Biography
Mathijs A. van Dijk (see personal website for recent working papers, data, etc.) is professor of finance at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and scientific director at pension think tank Netspar. His research focuses on sustainable investments and climate finance. He has published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Review of Finance. Professor van Dijk has presented his work extensively at international conferences and seminars at academic institutions including, among others, Boston College, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, HEC Paris, INSEAD, and UCLA. He is also a frequent speaker at industry events and has written for practitioner-oriented journals such as the Financial Analysts Journal. His work has been covered by, e.g., The Economist, the New York Times, Volkskrant, NRC, VOXEU, the World Bank "All About Finance" blog, the Oxford Business Law Blog, and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. Professor van Dijk has been a visiting graduate student at Warwick Business School and Princeton University and a visiting research scholar at the Ohio State University, Duke University, and UCLA. He obtained his MSc in Econometrics (cum laude) from Erasmus University and his PhD in Finance from Maastricht University. In 2008, he received a 600,000 euro Vidi-grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a five-year research program on "Liquidity Black Holes". In 2014, he held his inaugural address as a finance professor (entitled “The Social Value of Finance”).
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- madijk@rsm.nl
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Work
- Gianfranco Gianfrate, Mirco Rubin, Dario Ruzzi & Mathijs van Dijk (2024) - On the resilience of ESG firms during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence across countries and asset classes - Journal of International Business Studies, 55 (8), 1069-1084 - doi: 10.1057/s41267-024-00718-2 - [link]
- Mathijs van Dijk, Albert J. Menkveld, Anna Dreber, Felix Holzmeister, Juergen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Sebastian Neususs, Michael Razen, Wolf Wagner, Patrick Verwijmeren, Sebastian Vogel, Michel van der Wel, Francesco Mazzola, Antti Yang & Chen Zhou (2024) - Non-Standard Errors* - Journal of Finance - doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3961574 - [link]
- Thorsten Beck, Robin Döttling, Thomas Lambert & Mathijs van Dijk (2023) - Liquidity creation, investment, and growth - Journal of Economic Growth, 28 (2), 297-336 - doi: 10.1007/s10887-022-09217-1 - [link]
- Henk Jan Reinders, Dirk Schoenmaker & Mathijs van Dijk (2023) - A finance approach to climate stress testing - Journal of International Money and Finance, 131 - doi: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2022.102797 - [link]
- Dominik M. Rösch, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam & Mathijs A. van Dijk (2022) - Investor short-termism and real investment - Journal of Financial Markets, 59 - doi: 10.1016/j.finmar.2021.100645 - [link]
- Dion Bongaerts, Richard Roll, Dominik Rösch, Mathijs van Dijk & Darya Yuferova (2022) - How Do Shocks Arise and Spread Across Stock Markets? A Microstructure Perspective: A microstructure perspective - Management Science, 68 (4), 2377-3174, iv-v - doi: 10.1287/mnsc.2021.3979 - [link]
- DGJ (Dion) Bongaerts, Xiaowei Kang & Mathijs Dijk (2020) - Conditional Volatility Targeting - Financial Analysts Journal, 76 (4), 54-71 - doi: 10.1080/0015198X.2020.1790853 - [link]
- Mathijs Dijk, HP van Dalen & M Hyde (2020) - Who Bears the Brunt? The Impact of Banking Crises on Younger and Older Workers - Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 17 - doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2020.100264 - [link]
- K Hou & Mathijs Dijk (2019) - Resurrecting the Size Effect: Firm Size, Profitability Shocks, and Expected Stock Returns - The Review of Financial Studies, 32 (7), 2850-2889 - doi: 10.1093/rfs/hhy104 - [link]
- Rogier Hanselaar, RM Stulz & Mathijs Dijk (2018) - Do Firms Issue More Equity When Markets Become More Liquid? - Journal of Financial Economics, 133 (1), 64-82 - doi: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.12.004 - [link]
- Yvonne van Everdingen, Dirk Schoenmaker & Mathijs van Dijk (12 juli 2023) - RSM projects receive conditional €multi-million grants from Dutch Nationaal Groeifonds
- Mathijs van Dijk (2 december 2020) - Investors should always strive to understand observed performance
- Robin Dottling, Thomas Lambert & Mathijs van Dijk (2 juli 2020) - How banks affect investment and growth: New evidence
- Mathijs van Dijk (15 april 2020) - How Bad Will European Economies Get? Key Challenges For Each Country
PGGM Vermogensbeheer
- Start date approval
- juni 2022
- End date approval
- juni 2025
- Place
- ZEIST
- Description
- Member of the Academic Review Board
SPO (Stichting Pensioen Opleidingen)
- Start date approval
- juni 2022
- End date approval
- juni 2025
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- Lid, Actualiteiten Agenda
Stichting Pensioenfonds ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
- Start date approval
- juli 2023
- End date approval
- juni 2026
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- External member of the investment committee
Stichting Pensioenfonds ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
- Start date approval
- juli 2024
- End date approval
- juni 2027
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- External member of the investment committee
Investments
- Year Level
- master, IM/CEMS, Exchange, ERIM
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM01FI