Francesca Toscano
Title
Assistant Professor of Finance
Phone
313-577-6884
Office
Mike Ilitch School of Business
2771 Woodward Avenue
Room 376
Detroit, MI 48201
Francesca Toscano
Academic Programs
- Finance
Expertise
- Credit ratings
- Effects of regulations on credit ratings
- Role of equity analysts
- Dynamics of CEO turnover
- Trade Credit
- Policy Uncertainty
Education
2017, Ph.D. in Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Dissertation Title: “Essays in Corporate Finance: Credit Ratings, Equity Analysts and CEO Turnover”
2014, M.A. in Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
2011, Master in Economics and Finance, XV edition, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
2010, M.Sc. in Economics, Summa cum Laude, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
2008, B.A. in Economics and Finance, Summa cum Laude, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Research and teaching interests
Research Interests:
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Monetary Economics
- Financial Economics
Teaching Interests:
- Business Finance
- Corporate Financial Management
- Empirical Corporate Finance
Reviewer for:
- Review of Financial Studies
- Journal of Corporate Finance
- Journal of Banking and Finance
- Journal of Business Research
Publications
Does the Dodd-Frank reduce the conflict of interests of credit rating agencies?, Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 62, June 2020.
Policy Uncertainty and Short-Term Financing: The Case of Trade Credit (co-authored with R. D'Mello), Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol.64, October 2020.
Top Executive Gender, Board Gender Diversity, and Financing Decisions: Evidence From Debt Structure Choice (co-authored with S. Datta and T. Doan), Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 125, April 2021.
The Declining Trend in Trade Credit Ratios; The Impact of Firm-Specific and Macro-Factors (co-authored with R D'Mello and M. Gruskin), Review of Financial Economics, Forthcoming.
Presentations
“Does the Dodd-Frank Act Reduce the Conflicts of Interest Faced by Credit Rating Agencies?”
- Northern Finance Association Meeting, Charlevoix, September 2018.
- Southern Finance Association Meeting, Florida, November 15 – 18, 2017
- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, January 2017
- Wayne State University, Department of Finance, November 2016
- Finance and Economics Conference 2016, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Lupcon, August 2016
- CSEF Lunch Talk, University of Naples, May 2015
- Dissertation Workshop, Department of Economics, Boston College, (March 2015, December 2015, September 2016)
“CEO Turnover and Credit Rating Changes: Theory and Evidence” (co-authored with A. M. C. Menichini)
- Southern Finance Association Meeting, Florida, November 15 – 18, 2017
- 13th Csef-Igier Symposium on Economics and Institutions, Capri, 26-29 June, 2017
- Financial Management Association Conference, Lisbon, June 22-23, 2017
- World Finance Conference, Sardinia, July 26-28, 2017
- Dissertation Workshop, Department of Economics, Boston College, (March 2016)
"Suppliers as Financiers of the Last Resort: The Effect of Exogenous Changes in Analyst Coverage on Trade Credit" (co-authored with T. J. Chemmanur)
- Financial Management Association, New Orleans, 23-26 October, 2019
- Midwest Finance Association Meeting, Chicago, March 2019
- Wayne State University, Brown Bag Seminar, October 2018
"Credit Rating Agencies, Equity Analyst Recommendations and Information Flows to the Bond and Stock Markets" (co-authored with T. J. Chemmanur and I. Karagodsky)
- Financial Management Association, New Orleans, 23-26 October, 2019
"Policy Uncertainty and Short-Term Financing: The Case of Trade Credit" (co-authored with R. D'Mello)
- Eastern Finance Association Meetings, Boston, April 2020
- Wayne State University, Brown Bag Seminar, February 2019
"The Declining Trade Credit Ratio Puzzle" (co-authored with R. D'Mello and M. Gruskin)
- Financial Management Association Meetings, New York, October 2020
- Eastern Finance Association, Boston, April 2020
Courses taught by Francesca Toscano
Fall Term 2023 (future)
Winter Term 2023 (current)
Fall Term 2022
- BA7020 - Corporate Financial Management
- FIN5320 - Principles of International Finance
- FIN7870 - International Finance
