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
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