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

The Dollar Profits to Insider Trading (with Jasmin Gider)
Review of Finance, forthcoming

• 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

What Do Insiders Know? Evidence From Insider Trading Around Share Repurchases and SEOs (with Evgeny Lyandres and Roni Michaely)
Journal of Corporate Finance, forthcoming

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

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
• Coverage: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

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

• Abstracted 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

Bank Payout Motives at the Start of the Crisis of 2007-2009 (with Christian Laux and Gyöngyi Lóránth)

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

The Market for CEOs (with Dirk Jenter)

• 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
• Coverage: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

Lifetime Membership? Benefits of S&P 500 Inclusion for Women, Men, and Firms (with Adriana Robertson)

• Bank of Italy/CEPR/EIEF Conference on "Ownership, Governance, Management & Firm Performance" 2020

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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)