Assistant Professor of Finance, Nazarbayev University, August 2020 – Present
Visiting Scholar, Duke University
Ph.D. in Finance, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2020
Visiting Finance Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Fall 2018
B.S. in Finance, summa cum laude, University of Northern Colorado, 2015
Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance
CFA Charterholder
Interest Rates, Cash and Short-Term Investments
Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 132, Nov. 2021
[published version] [ResearchGate] [SSRN]
Award: Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper, Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Meeting, 2018
Presentations: FMA Annual Meeting; Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Meeting; University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Costly External Finance and Corporate Investment: The Role of Marketable Securities
Finance Research Letters, Vol. 83, Oct. 2025
[published version] [ResearchGate] [SSRN]
Presentations: Duke University; Nazarbayev University
Strategic Cash Portfolio Management in the Face of Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from U.S. Firms (with Julian Atanassov and Gabriele Lattanzio) (April 2025) - Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Corporate Finance
[ResearchGate] [SSRN]
Award: Finalist for Best Conference Paper, Financial Management and Accounting Research Conference (FMARC)
Presentations: FMA Annual Meeting (scheduled); FMA European; EFMA Annual Meeting; FMARC; 5th Annual Boca-European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Corporate Finance and Governance Conference; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Do Managers Cater to Investors' Demand for Income? (April 2025) - Revise and Resubmit, Review of Corporate Finance
[ResearchGate] [SSRN]
Presentations: European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Annual Meeting; Nazarbayev University GSB/Duke University Fuqua Joint Research Symposium
Non-Compete Agreements and Capital Structure Decisions.
[ResearchGate] [SSRN]
Award: Semifinalist for Best Paper in Corporate Finance, FMA Annual Meeting
Presentations: 14th International Conference of the FEBS (scheduled); Duke University; University of Michigan; University of Nebraska – Lincoln; Stevens Institute of Technology; Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting; FMA Annual Meeting, FMA Doctoral Student Consortium; Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting
Образование в США. Мой путь. Бек Темир
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Аннотация: Познавательная книга о том, как поступить в университеты США на программы бакалавриата, магистратуры и Ph. D., как выбрать подходящий университет, как профинансировать свое образование, и о многом другом. Автор раскрывает подводные камни и делится лайфхаками, накопленными за десять лет изучения данной темы, пять из которых он провел в университетах США.
Nazarbayev University
Fintech*: MSF Core
Corporate Finance: MSF Core, MBA Core, and Executive MBA Elective
Special Topics in Corporate Finance (including ESG)*: MBA and MSF Elective
Corporate Governance*: MBA and MSF elective
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Investments, Undergraduate, Summer 2019
(* course developed)