Rate My Professor Davide Sinno

Davide Sinno is a Senior Lecturer, equivalent to Assistant Professor, in Finance within the Department of Banking and Finance at Monash Business School, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, located on the Caulfield campus. He completed his PhD in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, in 2024, with a thesis titled 'Three Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance' focusing on factors influencing public and private firms' growth and efficiency strategies. His earlier academic background includes an MSc in Quantitative Finance from the University of Bologna (2015-2017), awarded with highest honors (110/110 cum laude), during which he visited Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, and a BSc in Economics and Management from the University of Insubria (2012-2015), also with highest honors (110/110). During his PhD, Sinno was a visiting scholar at Boston College's Carroll School of Management from August 2022 to July 2023. Before pursuing his doctorate, he worked as a Financial Engineer at Fd Technologies plc in Dublin, Belfast, and Milan from 2017 to 2018, and interned as a summer intern at Quantyx in Milan in 2016.

Sinno's research specializes in the intersection of empirical corporate finance, institutional investors, and financial intermediaries. His job market paper, 'Passive common ownership and firm markup: Market power or efficiency?', provides evidence that passive common owners enhance firm markups, productivity, and investment efficiency through information exchange, presented at venues including the FMA, AFA PhD poster session, and SWFA. Other key working papers include 'How do firms choose between growth and efficiency?' with Laurent Frésard, Loriano Mancini, and Enrique Schroth, exploring firms' strategic choices in growth versus efficiency; 'Debt and Equity Crowdfunding in the Financial Growth Cycle' with Markus Lithell, Matteo Pirovano, and Trang Q. Vu, analyzing crowdfunding's role in firm financing stages; and 'Measuring Resiliency' with Loriano Mancini. More recently, 'Private Debt Financing and Product Market Expansion' investigates private debt's impact on firm expansion. He has presented at the EFA, SFI Research Days, and others. Sinno has received the Swiss National Science Foundation Doc.Mobility Fellowship (2022), Swiss Finance Institute Graduate Student Fellowship (2018), EFA Travel Grant (2023), Overseas Mobility Grant (2017), and Erasmus Mobility Grant (2014). His teaching experience includes serving as Teaching Assistant for Statistics and Introduction to Econometrics at USI Lugano. At Monash, he teaches units such as Equity Markets (BFF2701) and Corporate Financing Decisions (BFF5956).