Anahit (Anya) Mkrtchyan Ph.D. Candidate in Finance Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business 306A Business Building University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814)-865-0616 E-Mail: anya@psu.edu

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Education| Research |Teaching |CV

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Education

Ph.D. Finance, Pennsylvania State University, 2013 

M.B.A., Vanderbilt University, 2006

M.A. Political Science, American University of Armenia, 1999

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Research

Working Papers

“The Effect of Director Expertise on Acquisitions Performance” (Job Market Paper, download)

• FMA Doctoral Consortium 2012

 “Are Busy Boards Detrimental?” with Laura Field and Michelle Lowry (both from Penn State) (download from SSRN) 

• Fourth Annual Conference on Corporate Governance 2011, Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting 2011, FMA 2010
• Forthcoming, Journal of Financial Economics

“Director Compensation Incentives: Evidence from Acquisitions” (download)

• FMA 2011 

Work in Progress

“Board Diversity and Firm Value”

“Board Experience and CEO Overconfidence”

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Teaching

FIN 407, Financial Markets and Institutions, Penn State University, Summer 2010 (student evaluations of 6.3/7)

FIN 408, Multinational Financial Management, Penn State University, Summer 2012 (student evaluations of 6.0/7)

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Last  updated: 08/21/2012