Olga Kuzmina

Olga Kuzmina is an Associate Professor of Finance with tenure at the New Economic School and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London).

She graduated from the Higher School of Economics (ICEF) with distinction and University of London with honors. 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 Paper Award from IFABS and Runner-Up Paper Award at the 8th EFiC Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance. 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.