Alejandro Rivera

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Finance University of Texas at Dallas (2015)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2019 — 2020)
• PhD Candidate Boston University (2008 — 2015)
• Summer Research Fellow American Institute for Economic Research (2011 — 2011)
• Instructor Universidad del Rosario (2010 — 2010)
• Summer Student Fellow American Institute for Economic Research (2009 — 2009)

Education

• PhD in Economics, Boston University, 2015
• BsC in Mathematics and Economics, Simon Fraser University, 2008

Current / Recent Research

• Corporate Finance Theory
• Dynamic Contracts
• Optimal Capital Structure
• Applications of Robust Preferences

Professional Organizations

• American Economic Association
• Econometric Society
• American Finance Association
• Western Finance Association
• Society of Financial Studies

PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING PAPERS

"Robust Contracts in Continuous Time" (with Jianjun Miao), Econometrica (2016), [WP], [Online Appendix]

"Dynamic Moral Hazard and Risk-Shifting Incentives in a Leveraged Firm", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2019), [SSRN]

"Extrapolation Bias and Robust Dynamic Liquidity Management" (with Seokwoo Lee), Management Science (2021) [SSRN], [Slides]

"Does Performance-Sensitive Debt mitigate Debt-Overhang?" (with Alain Bensoussan and Benoit Chevalier-Roignant), forthcoming at Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control [SSRN]

"Optimal Short-Termism" (with Dirk Hackbarth and Tak-Yuen Wong), forthcoming at Management Science [SSRN], [VoxEU], [Slides]

"Real Options with Non-Smooth Obstacles" (with Subas Acharya, Alain Bensoussan, and Dmitrii Rachinskii) , Accepted at SIAM Journal of Financial Mathematics [SSRN]