2008 Election - Closes Saturday, December 6 2008 @ 00:00:00 PST
Candidate Profiles | | | For President | DARRELL DUFFIE | | Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at The Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, where he has been a member of the finance faculty since receiving his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1984. Among other books, Duffie is the author of Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory (Princeton University Press). His recent research focuses on capital markets, credit risk, and over-the-counter markets. Duffie is a past Director of The Board of The American Finance Association, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the New York Federal Reserve. | | http://www.stanford.edu/~duffie/ | | Go to voting form | | | | For President-Elect | JOHN H. COCHRANE | | John H. Cochrane is the Myron S. Scholes Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. His recent publications include the book Asset Pricing, and articles on dynamics in stock and bond markets, the volatility of exchange rates, the term structure of interest rates, the returns to venture capital, liquidity premiums in stock prices, the relation between stock prices and business cycles, option pricing when investors can’t perfectly hedge, and the fiscal theory of the price level. Cochrane is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and past director of its asset pricing program, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has been an Editor of the Journal of Political Economy, and associate editor of a number of journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Business, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. Recent awards include the TIAA-CREF Institute Paul A. Samuelson Award for his book Asset Pricing, the Chookaszian Endowed Risk Management Prize, and the 2004 Faculty Excellence Award for MBA teaching. Cochrane earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics at MIT ,and earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He was at the Economics Department of the University of Chicago before joining the GSB in 1994, and visited UCLA in 2000-2001. | | http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/john.cochrane/research/Papers/index.htm | | Go to voting form | | | | For Vice President | RAGHURAM RAJAN | | Raghuram G. Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. He was the Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund between 2003 and 2006. He has been the director of the corporate finance program at the NBER since 1998 and has been a director of the American Finance Association. Dr. Rajan joined the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago in 1991 after obtaining a Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School. Dr. Rajan’s research interests focus primarily on economic development, and the role finance plays in it. He has over 50 papers on a wide range of topics including financial contracting, capital structure, theory of the firm, banking, the role of finance in growth, the political economy of financial market development, economic aid, and the macroeconomic effects of foreign capital flows. Dr. Rajan has written a book in 2003 with Luigi Zingales entitled Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists. Dr. Rajan has been on the editorial board of a number of finance and economics journals and currently serves on the board of the Journal of Finance and the Annual Review of Finance. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize, given every two years to the financial economist under age 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the theory and practice of finance. | | http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/raghuram.rajan/research/ | | Go to voting form | | | | For Vice President | SHERIDAN TITMAN | | Sheridan Titman is the McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas. He has a B.S. from the University of Colorado and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, Professor Titman was a Professor at UCLA, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Boston College and spent the 1988-89 academic year in Washington D.C. as the special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. Titman’s academic publications include both theoretical and empirical articles on asset pricing, corporate finance and real estate. He has also co-authored two textbooks, Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy, with Mark Grinblatt, and Valuation: The Art and Science of Corporate Investment Decisions, with John Martin, and has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. He was the past President and Director of the Western Finance Association and a former Director of the Asia Pacific Finance Association. He is currently a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Director of the American Finance Association. Titman was the winner of the Smith-Breeden best paper award for the Journal of Finance, the GSAM best paper award for the Review of Finance and was a recipient of the Batterymarch Fellowship. | | http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/dept/finance/faculty/profiles/index.asp?addTarget=57 | | Go to voting form | | | | For Director | HARRISON HONG | | Harrison Hong is the John Scully ’66 Professor of Economics and Finance at Princeton University, where he teaches courses in finance in the undergraduate, master and Ph.D. programs. Before joining Princeton in 2002, he was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, most recently as an associate professor of finance. He received his B.A. in economics and statistics with highest distinction from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and his Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1997. His research has covered such topics as: behavioral finance and stock market efficiency; asset pricing and trading under market imperfections; social interaction and investor behavior; security analyst incentives and forecast biases; organizational form and mutual fund performance; destabilizing arbitrage, socially responsible investing, and commodities pricing. His work has received numerous awards and grants including two Fama-DFA Journal of Financial Economics paper prizes, paper prizes from the European and Western Finance Associations and the Social Investment Forum, and a National Science Foundation grant. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Intermediation. | | http://www.princeton.edu/~hhong/ | | Go to voting form | | | | For Director | ARVIND KRISHNAMUTHY | | Arvind Krishnamurthy is the Harold Stuart Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a Research Associate of the NBER. He received his B.S in Economics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. His research is on financial crises, liquidity, and how central bank policy can alleviate crises. He has studied international financial crises in emerging markets. He has also studied liquidity in U.S. bond markets and developed models of why liquidity falls during a crisis. He has been a visiting scholar at the IMF and the Fed. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance. | | http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/krisharvind/htm/work.html | | Go to voting form | | | | For Director | ROSS LEVINE | | Ross Levine is the James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown University and the Director of the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance. He has a B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. (economics) from the University of California, Los Angeles, 1987. His research interests include financial intermediation, international finance, and the impact of financial markets and intermediaries on economic performance. He is a Research Associate at the NBER, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on Financial Markets Development, and a frequent advisor to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on financial policy issues. | | http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Ross_Levine/IndexLevine.htm | | Go to voting form | | | | For Director | MONIKA PIAZZESI | | Monika Piazzesi is Professor of Economics at Stanford University. She has a Vordiplom (economics) from the University of Heidelberg, 1991; Diplom (economics) from Bonn University, 1994; and a Ph.D. (economics) from Stanford University, 2000. Her research interests include asset pricing; applied time series analysis and macroeconomics. She has been a member of the NBER since 2001, and has been the Director of the NBER Asset Pricing Group since 2007. Since 2006, she has been co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy. During 2005-2007, she was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, and was awarded the 2001 Zellner Award, the 2005 Bernacer Prize, and the 2006 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. | | http://www.stanford.edu/~piazzesi/ | | Go to voting form | | | | For Director | DIMITRI VAYANOS | | Dimitri Vayanos is Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics. He received his undergraduate degree from Ecole Polytechique in Paris and his PhD from MIT in 1993. Prior to joining the LSE, he was faculty member at Stanford and MIT. Vayanos has published in a number of leading finance and economics journals on topics such as: liquidity and asset pricing, delegated portfolio management, information in markets and organizations, market microstructure, and behavioral economics. He is the Director of LSE’s Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality, the Director of the CEPR Financial Economics program, a Research Associate at NBER, and current or past Associate Editor in a number of journals including the Review of Financial Studies and the Review of Economic Studies. | | http://personal.lse.ac.uk/vayanos/ | | Go to voting form | | | | For Director | MICHAEL WEISBACH | | Michael S. Weisbach is Professor and Ralph W. Kurtz Chair of Finance at the Fisher College of Business of The Ohio State University. He has a B.S. (High Honors in Mathematics) from University of Michigan (1983) and a Ph.D. (economics) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988). His research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, private equity and economics of organizations. He currently is an editor of Review of Financial Studies and has been associate editor for 5 other journals, including Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics. Professor Weisbach has been a Research Associate of the NBER since 2000. Together his coauthor Robert Parrino, Weisbach won the Jensen Prize in 1999, and two of his papers are considered to be “All-Star” papers by the Journal of Financial Economics. His work has been cited over 1750 times using data from the Social Sciences Citation Index, and over 4500 times according to Google Scholar. | | http://www.fisher.osu.edu/fin/faculty/weisbach/ | | Go to voting form | | |
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