Arthur Korteweg
Jorge Paulo and Susanna Lemann Chair in Entrepreneurship, School of Business
Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics
University of Southern California
Disciplines: Business
Arthur Korteweg is a financial economist whose research interests include corporate finance, private equity, and alternative assets more generally. His corporate finance work aims to quantify the costs and benefits of leverage and the determinants of corporate capital structures. In his private equity research, Arthur focuses on investment decisions in alternative asset classes such as venture capital, leveraged buyout, real estate, and art. Arthur’s work has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies, and has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, and Forbes, amongst others. Prior to joining Marshall in 2014, Arthur was an Associate Professor of Finance at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. PhD, MBA, University of Chicago; MA, Tilburg University
Articles
Research shows that the best VCs take more equity, but can nearly double the value of the companies they invest in.