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Christopher Hennessy

Christopher Hennessy


Associate Professor
Haas Finance Group
Barbara & Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
1-510-643-1900
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Academic Status: Off duty
Office Hours: To be arranged
Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/hennessy
Academic Group Homepage: http://haas.berkeley.edu/finance/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

Princeton University, Ph.D. Economics, 2001. (Adviser: Patrick Bolton)
Princeton University, Master of Public Affairs, 1994.
Swarthmore College, B.A., Economics and Political Science, 1992.

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 2001
Associate Professor (with tenure), Haas School of Business, July 2006-present.
Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, July 2001 - July 2006.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Anderson School of Business, 2005.
Member of Advisory Board at Benchmark Metrics, Inc., April 2006-present.
Senior Consultant, KPMG Peat Marwick, 1994-1996.
Research Associate, United States Treasury: Office of Tax Analysis, 1993.

 

 

Current Research and Interests

  • Corporate Finance
  • Contract Theory
  • Industrial Organization

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • How Costly is External Financing? Evidence from a Structural Estimation. Brattle Prize for a Distinguished Paper published in Journal of Finance, 2007. Joint with Toni Whited.
  • Tobin’s Q, Debt Overhang, and Investment. Brattle Prize for distinguished corporate finance paper published in Journal of Finance, 2004.
  • Debt Dynamics. Brattle Prize for outstanding corporate finance paper published in Journal of Finance, 2005. Joint with Toni Whited.
  • Testing Q Theory with Financing Frictions. Journal of Financial Economics, 2007. Joint with Amnon Levy and Toni Whited.
  • How Costly is External Financing? Evidence from a Structural Estimation. Journal of Finance, 2007. Joint with Toni Whited.
  • Can the Tradeoff Theory Explain Debt Structure? Review of Financial Studies, 2007. Joint with Dirk Hackbarth and Hayne Leland.
  • Why Does Capital Structure Choice Vary with Macroeconomic Conditions? Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007. Joint with Amnon Levy.

 

Teaching

  • MBA231/EWMBA231: Corporate Finance

 

 

Honors and Awards

  • Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
  • Guttmann Fellow, 2007, Vienna.
  • Schwabacher Fellow for 2006. University of California, Berkeley.
  • Woodrow Wilson Summer Research Fellowship, 1998 and 2000
  • Robertson Fellowship, 1998 - 2000
  • Princeton University Fellowship, 1996 - 1999
  • Beinecke Memorial Scholarship, 1992 - 1994
  • Chicago Business Fellowship, summer 1991



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