Olga Kuzmina

Olga Kuzmina is an Associate Professor of Finance with tenure at the New Economic School (Moscow) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). She received her PhD in Finance from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, in 2012, and has spent the 2019-2020 year on sabbatical at the LSE Finance Department. Her research interests include empirical corporate finance, broadly defined, with a particular interest in the interactions between corporate finance, labor economics, and international economics, and a focus on identification and applied methods. She has published her work in the American Economic Review, Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and other journals, and presented it at various conferences, including the AFA, EFA, AEA, FIRS, CEPR/Gerzensee, CSEF Finance and Labor conference, Paris Finance meeting, FMA Europe, etc. She has received the Best Young researcher award from IFABS for one of her solo-authored papers. She is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance, and was a Research Advisory Board member of the Central Bank of Russia prior to 2022.