Fabio Moneta

Biography

Fabio Moneta is an Associate Professor and a RBC Financial Group Professor in Finance at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. He is the recipient of a Senior Research Fellowship at the Long-Term Investors think tank at the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Università di Torino). He is also the Coordinator for the Responsible Investing sub-cluster of the Centre for a Responsible Wealth Transition and the Co-Director for the Microprogram Capital Markets (Telfer Capital Market Program) and student managed investment fund (Telfer Capital Fund). In recognition of his significant research contributions, the Telfer School of Management awarded him the 2023 Telfer Established Researcher Award. Before joining Telfer, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Smith School of Business, Queen’s University. He was also a visiting professor at the Università di Pisa and the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Università di Torino). He received his PhD in Finance from the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. He also holds an MSc in Finance from CORIPE Piemonte (Turin, Italy) and a BA in Economics from the University of Pisa in Italy.

Research Interests

His research interests concentrate on investments, institutional investors, trading behavior, mutual fund performance, responsible investing, and empirical asset pricing. He is also interested in monetary policy topics to which he was exposed while working at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. He has presented his research at more than 70 conferences and universities in Europe and North America including major international conferences such as the American Finance Association, the European Finance Association, the Northern Finance Association, and the Society for Financial Econometrics. He has published articles in leading journals including Critical Finance Review, Energy Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Empirical Finance, and Management Science. He is also the author of two book chapters including one published in the Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, edited by Pietro Veronesi. His research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaCanadian Securities Institute Research Foundation, and featured in various media outlets such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial Times, and Morningstar. He has also acted as a referee for 30 academic publication outlets (e.g., Journal of Finance, Management Science, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and Review of Finance) and as a conference discussant for more than 30 academic papers. Dr. Moneta has taught introductory courses of finance and investments at the undergraduate level, empirical asset pricing, portfolio management, and sustainable finance at the PhD/MSc level, and financial markets and institutions at the MBA level.