Postdoctoral Researcher
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kaserer
Chair of Financial Management and Capital Markets

Arcisstr. 21
D-80333 Munich
+49-89-289-25179
daniel.urban [at] tum.de

I will start as an assistant professor of finance at
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in fall 2018

CV   SSRN   

The economic consequences of a "glass-ceiling": Women on corporate boards and firm value, job market paper, with Thomas Schmid
AFA 2016, FIRS 2016, SGF 2016, VHB 2016, Paris December Meeting 2015
VHB Annual Meeting 2016, Best Practice Paper Award

Index membership and capital structure: International evidence, with Vidhan K. Goyal and Wenting Zhao
FIRS 2017, China International Conference in Finance 2017, FMA 2017, SGF 2017, FMA Europe 2017, Asian Finance Association Annual Meeting 2017
FMA 2017 and FMA Europe 2017, semi-finalist best paper award

Does board size matter?, with Dirk Jenter and Thomas Schmid
AFA 2019, 2018 SFS Cavalcade North America, 2018 CEPR Symposium

The effects of culture on CEO power: International evidence from executive turnover
SGF 2016, FMA Europe 2016, VHB 2016

The balance of power between creditors and the firm: Evidence from German Insolvency Law, with Frédéric Closset
FMA Europe 2017, SGF 2018

Busy directors with distant board positions: Superstar directors or lost in translation?, with Marc Steffen Rapp and Thomas Schmid
FMA Europe 2017, DGF 2017, World Finance Conference 2017, IFABS 2015

Finance conference quality and publication success: A conference ranking, with Sebastian J. Reinartz
Journal of Empirical Finance, 42, 155-174, 2017

The value of financial flexibility and corporate financial policy, with Marc Steffen Rapp and Thomas Schmid
Journal of Corporate Finance, 29, 288-302, 2014

Did UEFA's Financial Fair Play harm competition in European football leagues?, with Stephan Birkhäuser and Christoph Kaserer
Review of Managerial Science, forthcoming