Igor Kadach
Igor Kadach is an Assistant Professor in the Accounting and Control department at IESE Business School. His research interests concentrate on voluntary disclosure, institutional ownership and the structure of executive compensation. In his dissertation, he studied the interplay of equity mispricing and managers’ earnings forecast decisions. He has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, and plans to study the effects of institutional ownership and executive compensation on managers’ disclosure decisions. Prof. Kadach holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU), an M.A. in Economics from the New Economic School and a B.A. in Economics from Moscow State University.
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