Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto Contact Information Department of Economics Max Gluskin House, Room 209 St. George Street 150 M5S 3G7 Toronto, ON, Canada Email: peter.cziraki@utoronto.ca Phone: 416 946-3298 Research Interests Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Executive Labor Markets, Insider Trading, Law and Finance, Shareholder Activism [Curriculum Vitae]    [Google Scholar]    [SSRN]    [LinkedIn]

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Publications

Trading by Bank Insiders before and during the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis    [Internet Appendix]  

Journal of Financial Intermediation, Vol. 33, January 2018

• Coverage: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, National Affairs – Daily Findings by Kevin Lewis

Corporate Governance Rules and Insider Trading Profits (with Peter de Goeij and Luc Renneboog)
Review of Finance, Vol. 18 No. 1, January 2014

Shareholder Activism Through Proxy Proposals: The European Perspective (with Luc Renneboog and Peter G. Szilagyi)
European Financial Management, Vol. 16 No. 5, November 2010

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

CEO Turnover and Volatility under Long-Term Employment Contracts (with Moqi Groen-Xu) 

Conditionally accepted, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

• EFA 2014, FIRS 2015, LBS Summer Symposium 2014
• Coverage: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

Asymmetric Attention and Stock Returns (with Jordi Mondria and Thomas Wu)

Revise and resubmit, Management Science

• AFA 2012, SFS Cavalcade 2011, EEA 2011, SED 2011

Understanding Bank Payouts During the Crisis of 2007-2009 (with Christian Laux and Gyöngyi Lóránth)

• AFA 2016, CICF 2016, FDIC/JFSR Annual Conference 2015
• Coverage: Vox EU, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

What Do Insiders Know? Evidence from Insider Trading Around Share Repurchases and SEOs (with Evgeny Lyandres and Roni Michaely)

• AFA 2018, EFA 2016, CICF 2016, CFEA 2016
• Coverage: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

The Dollar Profits to Insider Trading (with Jasmin Gider)

• AFA 2019, EFA 2017, ABFER 2017, CICF 2017
• Coverage: Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog

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