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Overview

Steven N. Kaplan is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily addresses topics within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a specific focus on areas including Accounting, Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Finance, and Gender Studies.

Their work covers diverse themes, notably Private Equity and Venture Capital, Corporate Finance and Governance, State Capitalism and Financial Governance, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Auditing, Earnings Management and Governance, as well as Innovation Policy and R&D.

Selected recent papers by Steven N. Kaplan include:

  • Are CEOs Different? (2021), The Journal of Finance
  • What is CEO overconfidence? Evidence from executive assessments (2021), Journal of Financial Economics
  • Has persistence persisted in private equity? Evidence from buyout and venture capital funds (2023), Journal of Corporate Finance
  • Private equity and Covid-19 (2022), Journal of Financial Intermediation
  • Can investors time their exposure to private equity? (2020), Journal of Financial Economics

Kaplan has published extensively in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, with 21 publications, as well as in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, The Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Intermediation.

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Morten Sørensen
  • Robert S. Harris
  • Tim Jenkinson
  • Paul A. Gompers
  • Vladimir Mukharlyamov

Best Publications

  • Do Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints?

    Steven N. Kaplan;Luigi Zingales

  • Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts

    Steven N. Kaplan;Per Stromberg

  • Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence, and Capital Flows

    Steven N. Kaplan;Antoinette Schoar

  • The effects of management buyouts on operating performance and value

    Steven Kaplan

  • Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity

    Steven Kaplan;Per Stromberg

  • How Costly is Financial (Not Economic) Distress? Evidence from Highly Leveraged Transactions that Became Distressed

    Gregor Andrade;Steven N. Kaplan

  • Venture Capitalists As Principals: Contracting, Screening, and Monitoring

    Steven Kaplan;Per Stromberg

  • Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity

    Steven N. Kaplan;Per Strömberg

  • Characteristics, Contracts, and Actions: Evidence from Venture Capitalist Analyses

    Steven N. Kaplan;Per Strömberg

  • Appointments of outsiders to Japanese boards: Determinants and implications for managers

    Steven N. Kaplan;Bernadette A. Minton

  • Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities are not Valid Measures of Financing Constraints

    Steven Kaplan;Luigi Zingales

  • Top Executive Rewards and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Japan and the United States

    Steven N. Kaplan

  • The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence from Divestitures

    Steven N. Kaplan;Michael S. Weisbach

  • The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis

    Steven N. Kaplan;Richard S. Ruback

  • Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the United States: Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s

    Bengt Holmstrom;Steven N. Kaplan

  • Outside directorships and corporate performance

    Steven N. Kaplan;David Reishus

  • Do Investment-Cashflow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints?

    Steven N. Kaplan;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales

  • The Effects of Business‐to‐Business E‐Commerce on Transaction Costs

    Luis Garicano;Steven N. Kaplan

  • Do Financing Constraints Explain Why Investment is Correlated with Cash Flow

    Steven Kaplan;Luigi Zingales

  • Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter

    Steven N. Kaplan;Mark M. Klebanov;Morten Sorensen

  • Venture Capitalists As Principals: Contracting, Screening, and Monitoring

    Steven N Kaplan;Per Stromberg

  • Management Buyouts: Evidence on Taxes as a Source of Value

    Steven Kaplan

  • How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions

    Paul A. Gompers;Paul A. Gompers;William Gornall;Steven N. Kaplan;Steven N. Kaplan;Ilya A. Strebulaev;Ilya A. Strebulaev

  • Financial Contracting Theory Meets The Real World: An Empirical Analysis Of Venture Capital Contracts

    Steven Kaplan;Per Johan Strömberg

  • The Success of Acquisitions: Evidence From Disvestitures

    Steven Kaplan;Michael Weisbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Gompers
Paul A. Gompers Harvard University
Tim Jenkinson
Tim Jenkinson University of Oxford
Luigi Zingales
Luigi Zingales University of Chicago
David G. Robinson
David G. Robinson Heidelberg University
Jeremy C. Stein
Jeremy C. Stein Harvard University
Joshua D. Rauh
Joshua D. Rauh Stanford University
Luis Garicano
Luis Garicano London School of Economics and Political Science
Michael S. Weisbach
Michael S. Weisbach The Ohio State University

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