José Miguel Gaspar
Finance Department
ESSEC Business School
France
Biography
José Miguel Gaspar is an active researcher in the field of empirical corporate finance. He teaches Corporate Financial Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Private Equity in several masters and graduate programs. He has been nominated one of the “Top Ten Professors” in the ESSEC Foundation 2015 Teaching awards. His research interests focus on the link between ownership structures, incentives, and firm performance. His work has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Review of Finance, and the Journal of Business. His paper on Secondary Buyouts has received the 2015 Syntec Conseil en Management award for Best Academic Paper in the Finance/Strategy category. José Miguel has also received research grants from institutions such as Inquire Europe and Europlace. José-Miguel holds a Ph.D in Finance from INSEAD.
Research Interest
Empirical Corporate Finance. Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Performance, Governance.
Publications
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"Fund Managers under Pressure: Rationale and Determinants of Secondary Buyouts" (J. Gaspar, S. Arcot, . Fluck, U. Hege), Journal of Financial Economics, Jan 2015, Vol. 115, Issue 1, p. 102‑135 "The Performance of French LBO Firms: New data and new results" (J. Gaspar), Finance, Dec 2012, Vol. 33, Issue 2, p. 7‑60
