PAOLO ANTONIO FULGHIERI

Curriculum Vitae

Macon G. Patton Distinguished Professor of Finance

Kenan-Flagler Business School

4109 McColl Building

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Phone: (919) 962-3202

E-mail: paolo_fulghieri at unc dot edu

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Economics 1987, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Laurea, 1981, Universita' Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi,” Milano, Italy.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Corporate Finance. Initial Public Offering. Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital. Financial Intermediation. Security Design.

SELECTED WORKING PAPERS:

The Economics of Solicited and Unsolicited Credit Ratings, with Gunter Strobl and Han Xia.

Asymmetric Information and the Pecking (Dis)Order, with Diego Garcia and Dirk Hackbarth.

Mergers and Incentives to Create Synergies, with Merih Sevilir.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

‘O Sole Mio. An Experimental Analysis of Weather and Risk Attitudes in Financial Decisions, with Anna Bassi and Riccardo Colacito.

Forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies.

Corporate Governance, Finance, and the Real Sector, with Matti Suominen,

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 47, n.6, 1187-1214 (December 2012).

Mergers, Spin-offs, and Employee Incentives, with Merih Sevilir,

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 24, n.7, 2207-2241 (July 2011).

The Value of Bank Capital and the Structure of the Banking Industry, with Franklin Allen and Hamid Mehran,

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 24, n.4, 971-982 (April 2011), Special Issue Introduction.

Organization and Financing of Innovation, and the Choice between Corporate and Independent Venture Capital, with Merih Sevilir,

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 44, n.6, 1291-1321 (December 2009).

Size and Focus of a Venture Capitalist’s Portfolio, with Merih Sevilir,

Review of Financial Studies, Vol 22, n. 11, 4643-4680 (November 2009).

Competition and Co-operation among Exchanges: A Theory of Cross Listing and Endogenous Listing Standards, with Thomas Chemmanur,

Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 82, n. 2, 455-489 (November 2006).

Synergies and Internal Agency Conflicts: The Double-Edged Sword of Mergers, with Laurie Hodrick,

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy Vol. 15, n. 3, 549-576 (Fall 2006).

Information Production, Dilution Costs, and Optimal Security Design, with Dmitry Lukin,

Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 61, n. 1, 3-41 (July 2001).

A Theory of the Going Public Decision, with Thomas Chemmanur,

Review of Financial Studies Vol. 12, n. 2, 249-279 (Summer 1999).

Why Include Warrants in New Equity Issues? A Theory of Unit IPOs, with Thomas Chemmanur,

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 32, n. 1, 1-24 (January 1997).

Reputation, Renegotiation, and the Choice between Bank Loans and Publicly Traded Debt, with Thomas Chemmanur,

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 7, n. 3, 475-506 (Fall 1994).

Investment Bank Reputation, Information Production, and Financial Intermediation, with Thomas Chemmanur,

Journal of Finance, Vol. 49, n. 1, 57-79 (March 1994).

Uncertain Liquidity and Interbank Contracting, with Sudipto Bhattacharya,

Economics Letters, Vol. 44, n. 3, 287-94 (March 1994).

A Theory of the Distribution of Underpriced Initial Public Offers by Investment Banks, with Matthew Spiegel,

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 2, n. 4, 509-530 (Winter 1993).

Financial Contracts as Lasting Commitments: The Case of a Leveraged Oligopoly, with S. Nagarajan,

Journal of Financial Intermediation, Vol. 2, n. 1, 2-32 (March 1992).

Books, chapters in books, and other non refereed publications:

Competition and Cooperation among Exchanges: Effects on Corporate Cross-Listing Decisions and Listing Standards, with Thomas Chemmanur and Jie He, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 20, n. 3, 76-90 (Summer 2008).

The Design of Debt Contracts, with Eitan Goldman,

in A. Thakor and A. Boot (eds.), Handbook of Corporate Finance, Vol 3: Financial Intermediation and Banking, North-Holland, 2008.

Articles in the popular press:

Benefits of a Better Image, with Thomas Chemmanur, Financial Times, Mastering Financial Management, June 16, 2006