Ph.D. Economics, University of Chicago (2008)
M.A. Economics, New Economic School (2002)
Banking Fraud
Corporate Malfeasance
Emerging Markets
Dr. Sergey Mityakov is the Truist Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at Florida State University’s College of Business. His research focuses on corporate governance issues in the context of emerging markets and developing economies and has been published in premier finance and economics journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and the Journal of Law and Economics. His papers have been accepted by highly selective conferences, such as American Economic Association Annual meetings and NBER conferences and workshops. In 2016, one of his papers received an honorary mention in the prestigious Russian National Award in Applied Economics.
Mityakov received his master’s degree in economics from the New Economic School, and his doctoral degree in economics from the University of Chicago.
Unobserved Inputs in Household Production, (2024) (joint with Tom Mroz) Journal of Political Economy, vol. 132(6), pages 1876-1896.
International Politics and oil: Evidence from Russian oil Exports (2023) (joint with M. Portnykh and K. Tsui) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Volume 39, Issue 3, Pages 642–681.
Political beta. (joint with Ray Fisman, April Knill, and Margarita Portnykh) (2022) Review of Finance 26 (5), 1179-1215
Behavior of Corporate Depositors During a Bank Panic. (2022) (joint with Lucy Chernykh) Management Science 68 (12), 9129-9151
Do Ex-Bankers Benefit Non-Financial Firms? Evidence from Job Transitions. (2022) (joint with L. Chernykh) Review of Corporate Finance Studies 11(2), Pages 364–413.
Transparency, contracting frictions, and trade: Evidence across firms. (2021), (with Ray Fisman and Eric Hardy) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 37(3), Pages 637–680.
Offshore Schemes and Tax Evasion: The Role of Banks ( joint with Lucy Chernykh) (2018) Journal of Financial Economics
Foreign Corporations and the Culture of Transparency: Evidence from Russian Administrative Data (joint with Serguey Braguinsky) (2015), Journal of Financial Economics (Also available as NBER working paper 17731)
Direct Estimation of Hidden Earnings: Evidence From Russian Administrative Data (with Serguey Braguinsky and Andrei Liskovich) (2014), Journal of Law and Economics, 57 (2), 281-319
Energy Security and International Relations: Evidence from Oil Import Diversification (joint with K. Tsui, H. Tang) (2013), Journal of Law and Economics, 56 (4), 1091-1121
Dr. Mityakov is an avid car enthusiast. This stems from his prior research approach that used cars to measure corporate fraud.
- 2019 Outstanding paper award, GARP Global Association of Risk Professionals, Midwest Finance Association for the paper “Transparency, contracting frictions, and trade: Evidence across firms” (with Ray Fisman and Eric Hardy)
- 2016 Russian National Award in Applied Economics
