Maddalena Ronchi
Drake Scholar
Assistant Professor of Finance
Maddalena Ronchi is an applied-micro economist whose research interests lie in the areas of labor and finance, with a focus on understanding how labor market frictions affect workers’ career trajectories and corporate behavior. In her work, she explore this topic from two distinct but interconnected angles. First, she is interested in studying the causes and consequences of gender inequalities in labor market outcomes, with an emphasis on the role played by gender attitudes in shaping gender gaps in employment, earnings, and occupational choices. Second, she studies how labor market frictions constraining firms' hiring and wage-setting decisions affect various corporate outcomes, including firms’ ability to attract and retain talent and firms’ growth. To identify the effects of interest, her research primarily uses employer-employee matched data and quasi-experimental designs.
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2025 Ghazala Azmat Award
Finance I (FINCM-430-0)
Finance I (FINC-430-0)
Finance 1 answers managers' and investors' most fundamental finance question: how should a project or an asset be valued? Managers must determine the value of building a factory, entering a new market, or purchasing an entire firm when deciding in which projects to invest. Similarly, individuals must assess the value of financial securities to decide how to invest their wealth. Using a combination of lectures and business cases, Finance 1 teaches the discounted cash flow and multiples methods to value projects or assets. These valuation tools lay the foundation for all work in capital markets and corporate finance.
Prerequisite: Business Analytics I (DECS-430-5)
Corequisite/Prerequisite: Accounting for Decision Making (ACCT-430) and Business Analytics II (DECS 431-0)
Corporate Finance (BUS_INST-304-0)
Effects of time and uncertainty on valuation and decision making. Discounting techniques, stock and bond valuation, capital budgeting, firm valuation, capital asset pricing model, financial options. May not receive credit for both this course and ECON 360-1. Not for students who have previously taken KELLG_FE 310-0. Prerequisites: ECON 201-0 and ECON 202-0; STAT 210-0 or equivalent; MATH 218-1 or MATH 220-1; and BUS_INST 301-0.
