About me
Ekaterina Volkova
Associate Professor, Department of Finance, The University of Melbourne
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne. My research focuses primarily on corporate governance and the oversight of publicly traded companies. In particular, my work explores the impact of large shareholders and regulators (such as the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice) on corporate policies and dynamics. The methodologies in my papers utilize textual analysis and basic machine learning applications to extract quantitative information from textual disclosures.
Interests
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Disclosure
- Politics in Finance
- Large Shareholders
Education
- PhD in Finance, 2017
SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University - MA in Economics, 2012
New Economic School - MS in Mathematics, 2011
Moscow State University
Working Papers
Corporate Lobbying of Bureaucrats
Reject and Resubmit at The Journal of Finance
Presented at HKU Summer Finance Conference, Essex University, Manchester University, Lancaster University, McGill University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference
Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity
Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Journal, Applied Economics
The Brattle Group FIRN Best Paper Award
Presented at EFA, AEA and NBER SI, Boston College, the Center for Equitable Growth, Columbia University, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Emory University, the Stigler Center, University of Melbourne, and University of Warwick.
Summary at Promarket
Publications
Regulatory Fragmentation
The Journal of Finance (2025)
Best paper award at FMARC conference
Best paper award at CAFM conference
Presented at AFA, Future of Financial Information Conference, FIRN, APRCF Conference, Copenhagen Business School, the Federal Reserve, George Mason University, University of Rochester, Boston College, University of Toronto, University of Melbourne, University of Washington, Wayne State University, Florida International University, University of Bath, University of Bristol.
Is Blockholder Diversity Detrimental?
Management Science (2025)
Presented at the AFA, FMA, FIRN, Frontiers of Finance, QCFC, the Bank of Israel, IE HU Workshop, Ben Gurion University, Binghamton University, Cornell University, Copenhagen Business School, Emory University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Higher School of Economics, University of Hong Kong, London Business School, University of Melbourne, Michigan State University, New Economic School, and the University of Technology Sydney.
Information Revealed through the Regulatory Process: Interactions between the SEC and Companies ahead of Their IPO
The Review of Financial Studies (2020)
Watch Your Basket - To Determine CEO Compensation
Financial Management (2019)
Can VPIN Forecast Geopolitical Events? An Application to the Crimean Crisis
Annals of Finance (2018)
News coverage in Bloomberg, Washington Post, Radio Liberty, Der Standard, Vedomosti
Review Chapters
Initial Public Offering: A Synthesis of the Literature and Directions for Future Research
Review Chapter in Foundation and Trends in Finance (2017)
Datasets
Rule Relatedness
Company-specific measure of rule relatedness for all proposed and final rules between 1999 and 2023.
Blockholder Ownership Dataset
This dataset covers positions of all large shareholders in all US public companies from 1998 until 2023.