Anya Mkrtchyan
Associate Professor of Finance
Judith Wilkinson O’Connell Faculty Fellow
Isenberg School of Management
UMass Amherst
121 Presidents Dr., 310C
Amherst, MA 01003
E-mail: amkrtchyan@umass.edu
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Education
Ph.D. Finance, Pennsylvania State University
M.B.A., Vanderbilt University
M.A. Political Science, American University of Armenia
Publications
1. "Are busy boards detrimental," with Laura Field and Michelle Lowry, 2013, Journal of Financial Economics 109, 63-82.
2. "The effect of director experience on acquisition performance," with Laura Field, 2017, Journal of Financial Economics 123, 488-511.
3. "Recruiting the CEO from the board: Determinants and consequences," with Udi Hoitash, 2018, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 53, 1261-1295.
4. "Internal governance and outside directors' connections to non-director executives," with Udi Hoitash, 2022, Journal of Accounting & Economics 73, 101436.
5. "Bond liquidity and firm investment," with Laura Field and Yuan Wang, 2022, Journal of Banking & Finance 145, 106651.
6. "What do outside CEOs really do? Evidence from plant-level data," with John Bai, 2023, Journal of Financial Economics 147, 27-48.
7. "CEO activism and firm value," with Jason Sandvik and Zhiwei Zhu, 2024, Management Science 70, 6519-6549.
8. "Employee responses to CEO activism," with Jason Sandvik and Da Xu, 2024, Journal of Accounting & Economics 78, 101701.
Working papers
"Creativity without walls: The case of open innovation ," with John Bai, Rui Dai, and Chi Wan
NFA 2025, CICF 2025, MFA 2025, Boca-ECGI 2024
"Understanding CEO activism: Initial insights and future research directions," with Swarnodeep Homroy and Jason Sandvik
"Political Alignment and Investment Performance: Evidence from Venture Capital Markets ," with Swarnodeep Homroy and Michelle Lowry
FMA 2025, AEA 2025 (Lightning Round Session), 7th Greater Boston Corporate Governance Workshop, 9th ENTFIN Conference, 2025 Haskayne and Fox Accounting Conference
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