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Rus Abuzov is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. His research focuses on venture capital, private equity, and financial intermediation, exploring topics such as venture capitalist attention constraints, limited partner confidentiality, and bank competition via non-price terms. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute and HEC Lausanne, with prior experience as a consultant at Ernst & Young and a visiting scholar at Stanford GSB. His work has been featured in Institutional Investor and Canadian Investment Review, and presented at leading conferences like the American Finance Association.
Education: B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Higher School of Economics (Russia), Ph.D. from Swiss Finance Institute/HEC Lausanne (Switzerland).
Teaching: 'Financial Management and Policies' at Darden, previously taught at HEC Lausanne. Research interests include empirical corporate finance, with a focus on how institutional structures and regulatory environments impact financial decision-making. Collaborative projects involve co-authors such as Will Gornall and Ilya Strebulaev, addressing topics like continuation vehicles in private equity and secondary transactions.
