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Amnon Levy

Amnon Levy

Lecturer
Master of Financial Engineering
415-874-6279
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment

Education

BA, Economics, UC Berkeley
PhD, Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University


Positions Held

At Haas since 2010
2010 - present, Lecturer, Haas School of Business
2002 - present, Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Research, Moody's Analytics


Visiting Positions

2001 - 2002, Visiting Assistant Professor, Haas School of Buinsess
2000 - 2001, Visiting Assistant Professor, Stern School of Business, NYU


Current Research and Interests

  • Portfolio risk measurement and management
  • Debt markets
  • Dynamics of credit quality and recovery
  • Banking and insurance

Selected Papers and Publications

  • "The relationship between default risk and interest rates: An empirical study," with Andrew Kaplin , Shisheng Qu, Danni Wang, Yashan Wang, and Jing Zhang. (2009).
  • "Analyzing the impact of credit migration in a portfolio setting," with Yaakov Tsaig and Yashan Wang. Moody’s KMV Whitepaper (February 2010). (2nd round at Journal of Banking and Finance).
  • "Modeling Correlation of Structured Instruments in a Portfolio Setting," with Tomer Yahalom and Andrew S. Kaplin, in Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
  • "Why does capital structure choice vary with macroeconomic conditions?" with Christopher A. Hennessy. Journal of Monetary Economics 54 (2007).
  • "Testing Q theory with financial frictions," with Christopher A. Hennessy and Toni M. Whited. Journal of Financial Economics 83 (2007).
  • "Capital structure choice: Macroeconomics and financial constraints," with Robert A. Korajczyk. Journal of Financial Economics 68 (2003).

Teaching

  • Credit Risk Modeling



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