Nicolas Serrano-Velarde
Finance
Biography
Nicolas Serrano-Velarde is a Full Professor in the Department of Finance at Università Bocconi. Since 2020 he is a Research Professor at Halle Institute for Economic Research and since 2021 he is Head of the Job Market Committee at Università Bocconi.
His research interests cover a wide range of topics in financial economics. He is the author of numerous articles on his topics of interest. His works have been published in the Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics, among others.
He has a Master’s Degree in International Economics from Sciences Po and a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute. In 2016 he was Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics at Harvard University.
Latest publications
Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy, and Growth
Review of Economic Studies, 2021, vol.88, no. 1, pp.1-43
Cheap Trade Credit and Competition in Downstream Markets
Journal of Political Economy, 2021, vol.129, no. 6, pp.1744-1796
Marketplace Lending, Information Aggregation, and Liquidity
Review of Financial Studies, 2021, vol.34, no. 5, pp.2318-2361
Lending Standards over the Credit Cycle
Review of Financial Studies, 2018, vol.31, no. 8, pp.2943-2982
Bankruptcy law and bank financing
Journal of Financial Economics, 2016, vol.120, no. 2, pp.363-382
CEO identity and labor contracts: Evidence from CEO transitions
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2015, vol.33, pp.227-242
Grants & Honors
Excellence in Research Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2022
Teaching Excellency Award for the PhD School - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2019
Winner of the 4Nations Cup competition
, 2014