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Gustav Martinsson

Gustav Martinsson is Associate Professor in Financial Economics at Stockholm University. Martinsson is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) and Project Manager of the Governance research group at Mistra Financial Systems (MFS).
Martinsson obtained his doctoral degree in 2010 at KTH. He joined the Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) in 2010 as a post doc researcher. In 2011, Martinsson was awarded a three-year Wallander post-doc scholarship. Martinsson has been Visiting Research Fellow at SHoF since its inception in 2011.
Martinsson’s research interests lie in Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Finance and Growth. His current research focuses on (i) government policy and access to finance in entrepreneurial firms, (ii) financing of corporate innovation and productivity, and (iii) cost of capital and sustainable development.
Martinsson has taught courses on corporate finance and financial intermediation, at Stockholm School of Economics and he taught corporate finance at the industrial economics engineer program at KTH.
Martinsson has served as part-time secretary at the Corporate Tax Rate Commission 2011-2014 (Government Commission under Ministry of Finance) and as expert in the Incentive-Pay Commission 2014-2016 (Government Commission under Ministry of Finance).

Education: PhD in Economics, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH

 

Publications

Gustav Martinsson, James R. Brown and Bruce C. Petersen (2022). The Growth of Finance Is Not Remarkable, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming

Christian Thomann, James R. Brown and Gustav Martinsson (2021). Can Environmental Policy Encourage Technical Change? Emissions Taxes and R&D Investment in Polluting Firms. Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming

Christian Thomann, James R. Brown and Gustav Martinsson (2021). Government Lending in a Crisis. Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming

Gustav Martinsson and James R. Brown (2019). Does Transparency Stifle or Facilitate Innovation?. Management Science, vol. 65, pp. 1455-1947

James R. Brown, Gustav Martinsson and Bruce C. Petersen (2016). Stock Markets, Credit Markets, and Technology-Led Growth . Journal of Financial Intermediation, vol 32, pp. 45-59

Gustav Martinsson, James R. Brown and Bruce C. Petersen (2013). Law, Stock Markets, and Innovation. Journal of Finance, vol. 68, pp. 1517-1549

Gustav Martinsson, James R. Brown and Bruce C. Petersen (2012). Do Financing Constraints Matter for R&D? New Tests and Evidence. European Economic Review. vol 56, pp. 1512-1529

Contact information

Associate Professor, visiting from Stockholm University

gustav.martinsson@hhs.se

Website

Fields of research

Corporate finance, governance

Financial intermediation and institutions

International finance

Executive summaries

Trading Fast and Slow: Colocation and Liquidity

How to design an effective carbon tax with Per Strömberg (SHoF) and Gustav Martinsson (KTH)
Strong link between high emissions taxes and investments in research and development

15/02/2022

New publication in the Review of Financial Studies by SHoF researchers: Investigating the correlation between pollution taxes and R&D investment by polluting companies, experts from the US and Sweden say that rather than employing R&D expenditure to launch new innovation, such firms use it to improve their ability to use and assimilate external knowledge.

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