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Ailsa Roell
International Affairs Building, Room 1313
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: (212) 854-9289
ailsa.roell@sipa.columbia.edu
ar2319@columbia.edu
Biography:
Ailsa Roell is professor of international and public affairs at SIPA. Her academic specialty is financial economics and the regulation of financial markets.
Her research and teaching spans securities markets, corporate finance, and corporate governance. She has published extensively in the area of stock market microstructure, with empirical and theoretical papers on market trading architecture and its impact on liquidity and price formation. Her latest work in the area concerned competition for cross-listing among European stock exchanges. More recently her work has focused on corporate governance, ranging from historical work on concentration of control, shareholder rights and takeover defense mechanisms in the Netherlands to an empirical analysis of compensation, earnings manipulation, and class action litigation in the USA. She coauthored a major survey of corporate governance recently published in the Handbook of the Economics of Finance.
She holds a PhD in political economy from Johns Hopkins University and an MSc in economics from the University of Groningen. From 1997 to 2005 she was a senior research scholar at Princeton University's Bendheim Center for Finance, following a career on the faculty of the London School of Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Tilburg University.
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