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Overview

Karl V. Lins is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has produced research primarily within the field of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their work spans several subfields, including Accounting, Finance, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, and Gender Studies.

The main topics covered in their research include Corporate Finance and Governance, Family Business Performance and Succession, Credit Risk and Financial Regulations, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, and Gender Diversity and Inequality.

Karl V. Lins has published in several academic venues, notably:

  • Journal of Accounting Research
  • Review of Accounting Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of applied corporate finance

Selected recent publications include:

  • Sexism, Culture, and Firm Value: Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein Scandal and the #MeToo Movement, 2024, Journal of Accounting Research
  • Family-Controlled Firms and Environmental Sustainability: All Bite and No Bark, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Trust, social capital, and the bond market benefits of ESG performance, 2022, Review of Accounting Studies
  • Renewable Governance: Good for the Environment?, 2022, Journal of Accounting Research
  • The impact of shifting societal attitudes toward women on capital markets and corporations: Evidence from the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement, 2025, Journal of applied corporate finance

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Lukas Roth
  • Henri Servaes
  • Ane Tamayo
  • Mitch Towner
  • Hannes F. Wagner

Best Publications

  • Social capital, trust, and firm performance: the value of corporate social responsibility during the financial crisis

    Karl V. Lins;Henri Servaes;Ane Tamayo

  • Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value: Evidence from the East Asian Financial Crisis

    Michael L. Lemmon;Karl V. Lins

  • Equity Ownership and Firm Value in Emerging Markets

    Karl V. Lins

  • Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence

    Alexander Dyck;Karl V. Lins;Lukas Roth;Hannes F. Wagner

  • ADRs, Analysts, and Accuracy: Does Cross Listing in the United States Improve a Firm's Information Environment and Increase Market Value?

    Mark H. Lang;Karl V. Lins;Darius P. Miller

  • International Evidence on Cash Holdings and Expected Managerial Agency Problems

    Ivalina Kalcheva;Karl V. Lins

  • Transparency, Liquidity, and Valuation: International Evidence on When Transparency Matters Most

    Mark Lang;Karl V. Lins;Mark Maffett

  • Do Foreigners Invest Less in Poorly Governed Firms

    Christian Leuz;Karl V. Lins;Francis E. Warnock

  • International Evidence on the Value of Corporate Diversification

    Karl Lins;Henri Servaes

  • The effect of capital structure when expected agency costs are extreme

    Campbell R. Harvey;Campbell R. Harvey;Karl V. Lins;Andrew H. Roper

  • What Drives Corporate Liquidity? An International Survey of Cash Holdings and Lines of Credit

    Karl V. Lins;Henri Servaes;Henri Servaes;Peter Tufano

  • Concentrated Control, Analyst Following, and Valuation: Do Analysts Matter Most When Investors Are Protected Least?

    Mark H. Lang;Karl V. Lins;Darius P. Miller

  • Private Benefits of Control, Ownership, and the Cross-listing Decision

    Craig Doidge;G. Andrew Karolyi;Karl V. Lins;Darius P. Miller

  • Does Family Control Matter? International Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis *

    Karl V. Lins;Paolo Volpin;Hannes F. Wagner

  • Is Corporate Diversification Beneficial in Emerging Markets

    Karl V. Lins;Henri Servaes

  • Do Non-U.S. Firms Issue Equity on U.S. Stock Exchanges to Relax Capital Constraints?

    Karl V. Lins;Deon Strickland;Marc Zenner

  • Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value: Evidence from the East Asian Financial Crisis

    Karl V. Lins;Michael L. Lemmon

  • Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility during the Financial Crisis

    Karl V. Lins;Henri Servaes;Henri Servaes;Ane Tamayo

  • ADRs, Analysts, and Accuracy: Does Cross Listing in the U.S. Improve a Firm's Information Environment and Increase Market Value?

    Mark H. Lang;Karl V. Lins;Darius P. Miller

  • Do Institutional Investors Drive Corporate Social Responsibility? International Evidence

    Alexander Dyck;Karl V. Lins;Lukas Roth;Hannes F. Wagner

  • Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance Around the World

    Peter Iliev;Karl V. Lins;Darius P. Miller;Lukas Roth

  • Private Benefits of Control, Ownership, and the Cross-Listing Decision

    Craig Doidge;George Andrew Karolyi;René M. Stulz;René M. Stulz;Karl V. Lins

  • Do Analysts Matter Most When Investors are Protected Least

    Mark H. Lang;Karl V. Lins;David Eccles;Darius P. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Henri Servaes
Henri Servaes London Business School
Mark H. Lang
Mark H. Lang University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campbell R. Harvey
Campbell R. Harvey Duke University
Francis E. Warnock
Francis E. Warnock University of Virginia
Michael L. Lemmon
Michael L. Lemmon BlackRock (United States)
René M. Stulz
René M. Stulz The Ohio State University
John J. McConnell
John J. McConnell Purdue University West Lafayette
Christian Leuz
Christian Leuz University of Chicago
George Andrew Karolyi
George Andrew Karolyi Cornell University
Peter Tufano
Peter Tufano Harvard University

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