Alessandro Previtero

Areas of Expertise

Household Finance, Behavioral Finance, Corporate Finance

Academic Degrees

• UCLA Anderson School of Management, Post-doctoral Fellowship 2007-2010
• University of Salento, Lecce (Italy), Ph.D. in Management 2003-2006

Companies

• Associate Professor of Finance Indiana University - Kelley School of Business (2021)
• Assistant Professor of Finance Kelley School of Business at Indiana University (2016 — 2021)
• Assistant Professor of Finance (Visiting) McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin (2015 — 2016)
• Assistant Professor of Finance Richard Ivey School of Business (2010 — 2016)
• Finance Assistant Professor Allianz Global Investors (2014 — 2015)
• Post Doctoral Fellow UCLA Anderson School of Management (2007 — 2010)
• Lecturer and Research Fellow SDA Bocconi School of Management (1999 — 2007)

Awards, Honors & Certificates

• 2017 Amundi Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize for ”Retail financial advice: Does one size fit all?”
• Special mention as finalist for the 2015 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for “Stock market returns and annuitization”
• 2015 CFA Society Toronto & Hillsdale Canadian Investment Research Award for “Retail financial advice: Does one size fit all?”
• 2010 Northern Finance Association Best Paper in Capital Markets Award for “Stock market returns and annuitization”

Selected Publications

• Foerster, S., Linnainmaa, J., Melzer, B., Previtero, A. (2017). Retail financial advice: Does one size fit all? Journal of Finance, 72(4), 1441-1482 (Amundi Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize).
• Cronqvist, H., Previtero, A., Siegel, S., and White, R. (2016). The fetal origins hypothesis in finance: Prenatal environment, the gender gap and financial risk taking. Review of Financial Studies, 29(3), 739-786.
• Previtero, A., (2014). Stock Market Returns and Annuitization. Journal of Financial Economics, 113(2), 202–214.
• Benartzi, S., Previtero, A., and Thaler, R. H. (2011). Annuitization Puzzles. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25(4), 143–164.