Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos, Ph.D.

Academic Affiliate,
Research on Financial Markets and Information Transmission, Corporate Governance and Activist Investor Impact on Stock Price

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Education

Columbia University (Ph.D. in Finance)

Bio

Dr. Fos is currently a professor of Finance at Boston College, the Associate Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Associate Editor of Financial Management.

Teaching
Boston College

Corporate Finance (BA, MBA, MSF) 2016-present
Empirical Corporate Finance (PhD) 2019-present

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advanced Corporate Finance (MAS, MBA) 2012-2014
Advanced Corporate Finance (BA) 2012-2014

Dr. Fos has acted as an expert testifier on trading issues.

Working papers

“Trading Ahead of Barbarians’ Arrival at the Gate: Insider Trading on Non-Inside Information,” with Georgy Chabakauri and Wei Jiang

Recent Publications

“The Distribution of Voting Rights to Shareholders,” with Clifford Holderness, Forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
John L. Weinberg/IRRCI Research Award“
Value Creation in Shareholder Activism,” with Rui Albuquerque and Enrique Schroth, Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 145, Issue 2, Part A, August 2022, Pages 153-178
Editor’s Choice article “Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance,” with Amil Dasgupta and Zacharias Sautner, Foundations and Trends in Finance: 2021, Vol. 12: No. 4, pp 276-394
Informed Trading in the Stock Market and Option Price Discovery,” with Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Dmitry Muravyev, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Volume 56(6), September 2021, Pagesm1945-1984
“The Sound of Many Funds Rebalancing,” with Alex Chinco, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Volume 11(3), September 2021, Pages 502-551
Best Paper Award, The 14th Annual Meeting of the Financial Research Association
Best Paper Award, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies

Education

Columbia University (Ph.D. in Finance)

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