Vitor Azevedo

Vitor is the professor at the chair of financial management at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. He holds a Ph.D. (with summa cum laude) in finance from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and also worked as a postdoctoral researcher (Akademischer Rat) in the same institution from 2018 until 2021. He focuses his research mainly on empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, and the role of analyst information on the financial market. Before joining the TUM, Vitor worked in the financial markets as a portfolio manager and as a stockbroker.

Companies

• Professor of Finance University of Kaiserslautern (2021)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate Technical University Munich (2018 — 2021)
• Visiting Research Fellow Yale School of Management (2019 — 2019)
• PhD Candidate and Research Associate Technische Universität München (2015 — 2018)
• Assistant Professor Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (2014 — 2014)
• Junior Professor Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2012 — 2014)
• Portfolio Management SOMMA Investimentos (2010 — 2012)
• Stockbroker XP INVESTIMENTOS (2009 — 2010)
• Stockbroker Banif Investment Banking (2008 — 2009)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Technische Universität München (2015 — 2017)
• Master’s Degree Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2014 — 2015)
• Bachelor’s Degree Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (2005 — 2009)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Investor Sentiment and the Time-varying Sustainability Premium, with Christoph Kaserer and Lucila M. S. Campos, Journal of Asset Management, 2021.
• Earnings forecasts: the case for combining analysts’ estimates with a cross-sectional model, with Patrick Bielstein and Manuel Gerhart, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2020.
• Combination of forecasts for the price of crude oil on the spot market, with Lucila M. S. Campos, International Journal of Production Research, 2016.