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Indiana University Bloomington

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Irina Stefanescu

Contact Information

(812) 855-0189
stefanei [at] indiana [dot] edu (E-mail)
Business School, Room 364

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  • Assistant Professor of Finance

Campus

  • Bloomington

Education

  • PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006

Awards, Honors & Certifications

  • Netspar Research Grant 2010 (Network for studies on pensions, aging and retirement)
  • Research Grant from the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM), University of Toronto. Joint with Joshua Rauh, 2007-2009
  • WRDS Award for the Best Paper, Frank Batten Young Scholars Conference, 2006
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dissertation Research Fellowship 2005–2006
  • The Fred J. Holly Memorial Fellowship, University of Tennessee, 1998 – 2000

Professional Interests

Corporate Finance, Capital Structure, Taxes, Pension Plans, Valuation, Financial Reporting

Selected Publications

  • Stefanescu, Irina, Eitan Goldman, and Urs Peyer (2012), "The impact of fraudulent earnings manipulations on industry rivals," Financial Management, forthcoming. 
  • Shivdasani, Anil and Irina Stefanescu (2010), "How do pensions affect corporate capital structure decisions?," Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3, March, pp. 1287-1323.
  • Rauh, Joshua and Irina Stefanescu (2009), "Why are firms in the United States Abandoning Defined Benefit Plans," Rotman International Journal of Pension Management, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 18-25.