Nadya Malenko

Nadya Malenko is a professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. She is also the President of Finance Theory Group, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. Malenko’s research interests are in the areas of corporate finance, corporate governance, private equity, and organizational economics. Her work has appeared in top academic journals and has received several awards, including the Journal of Finance Distinguished Paper Brattle Prize and best paper awards from leading academic conferences.

Can Shareholder Democracy Fill the Void of a Dysfunctional Regulatory System?

As financial markets take on societal challenges like climate change, new research from Robin Döttling, Doron Levit, Nadya Malenko and Magdalena Rola-Janicka explores how shareholder democracy interacts with the political process to impact public goods provisions. The authors investigate the potential of investor-driven governance to supplement the shortfalls of the regulatory system, highlighting both benefits and risks posed by wealth inequality and ESG backlash.

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