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[email protected] Citizenship: Argentina & Canada Education 2003 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Maryland 1996 M.A. in Economics, University of CEMA 1994 B.S. in Economics, University of Buenos Aires Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance Committee Co-Chairs: Roger Betancourt & Gordon Phillips Other Committee Members: Lawrence Ausubel, Ginger Jin, and Nagpurnanand Prahbala Academic Employment Record July 2011 – Present Associate Professor of Finance, University of British Columbia; Perigee Professorship in Finance (since July 2014) July 2003 – June 2011 Assistant Professor of Finance, University of British Columbia Research Interests Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Labor Economics, and Executive Compensation Interaction Between Real and Financial Decisions Non-Academic Employment Record 1997 – 1998 Junior Advisor, Ministry of Economy of Argentina, Cabinet of Economic Advisors 1996 – 1997 Junior Economist, Foundation for Latin American Economic Research, Argentina 1996 – 1998 Advisor to the Chairman, Industry Commission of the Argentine Senate Other Teaching Experience 1998 – 2003 Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Lecturer, University of Maryland 2001 (July) Visiting Professor, University of CEMA 1996 – 1997 Lecturer, University of Entrepreneurial and Social Sciences 1993 – 1994 Teaching Assistant, University of Buenos Aires RESEARCH Publications “Protection of Trade Secrets and Capital Structure Decisions” (with Sandy Klasa, Matthew A. Serfling, and Shweta Srinivasan), Journal of Financial Economics 128, 2018, 266-286. “Real Asset Illiquidity and the Cost of Capital” (with Gordon Phillips), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 49(1), 2014, 1-32 (lead article).