Fellows Spring 2021 Workshop
The schedule of the spring 2021 sessions of empirical presentations by fellows is available here.
Current Fellows
Amy Frieder
Research: The relationship between campaign finance programs and diversity among elected officials.
Tami Groswald Ozery
Research: Corporate and Securities Law, Comparative Corporate Governance, Law and Development Theories (with Particular Interest in their Application in Asian and Transitional Economies), the Chinese Legal System, and Corporations Under State Capitalism
Kobi Kastiel
Research: Executive Compensation in Controlling Shareholder Companies; Unfriendly IPOs
Botir Kobilov
Research: Issues of corporate governance; behavioral biases, beliefs and expectations that influence financial decisions of capital markets participants; and how information and its disclosure plays an important role in mitigating them
Jessica Ljustina
Research: Hedge fund activism and long-term firm performance.
Gayane Matevosyan
Research: The effect of regulation on credit rating agencies following the 2008 financial crisis.
Leeor Ofer
Research: Corporate Governance, Controlling Shareholders, and Control-Enhancing Mechanisms
Maria Lucia Passador
Research: Corporate law, corporate governance, financial markets regulation, and her current research project is related to the traditional IPOs and to the alternatives available, mainly to the SPAC phenomenon.
Dev Patel
Research: How expanding the poor’s access to formal financial institutions impacts structural transformation during India’s rural banking boom.
Aisha Saad
Research: Ownership and its attendant rights and liabilities in the context of the modern corporation, and on the role of the corporation as a public actor.
Ria Sen
Research: Understanding and measuring the impact of governance issues on U.S. public pension fund performance.
Yun Soo Shin
Research: Shareholder Activism in South Korea
Wanling Su
Research: Data Driven Analysis of Unsettled Legal Questions
Roberto Tallarita
Research: Corporate Political Activity, Shareholder Voting Structures, and Corporate Law Adjudication
Johnny Tang
Research: Finance and behavioral economics, including how capital and fiduciary regulations affect financial institutions and how investor psychology affects financial markets.
Viroopa Volla
Research: The intersection of business, law, and economics.
Past Fellows
(Links provided to the webpages of those currently holding academic positions known to the program)
Oren Bar-Gill
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 2000-2003
Research: Misreporting corporate performance; the costs of permitting managers to sell shares
Chen Barir
Given Imaging Limited
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: An Executive Duty to Cause Corporations to be Adequately Capitalized
Michal Barzuza
University of Virginia
Research: Price Considerations in State Competition Over Corporate Charters
Laura Beny
University of Michigan Law School
Olin Fellow, 1997-2001
Research: A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Agency and Market Theories of Insider Trading, John M. Olin Discussion Paper No. 264 (September 1999).
“Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence”, 7 American Law and Economics Review (2005), pp. 144-183.
Lisa Bernstein
University of Chicago Law School
Olin Fellow, 1989-90
Jonathan Borowsky
Research: Organizing mutual funds or repos with a built-in auction mechanism
John J. Bu
Goldman Sachs and Company
Olin Fellow, 1989-1990
Research: Distress-Contingent Convertible Bonds: An Alternative for Restructured Troubled Companies, 104 Harvard Law Review, No. 8 (June 1991), pp. 1857-1877.
Ryan Bubb
New York University School of Law
Considine Fellow, 2008-2009
Research: Consumer biases and firm ownership
Eli Bukspan
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Business, Law & Technology
Olin Fellow, 1993-94
Research: Economic Aspects of Locked Control Types in Corporate Law
Laurie Burlingame
Goodwin Proctor LLP
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Getting to the Truth of the Matter: Revising the TILA Disclosure Scheme to Better Protect Customers
Federica Cadorin
Research: Participation of minority shareholders in changes of corporate control
Matthew Cain
Niccolò Calvi
Research: Corporate Governance and Issuances of New Shares
Kiwi Camara
Camara & Sibley
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: Institutional shareholder activism in corporate governance: risk incentive effect of stock options on senior management
Damien Cannavan
Erik Caspersen
Tetragon Financial Group
Olin Fellow, 1995-96
Research: Criminal Liability for Management Opportunism: A Superior Approach to Regulating Tender Offer Defenses
Stephen Choi
New York University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1992-94
Research: Investor Liability: Financial Innovations in the Regulatory State and The Coming Revolution in Corporate Law, 107 Harvard Law Review, No. 8 (June 1994), pp. 1941-1958.
David Daniels
Research: Arguing for a compromise solution to the debate about reducing the disclosure window in Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Michael Dayan
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: Secondary Liability of Professionals Under the Securities Laws
Elisabeth de Fontenay
Duke Law School
Valerio Di Mascio
Research: Regulation and legal qualification of crypto tokens under US and EU securities and corporate law, and the use of blockchain technology in corporations.
Eddo Dinstein
Volovelsky Dinstein Sneh & Co.
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: The Fifth Stage of Capitalism
Tijana Dvornic
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Olin Fellow, Spring 2007 (2007-08)
Research: Tax exempt organizations, hospitals
Alexandre Edde Diniz de Oliveira
Research: Trends in the Brazilian Capital Markets and their Relationship with Developments in the United States
Liran Eliner
Research: Local Bias in a Global World?
Aryeh Falk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Itai Fiegenbaum
College of Law at Willamette University
Kenneth Fenyo
The Sperry & Hutchinson Company, Inc.
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: Insider Trading in Junk Bonds; subsequently published in 105 Harvard Law Review, No. 7 (1992), pp. 1720-40.
Allen Ferrell
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1994-95
Research: Creating a Market for Corporate Voting Rights
Michael Frakes
Duke Law School
Olin Fellow, 2002-2005
Research: Empirical corporate law and finance projects relating to various governance issues
Jesse Fried
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1990-93
Research: LBOs, Fraudulent Conveyance Law, and Efficient Transfers of Corporate Control
Stavros Gadinis
UC Berkeley School of Law
Research: SEC Enforcement against broker-dealer firms: domestic and international
Rishi Ganti
Olin Fellow, 1997-2000
Research: Do Ticker Reassignments Cause Investor Confusion?
Matteo Gatti
Rutgers University School of Law
Visiting Fellow, Program on Corporate Governance, 2003
Ryan Gavin
McKinsey & Company
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Reconceptualizing Traditional Tax Analysis
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: Challenging the Shareholder Primacy Norm: Shareholders vs. Stakeholders
Benjamin Gerber
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Unfettering Innocuous Benefits of Management Interlocks: Towards an Optimal Definition of “Competitors” Under Section 8 of the Clayton Act
Talia Gillis
Research: Protecting Mutual Fund Investors: Regulatory Options
David Gilo
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Olin Fellow, 1994-95
Research: Partial Ownership as a Strategic Variable to Facilitate Tacit Collusion, Michigan Law Review (2000).
Yehonatan Givati
Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Olin Fellow, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09
Research: Law and Economics; Corporate Law
Tom Gole
Brandon Gold
Research: Takeover Defenses in IPOs
Rishab Guha
Research: Empirical Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics / Machine Learning
Gaurang (Mitu) Gulati
Duke Law School
Olin Fellow, 1993-94
Research: The Globalization of the Legal Market and Its Effects on Discrimination (with Vivian Fu).
Andrew Guzman
USC Gould School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1994-96
Research: National Laws, International Money: Securities Regulation in a Global Capital Market (with Stephen Choi), 65 Fordham Law Review (1997), pp. 1855.
Shachar Hadar
Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Berkman & Co.
Olin Fellow, 2001-2003
Research: Tracking Stock
Roie Hauser
Virginia Tech
Guy Halfteck
Olin Fellow, 2000-2003
Research: Securities class actions
Jeffrey Hall
Research: Privatization and government contracting
Assaf Hamdani
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Olin Fellow, 1999-2001
Research: Gatekeeper liability
Sharon Hannes
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Olin Fellow, 1999-2001
Research: The Missing Link in the Corporate Takeover Literature or Why Would Similar Firms Adopt Different Anti-Takeover Mechanisms (at the IPO stage)?
Scott Hirst
Boston University School of Law
Research: Corporate Charters
Joung Hwang
Olin Fellow, 2000-01
Masaki Iwasaki
Research: Whistleblower Rewards; Corporate Self-Reporting; and Outside Directors’ Liability
Robert Jackson
NYU Law School
Olin Fellow, 2003-2005
Research: Reducing the costs of monitoring regulatory compliance; the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley on systematic equity risk; the effects of short sales on shareholder voting rights
Christine Jolls
Yale Law School
Olin Fellow, 1990-94
Research: Managerial Value Diversion and Shareholder Wealth (w/ L. Bebchuk), 15 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, No. 2 (1999), pp. 487-502.
Marcel Kahan
New York University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1986-88
Research: A Framework for Analyzing Legal Policy Towards Proxy Contests (w/L. Bebchuk), 78 California Law Review (1990), pp. 1071-1135.
Thomas Keusch
INSEAD
Vikramaditya (Vic S.) Khanna
The University of Michigan Law School
Research: Better Early than Late: An Economic Analysis of the Timing of Disclosure of Preliminary Merger Negotiations.
Eithan Kidron
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Matthew Kim
Research: Public and Investor Perceptions of Corporate Criminal Sanctions
Daniel Klaff
Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen
Olin Fellow, 2006-08
Research: Economic Explanations for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation in the Context of Bankruptcy Law
Israel Klein
Michael Komenda
CCO Capital
Research: Economic efficiency and consistency of the current approach to civil penalty amounts by securities regulators
James Kwak
University of Connecticut School of Law
Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance, 2011-2012
Research: Regulation of pension plan investment offerings under ERISA; the politics of federal government deficits
“Improving Retirement Savings Options for Employees“, John M. Olin Fellows’ Discussion Paper No. 42 (February 2012)
Hao Liang
Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Adi Libson
Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University
Amir Licht
IDC Herzliya
European Corporate Governance Institute Olin Fellow, 1995-98
Research: International Diversity in Securities Regulation: Some Roadblocks on the Way to Convergence, 20 Cardoza Law Review, No. 1 (September 1998), pp. 227-285.
Katerina Linos
Berkeley Law
Olin Fellow, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08
Research: Social learning and the development of corporate law
Sam Lite
Research: Identifying the Effects that Private Equity-Led Small-Practice Consolidation has had on Prices and Services, Using Dentistry As a Test Case
Larry Locke
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Olin Fellow, 1989-90
Research: After the FIRREA: An Analysis of the Savings and Loan Industry After the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, Harvard Olin Discussion Paper No. 71 (May 1990)
Dorothy Shapiro Lund
USC Gould School of Law
Research: A law and economics analysis of Judge Rakoff’s decision to block a settlement between SEC and Citigroup.
Haim Machluf
Herzog, Fox & Neeman
Research: The internal affairs doctrine
William Magnuson
Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody
Demetrio Maltese
Università Bocconi
Research: Conflicts of Interests in Public Companies’ General Meetings
Jeffrey Manns
George Washington University School of Law
Research: Property law and corporate law
Gordon Moodie
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz
Research: Forty Years of Charter Competition: A Race to Protect Directors from Liability?
Balaji Narain
Research: Disaggregation of firms, shareholder derivative suits, federal regulations
Jim Naughton
UVA Darden
Considine Fellow, 2007–2008, 2009–2010
Research: Securities fraud law and trading volume
Ophir Nave
Tadmor & Co. Yuval Levy & Co.
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: The Importance of Shareholder Votes in Takeover Law, Economic Analysis of Taking Law
Yaron Nili
University of Wisconsin Law School
Research: Independent Directors or the New “Insiders”—the Limited Case for Capping Board Tenure
Noam Noked
Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research: The interaction between corporate taxation and corporate governance
Stephen O’Brien
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Olin Fellow, 1989-91
Research: Is Insider Trading Beneficial to the Stock Market?
Adi Osofsky
Jihwon Park
Research: Compliance Programs and Corporate Misconduct; The Costs and Benefits of Meeting Management Privately
Maria Lucia Passador
Bocconi University
Visiting Fellow, 2016-17
Research: List (or slate) voting and the importance of being independent in the boardroom
Yueh-Ping (Alex) Yang
Silviu Pitis
Research: Managing incentives in the international arena
William Powley
Research: Securities Litigation
Kenneth Reinker
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Olin Fellow, 2004-2005
Research: Stock returns and judicial decisions, how do they relate, what empirical evidence can be found
June Rhee
Yale School of Management
Morgan Ricks
Vanderbilt Law School
Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance, 2010-2012
“A Regulatory Design for Monetary Stability“, John M. Olin Discussion Paper, No. 706 (September 2011)
“Reforming the Short-Term Funding Markets“, John M. Olin Discussion Paper, No. 713 (May 2012)
Utkarsh Saxena
Research: The Impact of Poor Contract Enforcement and Regulatory Frictions on Firm Growth in Developing Countries
Miriam Schwartz-Ziv
Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University
Fellows of the Program on Corporate Governance
Matthew Schoenfeld
Burford Capital
Research: Sovereign credit default swaps
Tomer Shadmy
Roy Shapira
IDC Herzliya
Research: A Reputational Theory of Corporate Law
Greg Shill
University of Iowa College of Law
Research: The Golden Leash and the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty
Nitzan Shilon
Peking University School of Transnational Law
Research: Stock Ownership Policies — Rhetoric and Reality
Michael Simkovic
USC Gould School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2006-07
Research: Did sunlight disinfect open market repurchases? An empirical study of false signaling since the 2003 SEC Disclosure Requirement
R. Christopher Small
University of Toronto
Research: Corporate governance and taxation
Holger Spamann
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 2009-2011
Research: Derivatives & moral hazard in corporate finance
Lars Stole
Chicago Booth
Olin Fellow, 1988-1991
Research: Do Short-Term Managerial Objectives Lead to Under- or Over-Investment in Long-Term Projects? (w/L. Bebchuk), 48 Journal of Finance, No. 2 (June 1993), pp. 719-729.
Guhan Subramanian
Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1997-98
Research: Using Capital Cash Flows to Value Dissenters’ Shares in Appraisal Proceedings, 111 Harvard Law Review No. 7 (May, 1998), pp. 2099-2116.
Evan Tarte
Research: Determinants of Defined Benefit Pension Plan Withdrawals and the Impact of Said Withdraws on Company Profitability
Shaud Tavakoli
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Research: Impact of consumer tax credits on affected companies during 08-10 economic downturn
Avishalom Tor
University of Notre Dame
Olin Fellow, 1998-2003
Research: The Behavioral Law and Economics of Corporate Governance and Control
Andrew F. Tuch
Washington University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2008-2012
Research: Professional regulation of investment bankers
Anthony Uccellini
Olin Fellow, 2006-07
Research: Mergers and acquisitions, disclosure, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley, regulation
Pierre-Hugues Verdier
University of Virginia Law School
Olin Fellow, Summer 2008 (2007-08)
Research: The rise of hedge funds: an evaluation of regulatory concerns and international governance proposals
J. W. Verret
George Mason University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2004-2005
Research: Reform in the mutual fund industry through changes in SEC regulation and its effects on fund return
Brian D. Vito
Herringbrook Advisors LLC
Senior Fellow, 2017
Co-Editor, Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, 2017
Research: Alternative investment funds
Viroopa Volla
Research: Food Security, By Looking at the Mergers of Dow & DuPoint, ChemChina & Syngenta, and Bayer & Monsanto
David Walker
Boston University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1997-98
Research: Rethinking Rights of First Refusal, 5 Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance No. 1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-58.
Jeremy Weisman
Charles C.Y. Wang
Harvard Business School
Soo J. Yim
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Olin Fellow, 1991-92, 2004-2005
Research 2004-05: Intersections between capital markets regulation and corporate governance, focusing on share supply dynamics and pricing in the areas of short selling and initial public offerings.
Research 1991-92: Government Intervention and Regulation in Emerging Stock Markets: A Case Study of the Korean Stock Exchange
