Cecilia Parlatore is an Assistant Professor of Finance at New York University, Stern School of Business. Professor Parlatore's research focuses on how the information available to market participants (investors, consumers, and regulators) affects their behavior and, through this behavior, asset prices, financial stability, and regulation. Recently, she has studied the regulation of Money Market Funds, how transparency affects bank stability, why collateralized debt is used, and the determinants of market fragmentation. Professor Parlatore's current work concentrates on how much information is contained in asset prices and on how to optimally design stress scenarios. Before joining NYU Stern, Professor Parlatore was an Assistant Professor of Finance at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires and her Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. Research interests: Information, financial intermediation, banking, macroeconomics e-mail address: cparlato@stern.nyu.edu |