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Alexander Ljungqvist

Alexander Ljungqvist

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Economics and Finance
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
64
Citations
21421
World Ranking
637
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Alexander Ljungqvist is affiliated with the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Their work spans several interrelated fields, primarily focusing on Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their research interests include corporate finance and governance, private equity and venture capital, auditing and earnings management, financial markets and investment strategies, innovation policy and R&D, intellectual property and patents, and firm innovation and growth.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexander Ljungqvist include:

  • Yen-Cheng Chang
  • Kevin Tseng
  • Deepak Hegde
  • Manav Raj
  • Markus Biesinger

Alexander Ljungqvist publishes predominantly in the SSRN Electronic Journal, where they have contributed 11 publications. They also have works featured in the Review of Financial Studies, with two publications, as well as appearances in Harvard Dataverse and Small Business Economics.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?", 2023, Review of Financial Studies
  • "Quick or Broad Patents? Evidence from U.S. Startups", 2021, Review of Financial Studies
  • "Value Creation in Private Equity", 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Do Corporate Disclosures Constrain Strategic Analyst Behavior?", 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Value Creation in Private Equity", 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Their main subfields of study within their broader research areas include accounting, economics and econometrics, finance, management of technology and innovation, and strategy and management.

Best Publications

  • Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance

    Yael V. Hochberg;Alexander Ljungqvist;Yang Lu

  • IPO Pricing in the Dot‐com Bubble

    Alexander P. Ljungqvist;William J. Wilhelm

  • Hot Markets, Investor Sentiment, and IPO Pricing

    Alexander P. Ljungqvist;Vikram Nanda;Rajdeep Singh

  • The cash flow, return and risk characteristics of private equity

    Alexander Ljungqvist;Matthew Richardson

  • Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?

    John Asker;Joan Farre-Mensa;Alexander Ljungqvist

  • Underpricing and Entrepreneurial Wealth Losses in IPOs: Theory and Evidence

    Michel A. Habib;Alexander P. Ljungqvist

  • Going Public: The Theory and Evidence on How Companies Raise Equity Finance

    Tim Jenkinson;Alexander P. Ljungqvist

  • Testing Asymmetric-Information Asset Pricing Models

    Bryan Kelly;Alexander Ljungqvist

  • As Certain as Debt and Taxes: Estimating the Tax Sensitivity of Leverage from State Tax Changes

    Florian Heider;Alexander Ljungqvist

  • Investor Sentiment and Pre-IPO Markets

    Francesca Cornelli;David Goldreich;Alexander Ljungqvist

  • Competing for Securities Underwriting Mandates: Banking Relationships and Analyst Recommendations

    Alexander Ljungqvist;Felicia Marston;William J. Wilhelm

  • Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

    Karthik Balakrishnan;Mary Brooke Billings;Bryan Kelly;Alexander Ljungqvist

  • Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints

    Joan Farre-Mensa;Alexander Ljungqvist

  • IPO allocations: discriminatory or discretionary?

    Alexander P Ljungqvist;Alexander P Ljungqvist;William J Wilhelm;William J Wilhelm

  • Is the IPO pricing process efficient

    Michelle Lowry;G.William Schwert;G.William Schwert

  • Networking as a Barrier to Entry and the Competitive Supply of Venture Capital

    Yael V. Hochberg;Alexander Ljungqvist;Yang Lu

  • Conflicts of interest in sell-side research and the moderating role of institutional investors

    Alexander Ljungqvist;Alexander Ljungqvist;Felicia Marston;Laura T. Starks;Kelsey D. Wei

  • Evidence of Information Spillovers in the Production of Investment Banking Services

    Lawrence M. Benveniste;Alexander P. Ljungqvist;William J. Wilhelm;Xiaoyun Yu

  • Pricing initial public offerings: Further evidence from Germany

    Alexander P. Ljungqvist;Alexander P. Ljungqvist

  • Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure: Shaping Liquidity

    Karthik Balakrishnan;Mary Brooke Billings;Bryan Kelly;Alexander Ljungqvist

  • Networking as a Barrier to Entry and the Competitive Supply of Venture Capital

    Yael V. Hochberg;Yael V. Hochberg;Alexander Ljungqvist;Yang Lu

  • The cash flow, return and risk characteristics of private equity

    Alexander Ljungqvist;Matthew Richardson;Matthew Richardson

  • Firm value and managerial incentives: a stochastic frontier approach

    Michel A. Habib;Alexander Ljungqvist

  • Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance

    Alexander Ljungqvist;Yael V. Hochberg;Yael V. Hochberg;Yang Lu

  • Hot Markets, Investor Sentiment, and IPO Pricing

    Alexander Ljungqvist;Rajdeep Singh;Vikram K. Nanda

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Wilhelm
William J. Wilhelm University of Virginia
Tim Jenkinson
Tim Jenkinson University of Oxford
Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson New York University
Pierre Collin-Dufresne
Pierre Collin-Dufresne École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen Federal Reserve System
Ekkehart Boehmer
Ekkehart Boehmer Singapore Management University
Vikram K. Nanda
Vikram K. Nanda The University of Texas at Dallas
Laura T. Starks
Laura T. Starks The University of Texas at Austin
Geert Bekaert
Geert Bekaert Columbia University
Roni Michaely
Roni Michaely University of Hong Kong

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