• Ph.D., Finance, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018
• M.S., Finance, ALBA Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece, 2011
• M.B.A., Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2010
• B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2008

• Assistant Professor of Finance, Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024 to present
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, 2018-2024

• Lagaras, S., Denes, M., & Tsoutsoura, M. Forthcoming. Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy: Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns. Journal of Financial Economics.
• Lagaras, S. Forthcoming. M&As, Employee Costs and Labor Reallocation. Journal of Finance.  link >
• Araujo, A., Ferreira, R., Lagaras, S., Moraes, F., Ponticelli, J., & Tsoutsoura, M. (2023). The Labor Effects of Judicial Bias in Bankruptcy. Journal of Financial Economics, 150 (2).  link >
• Colonnelli, E., Lagaras, S., Ponticelli, J., Prem, M., & Tsoutsoura, M. (2022). Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil. Journal of Financial Economics, 143 (3), 1097-1119.  link >

• Katz Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2023
• Katz Excellence in Research Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2023

• Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, 2024-2025
• W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Early Career Research Award, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2022-2023
• Kauffman Foundation Knowledge Challenge Grant, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2020-2023,2022-2025
• Annie E. Casey Foundation Grant, Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2020-2022
• Block Center for Technology and Society Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, 2019-2020

Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Entrepreneurship

Corporate Restructuring, Labor and Finance, Entrepreneurship, Development

• Private Equity/Venture Capital (FIN 425) Provides students with an understanding of the nature of the private equity market, the principal participants in this market, and how they function.

• Private Equity/Venture Capital (FIN 580) Lectures and discussions relating to new areas of interest. See class schedule for topics and prerequisites.

• Empirical Corporate Finance (FIN 595) This seminar will study recent research in corporate finance that uses modern empirical methods to focus on causal inference. Students will be required to write a research proposal. The objective is to sharpen students' skills as consumers and producers of empirical corporate finance. This seminar is also beneficial for researchers in related fields such as credit markets and banking, asset pricing, financial accounting and applied microeconomics.