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Sorin Rizeanu

Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Victoria
Dr. Sorin Rizeanu joined the Gustavson School of Business in 2010 teaching managerial and international finance to graduate and undergraduate students.

Sorin’s research interests primarily focus on corporate governance and international finance, with the goal of assisting investors to better valuate firms and understand firms’ dynamics. His work has been published in the Contemporary Accounting Research, International Journal of Economics and Finance and Journal of Management and Governance.

His research includes analysis of the structure of a firm’s ownership, the quality of the external audit, firm’s cash flow, managerial strategy, taxation strategy, country institutional strength, and its impact on firm valuation and debt maturities, among others. These are part of his interest in the larger set of corporate governance mechanisms, designed to prevent extraction, tunnelling, derivation of large private fortunes at the expense of the providers of finance, often expropriated through pyramidal structures, political corruption and other firm or system embedded structures.

Before joining the University of Victoria, Sorin studied and taught at the Moore Business School at the University of South Carolina. He hails from Bucharest, Romania where he took his undergraduate and MSc degrees and worked in international sales, project management and management consulting.

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Economy

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Politics

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Science

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