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Employee Profile

Loreta Rapushi

Associate Professor - Campus Bergen

Department of Finance

Biography

I earned my Ph.D. from the Norwegian School of Economics in 2020. My research interests lie in the area of corporate finance. My main work focuses on empirical capital market research and corporate financial reporting.

Publications

Kisser, Michael & Rapushi, Loreta (2022)

Equity issues, creditor control and market timing patterns: Evidence from leverage decreasing recapitalizations

Journal of Empirical Finance, 67, s. 196- 216. Doi: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2022.03.007

We contribute to the literature on “market timing” by exploring periods of simultaneous equity issues and debt retirements (a leverage decreasing recapitalization, LDR). Contrary to traditional equity issues, LDRs are predicted by measures of creditor control whereas capital investment has no such predictive power. Nevertheless, LDRs occur after stock price run- ups and in periods of high valuation which subsequently decrease. The valuation dynamics are robust and also obtain for subsamples of LDR firms violating financial covenants. A comparison to debt retirements financed by illiquid asset sales and an analysis of discretionary cost items further corroborates the interpretation that LDR firms successfully “time the market” to finance the debt retirement.

Rapushi, Loreta & Axenrod, Michael (2022)

Corporate Social Responsibility dynamics: exploring the role of securities litigation.

[Academic lecture]. Seminar.

Rapushi, Loreta & Pugliese, Amedeo (2022)

Earnings Management around Seasoned Equity Offerings: evidence from non-investment accruals.

[Academic lecture]. Norwegian School of Economics.

Kisser, Michael & Rapushi, Loreta (2021)

Equity Issues, Creditor Control and Market Timing Patterns: Evidence from Leverage Decreasing Recapitalizations

[Report]. SSRN.

Kisser, Michael & Rapushi, Loreta (2020)

Equity Issues, Creditor Control and Market Timing Patterns: Evidence from Leverage Decreasing Recapitalizations

[Academic lecture]. Financial Management Association, Annual Meeting.

Kisser, Michael & Rapushi, Loreta (2020)

Equity Issues, Creditor Control and Market Timing Patterns: Evidence From Leverage Decreasing Recapitalizations

[Academic lecture]. Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association.

Kisser, Michael & Rapushi, Loreta (2020)

Equity Issues, Creditor Control and Market Timing Patterns: Evidence From Leverage Decreasing Recapitalizations

[Report]. SSRN.

Kisser, Michael & Rapushi, Loreta (2019)

Equity issues, creditor control and market timing patterns: evidence from leverage decreasing recapitalizations

[Academic lecture]. Northeast Region Meeting of the American Accounting Association.

Kisser, Michael & Rapushi, Loreta (2018)

Finding market timing patterns when they are unlikely to exist

[Report]. Norges Handelshøyskole.

Academic Degrees
Year Academic Department Degree
2020 Norwegian School of Economics PhD

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