Ramona Dagostino is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Her research interests are in municipal finance, partisanship, banking, and empirical corporate finance. Prior to joining Darden, she was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester. She also has a PhD in Finance from the London Business School. She has served as an independent advisor for local governments and grassroot organizations on a variety of issues related to municipal finance.