Francesco Franzoni
Professor
Finance
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Switzerland
Biography
Francesco Franzoni is Professor of Finance at the Università della Svizzera italiana. He joined SFI in 2007 and has held an SFI Senior Chair since 2012. Prof. Franzoni obtained his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Franzoni’s research has been published in the top finance journals worldwide and featured in the international press. He is a regular speaker at leading academic conferences in finance.
Research Interest
asset pricing, with a focus on institutional investors such as hedge funds, private equity, mutual funds, and ETFs. He studies, in particular, the impact of institutional investors on asset prices and liquidity.
Publications
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The Beneficial Ties between Hedge Funds and Financial Conglomerates
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N°17-08: The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market, M.Di Maggio, F. Franzoni, A. Kermani, and C. Sommavilla, 2017.
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Franzoni, F., & Schmalz, M. C. (in press). Fund Flows and Market States. The Review of Financial Studies.
