Research Interests
Empirical Corporate Finance, International Accounting, and Corporate Governance
Curriculum Vitae
CV, July 2012
Published and Working Papers
Should One Hire a Corrupt CEO in a Corrupt Country? April 2013 (Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics), presented at the 2013 AFA Annual Meeting in San Diego
Investment Horizon, Risk, and Compensation in the Banking Industry. April 2013 (with Gilad Livne and Garen Markarian, forthcoming Journal of Banking and Finance)
Corruption in Procurement and Shadow Campaign Financing: Evidence from Russia (with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya), June 2012
Taxes, Theft, and Firm Performance, July 2012 (Forthcoming, Journal of Finance), presented at the 2012 AFA Annual Meeting in Chicago
Economics of Spacemen. Estimation of Tax Evasion in Russia, June 2006
Russian banking transaction data are obtained through ViveData
Data Appendices:
Tables
List of all spacemen (42,364)
Transfer to spacemen by Top Russian companies
126 excluded spacemen
Data for Stata programs
Stata programs
SQL programs for raw data transformation
Bad Corruption, Good Corruption and Growth, 2005
Political Influence and Economic Development:
Empirical Evidence from Emerging Markets (with Marcus Opp), 2004
Small Business Environment and Investment Climate, 2003
Teaching
Financial Management, IE, Spring 2010
 Financial Research Center
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