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Anna Agapova

Anna Agapova

Associate Professor
Finance Department

Areas of Expertise: Investments, Mutual Funds, ETFs, Corporate Disclosure, and Financial Institutions and Markets.

Office: Barry Kaye Hall - Room 103 (Boca Raton)

Biography

Anna Agapova is an Associate Professor of Finance at Florida Atlantic University. Her primary research interests are investments, ETFs and mutual funds, financial markets and institutions, and corporate finance. She published in peer-reviewed journals including The Financial Management, Journal of Financial Markets, The Financial Review, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Applied Finance, and Journal of Index Investing. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in investments. Prior teaching experience includes teaching corporate finance and derivatives markets courses at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, and principles of economics at Karaganda Industrial University, Kazakhstan. Professor Agapova holds PhD in Finance and MA in Economics from Georgia State University. She has Bachelor degree in Marketing from Karaganda State University.

Education

  • PhD (2007) Finance, Georgia State University
  • MA (2001) Economics, Georgia State University
  • BA (1995) Marketing, Karaganda State University

Certifications

  • ACUE's microcredential course in Creating a Productive Learning Environment
  • ACUE's microcredential course in Inspiring Inquiry and Preparing Lifelong Learners
  • ACUE certified in Effective College Instruction
  • ACUE's microcredential course in Designing Learner-Centered and Equitable Courses
  • Quality Matters (QM) certification of Principles of Financial Management course
  • ACUE's microcredential course in Inspiring Inquiry and Lifelong Learning in Your Online Course
  • ACUE's microcredential course in Creating an Inclusive and Supportive Online Learning Environment
  • Quality Matters (QM) certification of Investment Analysis course
  • ACUE's microcredential course in Promoting Active Learning Online
  • The eCertification Designer/Facilitator Training Workshop
  • The Essentials of Academic Leadership training, Certificate
  • Visiting Scholar, Junior Faculty Development Program Certificate
  • Summer School of Economics, Professional Training Program by the International Higher Education Support Program (IHESP) of the Open Society Institute and KIMEP, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Course in Advanced Microeconomics, Certificate

Research Interests

  • Mutual Funds, ETFs, Financial Institutions and Markets, and Corporate Finance

Intellectual Contributions

  • Agapova, Anna; Garanina, T.. (2024). A short review of the role of ESG activities in business and research, Managerial Finance, 50(1), 1-9
  • Agapova, Anna; Filatova, Uliana. (2023). Analysts’ Institutional Client Catering and Reputation Tradeoff: Strategic Timing of Recommendations, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, https://doi.org/10.1177/0148558X231198895
  • Agapova, Anna; Kaprielyan, Margarita. (2023). Diversification Measures: Mutual Fund Family Case, International Review of Financial Analysis, 90, Article: 102932
  • Agapova, Anna; Aier, J.K.; DeVides, Z.. (2022). Earnings Patterns and Management Guidance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 59, 1173-1213
  • Agapova, Anna; Volkov, Nikanor. (2021). Asymmetric Tax-Induced Trading: the Effect of Capital Gains Tax Changes, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 79, 245-259
  • Agapova, Anna; Madura, Jeff; Volkov, Nikanor. (2020). Information Leakage of ADRs Prior to Company Issued Guidance, Research in International Business and Finance, 54, 16 pages, doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2020.101304
  • Agapova, Anna; Vishwasrao, Sharmila. (2020). Financial Sector Foreign Aid and Financial Intermediation, International Review of Financial Analysis, 72, 18 pages, DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101589
  • Agapova, Anna; Kaprielyan, Margarita. (2020). Stock Volatility and Trading, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 54, 19 pages, doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2020.101242
  • Agapova, Anna; Volkov, Nikanor. (2019). Authored the Foreward, Academic Press
  • Agapova, Anna; Ferguson, R; Leistikow, D. (2019). Stochastic Portfolio Theory and the Low Beta Anomaly, European Journal of Finance, 25(5), 415-434
  • Agapova, Anna; Volkov, Nikanor. (2019). Guidance on Strategic Information: Investor-Management Disagreement and Firm Intrinsic Value, Journal of Banking and Finance, 108
  • Ferguson, Robert; Agapova, Anna; Leistikow, Dean ; Rentzler, J.. (2018). Chasing Performance and Identifying Talented Investment Managers, Journal of Investing, 27(1), 52-64
  • Agapova, Anna; Ferguson, R; Leistikow, D; Meidan, D.. (2017). What's the Big Deal About Risk Parity?, Journal of Asset Management, 18(5), 341-346
  • Agapova, Anna; Ferguson, Robert; Leistikow, Dean . (2017). A Continuous Return Model for the Low Volatility and Low Beta Anomalies, Journal of Investing, 26(3), 107-120
  • Agapova, Anna; Volkov, Nikanor. (2017). Mutual Funds as an Investment Vehicle for the Middle Class
  • Agapova, Anna; McNulty, James. (2016). Interest rate spreads and banking system efficiency: General considerations with an application to the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe, International Review of Financial Analysis, 47(154-165)
  • Agapova, Anna; Madura, Jeff. (2016). Market Uncertainty and Earnings Guidance, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 61, 97-111
  • Agapova, Anna; DeVides, Zhanel. (2016). Market Reaction to Patterns of Earnings, Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, 14, 205-240
  • Agapova, Anna. (2015). Chapter 11 - "Money Market Mutual Funds", Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, Oxford University Press
  • Agapova, Anna; Ferguson, Robert; Leistikow, Dean. (2014). Chicken Little Gets It Wrong Again, Journal of Portfolio Management, 40(3), 77-86
  • Agapova, Anna; Madura, Jeff. (2013). Impact of the Galleon Case on Insider Trading Prior to Company Issued Guidance, Journal of Applied Finance, 23(2), 36-51
  • Agapova, Anna; Madura, Jeff; Mailibayeva, Zhanel. (2012). Does Regulation Fair Disclosure Reduce the Information Quality of Managerial Guidance?, The Financial Review, 47(2), 273-297
  • Agapova, Anna; Madura, Jeff. (2011). Information Leakage Prior to Company Issued Guidance, Financial Management, 40(3), 623-646
  • Agapova, Anna; Greene, Jason; Ferguson, Robert. (2011). Market Diversity and the Performance of Actively Managed Portfolios, The Journal of Portfolio Management, 38(1), 48-59
  • Agapova, Anna. (2011). Conventional Open-End Mutual Funds versus Exchange Traded Funds, The Journal of Financial Markets, 14(2), 323-343
  • Agapova, Anna. (2011). The Role of Money Market Mutual Funds in Mutual Fund Families, The Journal of Applied Finance, 21(1), 87-102
  • Agapova, Anna. (2010). Are Vanguard's ETFs Cannibalizing the Firm's Index Funds?, The Journal of Index Investing, 1(1), pp. 73-82
  • Agapova, Anna. (1997). Management of Innovations in Market Economy Conditions, Publishing house of Karaganda State University
  • Agapova, Anna. (1997). Market Tendency for Innovation Activities, Publishing house of Karaganda State University
  • Agapova, Anna. (1997). Marketing in a System of Strategic Management, Publishing house of Karaganda State University
  • Agapova, Anna. (1997). Regional Aspects of Domestic and Foreign Experience in Innovative Entrepreneurship
  • Agapova, Anna. (1997). The Ways of Intensification of Innovation Process in an Enterprise, Publishing house of Karaganda State University
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