Arnoud W.A. Boot (born January 2, 1960 –

Huizen Huizen () is a municipality and a village in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. The name "Huizen" is Dutch for "houses" and this usage has been linked to the belief that the first stone houses in the region, instead of the more commo ...

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) is a Dutch

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

. He is a member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

since 2008 and its Social-Scientific Council. He serves as research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and as member of the Financial Economists Roundtable.

Academic work

His research focuses on

corporate finance Corporate finance is an area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of businesses, the actions that managers take to increase the Value investing, value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analy ...

and financial institutions and covers a wide range of related issues including

corporate governance Corporate governance refers to the mechanisms, processes, practices, and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated by their boards of directors, managers, shareholders, and stakeholders. Definitions "Corporate governance" may ...

, issues related to the regulation and structure of financial institutions, security design and

capital structure In corporate finance, capital structure refers to the mix of various forms of external funds, known as capital, used to finance a business. It consists of shareholders' equity, debt (borrowed funds), and preferred stock, and is detailed in the ...

. Special focus in his research goes out to relationship banking. He has written various books, among them the textbook ''Contemporary Financial Intermediation'', 2019; ''Handbook of Financial Intermediation and Banking'', 2008; ''Financiering en macht: van financiële structuur tot beheersstructuur'' (Finance and Power), 1997, and ''De ontwortelde onderneming: Ondernemingen overgeleverd aan financiers?'' (The Footloose Corporation), 2009.

Other positions present, past

Arnoud Boot started his career as a faculty member at the

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in the USA. In 2000-2001 he was a partner in the Finance and Strategy Practice at

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company (informally McKinsey or McK) is an American multinational strategy and management consulting firm that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. Founded in 1926 by James O. McKinse ...

. During 2011-2015 he was a member of the Inaugural Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). He was chairman of the Scientific Council at Bruegel, Brussels (2020-2024). He chaired th
European Finance Association
(EFA), (2016-2023) and was president of th
Financial Intermediation Research Society
(FIRS), (2012–2014). He was a crown member (Kroonlid) of the Dutch

Social Economic Council The Social and Economic Council (Dutch language, Dutch: ''Sociaal-Economische Raad'', SER) is a major economic advisory council to the cabinet of the Netherlands. Formally it heads a Publiekrechtelijke Bedrijfsorganisatie, system of sector-based ...

(SER), Chairman of the Royal Netherlands Economics Association and Chair of the Bank Council of the

Dutch Central Bank De Nederlandsche Bank (, , abbr. DNB) is the national central bank for the Netherlands within the Eurosystem. It was the Dutch central bank from 1814 to 1998, issuing the guilder. Since 2014, it has also been the country's national competent auth ...

(DNB). From 2013 through 2023 he was a council member of the Dutch

Scientific Council for Government Policy The Scientific Council for Government Policy ( Dutch: Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid, WRR) is an independent think tank of the Government of the Netherlands based in The Hague, whose members include prominent social scientists, e ...

(WRR). He is a member and former chair o
Sustainable Finance Lab
(SFL), an Utrecht-based initiative that stands for the financial and environmental sustainability. During 2014 he chaired a Dutch government committee that designed the new high school curriculum for

business economics Business economics is a field in applied economics which uses economic theory and quantitative methods to analyze business enterprises and the factors contributing to the diversity of organizational structures and the relationships of firms wit ...

(M&O).

Recognition

In 1998 he was awarded the Limperg Penning in recognition of contributions to business administration, and in 2011 the Pierson Penning, a once in three year recognition for contributions to economics. In 2010 he was featured in the HUMAN TV documentary De magie van de wetenschap. Arnoud Boot is since 2014 an honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Economic Association (KVS).
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boot, Arnoud 1960 births 21st-century Dutch economists Living people Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Huizen Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam