Johanna Palmberg
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Biography
Johanna Palmberg is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS). Johanna started the PhD program in March 2006. Her research interests relates to corporate governance, corporate finance, theories of the firm and entrepreneurship. Johanna is also a member of CeFEO – Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership and is closely related to The Ratio Institute. During her time as a PhD candidate Johanna has been a visiting scholar at George Mason University, Fairfax, US (spring 2008) and at University of Vienna, Austria (spring 2009).
Research
Johanna’s dissertation is within the field of corporate governance. The aim is to study ownership effects on performance in Scandinavian firms. A majority of all firms are owned or/and controlled by a family. This makes family firms important to the economic development. It also makes the analysis of families as owners to an important research question. The dissertation examines effects of the family as an owner on capital allocation, entrepreneurship, investment performance, executive compensation and board structure.