Art Durnev, Ph.D,
Department of Finance,
Henry B. Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa
artem-durnev@uiowa.edu
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2012 best paper award ($1,000 New Zealand dollars) at the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation for ‘Partisanship and Corporate Performance’ paper, joint with Jon Garfinkel (U of Iowa) and Sasha Molchanov (Massey U).
Beyond Tax Avoidance: Offshore Firms’ Institutional Environment and Financial Reporting (with Tiemei Li and Michel Magnan), revise-resubmit, The Accounting Review, presented at the 2011 American Finance Association Meetings, link
Expropriation Risk and Firm Growth: a Corporate Transparency Channel (with Sergei Guriev), revise-resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics, presented at 2009 American Finance Association Meetings, link, featured in VOX-EU, link
The Real Effects of Political Uncertainty: Elections and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Prices, revise-resubmit, Review of Financial Studies, presented at the 2011 American Finance Association Meetings, link
The Real Effects of Disclosure Tone: Evidence from Restatements (with Claudine Mangen), revise-resubmit, Review of Finance, link
Corporate Social Responsibility and Asset Pricing (with Rui Albuquerque and Yrjo Koskinen), working paper, 10,000 US$, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Asset Pricing’ BSI Gamma Foundation grant, link
Art Durnev is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Art Durnev earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Michigan Business School. He is a Canadian citizen.
Art Durnev’s research interests are primarily focused on corporate finance, political cycles, governance, and financial markets development. His work involves empirical investigations of how political cycles affect corporate policies, firm governance structures, disclosure policies, insider trading regulation and idiosyncratic volatility. He has published this work in top academic and practitioner journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Michigan Law Review, and Economics of Transition. Two of his Journal of Finance articles were nominated for the Brattle Prize (awarded to the best corporate finance articles.)
Art Durnev taught classes for undergraduates, MBAs, PhDs, and executives in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Russia. Dr. Durnev presented his work at over 100 seminars and conferences worldwide.
Art Durnev is a recipient of numerous prestigious national and international grants including grants from BSI Gamma Foundation, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canadian Capital Markets Institute, Fonds de recherche sur la societe et la culture (FQRCS), Institut de Finance Mathématique de Montreal (IFM2), and William Davidson Institute. He has written articles for major Canadian (National Post, Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette) and international newspapers and given numerous public lectures and interviews to the national TV and radio programs in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and Russia. In 2009, Art Durnev was a visiting professor at SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management.