Alon Brav
· Clinical Professor of FinanceDuke University · Operations Management
Active 1997–2026
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About
Alon Brav is the Bratton Family Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1998 and has been a member of the Fuqua faculty since 1997. His current research focuses on corporate governance, shareholder voting, and hedge fund activism, with his work featured in prominent journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Financial Analysts Journal, and Columbia Law Review. Additionally, he has studied the debate between rational and behavioral finance and the literature on limits to arbitrage activities, with his research appearing in the Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, and Journal of Economic Methodology. Professor Brav is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Finance. He currently teaches Financial Management in the Weekend Executive MBA program and has previously taught courses in the Global Executive MBA, Master of Management, and Daytime MBA programs.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Political Science
- Business
- Finance
- Economics
- Computer Security
- Accounting
- Market economy
- Management
- Industrial organization
Selected publications
How does hedge fund activism reshape corporate innovation?
Journal of Financial Economics · 2018-06-30 · 611 citations
articleOpen access1st authorJournal of Financial Economics · 2020 · 110 citations
Retail shareholder participation in the proxy process: Monitoring, engagement, and voting
Journal of Financial Economics · 2021 · 104 citations
1st authorCorrespondingPicking Friends Before Picking (Proxy) Fights: How Mutual Fund Voting Shapes Proxy Contests
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2018-01-01 · 76 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingManagement Science · 2021 · 57 citations
1st authorCorrespondingBlockholder monitoring is central to corporate governance, but blockholders large enough to exercise significant unilateral influence are rare. Mechanisms that enable moderately sized blockholders to exert collective influence are therefore important. Existing theory suggests that engagement by moderately sized blockholders is unlikely, especially when the blocks are held by delegated asset managers who have limited skin in the game. We present a model in which multiple delegated blockholders en…
Frequent coauthors
- 110 shared
Wei Jiang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 74 shared
Christopher Géczy
Jacobs Levy Equity Management
- 64 shared
George A. Constantinides
- 50 shared
Roni Michaely
- 46 shared
Lucian A. Bebchuk
National Bureau of Economic Research
- 43 shared
John R. Graham
- 40 shared
Thomas Keusch
- 38 shared
Campbell R. Harvey
National Bureau of Economic Research
Awards & honors
- Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize (1998)
- Barclays Global Investors Michael Brennan Award (2003)
- Jensen Prize for the best corporate finance paper published…
- Barclays Global Investors Michael Brennan Award (2016)
- Jensen Prize for the best corporate finance and organization…
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