My dear friend and coauthor Johan Eklund defended his PhD in Economics this week at Jönköping International Business School. His research interests are primarily within financial economics and law and economics. His thesis is titled “Corporate Governance, Private Property and Investment”, and focuses on the relationships between corporate governance structures, institutions and structural change, and investment patterns and climate. He is doing some interesting work on ownership structure and control mechanisms like dual-class shares.

Johan has joined the Ratio Institute as a researcher (see announcement here).

Congratulations on your defense, Dr. Eklund!