Anna Toldra Simats

Contact Details

Email [email protected] Webpage: http://sites.google.com/site/annatoldrasimats/ Mailing Address Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Calle Madrid 126 – Building 7 28903 Getafe Madrid – Spain Phone: +34 91 624 9650 (office) Fax: +34 91 624 9607

Education

2007 PhD in Economics. University of Toulouse. 2001 M. Phil. in Finance. University of Toulouse. 2000 B.A. in Economics. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Academic positions

September 2011 to present Assistant Professor Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

September 2008 to August 2011 Research Scholar and Lecturer of Finance Kellogg School of Management,

September 2007 to August 2008 Research Scholar Chicago Booth School of Business

September 2006 to August 2007 Research Scholar Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Papers (available at http://sites.google.com/site/annatoldrasimats/research )

Venture Capital Syndication and Firm Entry: Theory and Evidence (Job Market Paper)

Understanding Trust. (with Paola Sapienza and ) – revise and resubmit at Economic Journal.

Capital Structure and the Product Market: The Case of European Electricity Markets. (with Jerome Reboul) – under review

Soft Bankruptcy Law, Financial Constraints, and the Structure of Corporate Ownership

The Type of Legal Shareholder Protection, Ownership Concentration, Monitoring Incentives and Managerial Slack. (with Marcel Canoy)

Work in progress:

Venture capital syndication: what are the stakes?

Trust and lending (with J. van de Ven)

1 Other

A Country Profiles Project: Israel . Femise: The Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Institutes , 2005.

Grants and Fellowships

2004 to 2006 Research Grant (University of Toulouse 1 and University of Bordeaux) 2001 to 2004 Teaching Fellowship (University of Toulouse 1) 2001 to 2002 PhD Fellowship granted by “La Caixa”

Refereeing

American Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, The Economic Journal, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Journal of the European Economic Association, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Industrial Organization.

Research Experience

2006 to 2009: Research Assistant for Professors Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

Teaching Experience

Fall 2011 Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility (4 th year undergraduate) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Fall 2011 Corporate Finance (Master’s course) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Winter 2008 and Venture Capital and Private Equity (MBA course) Fall 2009 Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Winter 2007 TA of Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity (MBA course), with Professor Luigi Zingales, Chicago Booth School of Business

Fall 2007 TA of Empirical Corporate Finance (PhD course), with Professor Paola Sapienza, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Fall 2006 TA of Turbo Finance (MBA course), with Professor Jose Liberti, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Winter 2006 TA of Finance II (MBA course), with Professors Andrea Eisfeld and David Matsa, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

At University of Toulouse TA of Industrial Organization (undergraduate course, 3 rd year) TA of Mathematics (undergraduate course, 1 st year) TA of Econometrics (undergraduate course, 3 rd year) TA of Microeconomics (undergraduate course, 1 st year) TA of Macroeconomics (undergraduate course, 2 nd year)

Fall 2004 and Winter 2005 - Guest Lecturer of Macroeconomics. University of Chongqing, China.

2 Research and Teaching Interests

Corporate Finance (theory and empirical), Venture Capital and Private Equity, Corporate Governance, Industrial Organization, , Experimental Economics.

References:

Prof. Ernesto Reuben Email: [email protected] Prof. Paola Sapienza Email: [email protected] Prof. Luigi Zingales Email: [email protected]

Languages: fluent in English, French, Spanish and Catalan.

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