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Finance

Associate Professor of Finance

Portrait of Jacopo Ponticelli, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management

Jacopo Ponticelli joined Kellogg School of Management in 2017 as an Associate Professor of Finance. He is an applied economist who primarily studies corporate finance and development economics, with a particular focus on firms in developing countries and the role played by financial markets and institutions in the process of economic development. His work has been published in top economics and finance journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. Before joining the Kellogg School of Management, he served as an Assistant Professor of Finance and Cohen and Keenoy Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor Ponticelli holds a PhD in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain).

About Jacopo
Research interests
  • Corporate FinanceDevelopment EconomicsApplied Microeconomics
  • PhD, 2013, Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Cum Laude
    MSc, 2008, Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona
  • Italian Financial Economist Association Conference Best Discussant Award
    Montias Prize for best article published in the Journal of Comparative Economics in 2020 and 2021
    2022 Pagano and Zechner Prize for best non-investment paper published in the Review of Finance, European Finance Association
    Central Bank of Brazil - Best Working Paper Award in Banking and Finance
    Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award for teaching excellence in elective classes
    2019 China Financial Research Conference Best Paper Award
    2017 China Financial Research Conference Best Paper Award
    Central Bank of Brazil - Best Working Paper Award 2017 (First Prize)
  • Co-Editor, Review of Finance, 2024