Guilherme Junqueira

About Me

I am a fourth-year Finance Ph.D. student at the University of Florida. My main research interests are private capital markets, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Before joining Florida, I worked as a Corporate Strategy Manager at Bimbo Bakeries USA. I hold an MBA from the UT Austin McCombs School of Business.

My CV is available here.

Research Presentations (‡: presented by co-author)

• "Tax Incentives and Venture Capital Risk-Taking" (with Murillo Campello):

  1. NBER Economic Analysis of Business Taxation, Spring 2025 (Apr 18, 2025) ‡ 

  2. London Business School's Private Capital Symposium 2025 (May 22, 2025)

  3. University of Oxford's PERC Symposium 2025 (May 23, 2025) ‡  

  4. University of Cambridge (Seminar; Jun 5, 2025) ‡   

  5. University of Milan (Seminar; Jun 17, 2025) ‡ 

  6. Finance Theory Group Summer School Conference 2025 (Jun 26, 2025)

  7. Spanish Finance Association's 32nd Finance Forum 2025 (Jul 3, 2025)

     • Best Paper of the Conference Award

  8. University of Oregon Summer Finance Conference 2025 (Aug 7, 2025)

  9. University of Alabama (Seminar; Sep 5, 2025) ‡

  10. University of Oxford Centre for Business Taxation Doctoral Conference 2025 (Sep 8, 2025)

  11. Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (Seminar; Oct 16, 2025) ‡  

  12. University of Texas at San Antonio (Seminar; Oct 31, 2025)

  13. Latin American Economic Association Conference 2025 (Nov 20, 2025)

  14. University of Glasgow (Seminar; May 27, 2026) ‡  

• "Social Transfers and Entrepreneurship" (with Murillo Campello and Spyridon Lagaras):

  1. Brazilian Finance Society (Seminar; Oct 28, 2025)

  2. Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (Seminar; Nov 19, 2025)

  3. FEA USP - University of São Paulo (Brown Bag; Nov 25, 2025)

  4. University of Florida Economics (Brown Bag; Dec 2, 2025)

Updates

• Sep-Dec/2025: Participating in the BREAD-IGC PhD Course on Social Protection  

• Jul/2025: Received Best Paper of the Conference Award at the Spanish Finance Association's 32nd Finance Forum

• May-Jul/2025: Taught Financial Management for UF's undergraduate program (overall rating: 5.0/5.0)

• Apr/2025: Selected for the Finance Theory Group Summer School 2025 (Jun 25-28, 2025)

• Nov/2024: Selected as a 2025 Fellow in the NBER Innovation Information Initiative (I3)

• Apr/2024: Selected for the Finance & Product Markets Summer School 2024 (Aug 12-16, 2024)

• Mar/2024: Selected for the NBER Entrepreneurship Boot Camp 2024 (Jul 15-19, 2024)