Associate Professor Breno Schmidt

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Breno Schmidt joined UNSW Business School in 2017. He received his PhD in Finance from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He holds an MS in Economics from the Graduate School of Economics at Fundação Getulio Vargas (EPGE/FGV), Brazil, and a BS in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Breno’s research focuses on the organisation and governance of corporations and mutual funds.

E-mail

breno.schmidt@unsw.edu.au

Location

UNSW Business School - Ref E12 Level 3, Office 343

Journal articles | 2015

Schmidt B, 2015, 'Costs and benefits of friendly boards during mergers and acquisitions', Journal of Financial Economics, 117, pp. 424 - 447, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2015.02.007

Journal articles | 2014

Disatnik D; Duchin R; Schmidt B, 2014, 'Cash flow hedging and liquidity choices', Review of Finance, 18, pp. 715 - 748, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rof/rft006

Journal articles | 2013

Duchin R; Schmidt B, 2013, 'Riding the merger wave: Uncertainty, reduced monitoring, and bad acquisitions', Journal of Financial Economics, 107, pp. 69 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2012.07.003

Journal articles | 2009

Cohen L; Schmidt B, 2009, 'Attracting flows by attracting big clients', Journal of Finance, 64, pp. 2125 - 2151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01496.x

Winner of the 2010 Teva Award in the name of Dan Suesskind for research in corporate finance and financial markets 2010
Winner of the Michael J. Barclay Award for the best Ph.D. student paper, Financial Research Association 2008
Winner of Society of Quantitative Analysts Award for best paper on quantitative investments, Western Finance Association 2007
Winner of BGI Best Paper Prize, Asset Allocation Symposium, European Finance Association 2006

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Associate Professor Breno Schmidt