Ekaterina Volkova

Information Revealed through the Regulatory Process: Interactions between the SEC and Companies ahead of Their IPO

Michelle Lowry, Roni Michaely, Ekaterina Volkova

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Review of Financial Studies

We analyze communications between the SEC and firms prior to IPOs using LDA analysis and KL divergence. The SEC’s concerns closely..

Watch Your Basket - to Determine CEO Compensation

Neal Galpin, Hae Won Henny Jung, Lyndon Moore, Ekaterina Volkova

Journal article  |  2019  |  Financial Management

CEOs (chief executive officers) are paid more if they outperform other firms in their blockholders’ portfolios. For every percenta..

Can VPIN forecast geopolitical events? Evidence from the 2014 Crimean Crisis

Felipe Bastos G Silva, Ekaterina Volkova

Journal article  |  2018  |  Annals of Finance

We study the recent Crimean Crisis and the sequence of outcomes that led to the intervention by the Russian Army, which directly a..

Initial public offerings: A synthesis of the literature and directions for future research

M Lowry, R Michaely, E Volkova

Journal article  |  2017  |  Foundations and Trends in Finance

The purpose of this monograph is to provide an overview of the IPO literature since 2000. The fewer numbers of companies going pub..