Anastasia Zakolyukina
Asst Professor
Zicklin School of Business
Department: Bert Wasserman Dept Eco & Fin
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Email Address: anastasia.zakolyukina@baruch.cuny.edu
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Anastasia Zakolyukina’s research focuses on empirical studies in corporate finance. Her work covers linguistic-analysis of corporate disclosures, individual traits of corporate executives, and opportunistic discretion in financial reporting and its interaction with firms’ investment choices. Her work has been published in top finance and accounting journals, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review.
Zakolyukina earned a Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2012, a master's degree in economics from New Economic School in 2006, and bachelor’s degrees in information systems and law from Udmurt State University in 2004, the last two in Russia. She joined Baruch College faculty in 2025. Prior to joining Baruch, she was on the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research.
Education
Ph.D., Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford United States
M.A., Economics, New Economic School Moscow Russian Federation
M.S., Information Systems, Udmurt State University Izhevsk Russian Federation
M.S., Jurisprudence, Udmurt State University Izhevsk Russian Federation
Journal Articles
(2024). Non-GAAP reporting and investment. The Accounting Review, 99(2). 341--367.
(2024). Bridging theory and empirical research in accounting. Journal of Accounting Research, 62(3). 1121--1139.
(2023). Information versus investment. The Review of Financial Studies, 36(3). 1148--1191.
(2022). What is CEO overconfidence? Evidence from executive assessments. Journal of Financial Economics, 145(2). 409--425.
(2021). Non-answers during conference calls. Journal of Accounting Research, 59(4). 1349--1384.
(2020). Accounting fundamentals and systematic risk: Corporate failure over the business cycle. The Accounting Review, 95(5). 321--350.
(2018). How common are intentional GAAP violations? Estimates from a dynamic model. Journal of Accounting Research, 56(1). 5--44.
(2012). Detecting deceptive discussions in conference calls. Journal of Accounting Research, 50(2). 495--540.
Other Scholarly Works
Larcker, D. F., O'Reilly, C. A., Tayan, B., & Zakolyukina, A. A. (2021). Are Narcissistic CEOs All That Bad?. Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper.
Research Currently in Progess
Gow, I. D., Kaplan, S. N., Larcker, D. F., & Zakolyukina, A. A.(n.d.). CEO personality and firm policies. In Progress.
Gow, I. D., Larcker, D. F., & Zakolyukina, A. A.(n.d.). How important is corporate governance? Evidence from machine learning. In Progress.
Cherepanov, V., Shi, F., & Zakolyukina, A. A.(n.d.). Fraud Culture. In Progress.
College
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance recruiting committee | Committee Member | Present |
Professional
| Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Accounting Research | Editor, Associate Editor | 7/1/2021 | Present | International | ||
| Journal of Financial Economics | Editor, Associate Editor | 7/1/2024 | Present | International | ||
| Journal of Accounting Research | Editorial Review Board Member | 7/1/2017 | 6/30/2020 | International |