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Department of Finance
- Center for Financial Frictions

Ramona Westermann is an Associate Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Geneva and the Swiss Finance Institute. Her main research interest is corporate finance, in particular agency conflicts, corporate liquidity management, credit risk, capital structure, and investment. Ramona’s work is published in the Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science. One of her current projects investigates the effects of personal taxes on corporate liquidity management and received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Corporate Finance, Agency Conflicts, Corporate Liquidity, Capital Structure, Credit Risk, Investment
Advanced Corporate Finance (Ph.D. level), 2016, 2018, 2019
Corporate Finance (Graduate level), 2013, 2014, 2018
Corporate Finance (Graduate level), joint with K.M. Nielsen, 2019
“Measuring agency costs over the business cycle,” 2018, Management Science 64(12), 5748-5768
"Growth options, macroeconomic conditions, and the cross section of credit risk”, with M. Arnold and A.F. Wagner, 2013, Journal of Financial Economics, 107, 350–385.
In: Review of Finance, 9.9.2022
Paper presented at European Financial Management Association 2019 Annual Meetings, 2019
In: Management Science, Vol. 64, No. 12, 12.2018, p. 5748-5768
Paper presented at The 16th International Paris December Finance Meeting, 2018
Paper presented at The 28th Annual Conference of the Northern Finance Association. NFA 2016, 2016
St. Gallen : Universität St. Gallen 2015, 48 p. (SOF Working Paper, No. 2015/14)
In: Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 107, No. 2, 2.2013, p. 350–385
- Member of the panel “Economic Sciences” of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), since October 2019
- Assessment committee work for SDU in spring 2020 and fall 2020/2021