Cara Vansteenkiste Room 338, School of Banking & Finance, UNSW , UNSW, Sydney 2052 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://sites.google.com/view/cvansteenkiste Phone: +61 2 9385 5709 This version: February, 2020

Academic Position

2018 – Present UNSW Business School, UNSW Lecturer in Finance

Education

2014 – 2018 Tilburg University Ph.D. in Finance

Jan. – April 2016: Harvard University - Visiting Researcher at John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business.

2013 – 2014 Tilburg University Research Master in Finance (Cum Laude)

2012 – 2013 University of M.Sc. in Business Economics: Accountancy & Finance (Summa Cum Laude)

2009 – 2012 University of Leuven B.Sc. in Business Economics: Business Strategy, Accountancy & Finance (Summa Cum Laude)

Sept. – Dec. 2011: Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia - Exchange Program

Research Interests

Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility

Publications

Creditor Rights, Claims Enforcement, and Bond Returns in Mergers and Acquisitions (with Peter Szilagyi and Luc Renneboog), 2017, Journal of International Business Studies 48(2), 174- 194.

Leveraged Buyouts: Motives and Sources of Value (with Luc Renneboog), 2017, Annals of Corporate Governance 2(4), 291-389.

Failure and Success in Mergers and Acquisitions (with Luc Renneboog), 2019, Journal of Corporate Finance 58, 650-699.

Cross-Border Acquisitions and Employment Policies (with Hao Liang and Luc Renneboog), 2020, Journal of Corporate Finance 62, 1015-75.

Working Papers

Disaster Relief, Inc. (with Hao Liang)

Try Before You Buy: Two-Stage Acquisitions and M&A Outcomes

Best Paper Award at FIRN Women Conference (2019) Best PhD Student Paper at the 5th ECGC Workshop on Governance and Control (2018)

Elective Stock and Scrip Dividends (with Isabel Feito-Ruiz and Luc Renneboog)

Book Chapters

Public-to-Private Leveraged Buyouts (with Luc Renneboog), 2018, The Routledge Companion to Management Buyouts, Ed: M. Wright, D. Siegel, K. Amess, N. Bacon. New York, NY: Routledge.

Conferences and Presentations

2019 FIRN Women Conference, FMA Europe, 27th Spanish Finance Forum Conference*, EFMA*

2018 Copenhagen Business School, Rotterdam School of Management, University of Western Australia, Queensland University of Technology, University of New South Wales, , ECGC Workshop on Governance and Control (Lille), 3rd Cass MARC Conference*, 15th Corporate Finance Day (Antwerp)*, FIRN Brisbane, 13th Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM), 31st Australasian Banking and Finance Conference

2017 ECGI Global Corporate Governance Colloquia 2017 (Tokyo), Tilburg University, Asian Finance Association Conference*, KU Leuven

2016 Harvard Law School, MIT Sloan School of Management, Boston University, Tilburg University, Cass Business School*, Singapore Management University*, Hong Kong University*, 14th Corporate Finance Day (Antwerp), HEC PhD Workshop, Indonesian Financial Management Association 2016 International Conference*

2015 Tilburg University, IFABS 2015 Oxford Conference, 13th Corporate Finance Day at Vlerick Business School ()

* indicates presentation by co-author

Teaching

UNSW International Business Finance (undergraduate, 2019) International Corporate Finance (postgraduate, 2019)

Tilburg University Finance 1 for Business Economics (undergraduate, 2015) Finance 2 for Business Economics (undergraduate, 2015) Bachelor thesis supervision (2015; 2017; 2018) Academic Competences in Finance (pre-master, 2015, 2016)

Grants and Honors

2018 UNSW Business School SRG Grant ($10,000) 2016 AFA Doctoral Student Travel Grant 2013 Finalist ING Thesis Award 2013 Tilburg CentER Graduate School Koopmans Scholarship 2013 KU Leuven AFI Thesis Award for Master Thesis in Finance

Service and Engagement

Refereeing Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, British Journal of Management, Abacus, Managerial Finance

School Service Shortlisting BankFin COOP program (2019), tutor allocations (2020)

Other Skills

Language: Dutch (native), English (fluent), French (working knowledge), German (basic) Software: Stata, R

References

Luc Renneboog Alberto Manconi Professor of Corporate Finance Assistant Professor of Finance Tilburg University, The Netherlands Bocconi University, Italy E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: +31 13 466 8210 Telephone: +39 02 58362723

Hao Liang Christoph Schneider Assistant Professor of Finance Assistant Professor of Finance Singapore Management University, Singapore Tilburg University, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: +65 6828 0662 Telephone: +31 13 466 4673