Joni Kokkonen

Research Interests

• Empirical asset pricing, institutional investors, hedge funds, portfolio choice

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Aalto University (2005 — 2012)
• Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
• Master of Science (MSc) Helsingin kauppakorkeakoulu

Companies

• Assistant Professor Catolica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics (2011)
• International Faculty Fellow MIT Sloan School of Management (2013 — 2013)
• Assistant Professor Helsinki School of Economics (2005 — 2010)
• Visiting Scholar UC San Diego (2008 — 2009)

WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS

• "Better Safe than Sorry: Optimal International Portfolio Choice under Regime Switching and Disappointment Aversion"

• "Hidden Investment Beliefs"
  Joint with Markku Kaustia and Vesa Puttonen

• "Institutional Trading, Risk Sharing, and Momentum"
  Joint with Matti Suominen

• “Does More Risk Induce More Failure?”
  Joint with José Faias and Leila Amorim

• "The Trade Gap, Corporate Governance, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns"
  Joint with Nelson Camanho