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Massimo Massa

Massimo Massa

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
47
Citations
12957
World Ranking
1566
National Ranking
35

Overview

Massimo Massa is affiliated with INSEAD in France and specializes in research within Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work covers a variety of subfields including Finance, Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Sociology and Political Science. Massa's research interests focus mainly on financial markets, corporate finance, governance, and banking stability.

The main topics of Massa's research include:

  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Credit Risk and Financial Regulations
  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Insurance and Financial Risk Management
  • Housing Market and Economics

Massa has contributed extensively to academic journals, with frequent publications in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • Journal of Financial Markets
  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • Journal of Financial Economics

Among their recent papers are:

  • The Spillover Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Corporate Bonds and the Choice Between Bank and Bond Financing (2020, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis)
  • Investing in Low-Trust Countries: On the Role of Social Trust in the Global Mutual Fund Industry (2020, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis)
  • Local investor horizon clientele and IPO underpricing (2020, Journal of Financial Markets)
  • Credit Default Swaps, Fire-Sale Risk, and the Liquidity Provision in the Bond Market (2023, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis)

Massa has collaborated frequently with other researchers in the field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Lei Zhang
  • Hong Zhang
  • David Schumacher
  • Yan Wang
  • Zhe Li

The body of work produced by Massa encompasses a significant number of publications, particularly in areas linking financial markets with governance and regulation. Their research spans theoretical and empirical studies that address issues such as market liquidity, investor behavior, financial trust, and risk management.

Best Publications

  • Shareholder investment horizons and the market for corporate control

    José-Miguel Gaspar;Massimo Massa;Pedro Matos

  • Favoritism in Mutual Fund Families? Evidence on Strategic Cross‐Fund Subsidization

    José-Miguel Gaspar;Massimo Massa;Pedro Matos

  • Hedging, familiarity and portfolio choice ∗ .

    Massimo Massa;Andrei Simonov

  • Idiosyncratic Volatility and Product Market Competition

    José‐Miguel Gaspar;Massimo Massa

  • Shareholders at the Gate? Institutional Investors and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

    Miguel A. Ferreira;Massimo Massa;Pedro Matos

  • How do family strategies affect fund performance? When performance-maximization is not the only game in town

    Massimo Massa

  • The Invisible Hand of Short Selling: Does Short Selling Discipline Earnings Management?

    Massimo Massa;Bohui Zhang;Hong Zhang

  • The role of institutional investors in propagating the crisis of 2007-2008.

    Alberto Manconi;Massimo Massa;Ayako Yasuda

  • The Role of Institutional Investors in Propagating the Crisis of 2007-2008

    Alberto Manconi;Alberto Manconi;Massimo Massa;Ayako Yasuda

  • Information flows within financial conglomerates: Evidence from the banks–mutual funds relation

    Massimo Massa;Zahid Rehman

  • Index Funds and Stock Market Growth

    William N Goetzmann;Massimo Massa

  • Daily Momentum and Contrarian Behavior of Index Fund Investors

    William N. Goetzmann;Massimo Massa

  • Alliances and corporate governance

    Andriy Bodnaruk;Massimo Massa;Massimo Massa;Andrei Simonov;Andrei Simonov;Andrei Simonov

  • The Impact of a Strong Bank-Firm Relationship on the Borrowing Firm

    Nishant Dass;Massimo Massa

  • Incentives and Mutual Fund Performance: Higher Performance or Just Higher Risk Taking?

    Massimo Massa;Rajdeep Patgiri

  • Local Ownership as Private Information: Evidence on the Monitoring-Liquidity Trade-Off*

    Jose Miguel Gaspar;Massimo Massa

  • Investment Banks as Insiders and the Market for Corporate Control

    Andriy Bodnaruk;Massimo Massa;Andrei Simonov

  • Disposition Matters: Volume, Volatility, and Price Impact of a Behavioral Bias

    William N. Goetzmann;Massimo Massa

  • Mutual Funds and Bubbles: The Surprising Role of Contractual Incentives

    Nishant Dass;Massimo Massa;Rajdeep Patgiri

  • Air pollution, behavioral bias, and the disposition effect in China

    Jennifer (Jie) Li;Massimo Massa;Hong Zhang;Jian Zhang

  • Shareholders at the Gate? Institutional Investors and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

    Massimo Massa;Miguel A. Ferreira;Miguel A. Ferreira;Pedro P. Matos

  • Information Flows within Financial Conglomerates: Evidence from the Banks-Mutual Funds Relationship

    Massimo Massa;Zahid Rehman

  • Hedge Fund Stock Trading in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008

    Itzhak Ben-David;Francesco Franzoni;Rabih Moussawi;Giovanni Barone-Adesi

Frequent Co-Authors

William N. Goetzmann
William N. Goetzmann Yale University
Pedro Matos
Pedro Matos University of Virginia
Miguel A. Ferreira
Miguel A. Ferreira Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Donald B. Keim
Donald B. Keim University of Pennsylvania
Bohui Zhang
Bohui Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Harald Hau
Harald Hau University of Geneva
Loriana Pelizzon
Loriana Pelizzon Ca Foscari University of Venice
René M. Stulz
René M. Stulz The Ohio State University
K. Geert Rouwenhorst
K. Geert Rouwenhorst Yale University

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