Professor Strebulaev's research is in the area of corporate finance, capital structure, credit risk, as well as financial auctions. Recent work has examined issues of dynamic capital structure, zero-leverage behavior, the effect of firm size on leverage, and empirical estimation of firms' financing decisions.

Ilya Strebulaev is an associate professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He graduated from the London Business School with a doctorate in Finance in 2004. He also holds degrees from Lomonosov Moscow State University (BSc Math. Economics) and the New Economic School, Moscow (MA Economics).

His research focuses on corporate finance, capital structure, credit risk, and financial auctions. His most recent work has examined issues of dynamic capital structure, zero-leverage behavior, the effect of firm size on leverage, and empirical estimation of firms' financing decisions. His work includes papers published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. Ilya presented his work at the meetings of the American, Western, and European Finance Associations. Ilya has been awarded the First Paper Prize of the Brattle Award for the best corporate paper published in the Journal of Finance and the Trefftzs Award by the Western Finance Association.

Ilya teaches the MBA elective case-based corporate finance course and the PhD advanced corporate finance course. When not teaching or doing research, Ilya enjoys reading, collecting stamps and books, travelling, hiking, listening to classical music, and appreciating fine wine and art.