Rate My Professor Andrea Gamba

Andrea Gamba is the Professor of Finance and Head of the Finance Group in the Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, where he has been since 2010. Previously, he was Visiting Professor of Finance at the George Washington University School of Business (2008-2010), Associate Professor of Mathematical Finance at the University of Verona (2000-2010), and Assistant Professor at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (1996-2000). He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Trieste and a Laurea degree in Economics (cum laude) from the University of Verona. Gamba has undertaken visiting and research appointments at New York University, Purdue University, the University of Calgary, the University of Maryland, and the London Business School.

Gamba's primary research specialization is corporate finance, with secondary interests in financial contracting, banking, and derivatives. His work focuses on dynamic corporate finance, capital structure and cash holdings decisions, credit risk, corporate risk management, and real options. He has published extensively in top-tier journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Financial Management, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Energy Economics, Finance Research Letters, and Applied Mathematical Finance. Key publications include "The Value of Financial Flexibility" with Alexander J. Triantis in the Journal of Finance (2008), "Valuing Modularity as a Real Option" with Nicola Fusari in Management Science (2009), "Structural Estimation of Real Options Models" with Marco Tesser in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2009), and more recently "Nondilutive CoCo Bonds: A Necessary Evil?" with Yanxiong Gong and Kebin Ma in Review of Corporate Finance Studies (2025). Since 2018, he has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance and since 2022 of Decisions in Economics and Finance. Gamba serves on the scientific committees of prominent conferences such as the Western Finance Association, SFS Finance Cavalcade, European Finance Association, and Financial Intermediation Research Society. He has also provided consulting services on real options valuation to SwissCom, Cable & Wireless, BHP Billiton, and on derivative pricing to Unicredit, UBS, Lehman Brothers, and Cattolica Assicurazioni.