Alminas Žaldokas
Associate Professor of Finance
HKUST
Contact Information
alminas@gmail.com
alminas@ust.hk
Research Interests
Innovation, industrial organization and corporate finance, corporate governance, family firms
Publications and Accepted Papers
Background Noise? TV Advertising Affects Real Time Investor Behavior (with Jura Liaukonyte) How Does Firms' Innovation Disclosure Affect Their Banking Relationships? (with Farzad Saidi) Corporate Disclosure as a Tacit Coordination Mechanism (with Thomas Bourveau and Guoman She) Anti-Collusion Enforcement: Justice for Consumers and Equity for Firms (with Sudipto Dasgupta) The Effects of Global Leniency Programs on Margins and Mergers (with Ailin Dong and Massimo Massa) Do Corporate Taxes Hinder Innovation? (with Abhiroop Mukherjee and Manpreet Singh) Information Transfers among Coowned Firms (with Massimo Massa) Investor Base and Corporate Borrowing Policy: Evidence from International Corporate Bonds (with
Massimo Massa) Credit Supply and Corporate Innovation (with Mario Daniele Amore and Cédric Schneider) Working Papers Motivating Collusion (with Sangeun Ha and Fangyuan Ma)
Management Science accepted
NBER/RFS Conference on Big Data: Long-Term Implications for Financial Markets and Firms 2019, EFA 2019, ... more
Media: WSJ, Matt Levine, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog
Presentation video: UBS Quant Insight Series
Management Science forthcoming
AFA 2017, WFA 2016, ... more
Working Paper, Internet Appendix
Journal of Accounting Research (2020)
AFA 2020, EFA 2019, ... more
Working Paper, Internet Appendix
Media: Oxford Business Law Blog
Review of Financial Studies (2019)
AFA 2018, EFA 2017, ... more
Working Paper, Internet Appendix
RAND Journal of Economics (2019)
WFA 2015, EFA 2014, ... more
Working Paper, Internet Appendix
Award: Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship
Podcast: American Antitrust Institute
Journal of Financial Economics (2017)
EFA 2015, NBER SI Productivity/Innovation Meeting 2014, ... more
Working Paper, Internet Appendix
New Product Announcement Data
Policy briefs: CATO Institute Research Brief, HKUST IEMS Thought Leadership Brief
Journal of Financial Intermediation (2017)
AFA 2012, CICF 2013, ... more
Working Paper
Journal of International Economics (2014)
EFA 2011, McGill Global Asset Management Conference 2011, ... more
Working Paper
Journal of Financial Economics (2013)
WFA 2013, CICF 2013, ... more
Working Paper
AEA 2021, Finance, Organizations, and Markets Conference 2020, ... more
Presentation videos: Finance in the Cloud, ACFOW
Work in Progress New Products (with Abhiroop Mukherjee and Tomas Thornquist) How Do Firms Adjust When Trade Stops? (with Povilas Lastauskas and Aurelija Proskute) Conflicts in Private Family Firms (with Janis Berzins) Older Working Papers Bankrupt Family Firms (with Massimo Massa)
Corporate Governance and International Trade (with Mario Daniele Amore) Some Links Asia-Pacific Corporate Finance Online Workshop
Meetings of the Lithuanian Economics Network
Working papers available on request; *cancelled conferences
Adam Smith Workshop in Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance 2020*, Brookings Institution Productivity Measurement Initiative 2019, ... more
BoL/NBP/CEBRA/CEPR Conference “Adjustments in and to an Uncertain World” 2020, Computational and Financial Econometrics 2020
MFA 2021, ABFER 2020*, ... more
CICF 2014, ISB CAF Summer Research Conference 2014, ... more
EEA/ESEM 2011, EARIE 2011, ... more