Welcome to my academic homepage. 

I am a microeconomist interested in corporations and organizations, working on topics in corporate finance, organizational economics, political finance, and accounting and economics. To exaggerate a bit, I specialize in producing academic "crossovers" across economics, finance, accounting, management science, and political science. 

My papers have been cited, among others, in top journals in Finance (Review of Financial Studies), Management (Management Science), Accounting (Journal of Accounting Research), and Political Science (Americal Political Science Review).

I am also an experienced administrator. Over the last 14 years, I served as Director at the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University. Under my leadership, Charles University climbed global rankings in Economics up to the consistent top 150.

I work primarily on applied theory. Recently, I contributed to the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.

Working papers

Board Bias, Information, and Investment Efficiency

1. • conditionally accepted at the Review of Accounting Studies

   • a joint work with Beatrice Michaeli (UCLA)

   • presented at Chicago Booth, Wharton, Stanford Graduate School of Business, MIT Sloan, Kellogg School of Management, NYU Stern School of Business, Yale School of Management, University of Southern California, University of California San Diego, UT Austin, Duke Fuqua Business School, Dartmouth Tuck School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Purdue University, University of Bristol, EAA 2021 (Brussels), ARW 2021 (Zurich), and EFMA 2021 (Leeds)

   • featured in "A Skeptical Board Can Protect Shareholders From an Empire-Building CEO" by Michael Totty, UCLA Anderson Review, January 12, 2022

   • featured in "Why Activist Hedge Funds Deserve Representation on Corporate Boards" on the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, August 22, 2022

Board Compensation and Investment Efficiency

1. • a joint work with Beatrice Michaeli (UCLA)

   • presented at MIT Sloan, Dartmouth Tuck School of Business, University of Arizona, University of Paderborn, 2022 Stony Brooks Game Theory Conference, EAA 2023 (Helsinki-Aalto), ARW 2023 (Zurich), and AFFI 2023 (Bordeaux) 

   • featured in "How Directors’ Liability Protection Can Affect the Quality of Company Projects" on the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, March 22, 2024

Work in progress

Venture Capital Scarcity, Start-up Quality, and Returns Dispersion

• scheduled for presentation at FMA Europe 2024 (Turin)

Management Boards of Czech Banks and Bank Risk: A Random Forest Analysis

• a joint work with Diana Zigraiova (European Stability Mechanism, Luxembourg) 

Board Directors under CEO's Social Pressure: Misreporting and Dissent Risk

• presented at Corporate Finance Day 2019 (Groningen), Accounting Research Workshop 2019 (Zurich), CAAG 2019 (Barcelona), and 2018 EIASM Workshop on Corporate Governance (Brussels)