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Van Berkom Chair

Van Berkom Chair

In the Van Berkom Chair section, Lorne N. Switzer, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Research, Professor of Finance and Van Berkom Endowed Chair of Small Cap Equities, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal and Associate Director, Institute for Governance in Private and Public Organizations has made available all research publications that have been undertaken under the Van Berkom Chair.

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The Value of Private Information in Investment Research: Do Company Site Visits Affect the Trading Patterns and Performance of Professional Investors?

Lorne N. Switzer and Mariane Keushgerian

Finance Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Management Quality and Operating Performance: Evidence for Canadian IPOs

Lorne N. Switzer and Jean-François Bourdon

International Journal of Business

Shareholder interests vs board of director members' interests and company performance: A new look

Lorne N. Switzer

Review of Accounting and Finance

The behaviour of small cap vs. large cap stocks in recessions and recoveries: Empirical evidence for the United States and Canada

Lorne N. Switzer

North American Journal of Economics and Finance

The Impact of Corporate Governance on the Performance of U.S. Small-Cap Firms

Lorne N. Switzer and Mingjun Tang

International Journal of Business

Equity Risk Premium - What is the Current Evidence?

Lorne N. Switzer

Journal of Business Valuation

Corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley, and small-cap firm performance

Lorne N. Switzer

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Equity-style timing: A multi-style rotation model for the Russell large-cap and
small-cap growth and value style indexes

Bala G. Arshanapalli, Lorne N. Switzer, and Karim Panju

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.

Spanning Tests for Replicable Small-Cap Indexes as Separate Asset Classes

Lorne N. Switzer and Haibo Fan

Corporate governance mechanisms and the performance of small-cap firms in Canada

Lorne N. Switzer and Catherine Kelly

Inderscience Enterprises

Multiple Benchmark Portfolio Spanning Tests for Small Cap Indexes as Separate Asset Classes and Implication for Strategic Asset Allocation

Lorne N. Switzer and Haibo Fan

La Revue du Financier