About

Aleksander A. Aleszczyk is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU. His research interests lie at the intersection of accounting and finance, with a particular focus on debt capital markets, financial institutions, and corporate financial distress and bankruptcy. He has received grants and funding from notable institutions including the AQR Asset Management Institute, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Schroders Capital, and the NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business. Professor Aleszczyk currently teaches financial accounting and reporting, and has been recognized for his teaching excellence with the NYU Stern Distinguished Teaching Award in 2026. He has also been named among the Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors by Poets & Quants in 2025 and among the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors in 2020. His case study work has been among the bestselling in finance, accounting, and control at The Case Centre in 2017 and 2018. Prior to his doctoral studies, he gained work experience in investment banking at J.P. Morgan and Santander, central banking at the National Bank of Poland, and auditing at Ernst & Young. Outside academia, he holds certifications as a lifeguard, senior motorboat helmsman, and private pilot. He earned his PhD from London Business School, an MPhil in Finance from the University of Cambridge, and a BA (Hons) in Economics and Finance with First Class honors from the University of Exeter.

Research topics

• Finance
• Economics
• Business
• Monetary economics
• Financial economics
• Financial system
• Actuarial science
• Accounting

Selected publications

• The Debt Market Role of Asset Valuation Uncertainty

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024 · 2 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Financial economics
  • Economics
  • Business
  PublisherDOI

• Picking out "ESG-debt Lemons": Institutional Investors and the Pricing of Sustainability-linked Bonds

  2024 · 1 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Business
  • Monetary economics
  • Financial system
  PublisherDOI

• The Information Content of Central Bank Disclosures: Firm-Level Evidence from the ECB Collateral Haircuts

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Business
  • Monetary economics
  • Accounting
  PublisherDOI

• ACCOUNTING FOR TAKEOVERS

  London Business School Review · 2018-01-01

  article1st authorCorresponding

  When a company changes hands, its finances appear to undergo an instant and dramatic change. Why? Aleksander A Aleszczyk , Emmanuel T De George, Aytekin Ertan and Florin Vasvari believe they have the answer

  PublisherDOI

• PRIVATE EQUITY: NOBODY DOES IT BETTER

  London Business School Review · 2017-10-01 · 1 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding

  How exactly is value created? New research gives some pointers. By Aleksander A Aleszczyk , Emmanuel T De George , Aytekin Ertan and Florin Vasvari

  PublisherDOI

• Debt Financing and Collateral: The Role of Fair-Value Adjustments

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2017-01-01 · 4 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

• The Banks’ Financial Reporting and the Downfall of the Banking Sector

  Journal of Management and Financial Sciences · 2015-01-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
  Publisher

Frequent coauthors

• Aytekin Ertan

  London Business School

  7 shared

• Florin P. Vasvari

  7 shared

• Emmanuel T. De George

  University of Miami

  6 shared

• Maria Loumioti

  1 shared

• Dushyantkumar Vyas

  1 shared

• Ferdinand Bratek

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• NYU Stern Distinguished Teaching Award (2026)
• Poets & Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors (2025)
• Poets & Quants Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors (202…
• bestselling case study in finance, accounting and control in…