פרופ' יבגני ליאנדרס

Theoretical Corporate Finance, Empirical Corporate Finance, Industrial Organization, Capital Market Anomalies and Regularities, Applications of Blockchain in Economics and Finance

• 2005 - Ph.D. in Finance University of Rochester 
  University of Rochester, William E. Simon School of Business
   
• 2002 - M.Sc. in Applied Economics 
  University of Rochester, William E. Simon School of Business
   
• 1999 - M.Sc. in Finance and Accounting 
  Tel Aviv University, Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration
   
• 1996 - B.A. in Economics and Accounting 
  Ben Gurion University

• Capital Structure and Interaction among Firms in Output Markets - Theory and Evidence 
  Journal of Business 79 (5), September 2006
   
• Strategic Cost of  Diversification
  Review of Financial Studies 20 (6), November 2007
   
• The New Issues Puzzle: Testing the Investment-Based Explanation (with Le Sun and Lu Zhang)
  Review of Financial Studies, 21 (6), November 2008 
   
• Strategic IPOs and Product Market Competition (with Jiri Chod)
  Journal of Financial Economics 100 (1), April 2011 
   
•  A Theory of Merger-Driven IPOs (with Alexei Zhdanov and Jim Hsieh)
  Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 46 (5), October 2011 
   
• A Theory of Strategic Mergers (with Gennaro Bernile and Alexei Zhdanov)
  Review of Finance 16 (2), April 2012
   
• Real Options, Volatility, and Stock Returns (with Gustavo Grullon and Alexei Zhdanov)
  Journal of Finance 67 (4), August 2012
   
•  Cash Holdings, Competition, and Innovation (with Dino Palazzo)
  Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 51 (6), December 2016 
   
• Do Underwriters Compete in IPO Pricing? (with Fangjian Fu and Xuenan Li)
  Management Science 64 (2), February 2018 
   
• The Effects of Horizontal Merger Operating Efficiencies on Rivals, Customers, and Suppliers (with Gennaro Bernile)
  Review of Finance 23 (1), February 2019
   
• Trade Credit and Competition (with Jiri Chod and Alex Yang)
  Journal of Financial Economics 131 (3), March 2019
   
• Owners’ Portfolio Diversification and Firm Investment (with Maria Marchica, Roni Michaely, and Roberto Mura)
  Review of Financial Studies 32 (12), December 2019
   
•  Does the Market Correctly Value Investment Options? (with Egor Matveyev and Alexei Zhdanov)
  Review of Finance, forthcoming 
   
•  A Theory of ICOs: Diversification, Agency, and Information Asymmetry (with Jiri Chod)
  Management Science, forthcoming 
   

• ICO Success and Post-ICO Performance (with Dino Palazzo and Daniel Rabetti)

  Management Science, forthcoming

CO-EDITOR

• 2021– 2024 
  Journal of Corporate Finance 

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

• 2020-present
  Review of Corporate Finance
   
• 2019-present
  Journal of Banking and Finance
   
• 2018-2020
  Journal of Corporate Finance
   
• 2015-present
  Finance Research Letters 

EDITORIAL BOARD

• 2021-present
  China Finance Review International

• 2021-2024 Israel Science Foundation grant for "Crypto exchanges"
• 2021-present Research Fellow of the Cornell Fintech Initiative
• 2021 Best Discussant Award, Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research Forum
• 2019-2020 Blockchain Research Institute grant for “Product market competition with crypto tokens and smart contracts”
• 2019-2020 Danish Ministry of Science grant for “The firm’s life cycle – Investment and financing decisions”
• 2019 Best Discussant award, European Winter Finance Summit
• 2019 Runner-up for the Best Paper in cryptocurrency economics award at the Toronto Fintech Conference
• 2018 Review of Finance Distinguished Referee award
• 2017-2020 Dean’s Research Scholar at BU Questrom School of Business
• 2017 Broderick Prize for excellence in research scholarship at BU Questrom School of Business
• 2014 “40 under 40 in Israel” by The Marker Magazine
• 2014 Best Paper award at the Northern Finance Association Conference for ”Do underwriters compete in IPO pricing”
• 2013 Best Paper award at the European Winter Finance Summit for ”Strategic cash holdings and R&D competition: Theory and evidence”
• 2013 First prize for the Best Paper published in Financial Management in 2010-2012 for ”Understanding investor sentiment: The case of soccer”
• 2012-2015 Marie Curie grant for “Firm owners’ portfolio structures and firm strategies”
• 2009. Best Discussant award, Rothschild Caesarea Center Conference 
• 2008 Rice University Jones Graduate School of Management Scholarship Excellence award
• 2005 Runner-up for the Best Paper award at the European Finance Association Meeting for ”New issues puzzle: Testing the investment-based explanation”
• 2001-2002 John M. Olin fellowship 1999-2003 University of Rochester merit fellowship
• 1999-2002 Ben Gurion University grant for doctoral studies
• 1999 Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration Best M.Sc. Thesis award
• 1995 Israeli Accounting Association medal for Best Undergraduate GPA 
• 1993-1996 Ben Gurion University merit fellowship