Nina Baranchuk, PhD

Assistant Professor
Finance and Managerial Economics

Email
(972) 883-4771
Office – JSOM 3.430
www.utdallas.edu/~nina.baranchuk

Vita:

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Education:

PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, 2004
MA, Washington University in St. Louis, 2000
MS, Moscow State University, Russia, 1998

Courses:

BA 3341 Business Finance
FIN 7340 Theoretical Corporate Finance, doctoral seminar

Current / Recent Research:

Theoretical and empirical analysis of corporate governance
Agency problems, executive compensation
Applied econometrics

Professional Organizations:

American Finance Association
Financial Management Association
Western Finance Association

Publications:

“The Economics of Super Managers,” with Glenn MacDonald and Jun Yang, Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.
“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.

Working Papers:

“Making the Grade: Product Quality Reporting by Infomediaries,” with Ashutosh Prasad, resubmission encouraged subject to substantial revision, Management Science.
“Sliding-Scale Contracts in Movie Distribution: A Theoretical Rationale,” with Seethu Seetharaman and Andrei Strijnev, resubmission encouraged subject to substantial revision, Management Science.
“Motivating Innovation in Newly Public Firms,” with Robert Kieschnick and Rabih Moussawi.
“Screening of Possibly Incompetent Agents and Welfare Analysis without Common Priors,” with Philip Dybvig.