Paulo Martins Barbosa Fortes Manoel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Education

• Ph.D., Entrepreneurship, 2019
• M.S., University of São Paulo, 2012
• B.S., University of São Paulo, 2009

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Paulo Manoel is an Assistant Professor of Finance. He has a PhD in Finance and a MS in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining academia, he worked as a risk analyst for mutual funds at JP Morgan.
His research spans two areas of finance: entrepreneurship and asset management. A unifying theme across my work is the identification of issues that calls for the action of policymakers in order to improve the conditions of the less empowered.

Teaching Expertise:

• Corporate Finance
• Asset Pricing
• Econometrics

Research Expertise:

• Corporate bankruptcy
• Entrepreneurship
• Delegated portfolio management

Selected Publications:

• “Outrage by Compensation: Implications for Public Pension Performance” (with Alexander Dyck and Adair Morse), The Review of Financial Studies, 2021, vol. 35, 2928–2980.
• “Gender Gap in Debt Renegotiation” (with Vinicius Augusto Brunassi Silva), Management Science, accepted for publication, 2026.