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Fellows

Current Considine and Olin Fellows:

Ryan Bubb

Research:  
 Consumer biases and firm ownership

Scott Hirst

Research:  
 Merger and Acquisition Deal Terms: Theory and Recent Evidence

Haim Machluf

Research:  
 The internal affairs doctrine

Balaji Narain

Research:  
 Disaggregation of firms, shareholder derivative suits, federal regulations

Jim Naughton

Research:  
 Securities fraud law and trading volume

Roy Shapira

Research:  
 Corporate Philantropy and other "non-maximizing" corporate behavior

Nitzan Shilon

Research:  
 The effects of executive compensation symmetry on firm performance

Holger Spamann

Research:  
 Bankers' pay

Andrew Tuch

Research:  
 Conflicts of interest in the financial services industry

 

Past Olin Fellows:

Chen Barir

Given Imaging Limited
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: An Executive Duty to Cause Corporations to be adequately Capitalized

Michal Barzuza

University of Virginia
Research: Price considerations in state competition over corporate charters

Laura Beny

University of Michigan Law School
Olin Fellow, 1997-2001
Research: A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Agency and Market Theories of Insider Trading, John M. Olin Discussion Paper No. 264 (September 1999).
"Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence", 7 Amerian Law and Economics Review (2005), pp. 144-183.

Lisa Bernstein

University of Chicago Law School
Olin Fellow, 1989-90

John J. Bu

Goldman Sachs and Company
Olin Fellow, 1989-1990
Research: Distress-Contingent Convertible Bonds: An Alternative for Restructured Troubled Companies, 104 Harvard Law Review, No. 8 (June 1991), pp. 1857-1877.

Eli Bukspan

Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Business, Law & Technology
Olin Fellow, 1993-94
Research: Economic Aspects of Locked Control Types in Corporate Law

Laurie Burlingame

Goodwin Proctor LLP
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Getting to the Truth of the Matter: Revising the TILA Disclosure Scheme to Better Protect Customers

Kiwi Camara

Camara & Sibley
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: Institutional shareholder activism in corporate governance: risk incentive effect of stock options on senior management

Erik Caspersen

Olin Fellow, 1995-96
Research: Criminal Liability for Management Opportunism: A Superior Approach to Regulating Tender Offer Defenses

Stephen Choi

New York University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1992-94
Research: Investor Liability: Financial Innovations in the Regulatory State and The Coming Revolution in Corporate Law, 107 Harvard Law Review, No. 8 (June 1994), pp. 1941-1958.

Michael Dayan

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: Secondary Liability of Professionals Under the Securities Laws

Eddo Dinstein

Volovelsky Dinstein Sneh & Co.
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: The Fifth Stage of Capitalism

Tijana Dvornic

Olin Fellow, Spring 2007 (2007-08)
Research: Tax exempt organizations, hospitals

Kenneth Fenyo

McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research: Insider Trading in Junk Bonds; subsequently published in 105 Harvard Law Review, No. 7 (1992), pp. 1720-40.

Allen Ferrell

Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1994-95
Research: Creating a Market for Corporate Voting Rights

Michael Frakes

Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 2002-2005
Research: Empirical corporate law and finance projects relating to various governance issues

Jesse Fried

Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1990-93
Research: LBOs, Fraudulent Conveyance Law, and Efficient Transfers of Corporate Control

Stavros Gadinis

Research: SEC Enforcement against broker-dealer firms: domestic and international

Rishi Ganti

Security & Exchange Commission
Olin Fellow, 1997-2000
Research: Do Ticker Reassignments Cause Investor Confusion?

Matteo Gatti

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Visiting Fellow, Program on Corporate Governance, 2003

Ryan Gavin

Simpson Thacher
Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Reconceptualizing Traditional Tax Analysis

Martin Gelter

Fordham University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: Challenging the Shareholder Primacy Norm: Shareholders vs. Stakeholders

Benjamin Gerber

Olin Fellow, 2005-06
Research: Unfettering Innocuous Benefits of Management Interlocks: Towards an Optimal Definition of "Competitors" Under Section 8 of the Clayton Act

Oren Bar-Gill

New York University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2000-2003
Research: Misreporting corporate performance; the costs of permitting managers to sell shares

David Gilo

Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Olin Fellow, 1994-95
Research: Partial Ownership as a Strategic Variable to Facilitate Tacit Collusion, Michigan Law Review (2000).

Yehonatan Givati

Olin Fellow, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09
Research: Law and Economics; Corporate Law

Gaurang (Mitu) Gulati

Duke Law School
Olin Fellow, 1993-94
Research: The Globalization of the Legal Market and Its Effects on Discrimination (with Vivian Fu).

Andrew Guzman

University of California at Berkeley
Olin Fellow, 1994-96
Research: National Laws, International Money: Securities Regulation in a Global Capital Market (with Stephen Choi), 65 Fordham Law Review (1997), pp. 1855.

Shachar Hadar

Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Berkman & Co.
Olin Fellow, 2001-2003
Research: Tracking Stock

Guy Halfteck

Olin Fellow, 2000-2003
Research: Securities class actions

Assaf Hamdani
Hebrew University
Olin Fellow, 1999-2001
Research: Gatekeeper liability

Sharon Hannes

Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Olin Fellow, 1999-2001
Research: The Missing Link in the Corporate Takeover Literature or Why Would Similar Firms Adopt Different Anti-Takeover Mechanisms (at the IPO stage)?

Joung Hwang

Olin Fellow, 2000-01

Robert Jackson

Columbia Law School
Olin Fellow, 2003-2005
Research: Reducing the costs of monitoring regulatory compliance; the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley on systematic equity risk; the effects of short sales on shareholder voting rights

Christine Jolls

Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1990-94
Research: Managerial Value Diversion and Shareholder Wealth (w/ L. Bebchuk), 15 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, No. 2 (1999), pp. 487-502.

Marcel Kahan

New York University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1986-88
Research: A Framework for Analyzing Legal Policy Towards Proxy Contests (w/L. Bebchuk), 78 California Law Review (1990), pp. 1071-1135.

Vikramaditya (Vic S.) Khanna

The University of Michigan Law School
Research: Better Early than Late: An Economic Analysis of the Timing of Disclosure of Preliminary Merger Negotiations.

Daniel Klaff

Olin Fellow, 2006-08
Research: Economic Explanations for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation in the Context of Bankruptcy Law

Michael Komenda

Research: Economic efficiency and consistency of the current approach to civil penalty amounts by securities regulators

Amir Licht

European Corporate Governance Institute Olin Fellow, 1995-98
Research: International Diversity in Securities Regulation: Some Roadblocks on the Way to Convergence, 20 Cardoza Law Review, No. 1 (September 1998), pp. 227-285.

Katerina Linos

Harvard University
Olin Fellow, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08
Research: Social learning and the development of corporate law

Larry Locke

Gordon College
Olin Fellow, 1989-90
Research: After the FIRREA: An Analysis of the Savings and Loan Industry After the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, Harvard Olin Discussion Paper No. 71 (May 1990).

Jeffrey Manns

Research: Propoerty law and corporate law

Gordon Moodie

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz
Research: Forty Years of Charter Competition: A Race to Protect Directors from Liability?

Ophir Nave

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz
Olin Fellow, 2003-2004
Research: The Importance of Shareholder Votes in Takeover Law, Economic Analysis of Taking Law

Yaron Nili

Research: Different models of shareholder activism: comparative and normative analysis

Stephen O'Brien

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Olin Fellow, 1989-91
Research: Is Insider Trading Beneficial to the Stock Market?

Kenneth Reinker

Legal Economics, LLC
Olin Fellow, 2004-2005
Research: Stock returns and judicial decisions, how do they relate, what empirical evidence can be found

Michael Simkovic

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Olin Fellow, 2006-07
Research: Did sunlight disinfect open market repurchases? An empirical study of false signaling since the 2003 SEC Disclosure Requirement

Lars Stole

Chicago Booth
Olin Fellow, 1988-1991
Research: Do Short-Term Managerial Objectives Lead to Under- or Over-Investment in Long-Term Projects? (w/L. Bebchuk), 48 Journal of Finance, No. 2 (June 1993), pp. 719-729.

Guhan Subramanian

Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1997-98
Research: Using Capital Cash Flows to Value Dissenters' Shares in Appraisal Proceedings, 111 Harvard Law Review No. 7 (May, 1998), pp. 2099-2116.

Avishalom Tor

University of Haifa
Olin Fellow, 1998-2003
Research: The Behavioral Law and Economics of Corporate Governance and Control

Anthony Uccellini

Olin Fellow, 2006-07
Research: Mergers and acquisitions, disclosure, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley, regulation

Pierre-Hugues Verdier

University of Virginia Law School
Olin Fellow, Summer 2008 (2007-08)
Research: The rise of hedge funds: an evaluation of regulatory concerns and international governance proposals

John Verret

George Mason University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 2004-2005
Research: Reform in the mutual fund industry through changes in SEC regulation and its effects on fund return

David Walker

Boston University School of Law
Olin Fellow, 1997-98
Research: Rethinking Rights of First Refusal, 5 Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance No. 1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-58.

Soo J. Yim

Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Olin Fellow, 1991-92, 2004-2005
Research 2004-05: Intersections between capital markets regulation and coporate governance, focusing on share supplydynamics and pricing in the areas of short selling and initial public offerings.
Research 1991-92: Government Intervention and Regulation in Emerging Stock Markets: A Case Study of the Korean Stock Exchange