Margarita Tsoutsoura is an Associate Professor of Finance at Olin Business School, at the Washington University in St. Louis. She is also 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, Management Science and the Journal of Corporate Finance.
Before joining WashU Tsoutsoura was tenured
Associate Professor at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and the academic director of the Smith Family Business Initiative. During 2010-2017, Tsoutsoura was
associate professor of finance at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.
Professor Tsoutsoura has several research projects studying privately held firms.
Her most recent project studies the political polarization of corporate America. She is also interested in labor and finance, corporate governance as well as the effects of corruption and tax evasion. Her work on
tax evasion was awarded the 2013 Wharton School-WRDS Award for Best Empirical Finance Paper.
The Fulbright Fellowship and the WFA Trefftzs Award are among Tsoutsoura's other varied honors
and fellowships.
Her work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal
of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. 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.