Kasper Meisner Nielsen 教授

Professor Kasper Meisner Nielsen is Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School and adjunct professor at HKUST. At Copenhagen Business School he is the Academic Director of the Center for Corporate Governance. He received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Copenhagen. On his area of expertise Professor Nielsen has served as an external advisor, consultant, and lecturer to government agencies and companies in China, Denmark, and Hong Kong.

Professor Nielsen has been a visiting scholar at Stern School of Business at New York University. From 2015 to 2018 he was the Academic Director of the HKUST-NYU Master of Global Finance program.
 

Professor Nielsen’s research interests are behavioural finance, corporate governance, entrepreneurial finance, family business, and household finance. His research has featured in international newspapers and magazines including Business Week, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, International Herald Tribune, South China Morning Post, The Economist, The Times of India, and Wall Street Journal.
He has studied the consequence of family succession on firm performance, the value of independent directors, the level of executive compensation, why individuals shy away from stocks, the effect of personal exposure to the global financial crisis on risk taking, and households’ decisions to refinance their mortgage. His work has been published in academic journals including American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Banking and Finance. His research has been awarded with external financing from competitive research grants on several occasions.