MIT Sloan Gustavo Manso
Assistant Professor of Finance
MIT Sloan School of Management

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Curriculum Vitae
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Employment

Assistant Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2006-current.

Education

Ph.D. in Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2001-2006.
M.S in Mathematics, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Brazil, 1999-2001.
B.A. in Economics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-Rio), Brazil, 1995-1999.
Exchange Student, University of California at Berkeley, 1997-1998.

Research Interests

Corporate Finance, Contract Theory and Economics of Organizations, Entrepreneurship.

Publications

"Investment Reversibility and Agency Cost of Debt," Econometrica (forthcoming).
"Information Percolation in Large Markets." (with Darrell Duffie), American Economic Review P&P., vol. 97 (2007), pp. 203-209.

Working Papers

"Motivating Innovation."
"Performance-Sensitive Debt" (with Bruno Strulovici and Alexei Tchistyi).
"Information Percolation" (with Darrell Duffie and Gaston Giroux).
"Governance Through Voice and Exit: A Theory of Multiple Blockholders" (with Alex Edmans).

Work in Progress

"Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Program" (with Pierre Azoulay and Joshua Graff Zivin).
"Incentives for Innovation: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment" (with Florian Ederer).
"Syndication and Collusion in Financial Markets" (with Vinicius Carrasco).
"Transformational Leadership."

Honors

NBER IPE Grant, "Incentives and Creativity," 2007-2008.
Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance, 2005.
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Fellowship, 2005-2006.
Student Travel Award, American Finance Association, 2005.
Jaedicke Merit Award, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2001-2002.
GSB Fellowship, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2001-2006.
Award for Academic Achievement, Instituto Matemática Pura e Aplicada, 2001.
Academic Excellence Scholarship, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, 1995-1999.
First place in admission exams, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, 1995.

Professional Experience

Referee for American Economic Review, Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Financial Studies.