Olga Kuzmina,
Petr Aven Associate Professor of Finance, NES
Research Affiliate, CEPR
Curriculum Vitae
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ORCID: 0000-0001-8538-7512
Scopus AuthorID: 57202309194
Contact information
New Economic School
3 Nobel Street, Skolkovo
Moscow 121205 Russia
Email: okuzmina{@}nes.ru
Phone: +7 (9O3) 742 9917
Olga Kuzmina is an Associate Professor of Finance with tenure at the New Economic School (Moscow) and a Research Affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). She received her PhD in Finance from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, in 2012, and has spent the 2019-2020 year on sabbatical at the LSE Finance Department. Her research interests include empirical corporate finance, broadly defined, with a particular interest in the interactions between corporate finance, labor economics, and international economics, and a focus on identification and applied methods. She has published her work in the American Economic Review, Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and other journals, and presented it at various conferences, including the AFA, EFA, AEA, FIRS, CEPR/Gerzensee, CSEF Finance and Labor conference, Paris Finance meeting, FMA Europe, etc. She has received the Best Young researcher award from IFABS for one of her solo-authored papers. She is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance, and was a Research Advisory Board member of the Central Bank of Russia prior to 2022.
Published and accepted papers
Innovation and foreign ownership (with M. Guadalupe and C. Thomas),
American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (7): 3594-3627.
Media and policy coverage: VoxEU, Vedomosti
580 citations in Google Scholar
Foreign direct investment and governance quality in Russia (with N. Volchkova and T. Zueva),
Journal of Comparative Economics (Special Issue: New Directions for Research on Transition Economies), 2014, 42 (4): 874-891.
Media and policy coverage: FREE Policy Briefs
95 citations in Google Scholar
Operational and financial hedging: Evidence from export and import behavior (with O. Kuznetsova),
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2018, 48 (1): 109-121.
Media and policy coverage: FREE Policy Briefs
30 citations in Google Scholar
A model-free identification of relative risk,
Economics Letters, 2020, 190: 109078.
Does secrecy signal skill? Own-investor secrecy and hedge fund performance (with S. Gorovyy and P. Kelly),
Journal of Banking and Finance, 2021, 133: 106288
Media and policy coverage: Institutional Investor, RBC, FREE Policy Briefs
4 citations in Google Scholar
Employment flexibility and capital structure: Evidence from a natural experiment
Management Science, accepted, CEPR DP15819
Media and policy coverage: FEDEA Nada es Gratis, FREE Policy Briefs
Best Young Researcher Paper Award, International Finance and Banking Society, 2012
53 citations in Google Scholar
Working papers
Gender diversity in corporate boards: Evidence from quota-implied discontinuities (with V. Melentyeva), submitted
CEPR DP14924
Recent presentations: AEA 2020, EEA 2020, Paris December Finance Meeting 2020, EFA 2021
Media coverage: ZEW, Forbes Russia
10 citations in Google Scholar
Other publications
Russian transparency and disclosure survey 2005: Continuing progress in transparency, but mainly among weaker disclosers (with J. Kochetygova, N. Popivshchy, O. Shvyrkov, D. Kazakov, A. Rozanova),
Moscow: Standard & Poor's Governance Services, September 2005 (in Russian and in English).
13 citations in Google Scholar
COVID-19 and gender equality in Russia,
Economic Policy during COVID-19, April 2020 (in Russian).
Media and policy coverage: Forbes Russia, FREE Policy Briefs
Kids
Anastasia, 2014
Anton, 2017