Dr. THOMAS G. O’CONNOR

Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting,
NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Phone: +353 1 7086667; Mobile: +353 860869229
Email: Thomas.g.oconnor@nuim.ie
Homepage: http://economics.nuim.ie/mfrg/index.html
Personal Webpage: http://sites.google.com/site/drthomasgoconnor/home
SSRN Page: http://ssrn.com/author=501938
IDEAS: http://ideas.repec.org/e/poc20.html

ACADEMIC POSTS

• 2008-Present Lecturer in Corporate Finance, Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, NUI Maynooth (NUIM), Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
• 2007-2008 Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, NUIM.
• 2005-2007 Contract Lecturer in Finance, Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting, NUIM.
• 2002-2005 Research Assistant (Maynooth Finance Research Group (MFRG)), Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, NUIM.

EDUCATION

• Ph. D Finance, 2002-2006, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
• M.A. Economics and Finance May 2002, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
• B.B.S. Business Studies, May 2001 University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

 
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS & INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS

1. Cross-Listing in the U.S. and Domestic Investor Protection. (2006). The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 46, 413-436.
• Cited in Karolyi, G.A. (2006). The World of Cross-Listings and Cross-Listings of the World: Challenging Conventional Wisdom. Review of Finance, 10, 99-152.
• Cited in Karolyi, G.A. (2010). Corporate Governance, Agency Problems and International Cross-Listings: A Defense of the Bonding Hypothesis. To appear in The Handbook of International Corporate Finance and Development, Elsevier Handbooks in Finance Series, Edited by V. Maksimovic and A. Demirguc-Kunt.
2. Is there a cross-listing premium for non-exchange traded depositary receipts? (2009) International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 25, 183-202.
• SSRN Top 10 Recent Downloaded Papers: Auctions, Rationing, Licensing, March 2010 and Firm Behaviour, Transaction Costs and Property Rights, March 2010.
• Cited in Karolyi, G.A. (2010). Corporate Governance, Agency Problems and International Cross-Listings: A Defense of the Bonding Hypothesis. To appear in The Handbook of International Corporate Finance and Development, Elsevier Handbooks in Finance Series, Edited by V. Maksimovic and A. Demirguc-Kunt.
3. Does cross-listing in the U.S. really enhance the value of emerging market firms? (2009). Review of Accounting and Finance, Vol. 8, Issue 3, 308-336.     
4. The valuation effects of cross listing abroad for Irish firms. (2009). Irish Accounting Review, 1, 55-87.  
• SSRN Top 10 Recent Downloaded Papers: Choices of External Regulatory Regime, Including Incorporation and Listing Decisions, March 2010.
5. The sequencing of stock market liberalization events and corporate financing decisions. (2010). With Tom Flavin, NUI Maynooth. Emerging Markets Review, 11, 183-204.  
• Lead Article.
6. Investability and firm value. (2011). With Todd Mitton, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA. European Financial Management (In Press).  
• SSRN Top 10 Recent Downloaded Papers: Investment and Capital Market Series, July 2009; Integration Series, January 2010; Other Macroeconomics Production and Investment Series, January 2010; Econometric Modelling in Microeconomics, March 2010.
7. Cross-Listing Behavior. (2011). With Kate Phylaktis, Cass Business School, University of London. To appear in Survey of International Finance, Oxford University Press. Edited by H. Kent Baker and Leigh Riddick. 
8. Are there permanent valuation gains from becoming investable? (2011). Banking & Finance Letters, Forthcoming. 
9. Financial development, internationalization and firm value. (2011). Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Vol. 10, Issue 1 (April), 21-71. 
• SSRN Top 10 Recent Downloaded Papers: Effects on Performance of Firms, January 2011; Other International Corporate Finance, March 2011.    

 
PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCES/DISCUSSANTS

Cross-Listing in the U.S. and Domestic Investor Protection
• Department of Economics, NUI Maynooth Internal Seminar, 2003.
• Money Macro Finance (MMF) Annual Conference 2004, Cass Business School, City of London University, London.
• 3rd INFINITI Conference on “Real and Financial Channels of Financial Integration”, hosted by IIIS Trinity College Dublin and the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2005. 

Does Cross-Listing in the U.S. really enhance value of emerging market firms?
• IIIS Miniconference on International Financial Integration, November 2004
• Emerging Markets Finance Conference 2005, Cass Business School, City of London University, London.
• Irish Accounting and Finance Annual Conference (IAFA), Limerick, 2005.
• Global Finance Conference hosted by IIIS, Trinity College Dublin, and the Journal of International Money and Finance, TCD 2005.

Is there a cross-listing premium for non-exchange traded depositary receipts?
• 5th INFINITI Conference hosted by IIIS Trinity College Dublin and Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 2007. 
• Discussant of “An iterative estimation method of global, country and sector effects”, by L’Her, Le Moigne, and Savaria (5th INFINITI Conference).

Investability and firm value
• 6th INFINITI Conference hosted by IIIS Trinity College Dublin and Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008.
• Discussant: “Taking the bad with the good: the volatility of foreign portfolio investment and access to finance of small listed firms” by April Knill (6th INFINITI Conference). 
• NUIM Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting PhD Meeting April 2008.

Why are Irish firms borrowing more?
• NUIM Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting PhD Meeting May 2008.

Investability and financing in emerging markets
• 7th INFINITI Conference hosted by IIIS Trinity College Dublin and Journal of Banking and Finance, 2009. 
• Discussant of “Financial reforms and capital flows to emerging Europe”, by Martin Schmitz (7th INFINITI Conference). 

The sequencing of equity market liberalization events and corporate financing decisions
• Mid Western Finance Association Annual Conference 2010, Las Vegas, USA. Presented by Tom Flavin (Co-Author), February 27th 2010.  

Undergraduate

• Introduction to Corporate Finance.
• Portfolio Theory and Analysis.
• Introduction to Capital Markets.

Postgraduate

• Corporate Finance.