Dr. Rodrigo Leite

Assistant Professor of Finance (with tenure), COPPEAD Graduate School of Business

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e-mail: rodrigo [ d o t ] oliveira [ a t ] coppead [ d o t ] ufrj [ d o t ] braddress: Rua Pascoal Lemme 355 Office 423, 21941-918, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Short Bio

Much of my research is motivated by questions in financial economics, though my work also deals in the fields of accounting, psychology and public policy. I am interested in understanding how humans make financial decisions and the roles of certain biases on the decision-making process, including how these biases may affect the performance of individuals and groups. My topics of interest also include the dynamics of financial institutions and disavantaged groups, especially regarding microfinance and microcredit. Finally, a new topic of research that I am pursuing  is regarding the efficiency of public procurement processes and state-owned enterprises. My research has been published in journals in the fields of finance, business, and accounting such as the Journal of Business Ethics; Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money; International Journal of Finance and Economics; Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal; The International Journal of Accounting; Accounting Forum; International Review of Economics and FinanceFinance Research Letters; Research in International Business and Finance; Journal of Economics and Business; Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance; and Research in Economics. I have received many awards, including a nomination for the Carolyn Dexter Award for Best International Paper (Academy of Management, 2024), the Clovis L. Machado-da-Silva Award (Brazilian Academy of Management, 2023), two ENANPAD Best Division Paper Awards (Brazilian Academy of Management, 2016 in Accounting & 2023 in Strategy), and a Best Plenary Section Paper (USP International Conference in Accounting, 2018). I was also twiced featured in SSRN's Top 10 Download List (2021 & 2024).

I received my PhD from the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration in 2018. I was Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Rio de Janeiro State University between 2016-2019, and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration between 2019-2022. I am currently Assistant Professor of Finance, with tenure, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. I am also asked frequently to comment on financial-related subjects for main international news outlets (such as CNN, BBC, and Forbes), and also for main Brazilian ones (such as G1, IstoÉ, O Estado de SP, and Valor Econômico).

Education


Academic and Professional Positions


Selected Publications

Behavioral Accounting & Finance

Microfinance

Financial Economics

Public Finance

Working Papers


Recognition & Awards


Service

Reviewer

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Finance Research Letters (2); Review of Development Economics; International Review of Economics and Finance; International Review of Financial Analysis; Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money (3); Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (3); Journal of International Development; Managerial Finance; International Transactions in Operational Research; Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment (2); African Development Review (2); Applied Economics (2); Applied Economics Letters; Latin American Business Review (3).

Conferences

American Accounting Association Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting (reviewer and discussant); JAAF Conference (reviewer and discussant); Brazilian Finance Society Meeting (session chair and discussant); Brazilian Academy of Management Annual Meeting (reviewer, session chair and discussant); USP Conference in Accounting (discussant).

Conference Papers

AAA Annual Meeting (2015, 2016); AAA Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting (2019); Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance Conference (2019); Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2024); Finance Research Letters Conference (2022); Elsevier Finance Conference (2023); LUBRAFIN Conference (2022, 2024); SASE Conference (2023); International Conference on Empirical Economics at PSU-Altoona (2023); International Risk Management Conference (2022, 2023); Brazilian Finance Meeting (2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024); Rio Finance Meeting (2023, 2024); Brazilian Econometric Meeting (2018, 2022); Brazilian Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023); USP Conference in Accounting (2016, 2018, 2023, 2024).