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Overview

Anil Shivdasani is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their academic focus is within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with an emphasis on Accounting and Finance. The research topics covered in their publications include Corporate Finance and Governance, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, and Financial Literacy related to pensions and retirement analysis.

Their recent scholarly output features several publications, including:

  • Activism and empire building (2020), published in the Journal of Financial Economics
  • How Do Pensions Affect Corporate Capital Structure Decisions? (2021), published through UNC Libraries
  • The Evolving Shareholder Activist Landscape (How Companies Can Prepare for It) (2025), published through UNC Libraries

Shivdasani has collaborated with various coauthors across their research contributions. Frequent collaborators include Nickolay Gantchev, Merih Sevilir, Irina Stefanescu, and Gustav Sigurdsson.

Their publications have appeared primarily in two venues: UNC Libraries, which hosted two of their works, and the Journal of Financial Economics, which published one of their papers.

The areas of study and research topics associated with Shivdasani's work demonstrate a concentrated effort on understanding corporate finance dynamics, shareholder activism, pension impacts on corporate decisions, and governance practices. These areas reflect a combination of theoretical frameworks and applied research relevant to financial and accounting disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Are Busy Boards Effective Monitors

    Eliezer M. Fich;Anil Shivdasani

  • CEO Involvement in the Selection of New Board Members: An Empirical Analysis

    Anil Shivdasani;David Yermack

  • Are Busy Boards Effective Monitors?

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  • Financial fraud, director reputation, and shareholder wealth

    Eliezer M. Fich;Anil Shivdasani

  • Firm performance, corporate governance, and top executive turnover in Japan

    Jun-Koo Kang;Anil Shivdasani

  • Board composition, ownership structure, and hostile takeovers☆

    Anil Shivdasani

  • Do independent directors enhance target shareholder wealth during tender offers

    James F. Cotter;Anil Shivdasani;Marc Zenner

  • Banks, Ownership Structure, and Firm Value in Japan

    Randall Morck;Masao Nakamura;Anil Shivdasani

  • Corporate restructuring during performance declines in Japan

    Jun-Koo Kang;Anil Shivdasani

  • CEO Involvement in the Selection of New Board Members: An Empirical Analysis

    David Yermack;Anil Shivdasani

  • Going Public to Acquire? The Acquisition Motive in IPOs *

    Ugur Celikyurt;Merih Sevilir;Anil Shivdasani

  • Board Composition and Corporate Control: Evidence from the Insurance Industry

    David Mayers;Anil Shivdasani;Clifford W. Smith

  • Are Busy Boards Effective Monitors

    Eliezer M. Fich;Anil Shivdasani

  • Do Boards Affect Performance? Evidence from Corporate Restructuring*

    Tod Perry;Anil Shivdasani

  • Divestitures and Divisional Investment Policies

    Amy Dittmar;Anil Shivdasani

  • The Impact of Stock‐Option Compensation for Outside Directors on Firm Value*

    Eliezer M. Fich;Anil Shivdasani

  • Assessing TARP

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  • The Effect of Bank Relations on Investment Decisions: An Investigation of Japanese Takeover Bids

    Jun-Koo Kang;Anil Shivdasani;Takeshi Yamada

  • Financial Fraud, Director Reputation, and Shareholder Wealth

    Eliezer M. Fich;Anil Shivdasani

  • Assessing TARP

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  • Valuation effects of bank financing in acquisitions

    Anu Bharadwaj;Anil Shivdasani;Anil Shivdasani

  • How Do Pensions Affect Corporate Capital Structure Decisions

    Anil Shivdasani;Irina Stefanescu

  • Did Structured Credit Fuel the LBO Boom

    Anil Shivdasani;Yihui Wang

  • Leverage and internal capital markets: evidence from leveraged recapitalizations

    Urs C. Peyer;Anil Shivdasani

  • Banks, Ownership Structure, and Firm Value in Japan

    Randall Morck;Anil Shivdasani;Masao Nakamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun-Koo Kang
Jun-Koo Kang Nanyang Technological University
David Yermack
David Yermack New York University
Clifford W. Smith
Clifford W. Smith University of Rochester
Randall Morck
Randall Morck University of Alberta
Simeon Djankov
Simeon Djankov London School of Economics and Political Science
Stijn Claessens
Stijn Claessens Yale University
Rafael La Porta
Rafael La Porta Brown University
Pablo T. Spiller
Pablo T. Spiller University of California, Berkeley
Andrei Shleifer
Andrei Shleifer Harvard University
Patrick Honohan
Patrick Honohan Trinity College Dublin

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