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Cecilia Bustamante

Cecilia Bustamante

Associate Professor

PhD in Finance, Swiss Finance Institute, University of Lausanne

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4423 Van Munching Hall

Dr. M. Cecilia Bustamante is an asociate professor of finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.  

Her research interests include applied dynamic corporate finance, industrial organization, and the asset pricing implications of corporate decisions.  Her recent work elaborates on how competitive pressures in product markets affect corporate investment decisions and firms’ exposure to systematic risk.  Cecilia has also studied the underlying determinants of waves in public equity offerings, and is currently analyzing how to reward CEOs optimally depending on the investment opportunities that firms may have. 

Cecilia received her PhD in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute at the University of Lausanne, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley during her PhD studies.  Before pursuing an academic career, Cecilia also worked as a consultant in forensic finance supporting multinational firms in international arbitration procedures.

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Smith Finance Professor Honored at Women’s Event

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Research

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How Do Banks Finance the Unproven Startup?

Women Leading Research 2019: M. Cecilia Bustamante

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In Press, 2017

Bustamante MC, Donangelo A. Industry Concentration and Markup: Implications for Asset Pricing. Review of Financial Studies. In Press, 2017.

2017

Anderson R, Bustamante MC, Guibaud S, Zervos M. Agency, firm growth and managerial turnover. Journal of Finance. 2017.

2016

Bustamante MC. How do frictions affect corporate investment? A structural approach. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis [Internet]. 2016;51 (6) :1-34.

2015

Bustamante MC. Strategic investment and industry risk dynamics. Review of Financial Studies [Internet]. 2015;28 :297-341. 

2012

Bustamante MC. The Dynamics of Going Public. Review of Finance [Internet]. 2012;16 :577-618.

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