Cesare is an associate professor of finance in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the school in 2009 after completing his doctorate in finance from UCLA Anderson. His primary research interest is in the area of corporate finance. His research includes work on fintech, corporate governance, executive compensation, credit rating agencies, small business financing, and the effects of social networks and cultural preferences on financial policies. His articles have been published in the top Finance journals, such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. He teaches fintech, corporate finance and valuation to the MBA and MSBA programs, and empirical corporate finance to PhD students.

 

Cesare holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and an MBA and PhD in Finance from UCLA Anderson. He was a visiting professor at the Wharton School in 2012/2013. Before his PhD, he worked as strategic management consultant at Booz Allen and Roland Berger in Italy, and as summer intern at the United Nations in New York.