Nadya Malenko

Contact Information
R5322, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

701 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

CEPR Research Fellow

ECGI Research Member

Working papers

Corporate governance in the presence of active and passive delegated investment (with Adrian Aycan Corum and Andrey Malenko), Internet Appendix

Media: CLS Blue Sky Blog, Oxford Business Law Blog, Canadian Investment Review

Board dynamics over the startup life cycle (with Michael Ewens), Internet Appendix

Media: VoxEU

The voting premium (with Doron Levit and Ernst Maug), Internet Appendix

Media: CLS Blue Sky Blog

Creating controversy in proxy voting advice (with Andrey Malenko and Chester Spatt)

Media: CLS Blue Sky Blog

Shareholder voting (with Alon Brav and Andrey Malenko) - survey of the literature

Trading and shareholder democracy (with Doron Levit and Ernst Maug), Internet Appendix

Revise and resubmit, Journal of Finance

Semi-finalist in the John L. Weinberg / IRRCi Research Paper Award Competition

Media: CLS Blue Sky Blog

Advising the management (with Ali Kakhbod, Uliana Loginova, and Andrey Malenko), Internet Appendix

Revise and resubmit, Review of Financial Studies

Quadrophobia: Strategic rounding of EPS data (with Joseph A. Grundfest and Yao Shen)

Revise and resubmit, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Media: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, USA Today

Publications

Deadlock on the board (with Jason Donaldson and Giorgia Piacentino)

Review of Financial Studies, 33 (10), 4445-4488, October 2020 (SSRN)

Lead article and Editor's Choice article

Best Paper Award at the 2018 ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference

Media: CLS Blue Sky Blog, Korn Ferry Institute

Proxy advisory firms: The economics of selling information to voters (with Andrey Malenko)
Journal of Finance, 74 (5), 2441-2490, October 2019 (Short summary for the SEC, Internet Appendix, SSRN)

Brattle Group Prize for Distinguished Paper in Corporate Finance at the Journal of Finance

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 (Short summary for the SEC, Internet Appendix, SSRN)

Media: Harvard Law School Forum

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 (Internet Appendix, SSRN)

The labor market for directors and externalities in corporate governance (with Doron Levit)

Journal of Finance, 71 (2), 775-808, April 2016 (Internet Appendix, SSRN)

Media: Pro-Market, Harvard Law School Forum

A theory of LBO activity based on repeated debt-equity conflicts (with Andrey Malenko)

Journal of Financial Economics, 117 (3), 607-627, September 2015 (Internet Appendix, SSRN)

Communication and decision-making in corporate boards

Review of Financial Studies, 27 (5), 1486-1532, May 2014 (Internet Appendix, SSRN)

Winner of the Swedish House of Finance Best Conference Paper by a Doctoral Student, EFA 2011

Media: Harvard Law School Forum

Nonbinding voting for shareholder proposals (with Doron Levit)

Journal of Finance, 66 (5), 1579-1614, October 2011 (Internet Appendix, SSRN)

Media: Harvard Law School Forum

Nadya Malenko
Associate Professor of Finance

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Nadya MalenkoAssociate Professor of Finance

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Nadya Malenko
Associate Professor of Finance