The 2026 job market brought exceptional outcomes for Bocconi's Finance PhD students, with graduates securing tenure-track positions at leading universities across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Maria Jose Arteaga joins the University of Texas A&M as Assistant Professor of Finance. Maria Jose's research on climate finance and green banking demonstrates how public and quasi-public lenders shape the flow of green finance in the United States. Her work examines how borrowing costs and coordination frictions affect private co-financing, with broader implications for climate policy and sustainable infrastructure. Maria Jose's job market paper, The Rise of Green Banks in the U.S., presents first evidence on the role of Green Banks in catalyzing climate-related investment. She received offers from seven institutions including NUS Singapore, Copenhagen Business School, and the University of Geneva. 

Ruben Fernandez-Fuertes accepted a position at HEC Montreal as Assistant Professor of Finance. Ruben's research applies large language models to financial economics. His job market paper uses a multi-agent LLM system to analyze Federal Reserve communications and measure how the Fed's messages shift expectations about their own policy actions, offering a novel narrative approach to identifying monetary policy shocks. The paper became one of SSRN's most-viewed papers in the AI category and attracted broad attention online. Ruben also received offers from the Bank of Spain and Bilkent University. Both candidates interviewed at top-tier institutions including Harvard Business School, Imperial College London, London Business School, and leading European programs. The 2026 placement cycle reflects the department's continued success in training scholars for competitive academic positions worldwide, with particular strength in empirical finance, macro-finance, and emerging research methods. We congratulate Maria Jose and Ruben on their outstanding achievements and look forward to following their careers as they join the next generation of finance scholars