Bio

Petra Sinagl is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business. She earned an MSc in financial economics from Maastricht University and a PhD in finance from the University of Sydney. Before her PhD, she worked in the banking industry in several roles in credit risk management.

Her research is in equilibrium asset pricing and macro-finance, with a focus on how investors form beliefs: how recessions, crises and the fear of them are priced, and how survey expectations can be used to test asset-pricing theory.