Rafael La Porta

Professor of Finance at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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  • Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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Biography

Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Rafael La Porta is the Nobel Foundation Professor of Finance at the Tuck School. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard in 1994 and was on the Harvard faculty from that time until he joined Tuck in 2003.

Professor La Porta's research has focused on issues of investor protection and corporate governance across the world, an area known as "law and finance."

He is an expert on cross-country differences in laws and practice pertaining to investor protection and how those differences cause economies, stock markets, and firms' financing practices to vary.

Professor La Porta teaches the core Corporate Finance course as well as an International Corporate Finance elective course at Tuck.

Education

  • PhD, Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 1994. Thesis Title: "Fads and Fundamentals in the Determination of Stock Prices."
  • A.M., Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 1994.
  • A.B., Economics, Universidad Católica de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1985.

Companies

  • Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney University Professor of Economics Brown University (2017)
  • Visiting Professor Brown University (2016)
  • Professor Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College (2003)

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