Albers Finance Professors' research on SPACs published in Columbia Law School blog on corporations and capital markets

Albers Finance Department professors Bo Han and Ekaterina Emm recently co-authored a research paper on special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) with Monmouth University's Bochen Li. 

Cross-Border Acquisitions: The Case of SPACs was featured in Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets. The study had been published by the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal in June.

Study findings show that out of 537 US SPACs that completed mergers from 2003-2022, 133 acquired foreign targets, nearly one in four of these SPAC deals. The authors examine the opportunities and challenges presented by such a move and distinctions between deals involving domestic and foreign targets at different stages of the process.

Separately, Han's paper, Global Bonds Redux: An Emerging Market Perspective co-authored with Bonnie Buchanan of the University of Surrey, is a semi-finalist for the best paper award at the 2024 FMA (Financial Management Association) Annual Meeting.