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Boris Nikolov

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Courses taught by this person (1)

FIN-618: Financial Econometrics II

The course aims to give students the tools to write academic papers and is divided into two parts. The first part covers microeconometric methods including panel data, IVs, difference-in-differences,

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Identifiability and Generalizability from Multiple Experts in Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Volkan Cevher, Paul Thierry Yves Rolland, Luca Viano, Boris Nikolov

While Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to train an agent from a reward function in a given environment, Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) seeks to recover the reward function from observing an expert’s behavior. It is well known that, in general, variou ...

2022

Agency conflicts around the world

Erwan Morellec, Boris Nikolov

We use a dynamic model of financing decisions to measure agency conflicts for a large panel of 12,652 firms from 14 countries. Our estimates show that agency conflicts are large and vary significantly across firms and countries. Differences in agency confl ...

2018

Corporate governance and capital structure dynamics

Erwan Morellec, Norman Schuerhoff, Boris Nikolov

We develop a dynamic tradeoff model to examine the importance of managershareholder conflicts in capital structure choice. In the model, firms face taxation, refinancing costs, and liquidation costs. Managers own a fraction of the firms equity, capture par ...

2012