Jean-Marie Meier

Jean-Marie Meier
  • Visiting Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    2419 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall
    3620 Locust Walk
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: international corporate finance, innovation & technology transfer, bailouts & fire sales, mergers & acquisitions, CSR/ESG

Links: Personal Website, CV

Overview

Jean-Marie Meier is a visiting assistant professor of finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is on leave from the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is an assistant professor of finance. He was Finalist for the Jindal Faculty of the Year (Undergraduate) Award for the 2022/23 academic year. His paper “Improving the Measurement of Tax Residence: Implications for Research on Corporate Taxation” won the Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award at the SFS Cavalcade North America 2023. His main research interest is empirical studies in corporate finance. His work covers topics including international corporate finance, innovation & technology transfer, bailouts & fire sales, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate social responsibility/environmental, social, and corporate governance issues. His papers often touch upon more than one of these topics. He received a Ph.D. in Finance from London Business School and a MSc Finance and BSc Economics from the University of Mannheim in Germany. As an undergraduate and graduate student he was a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation.

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