Jose Maria Liberti

Jose Maria Liberti is the Joseph Jr. and Carole Levy Chair in Entrepreneurship and a Clinical Professor of Finance at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is also a senior research fellow at The George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at The University Chicago Booth School of Business and research fellow of the European Banking Center at Tilburg University. At Kellogg, he also holds an affiliation with both the Heizer Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital, and the John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises at Kellogg School of Management.

Jose Maria is also the William M. Scholl Professor of Finance at Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, and was previously Assistant Professor of Finance at London Business School, Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Associate Professor of Finance at Tilburg University. He has also taught at CEMFI, Central Bank of Brazil/IDB, IAE Aix-en-Provence Graduate School of Management, Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wiscosin-Madison and the Indian School of Business.

Jose Maria has served as an economic consultant at the Argentinean Ministry of Economics, Work and Public Services. Before continuing with his graduate studies, Jose Maria worked at Citibank N.A. as a Corporate Financial Advisor and in the Risk Management and Investment Banking Divisions in Buenos Aires and New York. Jose Maria is actually also senior advisor to the equity placement desk at Capstone Headwaters, and is involved in Point 72 Asset Management Academy development efforts.

Jose Maria's research lies in the boundaries of corporate finance, financial intermediation and organizational economics. Part of his attention has been drawn to understand how incentives, allocation of authority and types of information are used in the actual decision-making process of individuals Recent work has examined the role rotation among agents as a mechanism to alleviate moral hazard in communication and how sharing on public information may impact coordination problems among borrowers. His work has been published at the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Corporate Finance Sttudies. Jose Maria received the Brattle Award (First Prize) for the best paper in corporate finance awarded annually by the American Finance Association. He has also received twice the Brattle Distinguished paper award. His work has been presented at numerous universities and governmental bodies around the world.

Liberti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received a bachelor's and master's degree in economics from the Universidad de San Andres (UdeSA), in Buenos Aires. He moved to the United States in 1998 and earned both a Masters and a PhD in Economics from The University of Chicago.

An award-winning teacher at Kellogg School Management, he teaches graduate elective courses in mergers & acquisitions, buyouts, corporate restructuring, and valuation and goverance of family firms around the world both at the MBA and Executive MBA levels.

Education

• Ph.D., 2005, Economics, University of Chicago
• M.A., 2001, Economics, University of Chicago
• M.A., 1995, Economics, Universidad de San Andres
• B.A., 1994, Economics, Universidad de San Andres

Academic Positions

• William M. Scholl Professor of Finance, Finance, Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, 2015-present
• Associate Professor of Finance, Finance, Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, 2012-2015
• Visiting Associate Professor of Finance, Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2010-2015
• Visiting Associate Professor of Finance, Finance, Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, 2013-2013
• Associate Professor of Finance, Finance, CentER, Tilburg University, 2010-2013
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Finance, Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, 2007-2012
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2005-2007
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Finance, Institute of Finance and Accounting, London Business School, 2003-2006

Teaching Interests

• Mergers & Acquisitions, LBOs, Corporate Restructuring, Global Entrepreneurial Finance