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Visiting Assistant Professor

Economics & Business

Andrea Golfari is a financial economist with research interests in the areas of Banking and Financial Intermediation, Systemic Risk, Macroprudential Policy and Capital Regulation, Asset Pricing. His current work is focused on the role of Contingent Convertible Capital Instruments (CoCos) in the regulatory capital stack of global financial institutions, their effects on managerial incentives, their implications on systemic risk and how the idiosyncratic features of their trigger mechanisms are priced on equity and fixed-income markets.

Andrea received his Ph.D. in Finance from Baruch College (City University of New York), MIA in International Finance and Economic Policy from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, BA in Economics from Columbia University, and Laurea in Communication Sciences from University of Bologna. He grew up in Italy. Andrea is a first-generation immigrant to the United States and a first-generation college graduate.

Before joining Colorado College, he was Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baruch College, where he taught in the department of Economics & Finance and in the department of Information Systems & Statistics.