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Fellows

 

Current Considine and Olin Fellows


Harold Birnbaum

Research:  
 Takeover defenses, longitudinal study, shareholder return; structured products, securities laws

Tijana Dvornic

Research:  
 Tax exempt organizations, hospitals

Yehonatan Givati

Research:  
 Law and Economics; Corporate Law

Stavros Gkantinis

Research:  
 How labor markets for gatekeeper firms can explain the Enron failure; what drives harmonization in International Finance

Katerina Linos

Research:  
Social learning and the development of corporate law.

Yaron Nili

Research:  
 Corporate Governance (and in particular Hedge funds and private equity) and Law & Economics

Nitzan Shilon

Research:  
 Corporate Governance; Corporate Law and Corporate Finance

Holger Spamann

Research:  
 Legal origins theory - reappraisal of the evidence: better statutes, not better case law - means that diffusion of statutes is risky

Pierre-Hugues Verdier

Research:  
The rise of hedge funds: an evaluation of regulatory concerns and international governance proposals

 


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; subsequently issued as HLS John M. Olin Discussion Paper No. 264.
Forthcoming as "Do Insider Trading Laws Matter? Some Preliminary Comparative Evidence", in Amerian Law and Economics Review, Symposium on Comparative Law and Economics, Andrei Shleifer, ed.

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; subsequently published in Harvard Law Review, June 1992.

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

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; subsequently published in 107 Harvard Law Review (1994).

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

Kenneth Fenyo

McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Olin Fellow, 1991-92
Research:  

 Insider Trading in Junk Bonds; subsequently published in 105 Harvard Law Review, No. 7, 1720-40 (1992).

Allen Ferrell

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

Michael Frakes

Olin Fellow, 2002-2005
Research:   Empirical corporate law and finance projects relating to various governance issues.

Jesse Fried

University of California at Berkeley
Olin Fellow, 1990-93
Research:  
 LBOs, Fraudulent Conveyance Law, and Efficient Transfers of Corporate Control.

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

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
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 Fellow1994-95
Research:  

 Partial Ownership as a Strategic Variable to Facilitate Tacit Collusion; subsequently published in Michigan Law Review (2000).

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); subsequently published in Fordham Law Review (1997).

Shachar Hadar

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

Guy Halfteck
Davis Polk & Wardwell

Olin Fellow, 2000-2003

Research:   Securities class actions

Assaf Hamdani

Bar-Ilan 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

Sullivan & Cromwell
Olin Fellow, 2000-01

Robert Jackson

Wachtell Lipton Rosen Katz
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); subsequently published in 15 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 487 (1999).

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); subsequently published in 78 California Law Review (1990).

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

Amir Licht
European Corporate Governance Institute

Olin Fellow, 1995-98
Research:   International Diversity in Securities Regulation: Some Roadblocks on the Way to Convergence; subsequently published in Cardoza Law Review.

Larry Locke

Fidelity Investment
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; subsequently issued as Harvard Olin Discussion Paper No. 71, 5/90.

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

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

McKinsey & Company, New York
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

University of Chicago GSB
Olin Fellow, 1988-1991
Research:   Do Short-Term Managerial Objectives Lead to Under- or Over-Investment in Long-Term Projects? (w/L. Bebchuk); subsequently published in 48 Journal of Finance, 719-729 (1993).

Guhan Subramanian

Harvard Law School
Olin Fellow, 1997-98
Research:   Using Capital Cash Flows to Value Dissenters' Shares in Appraisal Proceedings; subsequently published in Harvard Law Review.

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

John Verret

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 (won the Olin Prize, Summer of 1998; subsequently published in Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance.

Soo J. Yim

Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Olin Fellow, 1991-92, 2004-2005
Research:   91-92: Government Intervention and Regulation in Emerging Stock Markets: A Case Study of the Korean Stock Exchange
04-05: Intersections between capital markets regulation and coporate governance, focusing on share supplydynamics and pricing in the areas of short selling and initial public offerings.