Vyacheslav Fos

Boston College - Department of Finance

Carroll School of Management

140 Commonwealth Avenue

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3808

United States

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London

United Kingdom

  • Boston College - Department of Finance

  • European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

  • Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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1.

The Real Effects of Share Repurchases

Forthcoming, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2015
Heitor Almeida, Vyacheslav Fos and Mathias Kronlund
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Boston College - Department of Finance and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Share repurchases, employment, investment, regression discontinuity

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Do Prices Reveal the Presence of Informed Trading?

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Do Prices Reveal the Presence of Informed Trading?

Journal of Finance, Volume 70, Issue 4, August 2015, Pages 1555-1582
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2015
Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Vyacheslav Fos
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Boston College - Department of Finance
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informed trading, liquidity, transaction costs, selection bias, activist shareholders

Do Prices Reveal the Presence of Informed Trading?

Netspar Discussion Paper No. 08/2012-037
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 25 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2013
Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Vyacheslav Fos
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Informed trading, liquidity, transaction costs, selection bias, activist shareholders

Do Prices Reveal the Presence of Informed Trading?

NBER Working Paper No. w18452
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Oct 2012
Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Vyacheslav Fos
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Boston College - Department of Finance
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The Disciplinary Effects of Proxy Contests

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 08 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2015
Vyacheslav Fos
Boston College - Department of Finance
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Proxy Contests, Shareholder Activism, Agency problem

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Insider Trading, Stochastic Liquidity and Equilibrium Prices

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Insider Trading, Stochastic Liquidity and Equilibrium Prices

Econometrica, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2016
Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Vyacheslav Fos
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Kyle model, insider trading, asymmetric information, liquidity, price impact, market depth, stochastic volatility, volume, subordinate process, execution costs, continuous time

Insider Trading, Stochastic Liquidity and Equilibrium Prices

Netspar Discussion Paper No. 05/2012-038
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 24 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2015
Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Vyacheslav Fos
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Kyle model, insider trading, asymmetric information, liquidity, price impact, market depth, stochastic volatility, execution costs, continuous time

Insider Trading, Stochastic Liquidity and Equilibrium Prices

NBER Working Paper No. w18451
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Oct 2012
Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Vyacheslav Fos
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Do Director Elections Matter?

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 17-08
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 May 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2017
Vyacheslav Fos, Kai Li and Margarita Tsoutsoura
Boston College - Department of Finance, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Cornell University
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director elections; director nominations; staggered boards; CEO turnover–performance sensitivity; agency problems; corporate governance

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Shareholder Democracy in Play: Career Consequences of Proxy Contests

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Volume 114, Issue 2
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 18 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2015
Vyacheslav Fos and Margarita Tsoutsoura
Boston College - Department of Finance and Cornell University
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Proxy contests, Directors, Corporate governance, Agency problem

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Active Short Selling by Hedge Funds

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Active Short Selling by Hedge Funds

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 609/2019
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 12 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2020
Ian Appel and Vyacheslav Fos
Boston College - Carroll School of Management and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Activist Hedge Funds, Short Selling, Strategic Communication

Active Short Selling by Hedge Funds

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13788
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2019
Ian Appel, Jordan Bulka and Vyacheslav Fos
Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Carroll School of Management and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital

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Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Vyacheslav Fos, Andres Liberman and Constantine Yannelis
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Boston College - Department of Finance, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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Student Debt, Human Capital, Postgraduate Education, Credit Constraints, Debt Overhang

Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 912, February 2020, NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Feb 2020
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Vyacheslav Fos, Andres Liberman and Constantine Yannelis
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Boston College - Department of Finance, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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tuition, student debt, human capital, credit constraints

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Activism, Strategic Trading, and Liquidity

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Activism, Strategic Trading, and Liquidity

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 497/2017, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 18-42
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 23 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 24 May 2018
Kerry Back, Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Vyacheslav Fos, Tao Li and Alexander Ljungqvist
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Boston College - Department of Finance, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) - Department of Economics & Finance and Stockholm School of Economics
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Kyle model, insider trading, strategic trading, asymmetric information, liquidity, price impact, market depth, activism, unobservable effort, economic efficiency, continuous time

Activism, Strategic Trading, and Liquidity

NBER Working Paper No. w22893
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2016
Kerry Back, Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Vyacheslav Fos, Tao Li and Alexander Ljungqvist
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Boston College - Department of Finance, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) - Department of Economics & Finance and Stockholm School of Economics
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Activism, Strategic Trading, and Liquidity

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12372
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Oct 2017
Kerry Back, Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Vyacheslav Fos, Tao Li and Alexander Ljungqvist
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Boston College - Department of Finance, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) - Department of Economics & Finance and Stockholm School of Economics
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activism, continuous time, economic efficiency, Kyle model, liquidity, market depth, price impact, strategic trading

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Informed Trading in the Stock Market and Option Price Discovery

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 15-55
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 19 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2020
Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Vyacheslav Fos and Dmitriy Muravyev
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Boston College - Department of Finance and Michigan State University - Department of Finance
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Inferring Reporting-Related Biases in Hedge Fund Databases from Hedge Fund Equity Holdings

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2014
Vikas Agarwal, Vyacheslav Fos and Wei Jiang
Georgia State University, Boston College - Department of Finance and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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hedge funds, mandatory and voluntary disclosure, selection and reporting biases

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Shareholder Activism, Informed Trading, and Stock Prices

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Shareholder Activism, Informed Trading, and Stock Prices

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 13-70
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2015
Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Vyacheslav Fos
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Informed trading, asymmetric information, liquidity, moral hazard, shareholder activism, price eciency, continuous time

Moral Hazard, Informed Trading, and Stock Prices

NBER Working Paper No. w19619
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 09 Nov 2013
Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Vyacheslav Fos
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Out-of-the-Money CEOs: Private Control Premium and Option Exercises

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2015
Vyacheslav Fos and Wei Jiang
Boston College - Department of Finance and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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private benefits of control; proxy contests; insider trading; early option exercise

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The Sound of Many Funds Rebalancing

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The Sound of Many Funds Rebalancing

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 12 May 2020
Alex Chinco and Vyacheslav Fos
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Noise, Thresholds, Complexity, Indexing

The Sound of Many Funds Rebalancing

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13561
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2019
Alex Chinco and Vyacheslav Fos
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business and Boston College - Department of Finance
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Complexity, Indexing, noise, thresholds

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Gig-Labor: Trading Safety Nets for Steering Wheels

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Gig-Labor: Trading Safety Nets for Steering Wheels

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 05 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2019
Vyacheslav Fos, Naser Hamdi, Ankit Kalda and Jordan Nickerson
Boston College - Department of Finance, Equifax, Inc., Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance and Boston College
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gig-economy, labor markets, unemployment insurance, household debt, credit delinquencies

Gig-Labor: Trading Safety Nets for Steering Wheels

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13885
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 02 Aug 2019
Vyacheslav Fos, Naser Hamdi, Ankit Kalda and Jordan Nickerson
Boston College - Department of Finance, Equifax, Inc., Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance and Boston College
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credit delinquencies, gig-economy, Household Debt, labor markets, Unemployment insurance

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What Happens 'Before the Birth' and 'After the Death' of a Hedge Fund?

Bankers, Markets & Investors, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Jul 2014
Vikas Agarwal, Vyacheslav Fos and Wei Jiang
Georgia State University, Boston College - Department of Finance and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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database biases, self-selection bias, reporting bias, timing bias, hedge funds, mandatory and voluntary disclosure

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The Threat of Intervention

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The Threat of Intervention

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 602/2019
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 21 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 07 May 2019
Vyacheslav Fos and Charles M. Kahn
Boston College - Department of Finance and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Corporate governance, agency costs, shareholder activism, disciplinary effects, stock liquidity

The Threat of Intervention

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13654
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 09 Apr 2019
Vyacheslav Fos and Charles M. Kahn
Boston College - Department of Finance and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity?

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Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity?

European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 662/2020
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 01 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2020
Heitor Almeida, Nuri Ersahin, Vyacheslav Fos, Rustom M. Irani and Mathias Kronlund
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Michigan State University-Department of Finance, Boston College - Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Productivity, Employment, Labor unions, Investment, Short-termism, Share repurchases

Do Short-Term Incentives Affect Long-Term Productivity?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13894
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Aug 2019
Heitor Almeida, Nuri Ersahin, Vyacheslav Fos, Rustom M. Irani and Mathias Kronlund
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Michigan State University-Department of Finance, Boston College - Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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employment, investment, Labor Unions, productivity, Share repurchases, Short-termism

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The Effects of the Aggregate Stock Market on Mergers and Acquisitions

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Feb 2020
Vyacheslav Fos and Jun Yang
Boston College - Department of Finance and University of Notre Dame
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Mergers, Acquisitions, Stock Market Index Return, Synergies

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A Race to Lead: How Chinese Government Interventions Shape the Sino-US Production Competition

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Apr 2020
Xiao Cen, Vyacheslav Fos and Wei Jiang
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Boston College - Department of Finance and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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Production Competition, Industrial Policy, Trade War

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Value Creation in Shareholder Activism: A Structural Approach

Number of pages: 78
Rui A. Albuquerque, Vyacheslav Fos and Enrique J. Schroth
Boston College, Carroll School of Management, Boston College - Department of Finance and EDHEC Business School
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C34, G14, G34

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A Portfolio Choice Model With Utility from Anticipation of Future Consumption and Stock Market Mean Reversion

European Economic Review, Vol. 52, No. 8, 2008
Posted: 19 Mar 2012
Arik Kuznitz, Shmuel Kandel (deceased) and Vyacheslav Fos
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Deceased and Boston College - Department of Finance

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portfolio choice, mean reversion, anticipation