Tim and Debbie Connors Family Professor of Finance
Boston College, Carroll School of Management
Seidner Department of Finance, Fulton 330
140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617-552-1698
Email: malenko@bc.edu
Working papers
Hull Tactical Award in Asset Management, Midwest Finance Association, 2026
Custom proxy voting advice (with Edwin Hu and Jonathon Zytnick)
Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance, Northern Finance Association, 2024
John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award, 2025
Paul Van Arsdell Award in Corporate Finance, Midwest Finance Association, 2025
Best Paper Award at The First Annual Corporate Governance Academic Forum at the University of Toronto, 2025
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Finance
Covered by: Harvard Law School Forum, ECGI Blog, FT Alphaville, Johnston Centre Research Spotlight series
Interview for ECGI Conversations
Corporate governance in the presence of active and passive delegated investment (with Adrian Aycan Corum and Andrey Malenko)
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Finance (Slides, Internet Appendix)
Short summaries: CLS Blue Sky Blog, Oxford Business Law Blog, Canadian Investment Review
Shareholder democracy (with Robin Döttling and Magdalena Rola-Janicka) – prepared for the Handbook of Politics and Finance
Survey of shareholder voting and its interactions with political economy
Shareholder heterogeneity and corporate governance (with Doron Levit) – survey prepared for the Annual Review of Financial Economics
Shareholder voting (with Alon Brav and Andrey Malenko) – survey of the literature, in progress
Slides and lecture covering part of the survey
Publications
Georgetown Law Journal, forthcoming
Short summary: Harvard Law School Forum
Voting choice (with Andrey Malenko)
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming (Slides, Internet Appendix)
Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award, SFS Cavalcade 2024
Posts about pass-through voting: Quora, Forbes
Short summary of the paper: CLS Blue Sky Blog
Journal of Finance, forthcoming (Slides, Internet Appendix)
Short summaries: VoxEU, ECGI Blog
Data on boards: dynamic composition of 7800 venture capital-backed startup boards over 2002-2017
Voting on public goods: Citizens vs shareholders (with Robin Döttling, Doron Levit, and Magdalena Rola-Janicka)
Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming (Slides, Internet Appendix)
John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award, 2025
Short summaries: ProMarket, CLS Blue Sky Blog, ECGI
The voting premium (with Doron Levit and Ernst Maug)
Journal of Finance, 81 (3), 1321-1375, June 2026 (Slides, JF link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Short summary: CLS Blue Sky Blog
Journal of Finance, 80 (4), 2303-2354, August 2025 (Slides, JF link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Charles River Associates Award for the best paper in Corporate Finance, WFA 2022
CICF Best Paper Award, CICF 2022
2022 ECGI Finance Prize for the best paper in the ECGI Finance Working Paper Series
Short summary: CLS Blue Sky Blog
Journal of Finance, 79 (1), 257-304, February 2024 (Slides, Video for ECGI, JF link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Brattle Group First Prize in Corporate Finance at the Journal of Finance
Semi-finalist in the John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award Competition
Short summaries: Harvard Law School Forum, CLS Blue Sky Blog, Finance Theory Insights
Presentation at the ECGI Spotlight Series, Brattle Exchange podcast
Survey of the literature in Handbook of Corporate Finance ed. by David Denis, Chapter 14, 511-547, February 2024 (Link, SSRN)
Slides and lecture covering part of the survey
Survey of the literature in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, August 2023 (Link)
Short summary: CLS Blue Sky Blog
Advising the management: A theory of shareholder engagement (with Ali Kakhbod, Uliana Loginova, and Andrey Malenko)
Review of Financial Studies, 36 (4), 1319-1363, April 2023 (RFS link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Lead article and Editor’s Choice article
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 58 (8), 3231-3273, December 2023 (Slides, JFQA link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
SEC's "EPS Initiative"
Covered by: Wall Street Journal (2021), Wall Street Journal (2018), Bloomberg, USA Today, Wall Street Journal (2023)
Review of Financial Studies, 33 (10), 4445-4488, October 2020 (RFS link, SSRN)
Lead article and Editor’s Choice article
Best Paper Award at the 2018 ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference
Short summaries: CLS Blue Sky Blog, Korn Ferry Institute
Journal of Finance, 74 (5), 2441-2490, October 2019 (Slides, JF link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Brattle Group Prize for Distinguished Paper in Corporate Finance at the Journal of Finance
Covered by: Finance Theory Insights
Short summary for the SEC; BPC blog post on SEC's proposed regulations
Review of Financial Studies, 29 (12), 3394-3427, December 2016 (Slides, RFS link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Covered by: Harvard Law School Forum
Timing decisions in organizations: Communication and authority in a dynamic environment (with Steven Grenadier and Andrey Malenko)
American Economic Review, 106 (9), 2552-2581, September 2016 (Slides, AER link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Journal of Finance, 71 (2), 775-808, April 2016 (Slides, JF link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Short summaries: Harvard Law School Forum, Pro-Market
Journal of Financial Economics, 117 (3), 607-627, September 2015 (JFE link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Review of Financial Studies, 27 (5), 1486-1532, May 2014 (Slides, RFS link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Swedish House of Finance Best Conference Paper by a Doctoral Student, EFA 2011
Short summary: Harvard Law School Forum, Summary for Finance & Accounting Memos
Journal of Finance, 66 (5), 1579-1614, October 2011 (Slides, JF link, Internet Appendix, SSRN)
Short summary: Harvard Law School Forum
