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Maria Boutchkova earned her doctorate in finance from the University of Oklahoma in 2003. She joined the University of Edinburgh in May 2012 after spending six years at Concordia University in Montreal and previously at the University of Leicester. Her research interests encompass various aspects of corporate finance, including corporate ownership structures, pyramidal business groups, the impact of politics on stock volatility, privatization, corporate governance, financial development in emerging markets, and gender diversity. She employs statistical power within-firm estimators and explores areas such as executive compensation and shock-based causal inference. Maria's work has been published in top-tier academic journals, including the Review of Financial Studies and Financial Management. Additionally, she served on the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies from 2007 to 2015 and is currently involved in a recent initiative aimed at building confidence among women in academia.
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