Dr. Oleksandr Talavera Office: Mohrenstrasse 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany Tel. +49 30 89789 407, Fax. +49 30 89789 104, Cell. Phone +49 170 317 1805 E-mail: otalavera@diw.de, Web: http://www.talavera.rv.ua PERSONAL INFORMATION Born January 5th, 1978, citizen of Ukraine, married EDUCATION European University Viadrina, Frankfurt-Oder, Germany, Ph.D. (economics), 2005 Dissertation: Uncertainty determinants of corporate capital structure Advisors: Christopher F. Baum and Andreas Stephan Boston College, USA, M.A. (economics), 2003 EERC Program, National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine, M.A. (economic), 2001 National University Ostroh Academy, Ukraine, B.A. (economics), 1999 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE September 2004 Present: Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW- Berlin) FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION Corporate Finance, Microeconometrics, Entrepreneurship PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS The Effects of Regional and Industry-Wide FDI Spillovers on Export of Ukrainian Firms, (with Stefan Lutz and Sang-Min Park) accepted for publication in Emerging Markets Finance and Trade Corporate Governance and Dividend Policy in Poland, (with Oskar Kowalewski and Ivan Stetsjuk) accepted for publication in Post-Communist Economies The Effects of Uncertainty on the Leverage of Non-Financial Firms, (with C.F. Baum and A. Stephan) accepted for publication in Economic Inquiry Uncertainty Determinants of Firm Investment, (with C. F. Baum and M. Caglayan) accepted for publication in Economics Letters Small-Scale Business Survival and Inheritance: Evidence from Germany, (with Dorothea Schaefer) accepted for publication in Small Business Economics The Impact of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Cash Holdings for Non-Financial Firms, (with C. F. Baum, M. Caglayan and N. Ozkan), Review of Financial Economics, (2006) 15 (4), pp. 289-304 Do Ukrainian Firms Benefit from FDI? (with S. Lutz), Economics of Planning, (2004) 37 (2), pp. 77 98
NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Ukrainian Banks: Value of Patronage, (with Christopher F. Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Dorothea Schaefer) Wochenbericht des DIW Berlin (2007) in German Bank Credits for Female Entrepreneurs: Effects of Financial Development, (with A. Muravyev and D. Schaefer) Wochenbericht des DIW Berlin (2007) in German The Effects of Internal Ratings on Commercial Loan Maturity, (with N. Fedorenko and D. Schaefer) Wochenbericht des DIW Berlin (2007) in German Research: Do Russian-Speaking Employees Earn More than Ukrainian Speaking Counterparts? (with O. Bilyk) Epravda.com.ua (2007) in Ukrainian Insurers have been cleaned successfully (with O. Badunenko and B. Grechanyuk), Epravda.com.ua (2006) In Ukrainian WORKING PAPERS Entrepreneurs Gender and Financial Constraints: Evidence from International Data, DIW working paper No. 706 (2007): with Alexander Muravyev and Dorothea Schaefer revised and resubmitted Political Patronage in Ukrainian Banking, Boston College Working Paper No. 657 (2007): with Christopher F. Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Dorothea Schaefer revised and resubmitted The Effects of the Bank-Internal Ratings on the Loan Maturity, DIW working paper No. 704 (2007): with Natalya Fedorenko and Dorothea Schaefer Venture Capital versus Bank Financing in Innovative German Firms, DIW working paper No. 701 (2007): with Dorothea Schaefer and Volker Zimmermann Are Airlines Price-Setting Strategies Different? DIW working paper No. 645 (2006): with Volodymyr Bilotkach, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Ihor Zubenko Development under Regulation: The Way of the Ukrainian Insurance Market DIW working paper No. 644 (2006): with Oleh Badunenko and Bogdana Grechanyuk Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Bank Lending: Case of Ukraine, DIW working paper No. 637 (2006): with Andriy Tsapin and Oleksandr Zholud Financial Constraints and Continental Business Groups: Evidence from German Konzerns, DIW working paper No. 590 (2006): with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Dorothea Schaefer Firm Investment and Financial Frictions, Boston College Working Paper No. 638 (2006): with Christopher F. Baum and Mustafa Caglayan - submitted The Effects of Industry-Level Uncertainty on Cash Holdings: The Case of Germany, Boston College Working Paper No. 637 (2006): with Christopher F. Baum and Dorothea Schaefer The Effects of Short-Term Liabilities on Profitability: The Case of Germany, Boston College Working Paper No. 636 (2006): with Christopher F. Baum and Dorothea Schaefer - submitted Entrepreneurship, Windfall Gains and Financial Constraints: The Case of Germany, DIW working paper No. 480 (2005): with Dorothea Schaefer submitted 2
Uncertainty Determinants of Corporate Liquidity, Boston College Working Paper No. 634 (2005): with Christopher F. Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Andreas Stephan submitted CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ASPE: St-Petersburg, November 2007 EEA: Budapest, August 2007 (4), Vienna, August 2006 (2); Amsterdam, August 2005 ESEM: Budapest, August 2007; Vienna, August 2006 (2); Madrid, Spain, August 2004 Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association): Munich, October 2007 (4); Bayreth, September, 2006; Bonn, September 2005 (2); Dresden, September 2004 German Finance Association, Dresden, September 2007; European Business School, October 2006 EFA, Moscow, August 2005 MMF, Rethymno, Greece, September 2005 (2) 10th Symposium on Finance, Banking, and Insurance, Karlsruhe, December 2005 Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Money and Banking Conference, London, December 2005 Midwest Finance Association, Milwaukee, USA, March 2005 Portuguese Finance Network Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2004 Spring Meeting of Young Economists in Warsaw, April 2004 Second German Stata Users Meeting in Berlin, April 2004 International Conference Market Power and Competition Policy in FSU Countries, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 2005 INVITED SEMINARS Entrepreneurs Gender and Financial Constraints : University of Hasselt, October 2007; University of Groningen, November 2007 Entrepreneurship, Windfall Gains..: Kyiv School of Economics, December 2006 The Effects of Short-Term Liabilities on. : Humbold University, Berlin, June 2006 The Effects of Regional and Industry-Wide FDI : RWI Essen, November 2004 The Impact of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Cash : ZEW, January 2003; European University Viadrina, July 2003; DIW Berlin, December 2003 GRANTS, AWARDS German Science Foundation Travel Grant (500 EUR) September 2005 EERC Research Grant N R04-1081 (13,400 USD) April 2004 Boston College Summer Scholarship, June 2002 July 2002 EERC Research Assistantship, June 2001 August 2001 VISITING LECTURER Corporate Finance: Donetsk Technical University (March 2007), Ivano-Frankinvsk Oil and Gas University (December 2006), Donetsk Economic University named after Tugan- 3
Baranovsky (October 2006), Mykolayiv Marine University (May 2006), Ostroh Academy (October 2005) Economic Growth: Donetsk Economic University named after Tugan-Baranovsky (October 2006) ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany, (January 2004 August 2004) Intern, Department of Innovation, Manufacturing and Serivces. Worked on the effects of macroeconomic uncertainty on leverage of US non-financial firms Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany, (June 2003 August 2003) Guest Researcher Developed theoretical model of Foreign Direct Investments spillovers and tested it empirically Academic Technology Services, Boston College, MA, USA, (June 2002 May 2003), Graduate Statistic Consultant Maintained Virtual Data Center repository of economic and social science databases (DOTs, DRI, IFS, WDI) Analyzed data using Stata, SAS, SPSS, served as team leader for graduate research and statistics assistants Managed analytical software installation and deployment of over 3,000 new faculty and staff computers Department of Economics, Boston College, MA, USA, (September 2001 May 2002), Research Assistant for Professor Christopher F. Baum Created web-pages for Stata Textbook Examples: Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (1st and 2d eds.) by Jeffrey Wooldridge Worked as teaching assistant in Financial Derivatives and Econometrics classes EERC-Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, (September 2000 June 2001), Teaching Assistant Worked as teaching assistant in Microeconomics class Corporate Finance Department, Kinto Investments & Securities, Kiev, Ukraine, (June 2000 April 2001), Analyst Created and analyzed business plans for companies in telecommunication, internet and food industries MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS Econometric Society European Economic Association PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Referee for Economic Change and Restructuring, Regional Studies COMPUTER SKILLS. Stata (programming), Visual Basic for Excel, Maple, Ox 4
LANGUAGES Ukrainian (native), English (fluent), Russian (fluent), Polish (good command of), German (good command of) REFERENCES Christopher F. Baum, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA, tel: +1-617-552-3673, fax: +1-617-552-2308, email: baum@bc.edu Andreas Stephan, Jönköping International Business School, Box 1026, 551 11 Jönköping, Sweden, tel: +46-36-101760, fax: +46-36-121832, email: andreas.stephan@ihh.hj.se Dorothea Schaefer, DIW-Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, D-10117 Berlin, Germany, tel: +49-30- 89789-162, fax: +49-30-89789-104, email: dschaefer@diw.de Mustafa Caglayan, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street 9, Sheffield S1 4DT, UK, Tel:+44-114-222-3320, fax: +44-114-222-3458, email: mcaglayan@shef.ac.uk Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley, 549 Evans Hall #3880, CA 94720, USA, tel: +1-510 643-0720, fax: +1-510-642-6615, email: ygorodni@econ.berkeley.edu updated in November 2007 5