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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 and financial regulation)
• Contract theory: dynamic contracting, static contracting, applied game theory
• International/ macro: DSGE models, trade theory

Selected Papers and Publications

• ''Rating agencies in the face of regulation,'' 2013, joint with Christian C. Opp & Milton Harris, Journal of Financial Economics, 108, 46-61.
• "Expropriation risk and technology,'' 2012, Journal of Financial Economics, 103, 113-129.
• "Tariff wars in a Ricardian model with a continuum of goods," 2010, Journal of International Economics, 80 (2), 212-225.
• "Rybczynski's theorem in the Heckscher-Ohlin world - anything goes," 2009, joint with Hugo Sonnenschein and Christis Tombazos, Journal of International Economics, 79 (1), 137-142.
• “Impatience vs. Incentives,” March 2013, joint with John Zhu.
• “A Theory of Dynamic Resource Misallocation and Amplification," January 2013, joint with Christine Parlour and Johan Walden.
• “Cash is King - Revaluation of Targets after Merger Bids," December 2012, joint with Ulrike Malmendier and Farzad Saidi.
• “On Mandating Deferred Incentive Pay,” March 2013, joint with Florian Hoffmann and Roman Inderst.
• “Bank regulation with private-party risk assessments,” (previously titled “Regulating Banks' Risk Taking with External Risk Assessments”), November 2012, joint with Milton Harris and Christian Opp.
• “Replacing ratings”, March 2013, joint with Bo Becker.

Honors and Awards

• Junior Faculty Research COR Grant, UC Berkeley, 2008 – 2009 and (2012 – 2013)
• 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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