Empirical Studies on Financial Intermediation and Corporate Policies

textabstractPetra Danisevska was born in Pardubice, the Czech Republic, in 1975. From 1993 till 1999 she studied financial economics at the University of Economics in Prague. During this time she spent half a year as an exchange student at the University of Plymouth in the U.K. She furthermore completed an internship on initial public offerings in the research department of the ING Investment Management in The Hague. From 1997 till October 1999 she worked as an analyst in the reporting and planning department of the Nationale Nederlanden in Prague. In 1999, she graduated with major in financial economics and minor in European economic integration. Petra Danisevska joined the Department of Financial Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam as a Ph.D. student in November 1999. Since May 2004 she has been working as an analyst in the Mortgage Finance and Asset Securitization Department of NIBCapital in The Hague.