Faculty Profile

Alberto Rossi Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 4457 Van Munching Hall

Alberto Rossi is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park. His research interests include theoretical and empirical asset pricing, portfolio choice and financial econometrics. His recent work concentrates on optimal investment strategies in the presence of information costs, model combination approaches for portfolio choice, and the risk-return trade-off in financial markets. He also studies pension fund performance and stock return predictability.

Professor Rossi's work has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance. His teaching interests include econometrics, investments and asset pricing. Before joining the Smith School, he worked an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington DC. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.