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Michael S. Weisbach

Business, Management and Accounting · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1988
Corporate Finance and GovernancePrivate Equity and Venture CapitalBanking stability, regulation, efficiencyFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesAuditing, Earnings Management, Governance

Publications

237

Citations

33,298

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

39

Publishing since 1988

Research summary
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Michael S. Weisbach studies corporate finance topics such as private equity and venture capital, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and how firms make investment and financing decisions under risk and uncertainty. His recent work looks specifically at private equity fund structures, corporate boards and director incentives, cross-border M&A, and infrastructure privatization. This research relies on empirical analysis of financial data, using methods like textual analysis and machine learning applied to large datasets.

Private equity and venture capitalCorporate governance and boards of directorsMergers and acquisitionsCorporate investment and financing decisionsRisk and returns in alternative asset funds

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, peaking in 2021 and 2017, but has been slowing in recent years, averaging under 4 papers annually over the last five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.8/year recently
2017: 15 publications172018: 7 publications182019: 9 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 22 publications22212022: 6 publications222023: 4 publications232024: 5 publications242025: 3 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×32
  • National Bureau of Economic Research×21
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics×6
  • Review of Financial Studies×4
  • Princeton University Press eBooks×4
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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