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About Pouyan Foroughi
Pouyan Foroughi is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Schulich School of Business, York University. He completed his Ph.D. in Finance at Boston College in 2017. His main research interests include empirical corporate finance, corporate governance and the role of financial institution in capital markets. His research has won best paper awards at WFA-CFAR conference, Western Finance Association (WFA) and Midwest Finance association (MFA). His teaching focuses on corporate governance and corporate finance at the undergraduate and the postgraduate levels.
Honours
2019 Midwest Finance Association Outstanding Paper Award, MFA annual meeting
2017 WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, WFA annual meeting
2016 Best Paper Award in Honor of Stuart I. Greenbaum, Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis
2016 Semifinalist for the Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance, FMA Annual Meeting
2016 Doctoral Student Consortium, FMA Annual Meeting
2016 Doctoral Student Travel Grant, AFA Annual Meeting
2012 Doctoral Fellowship, Boston College, Carroll School of Management
2008 Recognized as Exceptional Talent, Iran's National Elites Foundation and Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and, Technology
Recent Publications
"Peer Effects in Corporate Governance Practices: Evidence from Universal Demand Laws"(with Alan Marcus, Vinh Nguyen, and Hassan Tehranian), 2021, Review of Financial Studies, accepted
Investor Protection and the Long-Run Performance of Activism (with Namho Kang, Gideon Ozik, and Ronnie Sadka), 2019, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 54(1), 61-100
Pouyan Foroughi
Assistant Professor of Finance
PhD, Finance (Boston College, Carroll School of Management)MBA, major Finance (Sharif University of Technology, Graduate School of Management and Economics)
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering (Sharif University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering)