{"id":2733,"date":"2026-05-19T08:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2733"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:35:33","slug":"jena-santi","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/profiles\/jena-santi\/","title":{"rendered":"Jena Santi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jena Santi<span> is a PhD student in Accounting at Questrom School of Business. Her research lies at the intersection of financial accounting, corporate disclosure, and institutional investor behavior, with a focus on how informational, incentive, and political frictions shape asset managers\u2019 influence on corporate outcomes. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a researcher and served as an advisor to the Portuguese government, contributing to fiscal policy design and the evaluation of public policies. She is an IMAP-sponsored IGS Graduate Student Summer 2026 Fellow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jena&#8217;s research will examine whether political pressure induces a divergence between asset managers\u2019 visible ESG signals and their underlying portfolio holdings. Exploiting the enactment of Texas Senate Bill 13 as a quasi-natural experiment, she will investigate whether funds with exposure to Texas state pension systems reduce observable ESG engagement\u2014such as support for shareholder proposals and ESG-related fund labeling\u2014while maintaining ESG-aligned portfolios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22474,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2733\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/imap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}