Nathalie Moyen
Professor
Finance

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Nathalie Moyen is a Professor of Finance and the W.W. Reynolds Capital Markets Program Chair at the Leeds School of Business, and she is also an Affiliated Faculty at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Colorado Boulder.

One central goal of economics is the desire to maximize wellbeing.ÌýÌýAs a consequence, it is important to allocate our scarce resources wisely.ÌýÌýWhen our financial markets function well, they support the firms that can transform those resources most efficiently using technology-embedded capital assets and labor expertise into goods and services valued by our society.ÌýÌýTo understand the role of finance on society, Nathalie studies firms' capital investment and production decisions, and the extent to which these decisions depend on the way they are financed.ÌýÌýHer research focuses on some of the most salient interactions between real and financial decisions, such as debt overhang, financial constraints, learning from cash flows, precautionary cash savings, strategic positioning vis-à-vis rivals, among other topics.Ìý

Nathalie primarily teaches MBAs and first-year undergrads.ÌýÌýNathalie loves teaching, and she has been honored with several awards at Leeds in addition to the Judith C. and William G. Bollinger Teaching Award when she visited at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2007-08.ÌýÌýWhile chairing the Finance Division in 2020-2024, she enjoyed taking care of people and programs.