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Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is an American financial economist who shared the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a new method to determine the value of derivatives.
Robert Glenn Hubbard
Robert Glenn Hubbard, born 1958, is an American economist, Russell L. Carson Professor at Columbia Business School and its Dean Emeritus, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2003.
Robert J. Shiller
Robert J. Shiller, Yale economist and 2013 Nobel laureate (with Fama and Hansen), behavioral finance pioneer, co-creator of the CAPE ratio and the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, and author of Irrational Exuberance and Narrative Economics.
Robert W. Vishny
Robert W. Vishny is an American finance economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, known for research on corporate governance and law and finance.
Ronald W. Masulis
Ronald W. Masulis is a financial economist and Scientia Professor of Finance at UNSW Business School in Sydney, known for research on corporate governance, seasoned equity offerings, and political connections.
Ross Levine
Ross Eric Levine is an American finance economist, Professor Emeritus at Berkeley Haas and a Hoover Institution senior fellow, who studies how finance and regulation shape growth.
Sergio Correia
Sergio Correia is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond known for research on bank failures and for writing the Stata package reghdfe.
Sheridan Titman
Sheridan Titman is a financial economist who holds a chaired professorship at the University of Texas at Austin and is known for his 1993 research documenting momentum investing profits.
Simon Gilchrist
Simon Gilchrist is an American economist and professor at New York University, known for the financial accelerator with Bernanke and Gertler and the Gilchrist–Zakrajšek credit spread index.
Stefan Nagel
Stefan Nagel is a German-born economist and Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth, known for the experience effect in risk taking and inflation expectations.
Stephen A. Ross
Stephen A. Ross (1944–2017) was an American financial economist, the Franco Modigliani Professor at MIT Sloan, known for arbitrage pricing theory and the binomial option pricing model.
Steven N. Kaplan
Steven N. Kaplan is an American economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business who studies private equity, venture capital, and corporate governance.
Steven Ongena
Steven Ongena is an economist and professor of banking at the University of Zurich since 2013, known for loan-level research on monetary policy, bank regulation, and credit supply.
Stewart C. Myers
Stewart C. Myers is an American finance economist at MIT Sloan known for the pecking order theory of capital structure and the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance.
Stijn Claessens
Stijn Claessens is a Dutch financial economist who held senior roles at the World Bank, IMF, and BIS, and is an Executive Fellow at Yale.
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is a Belgian-born economist at Columbia Business School known for research on housing collateral, mortgage credit, and remote work's effect on office real estate.
Thorsten Beck
Thorsten Beck is a German economist known for research on banking regulation and finance, and director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance since 2021.
Tobias Adrian
Tobias Adrian is a German-American economist, born in 1971, who served as the IMF's Financial Counsellor from 2017 after thirteen years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Toni M. Whited
Toni M. Whited, also published as Toni Whited, is an American financial economist at the University of Michigan known for research on corporate investment and financial constraints.
Torben G. Andersen
Torben G. Andersen is a financial econometrician, the Sharp Professor of Finance at Northwestern's Kellogg School since 1991, best known for making daily volatility observable through realized volatility.
Ulrike Malmendier
Ulrike Malmendier is a German-born economist, the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance at UC Berkeley, and a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since 2022.
Viral V. Acharya
Viral V. Acharya, known as Viral Acharya, is an Indian-American financial economist at NYU Stern and a former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
Vojislav Maksimovic
Vojislav Maksimovic, known professionally as Max Maksimovic, is a finance economist and endowed-chair professor at the University of Maryland, known for firm-level studies of law, finance, and firm growth.
Wei Xiong (economist)
Wei Xiong is a financial economist who is John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance at Princeton University, known for work on behavioral finance, speculative bubbles, and China's financial system.
William F. Sharpe
William F. Sharpe, born 1934 in Boston, is an American economist at Stanford who won the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics as an originator of the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
William Z. Ripley
William Z. Ripley was an American Harvard economist, a leading critic of railroad finance and corporate practice and president of the American Economic Association in 1933.
Wing-Keung Wong
Wing-Keung Wong (黄永强) is a financial economist and statistician who has been Chair Professor of Finance at Asia University, Taiwan, since 2016, known for stochastic dominance research.
Xavier Gabaix
Xavier Gabaix is a French economist and Harvard professor known for explaining Zipf's law of city sizes, a rare-disaster framework for asset pricing, and behavioral macroeconomics.
Yakov Amihud
Yakov Amihud is a financial economist and professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, known for a widely used 2002 measure of stock market illiquidity.