Prof. RNDr. Jan Hanousek, CSc., DSc.
Professor of Corporate Finance at Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic, and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Asental Group and Economia, a.s.
Jan Hanousek, Ph.D., is a Professor of Corporate Finance at Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic, and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Asental Group and Economia, a.s.
His research interests include corporate finance, applied finance, and economics/econometrics, while his teaching includes various topics from corporate finance, statistics, econometrics, and applied economics. Professor Hanousek has published in the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Review of International Economics, European Economic Review, Economics of Transition, Journal of Comparative Economics, and other specialized journals. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and was a visiting professor and research fellow at various prestigious universities, including Princeton University and the University of Michigan. He has a Ph.D. in statistics from Charles University and an undergraduate degree in probability theory from Charles University.
Selected journal articles (last 5 years)
Hanousek Jr, J., Flannery, M. J., Ferris, S. P., Hanousek, J., & Kapounek, S. (2025). The “Cinderella” effect in business groups: Choosing which subsidiary is the princess. International Review of Financial Analysis, 104649.
Estrin, S., Hanousek, J., & Shamshur, A. (2024). Does it matter who owns firms? Evidence on the impact of supermajority control on private firms in Europe. International Review of Financial Analysis, 95, 103427.
Flannery, M., Hanousek, J., Shamshur, A., & Tresl, J. (2023). M&A Activity and the Capital Structure of Target Firms. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 58(5), 2064-2095. https://doi:10.1017/S0022109022000436
Brockman, P., Hanousek, J., Tresl, J., & Unlu, E. (2022). Dividend Smoothing and Firm Valuation. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 57(4), 1621-1647. https://doi:10.1017/S0022109021000673
Ferris, S., Hanousek, J., & Houston, R. (2021). Contractor default: Predictions, politics, and penalties in the procurement process. Ann Public Coop Econ. 2021; 1– 39. https://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12359
Jan Hanousek, Anastasiya Shamshur, Jan Svejnar, and Jiri Tresl, 2021. FDI and Domestic Investment, Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan; Academy of International Business, vol. 52(9), pages 1750-1774, December, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-021-00447-w.
Matěj Bělín & Jan Hanousek (2021) SFA robustness to violated distributional assumptions: theory, simulations and empirical evidence, Applied Economics, 53:39, 4544-4559, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1904124
Matěj Bělín, Jan Hanousek, 2021. Which sanctions matter? Analysis of the EU/Russian sanctions of 2014, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, vol. 49(1), pages 244-257., ISSN 0147-5967,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2020.07.001.
Stephen P. Ferris, Jan Hanousek, Jiri Tresl, 2021, Corporate profitability and the global persistence of corruption, Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 66, 2021, 101855, ISSN 0929-1199, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101855.
Jan Hanousek, Anastasiya Shamshur, Jiri Tresl, 2019. Firm efficiency, foreign ownership and CEO gender in corrupt environments, Journal of Corporate Finance, 59, pages 344-360, ISSN 0929-1199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.06.008.
Lichard, T., Hanousek, J. & Filer, R.K. (2019). Hidden in plain sight: using household data to measure the shadow economy, Empirical Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-019-01797-z
Randall K. Filer & Jan Hanousek & Tomáš Lichard & Karine Torosyan, 2019. "‘Flattening’ tax evasion? : Evidence from the post‐communist natural experiment," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 27(1), pages 223-246, January. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12189
Jaromír Antoch, Jan Hanousek, Lajos Horváth, Marie Hušková & Shixuan Wang (2018): Structural breaks in panel data: Large number of panels and short length time series, Econometric Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1080/07474938.2018.1454378
Stephen P. Ferris, Jan Hanousek, Anastasiya Shamshur, Jiri Tresl, 2018. Asymmetries in the Firm's use of debt to changing market values, Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 48, February 2018, Pages 542-555, ISSN 0929-1199, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.12.006.