Lecturer in Finance

MSc Economics (Pisa), PhD Economics (Amsterdam)

Research Interests

Corporate finance
Venture capital
Strategic real option
Law and finance

Expertise

Post-doctoral Researcher at IDEI, Toulouse, France. R&D Coordinator, Research Projects at BMW-Rolls Royce, Berlin, Germany. Also a Fellow at Said Business School, University of Oxford.

Selected publications

"Reputational Cheap Talk with Misunderstanding", (with A. Guembel) Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming. 

"Endless Leverage Certificates" (with J. van Bommel), Journal of Banking and Finance, forthcoming.

"The Price of Rapid Exit in Venture Capital Backed IPOs", Annals of Finance, 4(1), 29 - 53, Jan., 2008.

"Equity Carve-outs as Strategic Real Options", (with E. Perotti) Journal of Corporate Finance, 13(5), 771-792, Dec., 2007.

"Internet Portals as Portfolio of Entry Options" (with E. Perotti) in McCahery, J. and L. Renneboog (eds.) Venture capital contracting and the valuation of high tech firms, Oxford University Press, pp 281-296, 2004.

"On the economic value of modularity in software development. A real option approach" (with A. Bonaccorsi)International Journal on Applied Software Technologies. 1998.

Discussion Papers

"Corporate Control and Multiple Large Shareholders" (with A. Dhillon)

"Strategic Advantage and the Optimal Exercise of Entry Options".

"New Investment Opportunities as a cause of IPO Underpricing".

Curriculum Vitae

Silvia Rossetto
Finance Group
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL

Can be contacted via:

T: + 44 (0) 24 765 24507

Silvia.Rossetto@wbs.ac.uk