Irina V. Berezinets
Associate Professor
E-mail: berezinets@gsom.pu.ru
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC DEGREES
Candidate Degree in Mathematics (Mathematical Cybernetics), School of Applied Mathematics, Department of Informational Logical Systems, LSU, 1986.
Ph.D. program, School of Applied Mathematics LSU, 1982-1986.
Specialist program (Diploma with distinction), School of Applied Mathematics, Leningrad State University (LSU, renamed SPbSU in 1991), 1982.
RESEARCH
- Theory of stochastic evaluation;
- Methods of optimization;
- Econometrics;
- Corporate governance
SELECTED PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS (TOTAL AMOUNT — 79)
Books, Monographs and Textbooks
Introductory Econometrics. 2007. Saint-Petersburg: GSM, SPbSU.
Problems and Exercises in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics. 2006. Saint-Petersburg: GSM, SPbSU.
Mathematical statistics in EXCEL. 2004. (itogether with Bogoslovskaya N.V.) Saint-Petersburg, IBI.
Papers in Academic Journals
Ownership concentration and dividend Policy: a study of Russian public companies // Vestnik St.Peterburgskogo Universiteta (Herald of St.Petersburg University). Management series. 20011. Vol. 3 (together with L.Alexeeva, Y.Ilina).
Model of Product Quality Choice and Internet-Trading Case Study // Vestnik St.Peterburgskogo Universiteta (Herald of St.Petersburg University). Seria 8. Management. 2010, № 2 (together with M. Gladkova , N.Zenkevich)
The influence of the organizational changes on the firm growth // Theoretical and practical issues of management. 2010. № 3. (together with G.Shirokova , Shatalov A.)
Capital Contribution to the Business Value Creation // EJournal of Corporate Finance. 2010 3 (15), 2(together with E. Sysolyatina, J. Udovichenko)
Financing Decisions of Russian Companies: An Empirical Investigation // Vestnik St.Peterburgskogo Universiteta (Herald of St.Petersburg University). Seria 8. Management. 2010, № 1 (together with D.Volkov, A. Razmochaev).
Transformation of organizational forms and corporate governance: empirical study of Russian companies // Vestnik St.Peterburgskogo Universiteta (Herald of St.Petersburg University). Management series. 2009. Vol. 4 (together with Y.Ilina).
Management of cash balans in the correspondence of a commercial bank at the bank of Russia // EJournal of Corporate Finance. 2009. 3 (11) (together with E. Mesherykova, T. Pustovalova)
Companies transparency and financial performance // EJournal of Corporate Finance. 2 (10), 2009 (together with Y.Ilina, A. Orlova)
Defining the key factors of company value: evidence from Internet companies evaluated by income method // EJournal of Corporate Finance. 2008, 3 (7) (together with Artyomov S.V.)
Change of organizational form of Russian companies and financial performance // Vestnik St.Peterburgskogo Universiteta (Herald of St.Petersburg University). Management series. 2008. Vol. 1 (together with Y.Ilina)
Value-Based Management: Validity Problem of Accounting-Based Valuation Models // Vestnik St.Peterburgskogo Universiteta (Herald of St.Petersburg University). Seria 8. Management. 2006, № 4 (together with D. Volkov).
Chapters in Books and Collections of Essays
Analysis of the impact of corporate governance factors and firm performance on Russian companies organizational form change. In “Modernization of economy and globalization”. HSE Publishing, Moscow, 2009 (together with Y.Ilina)
The choice of organizational form for Russian small and medium-sized companies: results of the pilot study // Proceedings of Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2008. Ed. by G. Wu, J. Gao, X. Gao, W. Xie. 2008. P. 314–319 (together with Y.Ilina)
Change of organizational forms of Russian companies and corporate governance. In “Corporate governance: problems and practice, Ulyanovsk, 2007 (together with Y.Ilina)
Working Papers
Owners, Managers, and Workers: An Empirical Study of the Link between Corporate Governance and Employment Policies of Firms, Book series, # 217, Moscow Public Science Foundation, ASPE. 120 p. (together with Y.Ilina, A. Muravyev).
Corporate governance practices in Russia: borders or national corporate governance model // Working paper. Association of Managers, KPMG in Russia and CIS. 2011. 48 p. (together with M. Elfimova, Y. Ilina, I. Zotova, I. Korotetskiy, Y. Ovchinnikova, R. Sharman).
CONFERENCES
24th Annual Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, (Institute of Global Finance and School of Banking & Finance at the Australian School of Business at UNSW). December. Sydney, Australia. 2011. “Owners, Boards, Managers and the Private Benefits of Control: A Study of Dual Class Stock Firms in an Emerging Market” (together with A. Muravyev, Y.Ilina)
VIII Workshop on Empirical Research in Financial Accounting and «Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting».Seville, Spain. Mach, 2011. «Price spreads between dual-class shares: empirical evidence from Russia» (together with A. Muravyev, Y.Ilina)
XII International conference “Economic and Social Development”, April , 2011, HSE, Moscow, Russia. «Owners, managers, and workers: An empirical study of the link between corporate governance and employment policies of firms» (together with A. Muravyev, Y.Ilina)
EURAM 2010 – 10th “Back to the Future”, Tor Vergata University, Rome, May, 2010. “Influence of organizational change on firm growth” (together with G. Shirokova, A. Shatalov)
EBES 2010 Athens Conference Eurasia Business and Economics Society. Athens, Greece, October, 2010. "Ownership structure and capital structure choice: an empirical study of Russian public companies" (together with A. Razmochaev, Y.Ilina)
XI International conference “Economic and Social Development”, Presentation «Влияние организационных изменений на рост фирмы», April 2010, HSE, Moscow, Russia. (together with G.Shirokova , Shatalov A )
X International conference “Economic and Social Development”, April , 2009, HSE, Moscow, Russia. Presentation “Problems of transformation of Russian companies organizational forms and corporate governance” (together with Y.Ilina)
IX International conference «Modernization of economy and globalization», April 1-3, 2008, HSE, Moscow, Russia. Presentation «Analysis of the impact of corporate governance factors and firm performance on Russian companies organizational form change” (together with Y.Ilina)
32nd Annual congress of European Accounting Association, May 12-15, 2009, Tampere, Finland. Presentation «Opportunities For Transformation Russian Companies Organizational Forms: Impact Of Corporate Governance Factors And Financial Performance» (together with Y.Ilina)
Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, March 27-29, 2008. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Presentation «The choice of organizational form for Russian small and medium-sized companies: results of the pilot study» (together with Y.Ilina )
31nd Annual congress of European Accounting Association, May 10- 13, 2008, Rotterdam, Netherlands . Presentation «Validity Problem of Accounting-Based Valuation Models» (together with D. Volkov)
International conference «Corporate governance: problems and practice». October 12-13, 2007, Ulyanovsk, Russia. Presentation «Change of organizational forms of Russian companies and corporate governance» (together with Y.Ilina)
30nd Annual congress of European Accounting Association, April 25 – 27, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. Presentation «Accounting-based valuations and market prices of equity: Case of Russian market» (together with D.Volkov)
INTERNSHIP ABROAD
Financial and Managerial Accounting. Faculty Development Program, Columbia Business School — GSOM SPbSU, St.Petersburg, June 16 – 17, 2007
École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris (HEC, Paris, France), 2008.
HONORS AND AWARDS
The teacher of the year, Department of Finance and Accounting, Drucker Award, 2007, 2009,2010
The teacher of year of IBI, 2002.
The best lecturer in MESA of A.F.Mozhajskiy, 1997.
GRANTS
Manageres and Private Benefits of Control: Evidence from Russian Dual Class Stock Companies // Research project, St.Petersburg State University. 2011. (together with Y. Ilina)
Owners, Boards, Managers and the Private Benefits of Control: A Study of Dual Class Stock Firms in Russia // Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC). 2010-2011. (together with Y.Ilina, A. Muravyev).
Conceptual fundamentals of transformation of companies organizational forms through IPO // Research project. St.Petersburg State University. 2009-2010. (together with Y. Ilina)
Owners, Boards, Managers and Employees: an Empirical Analysis of the link between Corporate Governance and Employment Policy of the Firm // Moscow Public Science Foundation. 2010. (together with Y.Ilina, A. Muravyev).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Editorial Boards of Research Journals Memberships:
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Management Series, 2011 – .
Corporate Finance Journal. 2008 –
2011 member of EURAM (European Academy of Management)
2007 — present member of EAA ( European Accounting Association),
2010 — present member of EBES (Eurasia Business and Economics Society)
Scientific editing of collection of essays «Applied research in economics». Scientific journal. Vol. 7. IBI, SPbSPU, 2004.

