Will Gornall Associate Professor of Finance
Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia 2053 Main Mall, Vancouver BC  V6T 1Z2, Canada (604) 827-4372 will.gornall@sauder.ubc.ca
Click to only show work on Banking, Contracts, Fintech/Crypto, PE, Surveys, Valuation, VC.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry: Early Evidence from Open Banking with T Babina, SA Bahaj, G Buchak, F De Marco, AK Foulis, F Mazzola, T Yu, Journal of Financial Economics 2025, 169(7), 103950  Cite. A previous version of this manuscript was distributed as "Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry: Early Evidence from Open Banking" T Babina, G Buchak, W Gornall. Topics: Banking, Fintech/Crypto.
Venture Capitalists and COVID-19 with PA Gompers, SN Kaplan, IA Strebulaev, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 2021, 56(7), 2474-2499  Cite. Topics: Surveys, VC.
Working Papers
Perpetual Futures and Basis Risk: Evidence from Cryptocurrency with M Rinaldi, Y Xiao,  Cite. A previous version of this manuscript was distributed as "Funding Payments Crisis-Proofed Bitcoin’s Perpetual Futures". Topics: Contracts, Fintech/Crypto.
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
The Contracting and Valuation of Venture Capital-Backed Companies with IA Strebulaev, In: BE Eckbo, GM Phillips, M Sorensen (eds) Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Finance 2023, Amsterdam: North-Holland, an imprint of Elsevier, 1, 3-76  Cite. A useful reference for faculty, students, and practitioners. Topics: Contracts, Valuation, VC.
Venture Capital Valuation with IA Strebulaev, In: D Cumming, B Hammer (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity 2023, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 1-5  Cite. Topics: Contracts, Valuation, VC.
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions with PA Gompers, SN Kaplan, IA Strebulaev, Harvard Business Review 2021, 99.2 70-+ Topics: Surveys, VC.
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