Professor
Coughlin Family Professor
Email: duchinr@bc.edu
Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Political Economy
Ran Duchin is a professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the 艾可直播 College Carroll School of Management. Before聽joining BC, he served on the 艾可直播of the University of Washington's Foster School of Business and the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, which he joined after completing his doctorate at the University of Southern California.聽
Duchin's primary research focus is on corporate finance, corporate governance, and political economy. His work studies a wide range of investment decisions, including internal capital allocation, acquisitions, and government bailouts. In his work, he investigates various mechanisms and frictions that shape investment policies (and, more broadly, corporate decision-making), ranging from political economy and financial regulation to agency conflicts and human behavior.聽
Duchin's work has been published in the top finance journals, including the聽Journal of Finance,Journal of Financial Economics, and聽Review of Financial Studies. Several of his papers received best paper awards from leading academic conferences and were selected by journal editors as lead articles. According to Google Scholar, his papers received more than 5,000 citations and were cited in top journals of other disciplines, including Accounting, Management, Strategy, and Business Law. His work has also attracted attention from many popular national publications, including聽The Wall Street Journal,聽The聽New York Times, and聽The Washington Post.
His research and teaching have been recognized by awards such as the Teva Award in the name of Dan Suesskind for research in corporate finance and financial markets (2010), Dean鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Faculty Research (2017), Faculty PhD Mentor Award (2014, 2017), Dean鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2018), and Evening MBA Professor of the year (2020)
聽(With Jon Brogaard and Matt Denes.)聽Review of Financial Studies, 34 (6), 3095-3137. June, 2021.聽
聽(With Mike Simutin and Denis Sosyura.)聽Review of Financial Studies, 34 (2), 700-762. February, 2021.聽
(With Amy Dittmar and Shuran Zhang.)聽Journal of Financial Economics,聽138 (1), 254-276. October, 2020.聽
鈥.鈥 (With Zhenyu Gao and Haibing Shu.)聽Review of Financial Studies, 33 (12), 5555-5593. December, 2020.聽
鈥溌(With Amir Goldberg and Denis Sosyura.)聽Review of Financial Studies,聽30 (5), 1696-1743. May, 2017.聽
聽(With Thomas Gilbert, Jarrad Harford, and Chris Hrdlicka.)聽Journal of Finance, 72 (2), 793-852. April, 2017.聽
聽(With Kristle Cort茅s and Denis Sosyura.)聽Journal of Financial Economics, 121 (2), 392-413. August, 2016.聽
聽(With Amy Dittmar.)聽Review of Financial Studies, 29 (3), 565-602. May, 2016.聽
鈥溌(With Kenneth Ahern and Tyler Shumway.)聽Review of Financial Studies, 27 (11), 3213-3240. November, 2014.聽
聽(With Denis Sosyura.)聽Journal of Financial Economics, 113, 1-28. July, 2014.聽
鈥溌(With David Disatnik and Breno Schmidt.)聽Review of Finance, 18 (2), 715-748. December, 2012.聽
聽(With Breno Schmidt.)聽Journal of Financial Economics,聽107 (1), 69-88. January, 2013.聽
.鈥 (With Denis Sosyura.)聽Journal of Finance, 68 (2), 387-429. April, 2013.聽
聽(With Denis Sosyura.)聽Journal of Financial Economics,聽106 (1), 24-48. October, 2012.聽
."听Journal of Finance,聽65 (3), 955-992. June, 2010.聽聽
鈥 (With John G. Matsusaka and Oguzhan Ozbas.)聽Journal of Financial Economics,聽96 (2), 195-214. May, 2010.聽
Associate Editor, Review of Financial Studies
Associate Editor, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis