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2009 Election - Closes Tuesday, December 15 2009 @ 16:00:00 PST
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| For President | JOHN COCHRANE |
John H. Cochrane is the AQR Capital Management Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth 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 | |
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| For President-Elect | RAGHURAM RAJAN |
Raghuram G. Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth 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://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/bio.aspx?person_id=12825569280 | |
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| For Vice President | DEBORAH LUCAS |
Deborah J. Lucas is Professor of Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (currently on leave at the Congressional Budget Office as Associate Director for Financial Studies). Her past appointments include Professor of Finance at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (1996 – 2009), Chief Economist at the Congressional Budget Office (2000 to 2001), Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers (1992 to 1993), member of the Social Security Technical Advisory Panel (1999 - 2000 and 2006 – 2007), and Advisor to Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP (2009). She has also served as a director on several corporate and non-profit boards, including the American Finance Association. Dr. Lucas obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986. Her recent research has focused on applications of financial economics to public policy, with an emphasis on valuing and accounting for federal financial obligations and defined benefit pension liabilities. She has published papers on a wide range of topics including the effect of idiosyncratic risk on asset prices and portfolio choice, dynamic models of corporate finance, monetary economics, and banking. She co-organizes the group “Capital Markets and the Economy” at the NBER, and recently edited the forthcoming NBER book, Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk. Dr. Lucas is a co-editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking has been an associate editor of a number of finance and economics journals. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a research associate of the NBER. | |
| http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=38948&co_list=F | |
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| 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 | |
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| For Director | NICHOLAS BARBERIS |
Nicholas Barberis is the Stephen and Camille Schramm Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management. His early work was about asset allocation, but for the past decade his research has focused primarily on behavioral finance – specifically, on building models of non-standard preferences and irrational beliefs that are informed by recent findings in psychology. He is the winner of the Paul A. Samuelson Award for research and of the Fame Research Prize, and also of multiple teaching prizes. At Yale, he is heavily involved in the finance PhD program and has served on many dissertation committees. He also works hard to communicate the latest research in behavioral finance to both academics and the wider public; most recently, he and Robert Shiller organized and taught a one week behavioral finance summer school at Yale for 40 PhD students from across the U.S. and Europe. Before his appointment at Yale, he spent several years teaching at the University of Chicago and has also held visiting appointments at Harvard University and the London Business School. He received a first class honors degree in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1991 and a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1996. | |
| http://mba.yale.edu/faculty/profiles/barberis.shtml | |
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| For Director | MARKUS BRUNNERMEIER |
Markus K. Brunnermeier is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor at Princeton University. He is a faculty member of the Department of Economics and affiliated with Princeton's Bendheim Center for Finance and the International Economics Section. He is also a research associate at CEPR, NBER, and CESifo, and an academic consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He was awarded his Ph.D. by the London School of Economics (LSE), where he was also affiliated with its Financial Markets Group. He is a Sloan Research Fellow and the recipient of the Bernácer Prize granted for outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance. His research focuses on financial crisis, bubbles and significant mispricings due to institutional frictions, strategic considerations, and behavioral trading. It explains why liquidity dries up when it is needed the most and has important implications for risk management and financial regulation. He is also an associated editor of the American Economic Review, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation and was previously on the editorial board of the Review of Financial Studies. | |
| http://www.princeton.edu/~markus/ | |
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| For Director | ROBERT MCDONALD |
Robert L. McDonald is the Erwin P. Nemmers Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He joined the Kellogg faculty in 1984; prior to that he taught at the Boston University School of Management. He received a BA in economics with highest honors from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in 1976, and a PhD in economics from M.I.T. in 1982. His research topics have included the application of option pricing theory to corporate investment decisions and the assessment of default risk, the effect of information asymmetries on equity issuance decisions, the effects of taxes on leverage, measuring the tax benefit of financial claims, and cross-border tax arbitrage. His papers have won awards including the Smith-Breeden Prize, the Review of Financial Studies Prize, and the Iddo Sarnat Prize. Editorial duties have included serving as an Editor and Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. Current and past teaching includes courses in derivatives, corporate finance, and taxation, and he is the author of the texts Derivatives Markets, and Fundamentals of Derivatives Markets. | |
| http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Faculty/Directory/McDonald_Robert.aspx | |
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| For Director | ANNETTE VISSING-JORGENSEN |
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen is tenured Associate Professor of Finance at Kellogg School of Management. Before joining Kellogg in 2002, she was on the faculty at University of Chicago's economics department. She holds a B.A. from University of Aarhus, an M.Sc. from Warwick University and received her Ph.D. from the economics department at M.I.T in 1998. Her research focuses on household finance and empirical asset pricing (particularly stock market participation and asset pricing based on stockholder consumption), private equity and entrepreneurship, and disclosure regulation. Her research thus spans both asset pricing and corporate finance. Her work has been published in leading finance and economics journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review and Quarterly Journal of Economics. She won the Journal of Finance Brattle Prize (Distinguished Paper) in 2005 for the paper "Testing Agency Theory With Entrepreneur Effort and Wealth", she recently won the 2009 Argentum Prize for Best Symposium Paper on Private Equity and Funds of Private Equity from the European Finance Association and has received research funding from the National Science Foundation. She is a research associate in the NBER's Asset Pricing program and Economic Fluctuations and Growth program and is a research fellow in the CEPR's Financial Economics program. She has won several teaching awards at Kellogg. | |
| http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/vissing/htm/research1.htm | |
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| For Director | TONI WHITED |
Toni Whited is the Michael and Diane Jones Professor of Business Administration at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, where she teaches courses in finance and econometrics in the MBA and Ph.D. programs. Before joining Rochester this year, she was on the faculty of the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin, most recently as the Kuechenmeister-Bascom professor of finance. She received her B.A. in economics and French, summa cum laude, from the University of Oregon in 1984 and her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1990. Her research has covered topics such as the effects of financial frictions on corporate investment; econometric solutions for measurement error; corporate cash policy; structural estimation of dynamic capital structure models; and corporate diversification. Her research has twice won a Brattle Prize for one of the top articles in the Journal of Finance in corporate finance. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Financial Economics and was one of the founding co-editors of Finance Research Letters. | |
| http://toni.marginalq.com | |
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| For Director | JOSEF ZECHNER |
Josef Zechner is Professor of Finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), where he teaches courses in finance in the undergraduate, master and Ph.D. programs. Before joining WU in 2008, he was on the faculty of the University of Vienna and of the University of British Columbia, respectively. He has obtained his doctoral degree and habilitation from the University of Graz. His research has covered such topics as: optimal dynamic capital structure; corporate governance and shareholder activism; bank regulation; IPO and listing decisions; socially responsible investing; intermediated investment management; and the effect of human capital on corporate financial structure. His papers have appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics. He is a past president of the European Finance Association and the German Finance Association, a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a CEPR Research Fellow. He is currently Managing Editor of the Review of Finance. | |
| http://www.wu.ac.at/ifi/mas/jzech | |
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