Bo Becker is the Cevian Capital Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Swedish House of Finance. Professor Becker conducts research in corporate finance, including corporate bank lending and bond issuance through the business cycle, credit ratings, covenant structures of loans and bonds, in-court and out-of-court restructuring, and the impact of Covid-19 on corporate credit markets. His research has been published in top tier peer reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. Professor Becker has been awarded several prizes and grants, including the Standard Life Prize for best paper in the ECGI Finance WP series, the Nordea Price for Best Corporate Finance Paper at the European Finance Association’s annual meeting and the Lamfalussy Research Fellowship from the European Central Bank.
Professor Becker has provided written and oral expert witness testimony in Swedish courts and international arbitration panels on topics including tender offers, shareholder control, debt contract renegotiation, and credit scoring. In these contexts, Professor Becker has performed valuations and other quantitative analyses, and also assessed corporate governance and internal corporate decisions.
Professor Becker holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He previously worked at the University of Illinois and at Harvard Business School.
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