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Leonidas Enrique de la Rosa

Associate Professor

Profile photoLeonidas Enrique de la Rosa
Associate professor
Department of Economics and Business Economics
Fuglesangs Allé 4, 2630, K-121A
8210, Aarhus V
Denmark
E-mail: delarosa@econ.au.dk
Phone: +45 8716 5523

EDUCATION

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
  Ph.D. in Economics, 2006
    Dissertation Title: “Overconfidence in the Principal-Agent Framework”
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
  M.Sc. in Economics (Magíster en Economía), 1999
    Master’s Thesis: “Speculative Attacks: An Information Approach”
     ("Ataques especulativos: un enfoque de incertidumbre e información")
  B.Sc.in Economics (Economista) – with honors, 1998

WORK EXPERIENCE

Department of Economics and Business Economics, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Associate Professor, August 2011-present
School of Economics and Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Assistant Professor, August 2008–July 2011
Visiting Scholar: Stanford Graduate School of Business, Fall 2009
Visiting Scholar: The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Spring 2009
School of Economics and Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Postdoc, August 2006–July 2008
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), Bogotá, Colombia
Junior Researcher, August 1998–August 2000
The central bank as lender of last resort

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Loss aversion and financial reporting: A possible explanation for the prevalence of discontinuities in reported earnings

de la Rosa, L. E. & Lambertsen, N. N., Oct 2022, In: Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. 41, 6, 24 p., 106992.

Overconfidence in Labor Markets

Santos-Pinto, L. P. & de la Rosa, L. E., 11 Aug 2020, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Zimmermann, K. (ed.). Cham: Springer, 42 p.

Overconfidence and Moral Hazard

de la Rosa, L. E., Nov 2011, In: Games and Economic Behavior. 73, 2, p. 429 - 451

Information and the Cost of Capital: An Ex Ante Perspective

Christensen, P. O., de la Rosa, L. E. & Feltham, G. A., 2010, In: Accounting Review. 85, 3, p. 817-848

Expert Advice, Control, and Heterogeneous Beliefs

de la Rosa, L. E., 2007, 2007 Oxford Business & Economics Conference. Association for Business and Economics Research, 20 p.

TEACHING

Accounting for Decision and Control, Fall 2014-present
Business Economics (mathematics-economics program), Fall 2017-2022
Accounting Research, Fall 2015
Microeconomics, Fall 2011, Spring 2012-2014
Advanced Accounting, Spring 2010, 2014
Management and Financial Accounting, Fall 2013
Managerial and Cost Accounting, Fall 2006-2008, 2010-2012
Game and Contract Theory, Spring 2007, 2008

SUPERVISION

Ph.D.: Nikolaj Niebuhr Lambertsen, Ph.D. defense January 2022, Essays on Earnings Management.
Master's theses: cand.oecon, cand.merc.JUR, cand.merc.FIN, cand.merc.FIB
Bachelor's theses: oecon, HA, HA.jur

PRIOR TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Graduate Student Instructor, 2001–2006
Graduate Agency Theory and Mechanism Design
Graduate General Equilibrium Theory
Undergraduate Psychology and Economics
Undergraduate Microeconomics
Undergraduate Macroeconomics
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Graduate Student Instructor, 2005
Undergraduate Microeconomics
Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Instructor, 2003 and 2000
Contract Theory (International Summer School)
Undergraduate Monetary Theory and Policy
Department of Economics, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1999
Undergraduate Macroeconomics
Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1998–1999
Undergraduate Microeconomics
Undergraduate Econometrics
Master’s-level Econometrics
Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, 1994–1997
Monetary Theory and Policy
Microeconomics
National and Social Accounting
Programming
Introduction to Economics

OTHER

Referee: American Economic Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, The European Journal of Finance, Games and Economic Behavior, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Management Science, Quantitative Finance, Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economic Studies

Languages: Danish (fluent – Prøve i Dansk 3), English (working language, fluent), Spanish (mother tongue, fluent), German (conversational).

Citizenship: Danish and Colombian