Ralitsa Petkova

Ralitsa Petkova, PhD, associate professor of banking and finance, joined the Weatherhead School of Management faculty in 2014 in the Master of Science of Management-Finance program. Prior to this, she instructed undergraduates, graduate and doctoral students at Purdue University, Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin and Case Western Reserve University.

Petkova’s research focuses on empirical asset pricing. Her findings have appeared in such prestigious journals as the REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES, JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL FINANCE, JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS and the JOURNAL OF FINANCE.

She has presented at numerous conferences including the Western Finance Association Annual Meeting, the Texas Lone Star Conference, and the State of Indiana Finance Conference, and at a number of universities including Kent State University, Purdue University, University of Georgia and the University of Oklahoma.

Petkova is the recipient of the 2005 Weatherhead School of Management Research Funding Award and also the 2004 Weatherhead Summer Research Award. She was an Olin Fellow at the University of Rochester in 2001, where she received her PhD in finance and her Master of Science in applied economics.

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