Yonca Ertimur is Professor of Accounting at Miami Herbert Business School. Prior to joining MBS, Yonca taught at Stanford University, Duke University and the University of Colorado–Boulder. Her expertise is on the effectiveness of direct monitoring by shareholders in solving the governance problems that arise from the separation of ownership and control. Direct monitoring can take a variety of forms. Yonca’s research focuses on direct expressions of shareholder voice through non-binding governance related shareholder proposals, vote-no campaigns, and shareholder votes at the annual meeting. Yonca also conducts research on the role of labor markets in incentivizing top executives and the directors tasked with monitoring and advising these executives.
Corporate Governance, Shareholder Activism, Corporate Disclosures, Role of Analysts as Information Intermediaries