Margarita Tsoutsoura is an Associate Professor of Finance at Olin Business School, at the Washington University in St. Louis. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Fellow at CEPR and Research Member at ECGI. She serves as associate editor at the Journal of Finance, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Review of Finance. She was formerly tenured Associate Professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University and associate professor at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.
Professor Tsoutsoura's research focuses on corporate finance with an emphasis on privately held firms, corporate governance, and labor and finance. Her work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. The Fulbright Fellowship, the Jensen Prize, the Wharton School-WRDS Award and the WFA Trefftzs Award are among Tsoutsoura's other varied honors and fellowships.
Her research has been covered
extensively
in print and electronic media, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The
Economist,
New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, BusinessWeek, International Herald Tribune,
and
CNBC.
Tsoutsoura earned her PhD in finance with distinction from the Columbia University,
Graduate
School of Business, her MSc in financial engineering from the Haas School of Business,
University
of California Berkeley, and a BSc in economics from the University of Piraeus in Greece.