Appointments
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Florida, August 2024 - present
Associate Professor of Practice, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, August 2022 - August 2024
Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, August 2015 - August 2022
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Florida, August 2014 – August 2015
Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, July 2013 – June 2014
Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile, Dec. 2012 – Jan. 2015
Languages
English (Native Speaker)
Spanish (Native Speaker)
German (Basic)
French (Basic)
Skills
Education
Ph.D., Tulane University, December 2012
MBA, Tulane University and Universidad de Chile (dual degree), May 2007
B.S. (Civil Engineering), P. Universidad Católica de Chile, October 1998
R
SAS
STATA
MATLAB
And various others...
Recent Conference and Seminar Presentations
2010 - present
“The Top 5 predictable effects of new entries in Robinhood's ‘100 Most Popular’ list”, Academy of Finance Conference (March, 2021), FMA Annual Meeting (Oct. 2021).
“Are mutual fund managers good gamblers?”, Cubist Systematic Strategies (Aug. 2017), FMA Annual Meeting (Oct. 2019), SFA Annual Meeting (Nov. 2019).
“The (mutual fund) Imitation Game: On the outperformance of copycat funds, and the value of their information to all investors.”, University of Missouri, Trulaske College of Business (Feb. 2018), FMA Annual Meeting (Oct. 2018).
2010 - present
Recent Awards and Honors
SEACREST TEACHING FELLOW
Recipient of Seacrest grant for academic year 2021-2022, for faculty engaged in a project aimed at research in pedagogy and dissemination of teaching innovations.
BEST-IN-TRACK AWARD
2021 Academy of Finance Conference, for paper “The Top 5 predictable effects of new entries in Robinhood's ‘100 Most Popular’ list”. March, 2021
MBA DISTANCE TEACHING AWARD
All on-line students are requested to vote for their favorite professor, thus determining the winner. May 2020.
CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO STUDENTS
Awarded by the Division of Student Affairs, the Parents Association and the Teaching Council of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. February 2017 and February 2018.
EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD
Nominated on various occasions (Dec. 2021, Jan. 2021, Jan. 2017, Feb. 2016)
Service
Participation in hiring committees:
- Position: Assistant Professor of Practice, committed member (2016-2017), committee chair (2018-2019)
- Position: Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning Center, committee member (2021-2022)
- Position: Faculty Director of Teaching and Learning Center, committee member (2021-2022)
International Business Fellow (Jan 2016 to present)
Guest speaker at the “Nebraska Personal Finance Institute” program, for high school teachers (Summer 2018)
Participated in “Dream Big” and “Upward Bound”, two UNL programs for underprivileged high school seniors (Summer 2016, 2017, 2018)
Reviewer for Edythe Wiebers International Studies Program Scholarship, 2018
Ad-hoc reviewer: Quarterly Journal of Finance, International Journal of Economics and Finance, International Journal of Managerial Finance, Investment Analyst Journal, and others.