Ronald Giammarino

Ronald Giammarino is a Professor in the Division of Finance at UBC's Sauder School of Business, holding the PHN Professorship in Corporate Finance and directing the Phillips, Hager & North Centre for Financial Research. His academic leadership spans graduate supervision in Finance PhD and MSc programs with active interdisciplinary collaboration.

Education:

• BA from St. Francis Xavier University
• MA from Queen's University
• PhD from Queen's University

His research integrates strategic corporate modeling with financial regulation and real options theory, examining how public policy shapes investment incentives through empirical market analysis. Specialized expertise includes bank regulation frameworks, market microstructure dynamics, and financial intermediation mechanisms under uncertainty.

Publication trends (2006-2017) reveal consistent focus on corporate finance theory applied to securities offerings, risk propagation in industry competition, and group decision-making under ambiguity. His work bridges mathematical real options modeling with empirical validation in capital markets.

As Director of the Phillips, Hager & North Centre, he oversees research initiatives connecting academic finance with regulatory practice. Graduate supervision includes thesis committees in Business Administration (Finance), though specific student names and grant details remain undisclosed in source materials.