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The Center's community of researchers

The Center supports the activities of an expanding community of researchers from Wharton and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as affiliated researchers from private institutions, the federal government and other well-known academic institutions. To date, approximately one quarter of Wharton's 212 standing faculty have participated in the Center's programs. Faculty-led research projects have also enlisted a growing number of doctoral candidates and selected MBA students.

Wharton

The following Wharton faculty and staff have played a central role in the Center's research agenda:

Affiliated faculty

Affiliated scholars from other institutions bring additional expertise:

  • Zeynep Aksin Karaesmen
    Associate Professor of Operations Managements, Koç University
  • Klaas P. Baks
    Assistant Professor of Finance, Emory University
  • Laura Bartiloro
    Banca d'Italia
  • David Becher
    Assistant Professor of Finance, Drexel University
  • Allen N. Berger
    H. Montague Osteen, Jr., Professor in Banking and Finance, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
  • Elena Carletti
    Post-doc Researcher, Center for Financial Studies at the University of Frankfurt
  • Emilio J. Castilla
    Assistant Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Nicola Cetorelli
    Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • Rajesh Chakrabarti
    Assistant Professor of Finance, Indian School of Business
  • Martin Cherkes
    Associate Professor, Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
  • Susan Kerr Christoffersen
    Associate Professor, McGill University
  • Stijn Claessens
    Professor of International Finance, University of Amsterdam
  • Jonathan N. Crook
    Professor in Business Economics and Director of the Credit Research Centre, The School of Management, University of Edinburgh
  • David C. Croson
    Associate Professor of Strategy and ntreprenuership, Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University
  • J. David Cummins
    Joseph E. Boettner Professor of Risk Management, Insurance and Financial Institutions; Director, Advanta Center for Financial Institutions, Temple University
  • Sankar De
    Executive Director, Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business
  • Roger Edelen
    Managing Director of Research and Development, ReFlow Management, LLC.
  • Robert H. Edelstein
    Professor, Business Administration, Walter A. Haas School of Business and Co-Chairman, Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics, University of California at Berkeley
  • Robert F. Engle
    Michael Armellino Professor in the Management of Financial Services, Stern School of Business, New York University
  • Hulya K.K. Eraslan
    Associate Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
  • Chitru S. Fernando
    Michael F. Price Professor of Finance and Director, Center for Financial Studies, University of Oklahoma
  • Mark Flannery
    NationsBank Professor of Finance, University of Florida
  • Paolo Fulghieri
    Professor of Finance, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
  • Craig Furfine
    Economic Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • Douglas Gale
    Professor, Economics Department, New York University
  • Charles A. E. Goodhart
    Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance, London School of Economics
  • Clive Granger
    Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
  • Ji-Min Guo
    Manager, Department of Fixed Income Securities, China Galaxy Securities Company Ltd.
  • Michel Habib
    Professor of Finance, University of Zurich
  • David J. Hand
    Professor of Statistics, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
  • Patrick T. Harker
    President; Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware
  • Larry W. Hunter
    Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Michael G. Jacobides
    Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Management, London Business School
  • Jerry Jacobs
    Merriam Term Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
  • Robert W. Klein
    Associate Professor and Director, Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research, Georgia State University
  • Anne Marie Knott
    Assistant Professor of Strategy, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Oskar Kowalewski
    Assistant Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, The Collegium of World Economy
  • Andrew Kuritzkes
    Executive Director, Oliver Wyman
  • William W. Lang
    Vice President, Supervision, Regulation and Credit, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
  • David F. Larcker
    Professor of Accounting, Stanford University School of Business
  • Christian Leuz
    Professor of Accounting and the David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago
  • Robert E. Litan
    Vice President and Director, Economic Studies; The Cabot Family Chair, The Brookings Institution
  • Lubomir P. Litov
    Assistant Professor of Finance, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Brigitte Madrian
    Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • Avishai Mandelbaum
    Professor of Operations-Research and Service-Engineering, Technion
  • Roberto S. Mariano
    Dean, School of Economics, Singapore Management University
  • Robert Marquez
    Associate Professor of Finance, Arizona State University
  • Joseph R. Mason
    Associate Professor of Finance, Drexel University
  • James McAndrews
    Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Hamid Mehran
    Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Andrew Metrick
    Professor of Finance, Yale University; and Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  • Jianping Mei
    Associate Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University
  • Craig Merrill
    Associate Professor of Finance, Brigham Young University
  • Loretta J. Mester
    Senior Vice President and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
    Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
  • Alexander Muermann
    Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
  • Vinay B. Nair
    Research Director and Portfolio Manager, Quantitative Strategies in Finance, Old Lane LP
  • Maureen O'Hara
    Robert W. Purcell Professorship in Management, Professor of Finance and Acting Director, Graduate Studies
  • Richard D. Phillips
    Chair and Bruce A. Palmer Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, Georgia State University
  • Baba Prasad
    President and Chief Executive Officer, Vivekin Group, Inc.
  • Jun Qian
    Associate Professor of Finance, Boston College
  • Meijun Qian
    Department of Finance and Accounting, National University of Singapore
  • Anthony M. Santomero
    Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
  • Joao Santos
    Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Til Schuermann
    Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Kenneth E. Scott
    Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus, Stanford University
  • John J. Seater
    Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University
  • Haipeng Shen
    Assistant Professor of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hil
  • Wei-Ling Song
    Assistant Professor of Finance, Louisiana State University
  • Philip E. Strahan
    Associate Professor of Finance, Boston College
  • Solomon Tadesse
    Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Charles R. Taylor
    Director, Operational Risk, Risk Management Association
  • Haluk Unal
    Professor of Finance, University of Maryland-College Park
  • Terri Vaughan
    Robb B. Kelley Distinguished Professor of Insurance and Actuarial Science, Drake University
  • Bertrand Venard
    Professor of Management and Director of Research, Audencia School of Management, Nantes
  • Ralph A. Walkling
    Executive Director, Center for Corporate Governance, Drexel University
  • Russell R. Wermers
    Associate Professor of Finance, University of Maryland-College Park
  • James A. Wilcox
    Kruttschnitt Professor of Financial Institutions, University of California, Berkeley
  • Steffanie L. Wilk
    Assistant Professor of Management and Human esources, Ohio State University
  • Mei Xue
    Assistant Professor of Operations and Strategic Management, Boston College
  • Jinghua Yan
    Quantitative Equity Strategist, Tykhe Capital LLC
  • Feng Yun
    Associate Professor and Vice Director of Financial Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Richard Zeckhauser
    Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
  • Stavros A. Zenios
    Rector and Professor of Economics, University of Cyprus
  • Hongmin Zi
    Professor of Finance and Insurance, Ewha University
  • Maurizio Zollo
    Associate Professor of Strategy and Management, INSEAD
  • Paul Zurek
    Associate, Cornerstone Research