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Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos

Professor

Hillenbrand Family Faculty Fellow

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Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos

Contact

Fulton Hall 338

Telephone: 617-552-1536

Email: fos@bc.edu

ORCID

Education

  • BA, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
  • MA, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
  • Ph.D, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business

Research Interests

Financial Markets; Corporate Governance; Corporate Finance; Financial Markets; Insider Trading; Boards of Directors; Activist Shareholders in Corporate Governance; Liquidity in Corporate Governance; and Investment and Employment Consequences of Share Repurchases.

Expertise

  • Corporate Finance
Curriculum Vitae

Department

Finance

Profile

Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos is a professor聽in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. He is also the coordinator of the Ph.D. in finance program.

Fos鈥檚 research interests are in the areas of financial markets, corporate governance, and corporate finance. His research studies information transmission in financial markets, insider trading, boards of directors, the role of activist shareholders in corporate governance, the role of stock liquidity in corporate governance, and investment and employment consequences of share repurchases. His research has appeared in leading academic journals, including the聽Econometrica, Journal of Finance,听Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and聽Management Science. His teaching interests focus on corporate finance. He has taught courses in corporate finance at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Selected Awards

  • Best Paper Award, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies,听2022
  • John L. Weinberg/IRRCI Research Award,听2021
  • Distinguished Referee, The Review of Financial Studies, 2019
  • The 14th Annual Meeting of the Financial Research Association Best Paper Award, 2017
  • LBS Summer Finance Symposium Best Paper Award, 2017
  • Amundi Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize, 2015
  • The Seventh Annual Academic Conference on Corporate Governance Best Paper Award, 2014
  • TCW Best Paper Award, 2013
  • Affi Spring International 聽Conference Best Paper Award, 2013
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