Boris Nikolov


Professor of Finance at the University of Lausanne
Swiss Finance Institute Senior Chair
ECGI Research Member


Contact: boris.nikolov@unil.ch

Here is my Curriculum Vitae.

Publications

Identifiability and generalizability from multiple experts in Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022

(with Volkan Cevher, Norman Schuerhoff, Paul Rolland, and Luca Viano)

Product Market Strategy and Corporate Policies, Journal of Financial Economics 143(3), 2022, 932-964

(with Jakub Hajda)

The Sources of Financing Constraints, Journal of Financial Economics 139(2), 2021, 478-501

(with Lukas Schmid and Roberto Steri)

Dynamic Corporate Liquidity, Journal of Financial Economics 132(1), 2019, 76-102

(with Lukas Schmid and Roberto Steri)

Agency Conflicts Around the World, Review of Financial Studies 31(11), 2018, 4232-4287

(with Erwan Morellec and Norman Schürhoff)

Agency Conflicts and Cash: Estimates from a Dynamic Model, Journal of Finance 69(5), 2014, 883-1921

(with Toni Whited)

Corporate Governance and Capital Structure Dynamics, Journal of Finance 67(3), 2012, 803-848

(with Erwan Morellec and Norman Schürhoff)


Working Papers

AI in Corporate Governance: Can Machines Recover Corporate Purpose? 

(with Norman Schürhoff and Sam Wagner)

Beyond Peers: Cross-Industry Competition and Strategic Financing

(with Norman Schürhoff and Zepeng Wang)

Managerial Beliefs and the Cross-Section of Incentives and Compensation

(with Lukas Schmid and Roberto Steri)

Competition, Cash Holdings, and Financing Decisions

(with Erwan Morellec and Francesca Zucchi)

Testing Dynamic Agency Theory via Structural Estimation

(with Lukas Schmid)

 

Teaching

Corporate Finance (BSc in Economics and Management)

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings (MSc in Finance)

Financial Econometrics II (SFI PhD program)