Faculty
Victor Ricciardi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Management and Business 
Office: Palamountain 253
Email: vricciardi@skidmore.edu
Courses:
- MB 338 Foundations of Finance
- MB 339 Investments
- MB 351 Financial Planning
Victor Ricciardi is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at Skidmore College and the Coordinator of Behavioral and Experimental Research at the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at www.ssrn.com. He is also an Editor for eight SSRN eJournals in the topic areas of behavioral finance, financial history, behavioral economics, behavioral accounting, accounting history, game theory, and decision making under risk and uncertainty. Professor Ricciardi is a leading expert on the academic literature and emerging research issues in behavioral finance. In his 22 years as the Editor for the SSRN Behavioral Finance eJournal and Behavioral Economics eJournal, he has reviewed and approved an estimated 25,000 accepted paper abstracts and working papers for distribution in these eJournals. His research on the psychology of risk (risk perception) and client behavior are highly recognized in behavioral finance. In the past dozen years in behavioral finance, Professor Ricciardi has completed two major contributor series books, written a co-authored book, published over a dozen academic papers and book chapters, and written over ten news stories and blogs.
Ricciardi has over seventeen years of teaching experience as a full-time finance professor. He has taught in the areas of introductory finance, corporate finance, investments, behavioral finance, financial planning, and personal finance.
From 2023 to 2025, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at Ursinus College. During 2022 to 2023, he was an Instructor of Finance at Tennessee Tech University. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at Washington and Lee University (W&L) from 2020 to 2022. He was an Assistant Professor of Financial Management at Goucher College from 2010 to 2019. He taught undergraduate courses in personal financial planning, financial management (corporate finance), global investments, behavioral finance, and the psychology of money. Professor Ricciardi is also a former Assistant Professor of Finance from Kentucky State University from 2005 to 2008. He taught undergraduate courses in personal financial planning, corporate finance, investments, cases in financial management, research and career skills in finance, money and banking, and behavioral finance as well as a graduate course in corporate finance. While at Kentucky State University, the Faculty Senate approved his proposal for a finance specialization. The School of Business started to offer an undergraduate specialization in finance within the Bachelor of Arts degree program. As part of this finance specialization curriculum, a behavioral finance class served as the basis for a capstone course.
Professor Ricciardi has published three major books in behavioral finance in 2023, 2014, and 2017. Kent Baker, John Nofsinger, and Victor Ricciardi are authors of the book Advanced Introduction to Behavioral Finance published in July 2023 by Edward Elgar Publishing. The book is part of the “Elgar Advanced Introductions” series, in which, the world’s leading expert scholars write surveys on emerging research subject matter. Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi are co-editors of the book Investor Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing was published in February 2014 and the book is part of the Wiley Finance Series. This research endeavor is a contributor series book that incorporated 30 chapters written by 45 leading experts (academics and practitioners) on the emerging research on investor psychology in personal finance, financial planning, and investment management. Professor Ricciardi’s second book Financial Behavior – Players, Services, Products, and Markets with Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck serving as his co-editors and the publisher is Oxford University Press. This endeavor is a contributor series book with 30 chapters and over 50 contributors, the publication date was June 2017. The books Investor Behavior and Financial Behavior have both been translated into Chinese.
He has given more than 80 presentations at seminars, workshops, conferences, and webinars the past 20 years on investments, personal finance, risk perception, behavioral finance, and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Professor Ricciardi is a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance, an editorial board member for the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, and a reviewer for the Journal of Behavioral Finance & Economics. Professor Ricciardi is an editorial and advisory board member for the Retirement Management Journal. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics, the National Financial Educators Council (NFEC), and the Association of Professional Fund Investors.
Since 2011, Professor Ricciardi has been quoted or interviewed in more than 175 news stories in media publications such as Reuters, CFA Magazine, MarketWatch, Money Magazine, Fox Business, Bankrate, InvestmentNews, The Christian Science Monitor, Business Insider, NerdWallet, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, U.S. News, Financial Advisor, MoneyScience, USA TODAY, Financial Planning, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY, Forbes, ThinkAdvisor, CreditCards.com, Chicago Tribune, CBS News, Bloomberg, Advisor News, FiduciaryNews, WalletHub. TheStreet, RIAIntel, and CreditDonkey. He also has appeared on more than 60 radio, podcast, and television interviews on various behavioral finance issues. He has extensive name recognition as a behavioral finance expert with over 66,000 followers on Twitter and more than 28,400 contacts in his LinkedIn professional network. He can be found on Twitter @victorricciardi.
He began his professional career in New York City as an international portfolio accountant at Alliance Capital Management and a mutual fund accountant for Dreyfus Corporation. He has also been employed as an economic analyst at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). He has completed major consulting researchreports on grant-making activities, university financial and accounting management systems, and an e-banking company case study. He has worked on consulting projects on questionnaire research and investor behavior for FinaMetrica (a behavioral finance research firm) and Armstrong Early, LLC. His current consulting projects involve developing risk tolerance questionnaires, writing financial blogs, and training professionals about behavioral coaching techniques for various financial and investment firms. He has more than 15 years of practical experience within the financial services industry as a mutual fund accountant, economic analyst, and behavioral finance consultant.
Professor Ricciardi received a BBA in Accounting and Management from Hofstra University and an MBA in Finance and Advanced Professional Certificate (APC) in Economics from St. John's University. He is a former doctoral candidate in finance and achieved all but dissertation (ABD) status at Golden Gate University. His dissertation research focused on the expert decision-making process of finance professors and financial planners in assessing perceived risk for common stock investments. He also holds two graduate certificates in Personal Family Financial Planning and Financial Therapy from Kansas State University.