Vyacheslav Fos

Education

Ph.D., finance, Columbia Business School

Summary of Experience

Professor Fos is an expert in finance who applies economic and financial theory to both academic research and advisory work. His expertise spans financial markets and corporate governance and finance, with additional specialization in institutional investing and household finance. Professor Fos’s research examines information transmission in financial markets, the dynamics of insider trading, and the effects of share repurchases on firm investment and employment. He also studies corporate governance issues such as board effectiveness and shareholder activism. Professor Fos has testified as an expert witness in litigation matters on fiduciary duties, insider trading, abnormal trading activity, and assessments of firms’ financial conditions. His research has been published in academic journals such as Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science. He has served as an associate editor for the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, and the Journal of Empirical Finance. His honors include best paper awards from the Journal of Finance, the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, the Financial Research Association, the John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award, and the Carroll School of Management’s Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Fos is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He has presented his work at major international finance conferences, including meetings of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, and the European Finance Association.