Portrait of Pierluigi Balduzzi
Boston College teaching record

Pierluigi Balduzzi

Professor

Finance

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Biography

Pierluigi Balduzzi is a professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics (DES) from Bocconi University, Milan, and a Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA. His research appears in leading finance and economics journals, such as the Journal of Finance , Journal of Financial Economics , Review of Financial Studies , and American Economic Review and has been presented at leading academic conferences, such as the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, European Finance Association, and the NBER Summer Institute, as well as non-academic institutions, such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank.

Official evaluation summary

3.77 / 5

Based on 324 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Courses taught

Ratings are this instructor’s response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations, on a scale of 1 to 5.

  • MFIN8880 Fixed Income Analysis
    Instructor rating 3.72 / 5 · Course rating 3.61 / 5 · 303 responses
    Taught Spring 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
  • MFIN8863 Ph.D. Seminar: Empirical Asset Pricing
    Instructor rating 4.54 / 5 · Course rating 4.38 / 5 · 21 responses
    Taught Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022

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