Peter Cronin Mueller

Assistant Professor of Finance

Fordham University

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor Finance at Fordham University. My research interests focus on FinTech, particularly blockchain economics and decentralized finance. I also conduct research in the areas of corporate finance, SPACs, and privatization.

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ResidenceUSA
Address45 Columbus Ave, New York, NY
e-mailpmueller6@fordham.edu
OfficeMartino Hall Room 616G

Publications

Natural Monopoly Privatization: Minimizing Regulatory Trade-offs Between Rent-Extraction and Innovation

with William L. Megginson, 2021 Academy of Management: Perspectives, Volume 36(1)

Working Papers

The Public Blockchain Ecosystem: An Empirical Analysis

with Felix Irresberger, Kose John and Fahad Saleh Research Policy, Revise and Resubmit

Economics of Ethereum

with Kose John, Barnabé Monnot, Fahad Saleh, and Caspar Schwarz-Schilling Journal of Corporate Finance, Conditionally Accepted

DeFi Leveraged Trading: Inequitable Costs of Decentralization

Sole-authored / JMP Working Paper

Cryptocurrency Mining: Asymmetric Response to Price Movement

Sole-authored Working Paper

Clauses with Claws: Reducing Agency Costs in Late-Merging SPACs

with Diego Leal, Fang Lin, Asif Malik, Bryan Stanhouse, and Xin Yue Zhou Working Paper

Charting New Frontiers: A Contempary Perspective on State Ownership

with William Megginson, Alina Munteanu, and Leonid Pugachev Corporate Governance: An International Review, Revise and Resubmit

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My Teaching

Primary Instructor

Financial Management (Spring 2024)

Financial Technologies and Applications (Spring 2022) (Spring 2023)

Investments (Spring 2021) (Summer 2022)

Instructor Ratings

Average Instructor Rating: 4.63/5

Teaching Assistant

Classes include Business Finance and Derivative Securities and Markets.

Developed Courses

Undergraduate/graduate level FinTech Course. Topics covered include: Blockchain Infastrucure, Decentralized Finance, Blockchain Regulation, Robo-Advising, Crowdfunding, FinTech Lending, Programming in R, and Machine Learning.

Teaching Awards

University of Oklahoma: Provost's Certificate of Distinction in Teaching