Alumni Profiles

Bersant Hobdari is currently Associate Professor at Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He entered CERGE-EI in 1996, after completing his MSc degree in Applied Economics at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria. In 2000, he entered the PhD program at the Copenhagen Business School, defending a PhD thesis in Business and Economics there in 2003 titled "Does Owner(s) Identity Matter: An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Corporate Governance Structures on Capital Allocation, Investment and Financial Constraints". Between 2004-2006, he was an Instructor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He returned to CERGE-EI to defend another dissertation thesis in 2006 titled "Three Essays on the Effect of Alternative Ownership Structures on Investment and Financial Constraints: An Empirical Investigation".

Some of his recent publications include "Corporate Governance and Liquidity Constraints: A Dynamic Analysis" (with Derek Charles Jones and Niels Mygind) in Comparative Economic Studies and "Export market participation with sunk costs and firm heterogeneity" (with Evis Sinani) in Applied Economics.