Research

Research Interests

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Family Firm
  • Analyst Activity
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Dividend policy

Publications in refereed journals

  • Chi, D., Chowdhury, H., Eugster, N., Zheng, J., 2025, Does the linguistic complexity of annual reports affect the corporate leasing decision?, Journal of Financial Research, vol. 48, 1700-1737. Link WILEY Link SSRN Abstract
  • Borsuk, M., Eugster, N., Klein, P.-O., Kowalewski, O., 2024, Family firms and carbon emissions, Journal of Corporate Finance, vol. 89, 102672. Link ScienceDirect Link SSRN Abstract
  • Menkveld, A. J., Dreber, A., Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Neusüss, S., Razen, M., Weitzel, U., …, Eugster, N., …, 2024, Non-Standard Errors, The Journal of Finance, vol. 79, 2339-2390. Link WILEY Link SSRN Abstract
  • Eugster, N., Kowalewski, O., Spiewanowski, P., 2024, Internal Governance Mechanisms and Corporate Misconduct, International Review of Financial Analysis, vol. 92, 103109. Link ScienceDirect Link SSRN Abstract
  • Eugster, N., Wang, Q., 2023, Large blockholders and stock price crash risk: An international study, Global Finance Journal, vol. 55, 100799. Link ScienceDirect Link SSRN Abstract
  • Eugster, N., Ducret, R., Isakov, D., Weisskopf, J.-P., 2022, Chasing dividends during the COVID-19 pandemic, International Review of Finance, vol. 22, 345-355. Link WILEY Link SSRN Abstract
  • Kharma, C., Eugster, N., 2021, Is Competition Beneficial? The Case of Exchange Traded Funds, International Review of Financial Analysis, 76, 101789. Link ScienceDirect Link SSRN Abstract
  • Eugster N., Isakov, D., 2019, Founding Family Ownership, Stock Market Returns, and Agency Problems, Journal of Banking & Finance, 107, 105600. Link ScienceDirect Link SSRN Abstract
  • Eugster N., 2019, Family Firms and Financial Analyst Activity, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 57, 101005. Link ScienceDirect Link SSRN Abstract

Case Studies

  • Eugster N., 2020, Sampling: How to construct a representative sample using Thomson Reuters Datastream, The Case Centre, case study 120-0050-1, teaching note 120-0050-8 Link
  • Eugster N., 2020, Financial Statements: How to deal with delays in reporting?, The Case Centre, case study 120-0016-1, teaching note 120-0016-8, media support 120-0016-4 Link
  • Eugster N., 2020, Company valuation through the peer comparison method, The Case Centre, case study 120-0009-1, teaching note 120-0009-8, media support 120-0009-4 Link
  • Beaupain R., Eugster N., 2019, Converting time series data from Thomson Reuters Datastream vertically using Excel, The Case Centre, case study 199-0044-1, teaching note 119-0044-8, teaching note supplement 119-0044-8B Link

Working Papers

  • Amin, A., Chowdhury, H., Estreich, T., Eugster, N., Whistleblowing Allegations and Payout Policy.
  • Ducret, R., Eugster, N., Isakov, D., Weisskopf, J.-P., The behavior of stock prices around the ex-day during a dividend shortage.
  • Eugster, N., Ownership Structure and Mergers and Acquisitions Decisions: Do Family Firms Acquire Differently? Link SSRN
  • Cui, Y., Eugster, N., Luong, L., Can Board Gender Diversity Resolve ESG Disagreement?

Media

  • Borsuk, M., Eugster, N., Klein, P.-O., Kowalewski, O., 2023, Les enterprises familiales, discrètement plus vertes, The Conversation (22.05.23) Link
  • Eugster, N., Isakov, D., 2019, Das Geheimnis der Familien-Konzerne, Handelszeitung (07.10.19) Link
  • Eugster, N., Isakov, D., 2019, Les raisons de la surperformance des entreprises familiales en Suisse, The Conversation (27.09.19) Link

Conferences and Seminars

2025:
  • FIRN Corporate Finance Research Meeting, Adelaide, Australia
  • AFAANZ 2025 Conference, Brisbane, Australia *
  • 34th European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Annual Meeting, Athens, Greece
  • Financial Management Association (FMA) European Conference, Limassol, Cyprus *
  • 41st French Finance Association Conference (AFFI), Dijon, France *
2024:
  • Financial Management Association (FMA) Asia/Pacific Conference, Seoul, South Korea
  • Financial Management Association (FMA) European Conference, Turin, Italy
  • 2024 EHL Sustainable Investing Forum, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 40th French Finance Association Conference (AFFI), Lille, France
  • UQ Finance and Economics Research Day, Brisbane, Australia
2023:
  • 36th Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (AFBC), Sydney, Australia
  • 9th Annual Conference of the International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Madrid, Spain *
  • 30th AEFIN Finance Forum, Malaga, Spain **
  • 32nd European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Annual Meeting, Cardiff, United Kingdom *
  • 3rd International Conference on Owners as Strategists – virtual, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and Bocconi University, Italy *
  • Financial Management Association (FMA) European Conference, Aalborg, Denmark
  • 39th French Finance Association Conference (AFFI), Bordeaux, France
  • 12th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS), Chania, Greece *
  • 13th Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference (FMCG) – virtual, Deakin Business School, Melbourne, Australia *
2022:
  • 2022 ICVG Conference: Governance in its institutional context, Melbourne, Australia
  • 35th Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (AFBC), Sydney, Australia *
  • 12th FMA Asia/Pacific Conference (FMA), Melbourne, Australia
  • 2022 New Zealand Finance Meeting (NZFM), Auckland, New-Zealand
  • 8th Annual International Corporate Governance Society Conference (ICGS), Miami (FL), USA *
  • 7th Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance (VSBF), Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 38th French Finance Association Conference (AFFI), Université de Rennes 1 and Rennes School of Business, Saint-Malo, France *
  • 29th AEFIN Finance Forum, Santiago de Compostela, Spain *
2021:
  • The microstructure exchange series – virtual, Stockholm University, Sweden *
  • 37th French Finance Association Conference (AFFI) – virtual, Audencia Business School, Nantes, France *
  • Research Seminar, The University of Queensland, UQ Business School, St Lucia, Australia
  • 11th Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference (FMCG) – virtual, La Trobe Business School, Melbourne, Australia
2020:
  • Southwestern Finance Association Conference (SWFA), San Antonio (TX), USA
2019:
  • 32nd Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (AFBC), Sydney, Australia
  • Annual Meeting of the Financial Management Association International (FMA), New Orleans (LA), USA
2018:
  • 6th Paris Financial Management Conference (PFMC), Paris, France
  • Research Seminar, EHL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Research Seminar, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Research Seminar, IÉSEG, Lille, France
  • Research Seminar, Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France
2017:
  • Eastern Finance Association Annual Meetings (EFA), Jacksonville (FL), USA
  • 16ème Conférence Internationale de Gouvernance (CIG), Lausanne, Switzerland *
  • 34th French Finance Association Conference (AFFI), Valence, France *
  • 5th Paris Financial Management Conference (PFMC), Paris, France *
  • Finance Seminar, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
 2016:
  • 33rd French Finance Association Conference (AFFI), Liège, Belgium
  • World Finance Conference (WFC), New York (NY), USA
 2015:
  • 14ème Conférence Internationale de Gouvernance (CIG), Québec, Canada
  • Family Firms in the Global Economy, Milan, Italy
  • 28th Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (AFBC), Sydney, Australia
 2014:
  • 13ème Conférence Internationale de Gouvernance (CIG), Dijon, France
  • World Finance & Banking Symposium (WFBS), Singapore, Singapore
  • 27th Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (AFBC), Sydney, Australia
* indicates presentation by co-author(s)

Additional Information

Reviewer : Journal of Corporate Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Finance Research Letters, Australian Journal of Management
Discussant: CIG (2014), WFBS (2014), AFBC (2014), AFBC (2015), AFFI (2016), WFC (2016), PFMC (2018), AFBC (2019), SWFA (2020), FMCG (2021), AFFI (2021), VSBF (2022), FIRN (2022), NZFM (2022), FMA (2022), ICVG (2022)
Corrector: Exam of Swiss certified expert for accounting (2014, 2016)
E-mail nicolas.eugster@gmail.com
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