Alejandro Rivera
Assistant Professor, Finance and Managerial Economics
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Biography
Companies
- Assistant Professor of Finance University of Texas at Dallas (2015)
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2019 — 2020)
- PhD Candidate Boston University (2008 — 2015)
- Summer Research Fellow American Institute for Economic Research (2011 — 2011)
- Instructor Universidad del Rosario (2010 — 2010)
- Summer Student Fellow American Institute for Economic Research (2009 — 2009)
Education
- PhD in Economics, Boston University, 2015
- BsC in Mathematics and Economics, Simon Fraser University, 2008
Current / Recent Research
- Corporate Finance Theory
- Dynamic Contracts
- Optimal Capital Structure
- Applications of Robust Preferences
Professional Organizations
- American Economic Association
- Econometric Society
- American Finance Association
- Western Finance Association
- Society of Financial Studies
PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING PAPERS
"Robust Contracts in Continuous Time" (with Jianjun Miao), Econometrica (2016), [WP], [Online Appendix]
"Dynamic Moral Hazard and Risk-Shifting Incentives in a Leveraged Firm", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2019), [SSRN]
"Extrapolation Bias and Robust Dynamic Liquidity Management" (with Seokwoo Lee), Management Science (2021) [SSRN], [Slides]
"Does Performance-Sensitive Debt mitigate Debt-Overhang?" (with Alain Bensoussan and Benoit Chevalier-Roignant), forthcoming at Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control [SSRN]
"Optimal Short-Termism" (with Dirk Hackbarth and Tak-Yuen Wong), forthcoming at Management Science [SSRN], [VoxEU], [Slides]
"Real Options with Non-Smooth Obstacles" (with Subas Acharya, Alain Bensoussan, and Dmitrii Rachinskii) , Accepted at SIAM Journal of Financial Mathematics [SSRN]
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