Faculty Profile

Chris Veld

Adjunct Professor
PhD Business Administration; Master of Financial Economics (with honors), TIAS School of Banking and Finance; PhD Finance, Tilburg University (The Netherlands).

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Biography

Chris Veld joined the Beedie School of Business at SFU in 2004 from Tilburg University in the Netherlands, where he held a variety of positions after earning his PhD in 1992. He has also held visiting positions at McGill University in Montreal and York University in Toronto.

Chris has a keen research interest in empirical corporate finance, examining why companies issue convertible bonds, pay dividends and spin off divisions. He is also interested in the ways in which investors perceive risk.

Chris was attracted to the Beedie School of Business at SFU because of the finance area’s excellent reputation and because, he says, “Vancouver is simply the best city in the world to live in.” He looks forward to regularly attending Vancouver Canucks’ hockey games.

Specialization and Research Interests

Corporate finance and investments; treasury management; options and futures.

Selected Publications

De Roon, Frans, Nijman, Theo and Veld, Chris: "Hedging pressure effects in futures markets", The Journal of Finance, June 2000, page 1437-1456.

Veld, Chris: "Warrant pricing: a review of empirical research", The European Journal of Finance, 2003, page 61-91.

Veld, Chris: "Analysis of a practical formula for the valuation of employee stock options", Applied Economics Letters, 2003, page 205-208.

Veld, Chris and Veld-Merkoulova, Yulia V.: “Do spin-offs really create value? The European case”, Journal of Banking and Finance, 2004, page 1111-1135.

Dong, Ming, Robinson, Chris and Veld, Chris: “Why individual investors want dividends”, Journal of Corporate Finance (forthcoming), 2004.

Working Papers

Ter Horst, Jenke and Veld, Chris: “An empirical analysis of the pricing of bank issued options versus options exchange options”.

Robinson, Chris and Veld, Chris: "Tax facilitated savings for retirement: a comparison between Canada and the Netherlands".

Szymanowska, Marta, Ter Horst, Jenke and Veld, Chris: “An empirical analysis of the pricing of Dutch reverse convertible bonds”.

Veld, Chris and Veld-Merkoulova, Yulia V.: “Risk preferences of individual investors”.