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Paolo Colla

Department of Finance
Associate Professor
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Bio

I am Associate Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. Since 2018, I have been acting as Director of the International Economics and Finance B.Sc. Program. I have published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Finance on the topics of asset pricing and corporate finance..

Research Interests

My research spans a variety of topics such as asymmetric information in financial markets and corporate financing decisions. I am currently involved in research projects on market fragmentation, price manipulation in FX markets, and the cash flow senstitivity to external debt sources. 

working papers

with Mitu Gulati and Linus Siming
Making partner at Wachtell: a gender analysis
with Walter Distaso and Paolo Vitale
Price Manipulation and Collusion around the London 4pm Fix
with Paolo Vitale
The dissemination of short-sellers' information
with Giovanni Cespa
Transparency and fragmentation with strategic trading
with Giovanni Cespa
Market fragmentation, dissimulation, and the disclosure of insider trades

Publications

Firms save from bonds but not from loans
JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE, 2025
The price of cheeky contracting
LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS, 2022
The price of law: the case of the Eurozone collective action clauses
The Review of Financial Studies, 2021
Debt structure
Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2020
The puzzle of PDVSA bond prices
CAPITAL MARKETS LAW JOURNAL, 2017
Pricing contract terms in a crisis: Venezuelan bonds in 2016
CAPITAL MARKETS LAW JOURNAL, 2016
Technology adoption: hysteresis and absence of lock-in
ECONOMICS LETTERS, 2016
Sovereign and corporate credit risk: evidence from the Eurozone
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2015
Evaluating the 2013 Euro CAC experiment
The new financial architecture in the Eurozone, 2015
Determinants of the cost of capital for privately financed hospital projects in the UK
HEALTH POLICY, 2015
Which financial frictions? Parsing the evidence from the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009
NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2013
Debt specialization
The Journal of Finance, 2013
Environmental policy and speculation on markets for emission permits
Economica, 2012
Leverage and pricing of debt in LBOs
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2012
Information linkages and correlated trading
The review of Financial Studies, 2010
A portfolio-based evaluation of affine term structure models
Annals of Operations Research, 2007