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Nadya Malenko
Professor
Wargo Family Faculty Fellow
Nadya Malenko
Contact
Fulton Hall 412C
Telephone: 617-552-1698
Email: malenko@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-1128-0744
Education
- MA, New Economic School
- MS, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Ph.D., Stanford University
Courses
Corporate Finance
Research Interests
Corporate finance; Corporate Governance; Private Equity; and Organizational Economics.
Expertise
- Corporate Finance
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental, Social and Governance
Google Scholar
Department
Selected Publications
- "Board dynamics over the startup life cycle." (With Michael Ewens.) Journal of Finance, forthcoming.
- "Creating controversy in proxy voting advice." (With Andrey Malenko and Chester Spatt.) Journal of Finance, forthcoming.
- "Trading and shareholder democracy." (With Doron Levit and Ernst Maug.) Journal of Finance, 79 (1), 257-304. February 2024.
- "Information flows, organizational structure, and corporate governance." (ed. by David Denis.) Handbook of Corporate Finance Chapter 14, 511-547. February 2024
- "Corporate governance implications of the growth in indexing." (With Alon Brav and Andrey Malenko.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. August 2023.
"Advising the management: A theory of shareholder engagement." (With Ali Kakhbod, Uliana Loginova, and Andrey Malenko.) Review of Financial Studies, 36 (4), 1319-1363. April 2023.
"Quadrophobia: Strategic rounding of EPS data." (With Joseph Grundfest and Yao Shen.) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 58 (8). November, 2022.
"Deadlock on the board." (With Jason Donaldson and Giorgia Piacentino.) Review of Financial Studies, 33 (10), 4445-4488. October 2020.
"Proxy advisory firms: The economics of selling information to voters." (With Andrey Malenko.) Journal of Finance, 74 (5), 2441-2490. October 2019.
"The role of proxy advisory firms: Evidence from a regression-discontinuity design." (With Yao Shen.) Review of Financial Studies, 29 (12), 3394-3427. December 2016.
"Timing decisions in organizations: Communication and authority in a dynamic environment." (With Steven Grenadier and Andrey Malenko.) American Economic Review, 106 (9), 2552-2581. September 2016.
"The labor market for directors and externalities in corporate governance." (With Doron Levit.) Journal of Finance, 71 (2), 775-808. April 2016.
"A theory of LBO activity based on repeated debt-equity conflicts." (With Andrey Malenko.) Journal of Financial Economics, 117 (3), 607-627. September 2015.
"Communication and decision-making in corporate boards." Review of Financial Studies, 27 (5), 1486-1532. May 2014.
- "Nonbinding voting for shareholder proposals." (With Doron Levit.) Journal of Finance, 66 (5), 1579-1614. October 2011.
Selected Appointments, Awards, and Honors
- President of Finance Theory Group
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Research Associate
- European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Research Member
- Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Research Fellow
- Finance Theory Group member
- Director, American Finance Association
- Director, Western Finance Association
- Director, European Finance Association
- Brattle Group Prize for Distinguished Paper in Corporate Finance, Journal of Finance, 2019
- Excellence in Refereeing Award, Journal of Accounting Research, 2020
- Charles River Associates Award for the best paper in Corporate Finance, WFA 2022
- Best Paper Award, China International Conference in Finance 2022
- ECGI Finance Prize for the Best Paper in the 2022 ECGI Finance Working Paper Series
- Referee of the Year Award, Review of Financial Studies, 2023