Gustavo S. Cortes

Gustavo Cortes is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Florida. He holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He taught Macroeconomics at the University of Illinois and currently teaches Equity & Capital Markets at the University of Florida. His academic work has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, among others. Professor Cortes’s research focuses on macro-finance, financial intermediation, corporate finance, and financial history. In his recent work, he examines how banks, firms, central banks, and asset markets (stocks, bonds, real estate) behave during times of high distress. These include the Great Depression of the 1930s, the World Wars, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, and the Brexit Referendum. Professor Cortes has been invited to present his research at several universities, central banks, and policy institutions, including the Federal Reserve Board, The World Bank, and the Central Bank of Brazil. His work has received coverage in leading media outlets, including Bloomberg, The New York Times, and The Financial Times.