Faculty Directory

Jeffrey Pontiff

Professor and James F. Cleary '50, DBA H '93 Chair in Finance

Department

Finance

Profile

Jeffrey Pontiff is a professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. He has teaching and research interests in the area of corporate finance and听asset听pricing and his research has been published in journals such as the听闯ournal of Finance,听闯ournal of Financial Economics,American Economic Review,Quarterly Journal of Economics,听Review of Financial Studies, and the听Rand Journal. His papers have won numerous听awards including the Jensen Prize (first place), Amundi Smith Breeden Prize (first place), and the Sharpe Award (first place). He has held research or teaching positions at University of Washington, UCLA, Emory, Harvard Business School, National University of Singapore, ESCP-Europe, EPFL, Northeastern, the Institute for Financial Research (Stockholm) and Yale SOM.

He is a Vice President at the Financial Management Association International,听an associate editor at the听Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,听Financial Management,听and the听Journal of Wine Economics.听In the past, he has served as听the executive editor at the听Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and an associate editor听at the听Review of Financial Studies听and听Management Science. He is a co-founder and past president of the Financial Research Association, and a past director for the Western Finance Association.