Margarita Tsoutsoura

Margarita Tsoutsoura is an associate professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute.

She serves as associate editor of the Journal of Finance, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Review of Finance. Tsoutsoura was formerly a tenured associate professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and associate professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Her 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 popular media outlets, including in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, BusinessWeek, the International Herald Tribune, and CNBC. She received her Ph.D. in economics and finance from Columbia University.