Miriam Schwartz-Ziv

Dr. Schwartz-Ziv is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Departments of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD in Finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a research fellow at Harvard: in the Law School's Program on Corporate Governance, the Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Program, and the Safra Center for Ethics. She has been an assistant professor at Michigan State University for 6 years.

Dr. Schwartz-Ziv has published academic papers on boards of directors, shareholders, and corporate governance in leading journals: Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Before beginning her academic career, Dr. Schwartz-Ziv worked as a financial analyst at the Israel Postal Bank and as a privatization economist at Israel's Government Companies Authority (GCA). She was the GCA's representative on the boards of directors of several large Israeli corporations: the Electric Corporation, Postal Company/Postal Bank, and Coins and Medals Corporation.

Research

Publications

• “When Shareholders Disagree: Trading After Shareholder Meetings”, with Sophia Li and Ernst Maug, 2021. Forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies.
• “Blockholder Heterogeneity and the Dance between Blockholders”, with Charles Hadlock, 2019. Review of Financial Studies, 32: 4196-4227.
• “Gender and Board Activeness: The Role of a Critical Mass”, 2017. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 52, 751-780.

• “What do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings”, with Michael S. Weisbach, 2013. Journal of Financial Economics 108, 349–366.

  Working Papers

• “How Shifting from In-Person to Virtual Shareholder Meetings Affects Shareholders’ Voice?”, 2021

• “Is Blockholder Diversity Detrimental?”, with Ekaterina Volkova, 2021

• “Do Institutional Investors Monitor their Large vs. Small Investments Differently? Evidence from the Say-On-Pay Vote”, with Russ Wermers, 2020.

• “Block Diversity and Governance”, with Ryan Israelsen and James Weston, 2020

• “Corporate and Mutual-Fund Overlapping Directors and Shareholder Satisfaction”, with Rachel Li.