Spyridon Lagaras
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Contact

334 Mervis Hall
slagaras@katz.pitt.edu
412-624-2866
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Spyros Lagaras joined the faculty of the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor of Finance in 2018. His research focuses on empirical corporate finance investigating the incentives faced by economic agents – firms, governments, institutions – and their impact on real decisions and the aggregate economy. Specifically, his current work primarily focuses on the literature that links finance with labor markets either by examining the incentives faced by acquiring firms in the decision to reorganize the labor force after M&As, or by exploring the impact of government audit programs on firm growth and labor reallocation. In addition, Spyros investigates how disruptions of the bank lending channel can be used to inform us on the financing of innovation and the impact of corporate ownership on the financing policies of firms.

Spyros received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds an MBA from Athens University of Economics and Business, and BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens.

Courses Recently Taught

BUSFIN 1030 Introduction to Finance

Awards and Honors

  • W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Early Career Research Award
  • Kauffman Foundation Knowledge Challenge Grant
  • Annie E. Casey Foundation Grant
  • Block Center for Technology and Society Grant
  • Gies College of Business Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence

Degrees

  • PhD, Finance, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • MBA, Business Administration, Athens University of Economics and Business
  • BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

Recent Publications

M&As, Employee Costs and Labor Reallocation
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

The Labor Effects of Judicial Bias in Bankruptcy with Aloisio Araujo, Rafael Ferreira, Flavio Moraes, Jacopo Ponticelli and Margarita Tsoutsoura
Journal of Financial Economics, 150(2), November 2023

Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil with Emanuele Colonnelli, Jacopo Ponticelli, Mounu Prem and Margarita Tsoutsoura
Journal of Financial Economics, 143(3), March 2022

Women in the Financial Sector with Maria-Teresa Marchica, Elena Simintzi and Margarita Tsoutsoura

Denes Matthew, Lagaras Spyridon, and Margarita Tsoutsoura, “Entrepreneurship and the Platform Economy: Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns”

Academic Area

Finance