight Debt
Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 43, 2007, 69-93.

Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Top-Management Incentives and the Pricing of Corporate Public Debt
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 41, 2006, 317-340.


Working Papers
Jason Chen, Marcin Kacperczyk, and Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Do Non-financial Stakeholders Affect Agency Costs of Debt? Evidence from Unionized Workers” (2007)

Jason Chen, Marcin Kacperczyk, and Hernan Ortiz-Molina
Labor Unions and Expected Stock Returns” (2007)

Sandy Klasa, William F. Maxwell, and Hernan Ortiz-Molina
The Strategic Use of Corporate Liquidity in Collective Bargaining with Labor Unions” (2007)


Awards, Recognitions, and Relations
2007 - Winner of the Best Paper Award in Valuation at the Northern Finance Association Meetings 2007.

2006 - Winner of the William F. Sharpe Award for the best paper published in the JFQA during the year 2006.




 
 
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