Rustam Zufarov
Assistant Professor
Department of Accounting
Contact
Building & Room:
UH 2325
Address:
601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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About
Rustam Zufarov teaches Financial Accounting. He earned a PhD in Accounting from Rice University in 2020. Rustam's research interests include voluntary disclosure, corporate financing, and healthcare accounting. Prior to joining academia, Rustam worked in public accounting and held a CPA license in Minnesota.
Selected Publications
- Blocking Block-Formation: Evidence from Private Loan Contracts. Forthcoming at Management Science.
with Brian Akins (Rice) and David De Angelis (University of Houston)
– 2019 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting Semi-Finalist for Best Paper Prize. - Zufarov, R. 2025. Revealed Proprietary Information Disclosure. The Accounting Review.
– Winner of the 2023 American Accounting Association Competitive Manuscript Award. - Floros, I. V., Sivaramakrishnan, K., & Zufarov, R. 2024. Proprietary costs and the equity financing choice. Review of Accounting Studies.
– Firm-level private information index (FPI) dataset. - Umar, T., Yimfor, E., & Zufarov, R. 2023. Discounting Restricted Securities. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
– 2020 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting Semi-Finalist for Best Paper Prize.
Notable Honors
2024, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Excellence in Reviewing Award, American Accounting Association
2024, Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence Award, University of Illinois Chicago
2023, Competitive Manuscript Award, American Accounting Association
2023, Competitive Manuscript Award, American Accounting Association
2019, Doctoral Consortium Fellow, AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook
2018, Doctoral Consortium Fellow, AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section
2015-2020, Jones Graduate School of Business PhD Scholarship, Rice University
2010, Best in Business honor society, Beta Gamma Sigma
Education
Ph.D. in Accounting, Rice University (2020)
M.A. in Business Administration, Rice University (2020)
M.S. in Accounting, Minnesota State University Mankato (2014)
B.S. in Accounting, Minnesota State University Mankato (2012)