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Ran Duchin is a professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. Before聽joining 51茶馆, he served on the faculty of the University of Washington's Foster School of Business and the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, which he joined after completing his doctorate at the University of Southern California.聽

Duchin's primary research focus is on corporate finance, corporate governance, and political economy. His work studies a wide range of investment decisions, including internal capital allocation, acquisitions, and government bailouts. In his work, he investigates various mechanisms and frictions that shape investment policies (and, more broadly, corporate decision-making), ranging from political economy and financial regulation to agency conflicts and human behavior.聽

Duchin's work has been published in the top finance journals, including the聽Journal of Finance,Journal of Financial Economics, and聽Review of Financial Studies. Several of his papers received best paper awards from leading academic conferences and were selected by journal editors as lead articles. According to Google Scholar, his papers received more than 5,000 citations and were cited in top journals of other disciplines, including Accounting, Management, Strategy, and Business Law. His work has also attracted attention from many popular national publications, including聽The Wall Street Journal,聽The聽New York Times, and聽The Washington Post.

His research and teaching have been recognized by awards such as the Teva Award in the name of Dan Suesskind for research in corporate finance and financial markets (2010), Dean鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Faculty Research (2017), Faculty PhD Mentor Award (2014, 2017), Dean鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2018), and Evening MBA Professor of the year (2020)