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Marcus Opp

Marcus M. Opp

Assistant Professor
Haas Finance Group
510-613-0658
Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address
Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment, F647
Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/mopp/index.htm
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

Diploma, Business Economics, University of Mannheim 
MBA, University of Chicago
PhD, Finance, University of Chicago


Positions Held

At Haas since 2008
2008 - present, Assistant Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business


Current Research and Interests

  • Corporate finance (especially financial intermediation)
  • International finance
  • Information economics
  • Applied game theory

Selected Papers and Publications

  • "Tariff Wars in a Ricardian Model with a Continuum of Goods," Journal of International Economics 80 vol. 2 (2010): 212-225.
  • "Rating Agencies in the Face of Regulation: Rating Inflation and Regulatory Arbitrage," with Christian C. Opp and Milton Harris. (April 2010).
  • "Expropriation Risk and Technology." (February 2010).
  • "Rybczynski's Theorem in the Heckscher-Ohlin World: Anything Goes," with Hugo Sonnenschein and Christis Tombazos in Journal of International Economics 79 vol. 1 (2009): 137-142.
  • "Biases and Self-Selection: A Theoretical Investigation of the Rothschild-Stiglitz Insurance Model." (September 2005).

Honors and Awards

  • John Leusner Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2007-2008
  • German National Academic Foundation ERP Fellowship, 2006-2008
  • Katherine Dusak Miller Ph.D. Fellowship in Finance, 2007-2008
  • AFA Travel Award, 2005
  • CRSP Summer Paper Award, University of Chicago, 2004
  • German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD), 2003-2006
  • Valedictorian Graduate University of Mannheim, 2003
  • Friedrich-Naumann Scholar, 2000-2003
  • Julius-Paul-Stiegler Foundation Scholar, 2001-2002



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