Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory
Education
PhD, Business Economics, Harvard University
AM, Business Economics, Harvard University
PhD, Law, University of Bonn
MA in Economics, University of Bonn
BA equiv., Law, University of Bonn
BA, Economics, University of Bonn
Positions Held
At Haas since 2010
2010 - present, Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure), Haas School of Business
2009 - present, Research Associate, Corporate Finance and Labor Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
2008 - present, Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), University of California, Berkeley
2007 - present, Research Affiliate, Financial Economics, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
2006 - present, Research Affiliate, Labour Economics, CEPR
2006 - present, Affiliate, CESifo
2005 - present, Faculty Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
2006 - 2009, Faculty Research Fellow, Corporate Finance, NBER
2006 - 2008, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
2004 - 2009, Faculty Research Fellow, Labor Economics, NBER
2002 - 2006, Assistant Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Visiting Positions
2005 - 2006, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
2005, Visiting Fellow, Princeton University
2005, Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
2000, Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute
1998, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University, Nuffield College
External Service and Assignments
Editorial positions:
Guest Associate Editor, Management Science, Special Issue on Behavioral Economics and Finance
Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association
Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Intermediation
Associate Editor, Economic Journal
Program committees:
American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, Financial Management Association, European Finance Association, Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) conference, Annual Conference in Corporate Finance, Washington University
Memberships:
Econometric Society, American Economic Association, American Finance Association
Referee Service:
Academy of Management Review, American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economic Letters, Experimental Economics, Financial Management, Games and Economic Behavior, German Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Labour Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Finance, Review of Financial Studies
Current Research and Interests
Corporate Finance, Behavioral Economics/Behavioral Finance, Economics of Organizations, Contract Theory, Law and Economics, Law and Finance
Selected Papers and Publications
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"Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?" with S. Nagel. Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
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"The Bidder's Curse," with H. Lee. American Economics Review, forthcoming.
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"Contractibility and the Design of Research Agreements," with J. Lerner. American Economics Review, March 2010, vol. 100 (1), pp. 214-246.
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"Law and Finance at the Origin," Journal of Economic Literature, December 2009, vol. 47(4), pp. 1076-1108.
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"Superstar CEOs," with G. Tate. Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2009, vol. 124(4), pp. 1593-1638.
Honors and Awards
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2010 - 2012
Citation of Excellence by Emerald Management Reviews, 2009
Coleman Fung Risk Management Research Center Grant, 2008
Kauffman Foundation Grant, 2008
Instructional Improvement Grant, 2007
Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging Grant, 2007
Abigail Reynolds Hodgen Publication Fund grant, 2007
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