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Alexander Ljungqvist

Ira Rennert Chair in Finance and Entrepreneurship
Research Director, Berkley Center
Joined Stern: 2000
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West 4th Street, Room 9-160
New York, NY 10012
Email: aljungqv@stern.nyu.edu
Research, publications, honors, and more
Teaches Research Interests
  • New Venture Financing
  • Seminar in Banking and Corporate Finance
  • Financial Intermediation
  • Investment Banking
  • Initial Public Offerings
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Corporate Governance
Academic Background
DPhil, Economics, 1996 Nuffield College, Oxford University, England
MA, 1995 Oxford University, England
MPhil, Economics, 1994 Nuffield College, Oxford University, England
MSc, Economics and Business, 1992 Lund University, Sweden
Biography
Alexander Ljungqvist is the Ira Rennert Chair in Finance and Entrepreneurship at New York University Stern School of Business, where he teaches a MBA courses in financing new ventures and a PhD seminar in corporate finance.

Professor Ljungqvist has been with NYU Stern since 2000 and was tenured in 2005. His primary research areas include financial intermediation, investment banking, initial public offerings, entrepreneurial finance and venture capital, corporate governance, and behavioral corporate finance. He has published articles in these areas in all the leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. He is the author of Going Public, a survey of work on IPOs published by Oxford University Press (second ed., 2001). He currently serves as editor on the board of the Review of Financial Studies.

At NYU’s Salomon Center, Professor Ljungqvist directs the School’s research activities in the field of alternative investments. He has been Director of Research of NYU’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies since 2005.

Prior to joining NYU, Professor Ljungqvist taught at London Business School and Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He has worked for Deutsche Bank, Berenberg Bank, Schroder, Munchmeyer, Hengst & Co., the Swedish Trade Council, and the Swedish Foreign Ministry. Between 1995 and 2000, he was a senior consultant with OXERA Ltd.

Professor Ljungqvist received his Master of Science in economics and business from Lund University in Sweden, and his Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy in economics from Nuffield College at Oxford University.