Senior Lecturer
Department of Finance
Faculty of Business and Economics
University of Melbourne 
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Finance at the University of Melbourne. I joined the Department in July 2007 after gaining my PhD in Finance from the University of Alabama. My research interests are primarily in corporate governance.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

  1. Akyol, Ali C., Jin San Kim and Chander Shekhar, 2014, The Causes and Consequences of Accelerated Stock Repurchases, International Review of Finance 14, 319-343. 

  2. Akyol, Ali C., Tommy Cooper, Michele Meoli and Silvio Vismara, 2014, Do Regulatory Changes Affect the Underpricing of European IPOs? Journal of Banking and Finance 45, 43-58.
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  3. Akyol, Ali C. and Patrick Verwijmeren, 2013, Human Capital Costs, Firm Leverage, and Unemployment Rates, Journal of Financial Intermediation 22, 464-481.
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  4. Akyol, Ali C. and Lauren Cohen, 2013, Who Chooses Board Members?, Advances in Financial Economics 16, 43-75.
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  5. Akyol, Ali C. and Chi Chong Foo, 2013, Share Repurchase Reasons and the Market Reaction to Actual Share Repurchases: Evidence from Australia,  International Review of Finance 13, 1-37. 

  6. Akyol, Ali C., Wei Fen Lim, and Patrick Verwijmeren, 2012, Shareholders in the Boardroom: Wealth Effects of the SEC’s Rule to Facilitate Director Nominations, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 47, 1029-1057. 

  7. Akyol, Ali C., Wei Fen Lim, and Patrick Verwijmeren, 2012, Governance Characteristics and the Market Reaction to the SEC’s Proxy Access Rule, International Review of Finance 12, 175-195.

  8. Akyol, Ali C., 2011, Stock Returns around Non-Trading Periods: Evidence from an Emerging Market, Applied Financial Economics 21, 1549-1560.

Working papers

  1. Director Skill Sets – with Renée Adams and Patrick Verwijmeren. Download the paper here.
    -      Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance in the 2014 FMA Asia Meetings
    -  Shortlisted for the Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance in the 2015 FMA Meetings

  2. Analyst Experience and Accrual Anomaly: How Do Experienced Analysts Improve Price Efficiency? – with Yiming Qian and Frank Yu. Download the paper here.

  3. Location, Managerial Entrenchment, and Short-Term Pressure - with Rex Wang Renjie and Patrick Verwijmeren. Download the paper here.
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  4. The Elimination of Broker Voting: Much Ado About Nothing? - with Konrad Raff and Patrick Verwijmeren. Download the paper here.

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