Joshua Della Vedova

  Published Research

  [1.] Investor Behavior at the 52 Week High (with P. Joakim Westerholm and Andrew R. Grant) Journal of Financial

  and Quantitative Analysis, 2022

  [2.] Equity Borrowing Constraints and the Informed Trading Strategies of Short Sellers (with Benjamin M. Blau,

  Corbin Fox, and Jason M. Smith) Market Microstructure and Liquidity, 2024

  [3.] Fostering Reverse Innovation with Value Chain Co-Creation (with Carsten Zimmermann, Steffen Kortmann, and

  Barbara A. Bliss) IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2025

  Working Papers

  [4.] Who Drives Momentum Returns? The Impact of Investor Class Trading Deviations (with Andrew Grant and P.

  Joakim Westerholm) Revise & Resubmit at European Financial Management

  [5.] The 0.1% Problem: How Multi-Stage LLM Pipelines Can Transform Rare Event Detection in Manufacturing (with

  Justin Dang and Yanyan Yang) Revise & Resubmit at International Journal of Production Economics

  [6.] The Value of Openness (with Stephan Siegel and Mitchell Warachka)

  [7.] Financial Uncertainty and the Cross-Section of Cryptocurrency Returns (with Gonul Colak, Sean Foley, and

  Sinh Thoi Mai) Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Banking and Finance

  [8.] When Everyone Agrees: How the 52 Week High Creates a Liquidity Barrier (with Min Gao, Andrew R. Grant, P.

  Joakim Westerholm, and Barbara A. Bliss) Under Review

  Education

  2015-2019 PhD. in Finance, University of Sydney

  Advisors: Joakim Westerholm and Andrew Grant

  Dissertation Working Title: Behavioral Causes of Price Predictability Anomalies

  2009-2014 B.Com. in Finance (Hons I), University of Wollongong

  2009-2014 B.Sc. in Psychology, University of Wollongong

  Awards and Scholarships

  2024 

• Best Paper Award, Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance 

• Teaching Excellence Award, Knauss School of  Business

  2023 

• Ahlers International Business Top Rank Research Award, Knauss School of Business 

• Best Corporate Finance

  Paper Award Winner, Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference 

• Bowen-Jollineau Intellectual

  Contributions Award, Knauss School of Business

  2020 

• USD Career Center - Faculty appreciation award

  2018 

• Best Presenter - FIRN Annual Meeting - PhD Colloquium 

• Best PhD Paper - Behavioral Finance and Capital

  Markets Conference 

• Runner Up Best Paper - Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference 

• Semi Finalist Best Paper - Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 

• Business School Excellence in Tutoring Award 

•  Dean's Merit Award for Teaching

  2017 

• Dean's Merit Award for Teaching 

• University of Sydney Post Graduate Fellowship

  2015 

• The University of Sydney Business School PhD Scholarship

  Recent Presentations

  2024 

• "When Everyone Agrees: How the 52 Week High Creates a Liquidity Barrier"

- European Financial  Management Association Annual Meeting 

- Multinational Finance Association Annual Meeting 

- Financial Management  Association European Meeting

  2023

 • "The Value of Openness" 

- Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference, Boca Raton 

- Financial  Management Association Annual Meeting, Chicago 

- Northern Finance Association, Toronto 

- China International  Finance Conference, Shanghai 

- Portuguese Financial Network Conference, Madeira 

- Midwest Finance Association,  Chicago 

- California Corporate Finance Conference, Los Angeles 

• "Financial Uncertainty and Cross-Section of  Cryptocurrency Returns" 

- Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 

- KSB Research Symposium, University of   San Diego

  TEACHING

  Courses Taught at USD

  • FINA 402 - Investments (Undergraduate) 

• FINA 300 - Financial Management (Undergraduate) 

• GSBA 521 -  Investments (Graduate/MBA)