Welcome to my academic homepage. 

I am an economist working on topics in corporate governance, 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). My work has been presented, among others, at Chicago Booth, Wharton, Stanford GBS, MIT Sloan, Kellogg School of Management, NYU Stern, Yale School of Management, and USC.

I am also an experienced administrator. For 14 years, I served as Director at the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University. Under my leadership, Economics at Charles University climbed rankings up to the global top 150. Currently, I serve as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, and in this position, I organize a local job market for economists at universities and business schools.

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

Published in 2025

Board Bias, Information, and Investment Efficiency, Review of Accounting Studies 30, 1432–1462 

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

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

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

Working papers

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 Brook Game Theory Conference, EAA 2023 (Helsinki-Aalto), ARW 2023 (Zurich), and AFFI 2023 (Bordeaux) 

   • featured in "Board Mandates and Scarcity of Qualified Directors: Unveiling an Overlooked Perspective", FinReg Blog, January 28, 2025

   • featured in "The Role of Board-of-Directors Pay in Effective Corporate Investing" by Monica Brown, UCLA Anderson Review, November 26, 2024

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

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

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

• under review

Work in progress

Venture Capital Scarcity, Investment Uncertainty, and Organization Capital in Startups

• presented at ARW 2025 (Zurich), EntFin 2025 (Rotterdam), FMA Europe 2024 (Turin), and EARIE 2024 (Amsterdam)

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)