Mathias Jan Anders Kronlund

Mathias Jan Anders Kronlund serves as an Associate Professor of Finance at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois. His research focuses on corporate finance, investment, and financial economics with particular expertise in corporate cash management, share repurchases, and retirement investment decisions.

His research interests center around corporate financial decision-making under pressure, optimal cash holdings, executive compensation structures, and investor behavior in retirement plans. Kronlund's work often employs natural experiments and regression discontinuity designs to establish causal relationships in financial markets. His fingerprint analysis reveals strong connections to share repurchase, earnings per share, investor behavior, corporate bonds, cash flow analysis, and equity mutual funds.

Kronlund's recent publications demonstrate a clear focus on how corporations manage financial resources under various constraints. His work spans corporate finance topics like innovation under pressure and cash retention policies, as well as investment topics including fixed income fund pricing and 401(k) investment allocations. The research shows consistent application of rigorous econometric methods to address fundamental questions in financial economics.

Kronlund maintains active research collaborations with scholars from various institutions as evidenced by his co-authored publications. His work has garnered attention in academic circles with significant reader engagement on platforms like Mendeley and social media, with some research being referenced in policy discussions.