Robert Battalio
- Professor
- Finance
Biography
Robert Battalio is a professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame. His primary area of interest involves the relationship between financial market design and trading costs. Robert’s research has appeared in leading finance and accounting journals, such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. In June 2014 he testified before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ Hearing on Conflicts of interest, Investor Loss of Confidence, and High Speed Trading in U.S. Stock Markets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfr4cPyqzBQ) and in October 2015 he testified before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee. More recently, Robert has served as a panelist on SIFMA’s Equity Market Roundtables in September 2022 and in April 2023.
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It’s time to kill the trade-through rule
Notre Dame Finance Professor Robert Battalio testifies about Rule 611 before Congressional subcommittee.
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Reg NMS reform debate sharpens at House market structure hearing
Finance Professor Robert Battalio argued that competitive and reputational incentives already discourage economically meaningful trade-throughs.
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Faculty Research
Asking the hard questions of modern markets
Finance professor Robert Battalio’s data-driven research has helped regulators and investors separate fact from speculation for more than three decades.