Ilona Babenka
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BAC 540 W.P. Carey School of Business Box 873906 Tempe, AZ 85287-3906
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Mail code: 3906Campus: Tempe
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Ilona Babenko is an associate professor of finance at the W. P. Carey School of Business. Professor Babenko’s research and teaching interests are in compensation design, insider trading and information economics, corporate financing and payout policies, real options, and political activism of corporations.
Before joining W. P. Carey, Professor Babenko was an assistant professor of finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She has also taught finance classes at New Economic School (Russia), Bocconi University (Italy), and VGSF Business School (Austria). She received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Belarus State University, her master’s degree in physics from the University of Minnesota, and her PhD in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Babenko has been recognized for her achievements in academia and research, including the 2012 Fidelity Fellowship in Equity Compensation Research, the 2011 J. Robert Beyster Faculty Fellowship, and the 2009 HKUST Recognition for Teaching Excellence. She has published several articles in academic and practitioner journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Harvard Business Review, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and her work has featured in media outlets, such as New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Forbes.
- Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley 2006
- M.S. University of Minnesota 2001
- B.S. Belarus State University 1999
