Jeffrey Pontiff
Professor and James F. Cleary '50, DBA H '93 Chair in Finance
Biography
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 and asset pricing and his research has been published in journals such as the J ournal of Finance, J ournal of Financial Economics, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics , Review of Financial Studies , and the Rand Journal . His papers have won numerous awards 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 the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Financial Management , and the Journal of Wine Economics . In the past, he has served as the executive editor at the Review of Asset Pricing Studies , and an associate editor at the Review of Financial Studies and Management Science . He is a co-founder and past president of the Financial Research Association, and a past director for the Western Finance Association.