Irina Luneva

Biography

Irina Luneva joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Accounting in July 2024.

She studies financial and non-financial information and how it is used by different economic agents: corporations that disclose and learn information, equity holders, credit providers, and regulators. Her dissertation studies the role of non-contractible information in corporate lender-borrower relationships and loan contract negotiations. Another recent paper, which received the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Paper Award, studies the implications of introducing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure for corporations’ pricing, cash flow, and ESG outcomes.

Before joining NYU Stern, she worked as an economist at the Central Bank of Russia. She earned her PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and her Bachelor of Economics degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University. In her free time, she enjoys running and triathlon.

Research Interests

• Disclosure of Financial Information
• Debt Contracting
• Information Manipulation
• Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Performance and Disclosure

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Financial Accounting

Academic Background

PhD, Accounting
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

BSc, Economics
Lomonosov Moscow State University