Jean-Marie Meier

Jean-Marie Meier
  • Visiting Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    2419 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall
    3620 Locust Walk
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: international corporate finance, innovation & technology transfer, bailouts & fire sales, mergers & acquisitions, CSR/ESG

Links: Personal Website, CV

Overview

Jean-Marie Meier is a visiting assistant professor of finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is on leave from the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is an assistant professor of finance. He was Finalist for the Jindal Faculty of the Year (Undergraduate) Award for the 2022/23 academic year. His paper “Improving the Measurement of Tax Residence: Implications for Research on Corporate Taxation” won the Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award at the SFS Cavalcade North America 2023. His main research interest is empirical studies in corporate finance. His work covers topics including international corporate finance, innovation & technology transfer, bailouts & fire sales, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate social responsibility/environmental, social, and corporate governance issues. His papers often touch upon more than one of these topics. He received a Ph.D. in Finance from London Business School and a MSc Finance and BSc Economics from the University of Mannheim in Germany. As an undergraduate and graduate student he was a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation.

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Past Courses

  • FNCE2380 - Capital Markets

    The objective of this course is to give you a broad understanding of the framework and evolution of U.S. capital markets, the instruments that are traded, the mechanisms that facilitate their trading and issuance, and the motivations of issuers and investors across different asset classes. The course will highlight the problems that capital market participants are seeking to solve, which you can use in your post-Wharton careers to evaluate future market innovations. We will consider design, issuance, and pricing of financial instruments, the arbitrage strategies which keep their prices in-line with one another and the associated economic and financial stability issues. We will draw from events in the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, which illustrate financing innovations and associated risks, as well as policy responses that can change the nature of these markets. In addition to course prerequisites, FNCE 1010 is recommended.

  • FNCE7380 - Capital Markets

    The objective of this course is to give you a broad understanding of the instruments traded in modern financial markets, the mechanisms that facilitate their trading and issuance, as well as, the motivations of issuers and investors across different asset classes. The course will balance functional and institutional perspectives by highlighting the problems capital markets participants are seeking to solve, as well as, the existing assets and markets which have arisen to accomplish these goals. We will consider design, issuance, and pricing of financial instruments, the arbitrage strategies which keep their prices in-line with one another, and the associated economic and financial stability issues. The course is taught in lecture format, and illustrates key concepts by drawing on a collection of case studies and visits from industry experts. FNCE 6130 is recommended but not required.

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