ALEJANDRO RIVERA

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FINANCE

NAVEEN JINDAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

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PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING PAPERS

1. "Robust Contracts in Continuous Time" (with Jianjun Miao), Econometrica (2016), [WP], [Online Appendix]

2. "Dynamic Moral Hazard and Risk-Shifting Incentives in a Leveraged Firm",  Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2019), [SSRN], [Slides]

3. "Extrapolation Bias and Robust Dynamic Liquidity Management" (with Seokwoo Lee), Management Science (2021) [SSRN], [Slides]

4. "Does Performance-Sensitive Debt mitigate Debt-Overhang?" (with Alain Bensoussan and Benoit Chevalier-Roignant),  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2021) [SSRN],  [Slides]

5. "Optimal Short-Termism" (with Dirk Hackbarth and Tak-Yuen Wong), Management Science (2021) [SSRN], [VoxEU], [Slides]

6. "Real Options with Non-Smooth Obstacles" (with Subas Acharya, Alain Bensoussan, and Dmitrii Rachinskii), SIAM Journal of Financial Mathematics (2022) [SSRN]

7. "A Model for Wind Farm Management with Option Interactions" (with Alain Bensoussan and Benoit Chevalier-Roignant), Production and Operations Management (2022) [SSRN], [Slides]

8. "Incentivizing Investors for a Greener Economy" (with Harold H. Zhang and Nam Nguyen), Accepted at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis [SSRN], [LSE USAPP Blog],[Slides]

WORKING PAPERS

1. "Too Much, Too Soon, for Too Long: The Dynamics of Competitive Executive Compensation" (with Gilles Chemla and Liyan Shi) Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Finance [SSRN], [Slides]

2. "Financing Green Entrepreneurs under Limited Commitment" (with  Alain Bensoussan, Benoit Chevalier-Roignant, and Nam Nguyen) Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control [SSRN], [Duke FinReg Blog], [Slides]

3. "Student Loans and Labor Supply Incentives" (with Gustavo Manso, Hui Wang, and Han Xia) [SSRN], [LSE USAPP Blog]

4. "Present-Bias and the Value of Sophistication" (with Subas Acharya, David Jimenez-Gomez, and Dmitrii Rachinskii) Revise and Resubmit at Games and Economic Behavior [SSRN], [Slides]

5. "Contracting with a Present-Biased Agent: Sannikov meets Laibson" [SSRN], [Slides]

6. "Household Debt Overhang and Human Capital Investment" (with Gustavo Manso, Hui Wang, and Han Xia) [SSRN], [Slides]

7. "Managerial Limited Commitment: A New Class of Stochastic Control Problems" Revise and Resubmit at Finance and Stochastics (with  Alain Bensoussan, Benoit Chevalier-Roignant, and Nam Nguyen) [SSRN]

WORK IN PROGRESS

1. "Endogenous Minsky Moments" (with Sebastian Pfeil and Sebastian Gryglewicz)

2. "Compensating an Optimistic Manager"

TEACHING

FIN 3350 Macroeconomics and Financial Institutions (UT Dallas)

FIN 6325 Macroeconomics and Financial Institutions (UT Dallas)

MBA 231 Corporate Finance (UC Berkeley, Spring 2020)

EC 305 Mathematical Economics (University of Rosario, Spring 2010)