Philip Valta is a Professor of Finance at the University of Bern and affiliated with the Swiss Finance Institute. He was previously assistant professor at HEC Paris and at the University of Geneva, and also a visiting scholar at Duke University. He holds a PhD in finance from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. His research focuses on corporate finance, empirical asset pricing, and how corporate decisions interact with product market and institutional characteristics.

Professor Philip Valta’s research has been published in leading academic journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and he is a regular speaker at international conferences. He teaches mostly topics related to corporate finance and valuation.