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Luca Xianran Lin

Assistant Professor
Finance

Education

PhD, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain
MSc, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University, USA
BSc, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, USA

Vita

Teaching

  • Corporate finance
  • Banking
  • Financial institutions

Research

  • Financial institutions
  • Empirical corporate finance
  • Banking
  • Loan contracting
  • Mergers and acquisitions

Publications

“Agree to Disagree: Lender Equity Holdings, Within-Syndicate Conflicts, and Covenant Design” (with Yongqiang Chu and Zhanbing Xiao) Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2024, 57, 101065

“Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions” Journal of Corporate Finance, 2022, 76, 102284

“Beyond the target: M&A decisions and rival ownership” (with Miguel Anton, Jose Azar and Mireia Gine) Journal of Financial Economics, 2022, 144(1), 44-66

“Great Trees are Good for Shade: Creditor Monitoring Under Common Ownership” Finance Research Letters, 2022, 44, 102066

“The Mutual Friend: Dual Holder Monitoring and Firm Investment Efficiency” (with Miguel Anton), Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2020, 9(1), 81-115

Awards, Grants and Honors

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant ($67,000 Co-investigator), 2024-2026
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant ($45,000 Principal Investigator), 2023-2025

Certifications

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Industry Consulting Experience

  • Fundraising Coordinator, GCU Soccer Academy, Cape Town, South Africa, 2013
  • Internal Auditor, Western Union Global Headquarters, Colorado, USA, 2015
  • Equity Analyst, Essence Securities, Guangdong, China, 2016

International Activities

  • Visiting Professor, University of Padua, Italy, 2024
  • Visiting Professor, University of Bologna, Italy, 2023
  • Visiting Research Fellow, London School of Economics, UK, 2020

Contact Information

Luca Xianran Lin
 Assistant Professor
Finance
School of Management
University at Buffalo
240 Jacobs Management Center
Buffalo, NY 14260-4000

Tel: 716-645-4817
lucalin@buffalo.edu

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