Prof. Schwartz-Ziv is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. She has published research papers in leading academic journals such as the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics and is an associate editor of three academic journals: Financial Management, Financial Review, and the Leadership Quarterly. She was a research fellow at the Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. She was then an assistant professor of finance at Michigan State University. Prof. Schwartz-Ziv specializes in corporate governance, ESG, boards, controlling shareholders, institutional investors, shareholder votes, and shareholder meetings.
Prof. Schwartz-Ziv has won several prestigious and large grants, including from the European Research Council (ERC) and the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), amounting to $1.8 million. Before her academic career, Prof. Schwartz-Ziv worked as a privatization economist and was the head of the energy unit at Israel's Governmental Companies Authority (GCA). She was the GCA's representative on several boards of directors, including the Electric Corporation and the Postal Company. Prof. Schwartz-Ziv is currently an advisor to the research department at the Bank of Israel, and on the board and investment committee of “Heatid”.
- Publications
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“Big Tech Directors, SPACs, and Antitrust Evasion Tactics”, with Anat Alon-Beck, John Livingstone, and Moran Ofir, 2024. The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, forthcoming.
“Is Blockholder Diversity Detrimental?”, with Ekaterina Volkova, 2023. Management Science, forthcoming.
“Do Institutional Investors Monitor their Large vs. Small Investments Differently? Evidence from the Say-On-Pay Vote”, with Russ Wermers, 2022. Journal of Banking and Finance 141, 106532.
“When Shareholder Disagree: Trading After Shareholder Meetings”, with Sophia Li and Ernst Maug, 2022. Review of Financial Studies 35(4), 1813-1867.
“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.
- In the News
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The Wall Street Journal “Shareholders Feel Muted as Companies Switch to Virtual Annual Meetings”, 8/23/2020
Financial Times “Private investors left in the dark by online AGMs” – 9/3/2018
New York Times – “U.S. Activists Complain That Virtual Shareholder Meetings
Let Companies Silence Them” – 8/18/2020
Yahoo! Finance “U.S. activists complain that virtual shareholder meetings let companies silence them”– 8/18/2020
Al Jazeera “Are virtual shareholder meetings freezing out ESG activists?” – 8/18/2020
The Irish Times “Virtual agms show little regard for small investors – 9/5/2020
Globes – “ישיבות דירקטוריון בימי הזום: כך תהפכו את המבלות ליתרונות” – 12/3/2020
NY Times, “Seeking Critical Mass of Gender Equality in the Boardroom”, 9/11/2012
Glamour, “How Many Women Does It Take to Change a Congress?”, 10/10/2018
The Wall Street Journal, “Do Index Funds Cost 100 Times as Much As You Think?”, 4/20/2018
Forbes, “Women on Corporate Boards Bring More Aggressive Action”, 1/7/2013.
Bloomberg, “Why Corporate Boards Need More Women”, 1/4/2013
- Awards
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2023 European Research Council (1,500,000 Euro)
2023 Israel Science Foundation ($120,000)
2020 Israel Science Foundation ($90,000)
2020 Abe Gray prize for excellence
2019 The Golda Meir Fellowship
2010-12 Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology Yuval Neeman Ph.D. Scholarship