Contact Info:
Associate Professor of Finance
Iowa Bankers Association Fellow
3224 Gerdin Business Building
Ames, IA 50011-1350
Email: ginka ‘at’ iastate.edu
(515) 294-3709
Research Interests:
Asset Sales
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
Government Ownership
International Finance
Privatization
Refereed Publications:
CEO Compensation and Government Ownership, Corporate Governance: An International Review, 27 (2019), 120-143, with Jesus M. Salas and Andrey Zagorchev.
Government Ownership, Informed Trading, and Private Information, Journal of Corporate Finance, 33 (2015), 196-211, with Pradeep K. Yadav.
Government Ownership and the Cost of Debt: Evidence from Government Investments in Publicly Traded Firms, Journal of Financial Economics, 118 (2015), 168-191, with Veljko Fotak, Kateryna Holland, and William L. Megginson.
Government Asset Sales, Economic Nationalism, and Acquirer Performance, Journal of Corporate Finance, 29 (2014), 351-368, with Arnold R. Cowan.
The Value of Financing through Cross-Border Asset Sales: Shareholder Returns and Liquidity, Journal of Corporate Finance, 22 (2013), 320-344, with Kose John and Valentina Salotti.
R&D Sensitivity to Asset Sale Proceeds: New Evidence on Financing Constraints and Intangible Investment, Journal of Banking & Finance, 37 (2013), 159-173, with James R. Brown.
Government Ownership and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the EU, Journal of Banking & Finance, 36 (2012), 2917-2934, with Paul Brockman, Jesus M. Salas, and Andrey Zagorchev.
Does Government Ownership Affect the Cost of Debt? Evidence from Privatization, Review of Financial Studies, 24 (2011), 2693-2737, with William L. Megginson.
The Phenomenon of Privatization: A Comparative Analysis, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 10 (2008), 445-462, with Matthew Ingram and William L. Megginson.
Other Publications:
Leaving the Nest: Privatized Firms and Debt Financing, The Privatization Barometer Report 2011, 40-45.
From Plan to Market: The Global Privatisation Experience, Towards 2015: Millennium Development and Policy Imperative for South Africa and the SADC Region, with William L. Megginson (Conference Proceedings Book, Wits University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006).