María Fabiana Penas

María Fabiana Penas is an Associate Professor of Finance at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Her research interests include small business finance, financial intermediation, and corporate finance. She has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, the Review of Finance and the Journal of Financial Intermediation among other journals. Her work has been presented at all major finance conferences, including the AFA, WFA, and EFA. Before moving back to Buenos Aires, she was an Associate Professor of Finance with tenure at Tilburg University. She also held positions as Economist at the Central Bank of Argentina and at the Field Office of the World Bank in Buenos Aires. She earned a Bachelor´s degree from the University of Buenos Aires, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland.