Finance Seminar: Isil Erel, Ohio State University

Isil Erel, Fisher College of Business

Isil Erel, Professor of Finance at Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, will deliver her talk on her research. Erel is the David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance and the academic director of the Risk Institute at the Fisher College of Business of the Ohio State University. She holds a PhD in financial economics from MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research spans a variety of areas within corporate finance, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and financial institutions. This research has been published in top finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.

Professor Erel is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)’s Corporate Finance program and a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). She also serves on the boards of the European Finance Association (EFA), Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics (FARFE), and the Risk Institute.

Professor Erel is the Executive Editor of the Review of Corporate Finance Studies. She is the 2010 recipient of the Pace Setters Faculty Research Award, the 2015 recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award, and 2020 recipient of the Recognition Award for significant out-of-classroom contributions at the Fisher College of Business. She also received the Distinguished Referee Award from the Review of Financial Studies in 2012. Professor Erel teaches Financial Institutions courses in both graduate and undergraduate programs at the Fisher College of Business.

Learn more about Isil Erel here.

Talk sponsored by the Mendoza College of Business Finance Department as part of the Eugene B. Clark Research Seminar Series. Free and open to the Mendoza and campus community. Contact Jun Yang for more details.