Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova
Senior Financial Economist
Office of Investments and Intermediaries
Education Summary
- Ph.D. Finance, University of Florida, 2004
- B.S. Management, State University of New York - Geneseo, 1998
Fields of Interest
- Fixed-income securities
- Banks and depository institutions
- Ratings and rating agencies
- Senior Financial Economist
- Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- 2010–present
- Adjunct Professor of Finance
- Kogod School of Business
- American University
- 2011
- Visiting Academic Scholar
- Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- 2008–2010
- Assistant Professor of Finance
- George Mason University
- 2004–2010
- Gergana Jostova, Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova, Alexander Philipov and Christof W. Stahel, Momentum in Corporate Bond Returns, 2013, Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming.
- Mark J. Flannery, Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova and Özde Öztekin, Leverage Expectations and Bond Credit Spreads, 2012, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 47, 689-714. [Lead article]
- Mark J. Flannery and Stanislava Nikolova, Market Discipline of U.S. Financial Firms: Recent Evidence and Research Issues, 2004, in Claudio Borio, William C. Hunter, George Kaufman, and Kostas Tsatsaronis, ed. Market Discipline Across Countries and Industries (MIT Press).
Conference Activities
- Paper presentation (by co-author), 2012 WFA Conference
- Discussant, 2012 GMU Conference on Investor Protection, Corporate Governance, and Fraud Prevention
- Paper presentation (by co-author), 2011 Asian Finance Association Conference
- Panel participant and discussant, 2011 FMA Conference
- Panel participant, 2011 Midwest Finance Association Conference
- Paper presentation, 2011 FIRS Conference
- Paper presentation (by co-author), 2011 World Finance Conference
- Discussant, 2010 FIRS Conference
- Discussant, 2010 Notre Dame Conference on Current Topics in Market Regulation
- Paper presentation, 2010 FMA Conference
- Paper presentation, discussant and session chair, 2010 FMA European Conference
- Program committee member, 2009 FMA Conference
- Discussant, 2009 FIRS Conference
- Paper presentation, 2008 FMA Conference
- Program committee member and session chair, 2008 Washington Area Finance Association Conference
- Paper presentation and discussant, 2007 EFMA Conference
- Paper presentation and discussant, 2007 FMA European Conference
- Paper presentation (by co-author), 2006 FDIC/JFSR Conference on U.S. Implementation of Basel II
- Session chair, 2005 FMA Conference
- Discussant, 2004 FMA Conference
- Paper presentation and discussant, 2003 FMA Conference
- Paper presentation, 2003 BIS/Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference on Market Discipline
University Presentations
- Office of the Comptroller of Currency, 2010
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 2008
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 2008
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2008
- American University, 2006
- Baruch College, 2004
- San Francisco State University, 2004
- Seattle University, 2004
- George Mason University, 2004
- Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 2004
- Ohio University, 2004
- Moody's KMV, 2004