Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Colorado Boulder

Leeds School of Business

Koelbel Building - 451
995 Regent Dr
Boulder, CO 80309

buffa@colorado.edu


CURRICULUM VITAE

RESEARCH

Asset pricing // Institutional asset management // Contract theory // Information economics

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Institutional Investors, Heterogeneous Benchmarks and the Comovement of Asset Prices  // with Idan Hodor
Journal of Financial Economics, 147(2), 2023, 352-281

Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices  // with Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley
Journal of Political Economy 130(12), 2022, 3146-3201  

Should Insider Trading be Prohibited when Share Repurchases are Allowed?  // with Giovanna Nicodano
Review of Finance 12(4), 2008, 735–765

Strategic Insider Trading with Imperfect Information: A Trading Volume Analysis
Rivista di Politica Economica XI-XII, 2004, 101–143