Leo Leitzinger

Research Associate (Finance)

Cambridge Centre for Finance (CCFin)/Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF)

Research Associate at St John’s College

BA (University of Freiburg), BSc, MA, PhD (Goethe University Frankfurt)

My research interests are in empirical corporate finance and law and finance. I study how legal institutions and property rights shape firms’ access to finance and financial contracting. In particular, I am interested in how the legal environment affects firms’ ability to raise debt, the supply and allocation of credit, and ultimately real economic activity. I investigate these questions using detailed administrative and financial data and quasi-natural experiments.