Faculty Directory

Jeffrey Pontiff

Professor and James F. Cleary '50, DBA H '93 Chair in Finance

Department

Finance

Profile

Jeffrey Pontiff is a professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. He has teaching and research interests in the area of corporate finance andassetpricing and his research has been published in journals such as theournal of Finance,ournal of Financial Economics,American Economic Review,Quarterly Journal of Economics,Review of Financial Studies, and theRand Journal. His papers have won numerousawards including the Jensen Prize (first place), Amundi Smith Breeden Prize (first place), and the Sharpe Award (first place). He has held research or teaching positions at University of Washington, UCLA, Emory, Harvard Business School, National University of Singapore, ESCP-Europe, EPFL, Northeastern, the Institute for Financial Research (Stockholm) and Yale SOM.

He is a Vice President at the Financial Management Association International,an associate editor at theJournal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,Financial Management,and theJournal of Wine Economics.In the past, he has served asthe executive editor at theReview of Asset Pricing Studies, and an associate editorat theReview of Financial StudiesandManagement Science. He is a co-founder and past president of the Financial Research Association, and a past director for the Western Finance Association.