Jan Starmans

Jan Starmans is an Associate Professor at the Department of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research interests lie in corporate finance, sustainable finance, contract theory, and search theory. He received his PhD in Finance from London Business School. He teaches the course “Sustainable Finance” in the Master in Finance program and the course “Theoretical Corporate Finance” in the PhD program.

Publications

Alvin Chen, Deeksha Gupta and Jan Starmans (2026). Sustainable Investing and Market Governance, Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming

Jan Starmans, Deeksha Gupta and Alexandr Kopytov (2026). The Pace of Change: Socially Responsible Investing in Private Markets, Review of Financial Studies, vol. 39, pp. 30-78

Jan Starmans (2024). Contracting and Search with Heterogeneous Principals and Agents, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 217

Jan Starmans (2023). Technological Determinants of Financial Constraints, Management Science, vol. 69, pp. 2547-3155

Jan Starmans and David Schoenherr (2022). When Should Bankruptcy Law Be Creditor- or Debtor-Friendly? Theory and Evidence. Journal of Finance, vol. 77, pp. 2669-2717

Working Papers

Dynamic Green Disclosure Requirements, with Deeksha Gupta

The Economics of Legal Uncertainty, with Jiwon Lee and David Schoenherr

Sustainable Organizations, with Thomas Geelen and Jakub Hajda