Kimberly Cornaggia

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Professor of Finance, Louis R. & Virginia A. Benzak Professor, Department Head

Department Finance
Office Address 352 Business Building
Phone Number 814-865-2243
Email Address kjr15@psu.edu

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Professor Cornaggia is an expert in corporate finance, credit risk, credit ratings, public finance, and household finance. Her research has been published in leading academic finance journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Review of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies.

Dr. Cornaggia is the Finance Department Head and research director of the Center for the Study of Financial Markets at the Smeal College of Business and serves on the boards of the Eastern Finance Association and Western Finance Association.

Prior to joining the Smeal College faculty, Dr. Cornaggia served on the faculty at American University, College of William and Mary, New York University, and Indiana University. Her non-academic experience includes analyzing asset-backed securities markets and the credit ratings industry for the US Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice.

She received her PhD from the Krannert Graduate School at Purdue University and her BS from the University of Nebraska where she majored in Actuarial Science and Finance.

Education

PhD, Finance, Purdue University, 2000

BS, Actuarial Science & Finance, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1994

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