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Abe de Jong is a researcher affiliated with Monash University in Australia, specializing in Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their scholarly work encompasses a range of subfields including Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Strategy and Management, and Cultural Studies.

The primary focus of their research lies in Corporate Finance and Governance, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, Housing Market and Economics, Insurance and Financial Risk Management, and Historical Economic and Social Studies.

De Jong has contributed to multiple academic venues, with frequent publications appearing in the following journals and outlets:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Business History
  • Venture Capital
  • Journal of International Money and Finance
  • The Journal of Economic History

Among de Jong's recent papers are:

  • "What determines success in initial coin offerings?" (2020, Venture Capital)
  • "Reaching out to the unbanked: The role of political ideology in financial inclusion" (2022, Journal of International Money and Finance)
  • "Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century" (2023, The Journal of Economic History)
  • "Developing and Harnessing Historical Sensibility to Overcome the Influence of Dominant Logics: A Pedagogical Model" (2023, Academy of Management Learning and Education)
  • "Predicting Takeover Targets: Long-Run Evidence from the Netherlands" (2020, De Economist)

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Tim Kooijmans, Peter Koudijs, Farhan Shazia, Philip T. Fliers, and Wilco Legierse, reflecting interdisciplinary engagements across various aspects of economic and financial research.

De Jong's body of work contributes to an understanding of financial markets, corporate governance, and economic history, supporting broader discussions within finance and accounting research.

Best Publications

  • Capital structure around the world: The roles of firm- and country-specific determinants

    Abe de Jong;Rezaul Kabir;Thuy Thu Nguyen

  • Corporate Finance In Europe Confronting Theory With Practice

    Dirk Brounen;Abe de Jong;Kees Koedijk

  • Capital Structure Policies in Europe: Survey Evidence

    Dirk Brounen;Abe de Jong;Kees Koedijk;Kees Koedijk

  • The role of self-regulation in corporate governance: evidence and implications from The Netherlands

    Abe de Jong;Douglas V. DeJong;Gerard Mertens;Charles E. Wasley

  • Firms’ debt–equity decisions when the static tradeoff theory and the pecking order theory disagree

    A. de Jong;M. Verbeek;P. Verwijmeren

  • Investment and internal finance: Asymmetric information or managerial discretion?

    Hans Degryse;Abe de Jong

  • The risk and return of arbitrage in dual-listed companies

    Abe De Jong;Leonard Rosenthal;Mathijs A. Van Dijk

  • The Formative Years of the Modern Corporation: The Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602-1623

    Oscar Gelderblom;Abe de Jong;Joost Jonker

  • The Impact of Institutional Differences on Derivatives Usage: a Comparative Study of US and Dutch Firms

    Gordon M. Bodnar;Abe de Jong;Victor Macrae

  • An empirical analysis of incremental capital structure decisions under managerial entrenchment

    Abe de Jong;Chris Veld

  • Capital Structure Around the World: The Roles of Firm- and Country-Specific Determinants

    Abe de Jong;Abe de Jong;Thuy Thu Nguyen;Thuy Thu Nguyen;Rezaul Kabir

  • A firm-specific analysis of the exchange-rate exposure of Dutch firms

    Abe de Jong;Jeroen Ligterink;Victor Macrae

  • Does financial flexibility reduce investment distortions

    de Abe Jong;M. Verbeek;P. Verwijmeren

  • Why do convertible issuers simultaneously repurchase stock? An arbitrage-based explanation

    Abe de Jong;Marie Dutordoir;Patrick Verwijmeren

  • The Impact of Financing Surpluses and Large Financing Deficits on Tests of the Pecking Order Theory

    Abe De Jong;Marno Verbeek;Patrick Verwijmeren

  • Shareholders' voting at general meetings: Evidence from the Netherlands

    Abe de Jong;Gerard Mertens;Peter Roosenboom

  • Out‐of‐sample hedging effectiveness of currency futures for alternative models and hedging strategies

    Abe De Jong;Frans De Roon;Chris Veld

  • Towards a new business history

    Abe de Jong;David Michael Higgins;Hugo van Driel

  • What determines success in initial coin offerings

    Peter Roosenboom;Tom van der Kolk;Abe de Jong

  • The Disciplining Role of Leverage in Dutch Firms

    Abe De Jong

  • Firms’ Debt-Equity Decisions When the Static Tradeoff Theory and the Pecking Order Theory Disagree

    Abe de Jong;Abe de Jong;Marno Verbeek;Marno Verbeek;Patrick Verwijmeren

  • Firms debtequity decisions when the static tradeoff theory and the pecking order theory disagree

    Abe de Jong;Marno Verbeek;Patrick Verwijmeren

Frequent Co-Authors

Ailsa Röell
Ailsa Röell Columbia University
Marno Verbeek
Marno Verbeek Erasmus University Rotterdam
Steven Ongena
Steven Ongena University of Zurich
Gordon M. Bodnar
Gordon M. Bodnar Johns Hopkins University
Hans Degryse
Hans Degryse KU Leuven
James S. Ang
James S. Ang Florida State University
Kees C. G. Koedijk
Kees C. G. Koedijk Utrecht University
Dirk Schoenmaker
Dirk Schoenmaker Erasmus University Rotterdam

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