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Professor Pontiff has teaching and research interests in the area of corporate finance and capital markets. His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and the Rand Journal. His papers have won numerous awards including both the Jensen Prize (first place) and the Amundi Smith Breeden Prize (first place). He has held research or teaching positions at University of Washington, UCLA, Emory, Harvard Business School, National University of Singapore, ESCP-Europe, EPFL, Northeastern, and the Institute for Financial Research (Stockholm).

He is an associate editor at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Wine Economics. In the past, he has served as the executive editor at the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and an associate editor at the Review of Financial Studies and Management Science. He is a co-founder and past president of the Financial Research Association, and a past director for the Western Finance Association.