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Edgardo Cayon Fallon
Finance Economy and Finance
Professor at the Department of Finance and Business Economics
BIOGRAPHY

Edgardo Cayón Fallon specialises in financial markets, risk management, and valuation models. He has held roles as Public Telecommunications Administrator at Siemens Colombia and Business Unit Manager at Industrias Philips Colombia. In academia, he has been a finance professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and an adjunct professor in International Finance at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. At the Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración (CESA), he served as Director of the MBA and graduate finance programs and was a professor in the finance department. He has extensive experience in business valuation and financial consulting. His research focuses on models for measuring financial contagion and its impact on systemic risk.

 

EDUCATION
    • Ph.D. in Finance and Economics
      University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    • MBA
      McGill University, Canada

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Economics
      Syracuse University, United States

AWARDS & HONORS
  • Finalist for the Portafolio Awards (Colombia) for Best Business Administration Professor at the national level.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  1. Cayón, E., & Gutierrez, J. C. (2021). Sin stocks and ESG scores: Does the nature of your business really matter?. Journal of International Studies, 14(3).
  2. Cayon, E., Thorp, S., & Wu, E. (2018). Immunity and infection: Emerging and developed market sovereign spreads over the Global Financial Crisis. Emerging Markets Review, 34, 162-174.
  3. Cayon, E., Sarmiento-Sabogal, J., & Shukla, R. (2016). The effects of the global financial crisis on the Colombian local currency bonds prices: An event study. Journal of Economic Studies, 43(4), 624-645.
  4. Sarmiento, J., Sadeghi, M., Sandoval, J. S., & Cayon, E. (2021). The application of proxy methods for estimating the cost of equity for unlisted companies: evidence from listed firms. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 57(3), 1009-1031.