Jeffrey Pontiff

Jeffrey Pontiff is a Professor and the James F. Cleary '50, DBA H '93 Chair in Finance at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. His expertise spans valuation, asset pricing, financial statement analysis, and behavioral finance.

• BA, University of Chicago
• MS, University of Rochester, Simon School
• Ph.D., University of Rochester, Simon School

His research focuses on corporate finance and asset pricing, with an emphasis on market efficiency, costly arbitrage, and behavioral factors in stock returns. Recent work explores return predictability, equity market liberalization, and institutional trading dynamics.

His publications appear in top journals like the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, American Economic Review, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. Themes include anomalies, liquidity risk, and cross-sectional return patterns.

• Jensen Prize (first place)
• Amundi Smith Breeden Prize (first place)
• Sharpe Award (first place)

Pontiff has served as Vice President of the Financial Management Association International and held editorial roles at journals including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. He co-founded the Financial Research Association and served as its past president.