Peter Cziraki
Assistant Professor of Finance, Texas A&M University, Mays Business School
Assistant Professor of Law (by courtesy), Texas A&M University, School of Law
Research Member, European Corporate Governance Institute
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Mays Business School, 341D Wehner Building
4218 Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4218
Research Interests
Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Executive Labor Markets, Insider Trading, Law and Finance, Shareholder Activism
Publications
Understanding Bank Payouts During the Crisis of 2007-2009 (with Christian Laux and Gyöngyi Lóránth)
Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2024, 13(1): 191-234
FDIC/JFSR Annual Conference 2015, AFA 2016, CICF 2016
Coverage: Vox EU, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
The Dollar Profits to Insider Trading (with Jasmin Gider)
Review of Finance, 2021, 25(5): 1547-1580
ABFER 2017, CICF 2017, EFA 2017, AFA 2019, The Rodney L. White Center Conference on Financial Decisions and Asset Markets 2019, MARC 2019, UBC Summer Finance Conference 2019
Coverage: Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog, The Academic Times, National Affairs
What Do Insiders Know? Evidence From Insider Trading Around Share Repurchases and SEOs (with Evgeny Lyandres and Roni Michaely)
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021, 66: 101544
CICF 2016, EFA 2016, CFEA 2016, AFA 2018
Asymmetric Attention and Stock Returns (with Jordi Mondria and Thomas Wu)
Management Science, 2021, 67(1): 48-71
SFS Cavalcade 2011, SED 2011, EEA 2011, AFA 2012, Wolfe Virtual Global Quantitative and Macro Investment Conference 2020
CEO Turnover and Volatility Under Long-Term Employment Contracts (with Moqi Groen-Xu) [JFQA summary video]
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020, 55(6): 1757-1791; lead article
CEAR/GSU Symposium on Corporate Control Mechanisms and Risk 2014, LBS Summer Symposium 2014, EFA 2014, FIRS 2015, Texas A&M Young Scholars Finance Consortium 2016
Trading by Bank Insiders Before and During the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis [Internet Appendix]
Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018, 33: 58-82
Adam Smith Corporate Finance 2012, IDC Rothschild Caesarea Center Conference 2013
Coverage: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, National Affairs
Corporate Governance Rules and Insider Trading Profits (with Peter de Goeij and Luc Renneboog)
Review of Finance, 2014, 18(1): 67-108
Summarized in the CFA Digest, August 2014
Shareholder Activism Through Proxy Proposals: The European Perspective (with Luc Renneboog and Peter G. Szilagyi)
European Financial Management, 2010, 16(5): 738-777
Reprinted in: Institutional Investor Activism: Hedge Funds and Private Equity, Economics and Regulation,
edited by William Bratton and Joseph A. McCahery, Oxford University Press, 2015
Coverage: The Independent, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Working Papers
The Market for CEOs (with Dirk Jenter)
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Finance
Finance in the Cloud IV 2020, NBER SI Corporate Finance 2020, EFA 2020, WMS Empirical Management Conference 2020, AFA 2021, SOLE 2021, SFS Cavalcade 2021, ECGI Global Corporate Governance Colloquia 2022, CICF 2023
Coverage: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, University of Toronto News, Pour l'Éco (in French)
Credentials Matter, but Only for Men: Evidence from the S&P 500 (with Adriana Robertson)
Bank of Italy/CEPR/EIEF Conference on "Ownership, Governance, Management & Firm Performance" 2020, ALEA 2021, FSU SunTrust Beach Conference 2022, SOLE 2022, AEA 2024, EFA 2024, Lone Star Finance Symposium 2024
Coverage: National Affairs, Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog
Continuity and Change on Corporate Boards (with Adriana Robertson)
Newspaper Closures and Trading in Local Stocks (with Jasmin Gider)
Quadrant Behavioral Finance Conference 2025, SFS Cavalcade 2025, Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making 2025, Edinburgh Corporate Finance Conference 2025
Teaching
2008 Corporate Finance 2
2010 - 2012 Business Economics 2 for ECO: Finance
2012 - Financial Economics I (asset pricing and portfolio theory)
2012 - Empirical Financial Economics
2017 - Rotman Finance PhD Topics (topic: executive labor markets)
2022 Investments
2022 Financial Markets and Institutions
2024 Finance For the Professional II
2024 Managerial Finance
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