Chair of Corporate Finance
The Chair of Corporate Finance strives to produce a broad range of finance-related research insights addressing topics of interest to academic researchers, practitioners, and policy makers.
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Current research topics include the analysis of corporate governance indices & firm value, gender issues in executive compensation, mergers & acquisitions, executive compensation, and the evolution of corporate ownership.
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Team
![Professor Burcin Yurtoglu Professor Burcin Yurtoglu](/fileadmin/_processed_/0/0/csm_WHU_Yurtoglu_Burcin_portrait_d9ccd7270a.jpg)
![Susen Schilo Susen Schilo](/fileadmin/_processed_/e/9/csm_Schilo_Susen_9a42d1d4cd.jpg)
![Stevan Bajic Stevan Bajic](/fileadmin/_processed_/a/7/csm_Chair_of_Corporate_Finance_Stevan_Bajic_498ad79f08.jpg)
Stevan Bajic
External Doctoral Student
![Navid Farid Navid Farid](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/3/csm_Lichtbild_Navid_Farid_3c9470747e.jpg)
Navid Farid
External Doctoral Student
![Philip Stark Philip Stark](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/c/csm_Chair_of_Corporate_Finance_Philip_stark_bc55d71606.jpg)
Philip Stark
External Doctoral Student
![Ying Gan Ying Gan](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/e/csm_Chair_of_Corporate_Finance_Ying-Gan_79ba6d2597.jpg)
Ying Gan
Alumna
![Guosong Xu Guosong Xu](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/7/csm_Chair_of_Corporate_Finance_Xu_Guosong_0f40057ede.jpg)
Guosong Xu
Alumnus
![Dietlinde Schumacher Dietlinde Schumacher](/fileadmin/_processed_/5/5/csm_Chair_of_Corporate_Finance_Dietlinde_Schumacher_43c1d3a5f4.jpg)
Dietlinde Schumacher
Alumna
![Hans-Jörg Naumer Hans-Jörg Naumer](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/2/csm_Chair_of_Corporate_Finance_Pressefoto2_hjn_web_cf04eb617f.jpg)
Hans-Jörg Naumer
Alumnus
![Lars Hofmann Lars Hofmann](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/c/csm_Chair_of_Corporate_Finance_Hofmann_Lars_80418276f1.jpg)
Lars Hofmann
Alumnus
Writing a doctoral thesis at the Chair of Corporate Finance
We are currently not enrolling new doctoral students.