Professor Glenn Boyle
Position
Professor
Qualifications
MA (Economics) (University of Canterbury) 1982 Ph.D. (Finance) (University of Texas) 1987
Room
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364
3479
Internal Phone: 3479
Email:
glenn.boyle@canterbury.ac.nz
Fax: +64-3-3642635
Postal address:
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Background
Professor Boyle joined the University of Canterbury in December 2008, having previously been professor of finance at Otago University (1991-2004), and executive director of the NZ Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation (2004-2008). In addition to his position at Canterbury, Glenn is co-chair of the Australia-New Zealand Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, a director of consulting firm Sapere Research Group, and a lay member of the NZ High Court.
Undergraduate Courses
FINC 331-S2 Financial Economics
Graduate Courses
FINC 603-S2 Portfolio Theory | FINC 601 - Advanced Corporate Finance
Research Interests
- Financial incentives and agency problems
- Corporate governance and executive compensation
- Real options
- Corporate Finance
- Animal Economics
Current Projects
"NZ corporate boards in transition: composition, activity and incentives between 1995 and 2010"
"CEO Board and Involvement and Compensation: A Puzzle"
"Is better information always better? Evidence from auction markets"
"Are bureaucrats really paid like bureaucrats?"
Selected Recent Publications
"Holding Onto Your Horses: Conflicts of Interest in Asset Management"; (with Graeme Guthrie and Luke Gorton). Journal of Law and Economics, Vol 54, November 2010, 701-702.
"Pay Peanuts and Get Monkeys? Evidence from Academia" The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, vol. 8, Issue 1, 2008, Article 21 (Contributions), 1-24.
"Hedging the Value of Waiting", with Graeme Guthrie, Journal of Banking and Finance Vol. 30, April 2006, pages 1245-1267.
"Human Capital and Popular Investment Advice", with Graeme Guthrie, Review of Finance Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2005, pages 139-164.
"Investment, Uncertainty and Liquidity", with Graeme Guthrie, Journal of Finance, Vol. 58, October 2003, pages 2143-2166.
Opinion Pieces
Some thoughts on the Tony Marryatt pay saga
Economics after the global financial crisis
Animal economics
The unequal consequences of ‘fairness’ in academic salaries