Simona Mola Yost
Financial Economist
Office of Investments and Intermediaries
Education Summary
- Ph.D. Finance, Bocconi University, 2001
- B.S. Business Administration (Summa Cum Laude), Bocconi University, 1995
Fields of Interest
- Financial analysts
- Investment banking
- Institutional investors
- Ratings and rating agencies
- Financial Economist
- Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- 2012–present
- Assistant Professor of Finance
- W.P. Carey School of Business
- Arizona State University
- 2009-2012
- Assistant Professor of Finance
- School of Global Management and Leadership
- Arizona State University
- 2005-2008
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance
- Krannert Graduate School of Management
- Purdue University
- 2004-2005
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance
- Smeal College of Business
- Pennsylvania State University
- 2003-2004
- Post-Doctoral Fellow of Finance
- Bocconi University
- 2001-2003
- Visiting Scholar of Finance
- Mendoza School of Business
- University of Notre Dame
- 2000
- Simona Mola, Raghavendra Rau, and Ajay Khorana, Is There Life after the Complete Loss of Analyst Coverage?, 2013, The Accounting Review 88, 667-705.
- Simona Mola, Framing the Initiation of Analyst Coverage on IPOs, 2013, Journal of Behavioral Finance 14, 25-41.
- Simona Mola and Massimo Guidolin, Affiliated Mutual Funds and Analyst Optimism, 2009, Journal of Financial Economics 93, 108-137.
- Simona Mola and Tim Loughran, Discounting and Clustering in Seasoned Equity Offering Prices, 2004, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 39, 1-23.
- Laura Lindsey and Simona Mola, Analyst Competition and Monitoring: Earnings Management in Neglected Firms, RSFI Working Paper 2013-04.
- Massimo Guidolin and Simona Mola, In Search of Stock-Picking Talent.
Conference Activities
- Paper presentation, 2013 SFS Finance Cavalcade
- Reviewer, 2013 Midwest Finance Association Conference
- Reviewer, 2012 FMA Conference
- Reviewer, 2011 FMA Conference
- Discussant, 2010 FMA Conference
- Paper presentation, 2010 Northern Finance Association Conference
- Paper presentation (by co-author), 2010 "People & Money. The Human Factor in Financial Decision-Making" Conference at DePaul University
- Paper presentation and discussant, 2010 FMA European Conference
- Paper presentation, 2009 City University of Hong Kong International Conference on Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions
- Paper presentation and discussant, 2009 EFMA Conference
- Paper presentation, 2008 EFA Conference
- Paper presentation, 2007 Third Fed New York/NYU Stern Conference
- Paper presentation, 2007 FMA Conference
- Paper presentation, 2007 WFA Conference
- Paper presentation, 2007 EFMA Conference
- Paper presentation and discussant, 2007 FMA European Conference
- Discussant, 2006 FMA Conference
- Paper presentation ("Outstanding Paper" Award), 2006 Southern Finance Association Conference
- Paper presentation (by co-author), 2006 EFA Conference
- Paper presentation, 2006 AFA Conference
- Paper presentation and discussant, 2005 Southern Finance Association Conference
- Paper presentation, 2005 FMA Conference
- Paper presentation and discussant, 2005 EFMA Conference
- Paper presentation ("Best Paper" Award) and discussant, 2005 FMA European Conference
University Presentations
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2012
- University of Western Ontario, 2011
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2010
- National Investor Relations Institute, 2009
- Arizona State University, 2007
- Arizona State University, 2006
- Arizona State University, 2005
- HEC Montréal, 2005
- Washington State University, 2005
- Purdue University, 2004
- Pennsylvania State University, 2004
