Adrian Aycan Corum
Institution
Cornell University
PhD Year
2018
corum@cornell.edu
FTG Membership
Member
Website
https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty-research/faculty/aac256/
Featured Work
Jan 13, 2026
Corporate Governance in the Presence of Active and Passive Delegated Investment
We examine the governance implications of passive fund growth. In our model, investors allocate capital between passive funds, active funds, and private savings, and funds' fees and ownership stakes determine their incentives to engage in governance. If passive funds grow because of easier access to index investing, governance improves, albeit only up to a point where passive funds start primarily crowding out investors' allocations to...