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Rustam Zufarov

Assistant Professor

Department of Accounting

Contact

Building & Room:

UH 2325

Address:

601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607

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Rustam Zufarov

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

  • Revealed Proprietary Information Disclosure. Forthcoming at The Accounting Review.
    – Winner of the 2023 American Accounting Association Competitive Manuscript Award.
    – Based on my dissertation completed at Rice University.
  • 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.
  • Floros, I. V., Sivaramakrishnan, K., & Zufarov, R. 2024. Proprietary costs and the equity financing choice.
    Review of Accounting Studies, 29: 1276–1319.
    – Firm-level private information index (FPI) dataset.
  • Umar, T., Yimfor, E., & Zufarov, R. 2023. Discounting Restricted Securities. Journal of Financial and
    Quantitative Analysis, 58 (1): 419-448.
    – 2020 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting Semi-Finalist for Best Paper Prize.

Professional Leadership

Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence Award (2024), University of Illinois Chicago

Competitive Manuscript Award (2023), American Accounting Association

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)