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02/05/2019

Nina Baranchuk

University of Texas at Dallas

School of Management

Managerial Economics and Finance

 

Educational History:

Ph.D., 09/2004, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, Field: Economics

Dissertation Title: "Empirical Studies of Executive Compensation"

Dissertation Advisor: Siddhartha Chib

Master of Arts, 06/2000, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, Field: Economics

Master of Arts, 06/1998, New Economic School, Suite 1721, Nakhimovskii Prospekt 47, 117418, Moscow, Russia, Field: Economics

Master of Sciences, 06/1998, Moscow State University, GSP-1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia, Field: Mathematics

 

Employment History - principal positions since the Bachelor's degree:

Associate Professor in Finance, 09/2012-present, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021.

Assistant Professor in Finance, 09/2004-08/2012, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021.

Visiting Assistant Professor in Finance, 09/2008-05/2009, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, Austin, Texas 78712.

 

Professional recognitions and honors (study, teaching, research, service):

Competitive Summer Research Grant, 06/2001-08/2001, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Economics

Competitive Summer Research Grant, 06/2002-08/2002, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Economics

Competitive Summer Research Grant, 06/2003-08/2003, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Economics

Continuing Research Fellowship Award, 09/2002 - 05/2003, Washington University, Department of Economics

Fellowship Award, 09/1998 - 05/1999, Washington University, Department of Economics

 

Professional memberships:

American Finance Association

Financial Management Association

Western Finance Association

 

Achievements in original investigation:

“Sliding-Scale Contracts in Movie Distribution: A Theoretical Rationale,” with Seethu Seetharaman and Andrei Strijnev, Review of Marketking Science, forthcoming

 

“Spillovers From ‘Good-News’ and Other Bankruptcies: Real Effects and Price Responses,” with Michael Rebello, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

 

“Screening of Possibly Incompetent Agents,” with Philip Dybvig, Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 135, issue C, pages 15-18.

 

“Motivating Innovation in Newly Public Firms,” with Robert Kieschnick and Rabih Moussawi, Journal of Financial Economics, 2014, vol. 111(3), pages 578-588.

 

 “The Economics of Super Managers,” with Glenn MacDonald and Jun Yang, Review of Financial Studies,  2011, vol. 24, no. 10, p. 3321-3368.

 

“Renegotiation-proof Contracting, Disclosure, and Incentives for Efficient Investment,” with Philip Dybvig and Jun Yang, Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, vol. 145, no.5, pp. 1805-1836.

 

 “Consensus in Diverse Corporate Boards,” with Philip Dybvig, Review of Financial Studies, 2009, vol. 22, no. 2, p.715-747.

 

“Organizing Multiple Related Tasks into Jobs: Diversification vs. Competition,” Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 99, no.3, p. 599-603.

 

“Assessing the Role of Option Grants to CEOs: How Important is Heterogeneity?” with Siddhartha Chib,

Journal of Empirical Finance, 2008,  vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 145-166.

 

Works in Progress:

“Informed Debtholders and Bankruptcy Process,” with Michael Rebello.

 

 “Innovation, incentives and firm growth under competition,” with Glenn MacDonald and Jun Yang.

 

“Making the Grade: Product Quality Reporting by Infomediaries,” with Ashutosh Prasad.

 

“Capturing Heterogeneity in Leverage,” with Yexiao Xu.

 

 

Contributed (unrefereed) abstracts and/or oral presentations at professional meetings:

“The Economics of Super Managers,” presented by coauthor at

American Finance Association, San Francisco, January 2009

Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) Conference 2008

Harvard Business School Strategy Research Conference 2007,

Third Annual Conference on Corporate Finance at Washington University in Saint Louis

The Conference on Financial Contracting: Theory and Evidence in Mannheim

China  International Conference in Finance 2007

UT Dallas

Indiana University

University of Maryland

 

“On the Persistence of Capital Structure -- Reinterpreting What We Know,” presented at

Winter Finance Conference, University of British Columbia, March 2008

 

“Consensus in Diverse Corporate Boards,” presented at

Western Finance Association, Big Sky, July 2007; presented by coauthor at University of Chicago,  CKGSB,  Fudan University, University of Minnesota, Washington University in St. Louis, UT Dallas

 

“Disclosure and Investment,” presented at

American Finance Association, Boston, January 2006

 

“Takeover Defenses and Executive Compensation in IPOs,” presented at

                Financial Management Association 2005, 2010

                Lone Star Finance Conference, 2008

                UT Dallas

 

“Assessing the Role of Option Grants to CEOs: How Important is Heterogeneity?” presented at

                San Francisco State University

                Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

                Washington University in St. Louis

                UT Dallas

 

“Screening of Possibly Incompetent Agents and Welfare Analysis without Common Priors,” presented by coauthor at

                Singapore Management University

                University of Missouri-Columbia

                National University of Singapore

                Southwest University of Finance and Economics

 

“Sliding-Scale Contracts in Movie Distribution: A Theoretical Rationale,” presented by coauthor at

                Marketing Science Conference, 2005

 

“Are CEOs Charged for Stock-Based Pay? An Instrumental Variable Analysis,” presented at

                UT Arlington

 

“Managerial Compensation and Job Design with Multiple Correlated Projects,” presented at

Finance Management Association, Chicago, October 2004

 

“CEO Compensation, Board Composition, and Firm Value,” presented at

Midwest Economic Association meetings, St. Louis, March 2003

 

“Can the Monopoly Hypothesis Explain IPO Hot Markets,” presented at

Eastern Economic Association meetings, Boston, March 2002

 

Discussant/Chair at

                Lone Star Finance Conference, 2006       

                Financial Intermediation Research Society Conference 2008

Financial Management Association Conference, 2008

Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, 2008

                Financial Intermediation Research Society Conference 2009

                Financial Management Association Conference, 2009

                Financial Management Association Conference, 2012

Doctoral advisement/direction:

 

Committee member, Mehmet Sinan Goktan, 06/2008, "Wealth Effects of Antitakeover Provisions in Mergers"

 

Committee member, Yin Li, 06/2011, "Interactions Between Corporate Financing and Investment Decisions"

 

Undergraduate advisement/direction:

 

Honors Thesis Supervisor, Thevi Abhirami Mylvaganam, 06/2007, “Determinants of a Top Corporate Citizen”

 

Classroom teaching:

2004, Fall, BA 3341.001, Business Finance

2005, Spring, BA 3341.002, Business Finance

2005, Spring, BA 3341.003, Business Finance

2005, Fall, FIN 7310.001, Seminar in Contemporary Finance

2005, Fall, BA 3341.002, Business Finance

2005, Fall, BA 3341.003, Business Finance

2007, Spring, BA 3341.002, Business Finance

2007, Spring, BA 3341.004, Business Finance

2007, Spring, FIN 7340.001, Topics in Theoretical Corporate Finance

2008, Spring, BA 3341.003, Business Finance

2008, Spring, BA 3341.004, Business Finance

2008, Spring, BA 3341.005, Business Finance

2010, Spring, FIN 6301.001, Financial Management

2010, Spring, FIN 6301.502, Financial Management

2010, Spring, FIN 6301.503, Financial Management

2011, Spring, BA 3341.007, Business Finance

2011, Spring, FIN 7340.001, Topics in Theoretical Corporate Finance

2012, Spring, BA 3341.002, Business Finance

2012, Spring, FIN 4347.501, Applied Corporate Finance

2013, Spring, FIN 6301.001, Financial Management

2013, Spring, FIN 4310.002, Applied Corporate Finance

2013, Fall, FIN 6301.501, Financial Management

2014, Spring, FIN 3320.002, Business Finance

2014, Spring, FIN 3320.003, Business Finance

2014, Spring, FIN 3320.007, Business Finance

2014, Fall, FIN 3320.001, Business Finance

2014, Fall, FIN 3320.002, Business Finance

2014, Fall, FIN 3320.003, Business Finance

2015, Fall, FIN 3320.008, Business Finance

2015, Fall, FIN 6350.001, Advanced Financial Management

2015, Fall, FIN 6350.501, Advanced Financial Management

2015, Fall, Independent Study, Yingda Wang

2016, Fall, FIN 6350.001, Advanced Financial Management

2016, Fall, FIN 6350.501, Advanced Financial Management

2017, Spring, FIN 6350.501, Advanced Financial Management

2017, Fall, FIN 6350.501, Advanced Financial Management

2018, Spring, FIN 6350.501, Advanced Financial Management

2018, Spring, FIN 6350.SS1, Advanced Financial Management

2018, Summer, FIN 6350.5U1, Advanced Financial Management

2018, Fall, FIN 6350.501, Advanced Financial Management

 

Other:

 

2008, Fall, Advanced Corporate Finance (undergraduate and MBA level), University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business

 

2003, Summer, Money and Banking (undergraduate level), Washington University, Department of Economics

 

2003, Spring, Financial Strategy (graduate level), Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Department of Economics and Finance

 

2002, Summer, Introduction to Microeconomics (undergraduate level), Washington University, Department of Economics

 

 

Service – reviewing, refereeing and administrative work with professional societies and organizations (e.g. editorship, associate editorship, officer, etc.); departmental, college, university committees; community service, etc.:

 

2004 - present, referee, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business Finance, Marketing Science, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of the European Economic Association, the Economic Journal

 

2004 - 2008, Undergraduate Committee member

 

2010 - present, Web Committee member

 

2013 - pesent, Library Committee member

 

2006, 2010, organizational committee member, Lone Star Financial Conference

 

2011, seminar series co-organizer

 

2010, outside chair of a dissertation committee for Tu Peng, Department of Software Engineering. Dissertation title: "Formal Modeling and Automated Verification of Design."

 

2011, outside chair of a dissertation committee for James Mcglothlin, Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences. Dissertation title: "Efficient Semantic Web Knowledge Management."

 

2017, outside chair of a dissertation committee for Shogo Wada, Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences. Dissertation title: "Multiscale Simulation of Failure Based on Space-Time Finite Element Method and Non-Ordinary State Based Peridynamics."