Olga Kuzmina,
Petr Aven Associate Professor of Finance, NES
on leave at LSE Finance Department in 2019-2020
Research Affiliate, CEPR
Associate Editor, Journal of Corporate Finance
Research Advisory Board member, Bank of Russia
Curriculum Vitae
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Ideas.Repec.org
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Contact information
New Economic School
45 Skolkovskoe shosse
Moscow 121353 Russia
Email: okuzmina{@}nes.ru
Phone: +7 (903) 742 9917
Olga Kuzmina is the Petr Aven Associate Professor of Finance at the New Economic School (Moscow) and a Research Affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). She is currently spending a sabbatical year at the LSE Finance Department. She received her PhD in Finance from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, in 2012. 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, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Comparative Economics, and presented it at various conferences, including the AFA, 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 has been serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Corporate Finance since 2018, and a Research Advisory Board member of the Central Bank of Russia since 2018.
Publications
Innovation and Foreign Ownership (with M. Guadalupe and C. Thomas), Web Appendix
American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (7): 3594-3627.
Media coverage: VoxEU, Vedomosti
351 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.
Policy coverage: FREE Policy Briefs
55 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.
Policy coverage: FREE Policy Briefs
8 citations in Google Scholar
Working papers
Employment Flexibility and Capital Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, R&R Management Science
Media coverage: FEDEA Nada es Gratis
Policy coverage: FREE Policy Briefs
Best Young Researcher Paper Award, International Finance and Banking Society, 2012
33 citations in Google Scholar
Keeping Secrets from the Savvy Investor: Characteristics and Performance of Secretive Hedge Funds (with S. Gorovyy and P. Kelly), submitted
Policy coverage: FREE Policy Briefs
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).
12 citations in Google Scholar
Kids
Anastasia, 2014
Anton, 2017