Edward
Dickersin Van Wesep
Assistant
Professor of Finance
Kenan-Flagler
Business School
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3490, McColl Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490
voice:
(919) 360-9689 fax: (919) 962-2068
email: vanwesep at unc dot edu
Office: Room 4110, McColl Building
Hours: By Appointment
Research
Interests
- Mechanism design
- Compensation and contracting
- Corporate Finance
- Labor Economics
Current Research (as of March 13, 2013)
Published/Forthcoming Papers
(1) Pay
(Be)for(e) Performance: The Signing Bonus as an Incentive device (SSRN
Version)
Review of Financial Studies, 2010
Conference presentations:
ASSA (2009); Revelstoke Finance Summit (2009)
(2) Defensive
Politics (SSRN
Version)
Public Choice, 2012
(3) Publicizing Performance (SSRN
Version)
with Günter Strobl
Management Science (Forthcoming)
Conference presentations:
EFA (2011)
(4)
Connecting Two Markets: An Equilibrium Framework for Shorts, Longs and
Stock Loans (SSRN
Version)
with Jesse Blocher and Adam Reed
Journal of Financial Economics (Forthcoming)
Conference presentations:
WFA (2011); FMA Europe (2012)
(5) The Timing of Pay (SSRN
Version)
with Christopher Parsons
Journal of Financial Economics (Forthcoming)
Conference presentations: NBER Summer Institute (2011); WFA (2011);
Revelstoke Finance Summit (2011); Society of Labor Economists (2012)
(6) The Idealized Electoral
College Voting Mechanism and Shareholder Power (SSRN
Version)
Journal of Financial Economics (Forthcoming)
Conference presentations: ASSA (2013)
Working Papers
(6) The Prevention of Excess Managerial Risk Taking (SSRN
Version)
with Sean Wang
(previously
titled “Severance Pay, Empire Building, and the Prevention of Managerial
Shenanigans”)
Journal of Corporate Finance, Revise
and Resubmit
Conference presentations:
EFA (2008); Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting (2008); ASSA (2009)
(8) Anchoring and the Cost of Capital (SSRN
Version)
with Casey Dougal, Joey
Engelberg, and Christopher Parsons
Journal of Finance, Revise and
Resubmit
Conference presentations:
NBER Corporate Finance Spring Meeting (2011); SFS Cavalcade (2011); People
and Money (2011)
(9) The Option to Quit: The Effect of Employee Stock Options on
Turnover (SSRN
Version)
with Serdar Aldatmaz and
Paige Ouimet
Journal of
Financial Quantitative Analysis, Under Review
Conference
presentations: WFA (2012); FIRS (2012)
(10) Learning Without Losing Confidence: Evidence from US College Debaters
with Jonathan Meer
(12) The Quality of Expertise
With Diego
Garcia
Work in Progress
(11)
Using Student Grades to Grade Teachers
with Alex
Edmans and Christopher Parsons
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