Alumni Profiles

Jan Bena is currently Assistant Professor of Finance at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada. He defended his thesis, titled "Essays on Corporate Finance" in 2006. Three years later, in June 2009, he received a second PhD, this one in Finance, from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He considers his primary research interests to be: Interaction between financial and real economic systems, finance and innovation, finance and product market competition and access to external finance and financial constraints.

His most recent publication is a co-authored paper with Kai Li titled "Corporate Innovations and Mergers and Acquisitions" in the The Journal of Finance. Before that, he and co-author Peter Ondko published "Financial Development and the Allocation of External Finance" in the January 2012 edition of Journal of Empirical Finance and, with co-author Štépán Jurajda, "Financial Development and Growth in the EU Single Market," in Economica, July 2011.