Assistant Professor of Finance
Stone Family Faculty Scholar
University of Colorado Boulder

Leeds School of Business

Koelbel Building - 451
995 Regent Dr
Boulder, CO 80309

buffa@colorado.edu


CURRICULUM VITAE


Member of the Finance Theory Group (FTG)
Member of the Macro Finance Society (MFS)
Member of the Four Corners Center for Research on Index Investments (Four Corners)
Co-founder of the Italian Financial Economists Association (IFEA)

Co-organizer of the Colorado Finance Summit

DISCUSSIONS


Do Mutual Funds Walk the Talk? Evidence from Fund Risk Disclosure  // Jinfei Sheng, Nan Xu and Lu Zheng
UNSW Asset Pricing Workshop 2023 // SLIDES

Institutional Investors, Securities Lending and Short-Selling Constraints // Taisiya Sikorskaya
NFA 2023 // SLIDES

Is Index Concentration an Inevitable Consequence of Market-Capitalization Weighting? // Lisa R. Goldberg, Ananth Madhavan, Harrison Selwitz and Alexander Shkolnik
Four Corners Academic Conference 2023 // SLIDES

Mutual Fund Risk Shifting and Risk Anomalies // Xiao Han, Nikolai Roussanov and Hongxun Ruan
AFA 2023 // SLIDES

Factor and Stock-specific Disagreement and Trading Flows  // Fotis Grigoris, Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen and Preetesh Kantak
UNSW Asset Pricing Workshop 2022 // SLIDES

Activism, Stock Selection, and Indexing in Equilibrium // Steven D. Baker, David A. Chapman and Michael F. Gallmeyer
SFS Cavalcade 2022 // SLIDES

Information Acquisition and the Pre-Announcement Premium // Hengjie Ai, Ravi Bansal and Leyla Jianyu Han
University of Connecticut Finance Conference 2022 // SLIDES

Statistical Arbitrage with Uncertain Fat Tails // Bo Hu and Wen Chen
WFA 2021 // SLIDES

Benchmarking Intensity // Anna Pavlova and Taisiya Sikorskaya
SFS Cavalcade 2021 // SLIDES

Corporate Governance in the Presence of Active and Passive Delegated Investment // Adrian Corum, Andrey Malenko and Nadya Malenko
NFA 2020 // SLIDES

The Benchmark Inclusion Subsidy // Anil K. Kashyap, Natalia Kovrijnykh, Jian Li, and Anna Pavlova
UBC Winter Finance 2019 // SLIDES

Delegation Uncertainty // Ye Li and Chen Wang
ASU Sonoran Winter Finance 2019 // SLIDES

Rational-expectations Whiplash // Efstathios Avdis and Masahiro Watanabe
EFA 2018 // SLIDES

Institutional Investors and Information Production: Implications for Price Informativeness and Asset Prices // Matthijs Breugem and Adrian Buss
AFA 2017 // SLIDES

Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management // Nicolae Garleanu and Lasse Heje Pedersen
FIRS 2016 // SLIDES

Riding the Bubble with Convex Incentives // Juan Sotes-Paladino and Fernando Zapatero
AFA 2016 // SLIDES

The Beauty Contest and Short-Term Trading // Giovanni Cespa and Xavier Vives
FIRS 2015 // SLIDES

Dynamic Agency and Real Options // Sebastian Gryglewicz and Barney Hartman-Glaser
SFS Cavalcade 2014 // SLIDES

Money Creation by Banks, Bank Liquidity, and Central Banking // Tianxi Wang
CICF 2013 // SLIDES

Investment Decisions and Asset Management in a High-Tax Environment // Didier Maillard
MFS 2013 // SLIDES