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García, Diego

Professor and Burridge Chair

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Research

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  • Professor García's research interest encompass informational frictions in financial markets, as well as the effect of behavioral biases in asset prices. His work is both theoretical and empirical in nature, and it has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Economic Theory, among others. Professor García's research received the Michael Brennan award for the best paper published in the Review of Financial Studies.

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  • Information economics, financial media, behavioral finance

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Teaching

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  • FNCE 3010 - Corporate Finance
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
    Covers the theory and practices governing the management of capital in a business firm. Examines the determinants of capital requirements, methods of obtaining capital, problems of internal financial management, implications of risk, and methods of financial analysis and valuations.
  • FNCE 4040 - Derivative Securities
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    Develops the modern theory of contingent claims in a mathematical framework oriented toward applications. Examines how to use derivatives for risk management and to tailor portfolio payoffs. Provides an in-depth analysis of the properties of options.
  • FNCE 6950 - Master's Thesis
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023
  • FNCE 7020 - Financial Economics and Research
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
    Studies both theoretical models at the intersection of information economics and finance, as well as natural language processing techniques, focused on financial and accounting documents.
  • FNCE 7800 - Doctoral Pre-Seminar: Finance
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    Provides finance doctoral students with an orientation to the finance field; introduces contemporary research perspectives and priorities. Students discuss papers that illustrate academic researchers' use of various disciplinary theoretical and empirical tools to address finance problems.
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