Johan Eklund

Professor Economics
Economics , Jönköping International Business School
CeFEO - Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership , Jönköping International Business School
PhD in Economics

Biography

Johan is Professor in Economics at Jönköping International Business School. Johan is also Managing Director at the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and affiliated affiliated Research Fellow at Center for Excellence in Science and Innovations Studies (CESIS) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Research

Johan's research focuses on the linkages between corporate governance systems and capital markets. How the corporate governance system distributes rights and obligations among corporate stakeholders, such as banks, owners, investors et cetera, will affect the way in which the capital markets function and operates. In particular Johan studies how ownership structure and composition is affected by control mechanisms such as dual-class shares and how this in turn affects investment decisions and firm performance. These mechanisms are often crucial for maintaining and transferring family control of firms. With in this area can be mentioned the two most recent articles. Johan has coauthored one article that is forthcoming in Applied Financial Economics and one article that has been published in The Journal of the Swedish Economic Association, Ekonomisk Debatt.