Rafael Zambrana

Areas of Interest:

• Asset Management 

• Financial Institutions 

• Financial Regulation

Biography

Rafael Zambrana is an associate professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame. His research deals broadly with the behavior and incentives of professional asset managers and with how institutional frictions and investment decisions shape financial markets. His academic work has been published in top journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Review of Accounting Studies. His research has also been presented at leading international conferences, including the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, and the European Finance Association. Rafael has taught corporate finance, valuation, and financial accounting at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Before his Ph.D. studies, he worked as a hedge fund accountant for State Street.