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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:

• Franklin Allen
  The Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics; Co-Director, Wharton Financial Institutions Center
  
• Rafael Amit
  Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship; Professor of Management; Academic Director, The Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Programs; Academic Director, The Wharton Global Family Alliance
  
• David F. Babbel
  Professor Emeritus of Insurance and Risk Management
  
• Lawrence D. Brown
  Miers Busch, W'1885, Professor and Professor of Statistics
  
• Peter Cappelli
  George W. Taylor Professor of Management; Director, Center for Human Resources
  
• Patricia M. Danzon
  Celia Z. Moh Professor; Professor of Health Care Systems and Insurance and Risk Management
  
• Francis X. Diebold
  P.F. and E.W.S Miller Professor of Economics
  Co-Director, Wharton Financial Institutions Center
  
• Neil A. Doherty
  Frederick H. Ecker Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
  
• Alex Edmans
  Assistant Professor of Finance
  
• Gerald R. Faulhaber
  Professor Emeritus of Business and Public Policy and Management
  
• Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde 
  Associate Professor of Economics (University of Pennsylvania Department of Economics)
  
• Dean P. Foster
  Marie and Joseph Melone Professor; Professor of Statistics
  
• Noah Gans
  Professor of Operations and Information Management; Director, Wharton Wealth Management Initiative
  
• Chrisopher C. Geczy
  Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance
  
• Itay Goldstein
  Associate Professor of Finance
  
• Joao F. Gomes
  Professor of Finance
  
• Wayne R. Guay
  Yageo Associate Professor; Professor of Accounting
  
• N. Bulent Gultekin
  Associate Professor of Finance
  
• Richard J. Herring
  Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking; Professor of Finance; Director, The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies; Co-Director, Wharton Financial Institutions Center
  
• Lorin Hitt
  Class of 1942 Term Professor; Professor of Operations and Information Management
  
• Christopher Ittner
  Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting
  
• Howard Kaufold
  Adjunct Professor of Finance; Deputy Vice Dean and Director, Wharton MBA Program for Executives; Academic Director, Wharton Small Business Development Center
  
• Donald Keim
  John B. Neff Professor of Finance
  
• Howard Kunreuther
  Cecilia Yen Koo Professor; Professor of Decision Sciences and Business and Public Policy; Co-Director, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
  
• Olivia S. Mitchell
  International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor; Professor of Insurance and Risk Management and Business and Public Policy; Executive Director, Pension Research Council; Director, Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
  
• David Musto
  Ronald O. Perelman Professor in Finance
  
• David Ng
  Visiting Associate Professor of Finance
  
• Gregory Nini
  Assistant Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
  
• Mark V. Pauly
  Bendheim Professor; Professor of Health Care Systems, Business and Public Policy, Insurance and Risk Management, and Economics
  
• Daniel M.G. Raff
  Associate Professor of Management
  
• Michael R. Roberts
  Associate Professor of Finance
  
• Paul R. Rosenbaum
  Robert G. Putzel Professor; Professor of Statistics
  
• Nancy P. Rothbard
  Associate Professor of Management
  
• Catherine Schrand
  Professor of Accounting
  
• Nicolaj Siggelkow
  David M. Knott Professor; Professor of Management; Chairperson, Management Department
  
• Harbir Singh
  The Mack Professor; Professor of Management; Vice Dean for Global Initiatives; Co-Director, Mack Center for Technological Innovation
  
• Kent Smetters
  Boettner Professor; Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
  
• Nicholas Souleles
  Michael L. Tarnopol Professor; Professor of Finance
  
• Robert F. Stambaugh
  Miller Anderson & Sherrerd Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics
  
• J. Michael Steele
  C.F. Koo Professor; Professor of Statistics and Operations and Information Management
  
• Robert A. Stine
  Professor of Statistics
  
• Lucian "Luke" Taylor
  Assistant Professor of Finance
  
• Adrian E. Tschoegl
  Adjunct Associate Professor of Management
  
• William C. Tyson
  Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Accounting, Management, and Law
  
• Michael Useem
  The William and Jacalyn Egan Professor; Professor of Management; Director, Center for Leadership and Change Management
  
• Sidney G. Winter
  Deloitte and Touche Professor Emeritus of Management
  
• Linda H. Zhao
  Professor of Statistics
  
  

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
  
• James R. Barth
  Senior Finance Fellow, The Milken Institute
  
• Laura Bartiloro
  Banca d'Italia
  
• David Becher
  Associate 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
  
• Philip Bond
  Associate Professor of Finance and Insurance, University of Minnesota
  
• Christa Bouwman
  Assistant Professor of Banking and Finance and Lewis-Progressive Professor of Management, Case Western Reserve University
  
• Jacopo Carmassi
  Economist, Assonime (Association of Joint Stock Companies incorporated in Italy), Rome;  former Wharton FIC Visiting Fellow
  
• Elena Carletti
  Joint Chair, Economics Department, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
  
• Roderick Carr
  President, Canterbury University
  
• Emilio J. Castilla
  W. Maurice Young (1961) Career Development Professor, Associate Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
• Nicola Cetorelli
  Senior 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
  
• Peter Christoffersen
  Professor of Finance, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
  
• Susan Kerr Christoffersen
  Associate Professor of Finance, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
  
• Stijn Claessens
  Professor of International Finance, University of Amsterdam
  
• John Core
  Professor of Accounting, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
• 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 Entreprenuership, 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
  
• Lorna Doucet
  Associate Professor of Management, China Europe International Business School
  
• Roger Edelen
  Assistant Professor of Management, University of California, Davis
  
• Robert H. Edelstein
  Maurice Mann Chair in Real Estate, 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 A. Eisenbeis
  Chief Monetary Economist, Cumberland Advisors
  
• Robert F. Engle
  Professor of Finance, 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
  Bank of America Eminent Scholar Chair of Finance, Eminent Scholar, Warrington College of Business Admnistration, University of Florida
  
• Paolo Fulghieri
  Macon G. Patton Distinguished Professor and Area Chair of Finance, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
  
• Craig Furfine
  Clinical Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  
• Douglas Gale
  Silver Professor, Economics Department, New York University
  
• Charles A. E. Goodhart
  Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance, London School of Economics
  
• Gary B. Gorton
  Professor of Finance, Yale University
  
• 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
  
• JooYun Hong
  
• Rocco Huang
  Assistant Professor of Finance, Michigan State University
  
• Larry W. Hunter
  Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• Michael G. Jacobides
  Sir Donald Gordon Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and 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
  Associate 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
  Chief Risk Officer and Executive Vice President, State Street Corporation
  
• William W. Lang
  Senior Vice President, Supervision, Regulation and Credit, Chief Examination Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
  
• David F. Larcker
  James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting, Stanford University School of Business
  
• Christian Leuz
  Joseph Sondheimer Professor of International Economics, Finance and Accounting and Richard N. Rosett Faculty Fellow
  
• Robert E. Litan
  Vice President and Director, Economic Studies; The Cabot Family Chair, The Brookings Institution
  
• Lubomir P. Litov
  Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Arizona
  
• Jose A. Lopez
  Research Advisor, Financial Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  
• 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 and Economics, Boston University
  
• Joseph R. Mason
  Hermann Moyse, Jr./Louisiana Bankers Association Endowed Professor of Banking, Louisiana State University
  
• James McAndrews
  Executive Vice President and Director of Financial Research, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  
• Hamid Mehran
  Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  
• Jianping Mei
  Associate Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University
  
• Craig Merrill
  Professor of Finance, Brigham Young University
  
• Loretta J. Mester
  Executive Vice President and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
  Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance, The Wharton School
  
• Andrew Metrick
  Deputy Dean for Faculty Development, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Corporate Governance, Professor of Finance, & Faculty Director of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance, Yale University
  
• Alexander Muermann
  Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
  
• Vinay B. Nair
  Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Busines School, Columbia University
  
• Maureen O'Hara
  Robert W. Purcell Professorship in Management, Professor of Finance and Acting Director, Graduate Studies
  
• Richard D. Phillips
  Burce A. Palmer Professor and Chair of Risk Management and Insurance, J. Mack Robinston College of Business, Georgia State University
  
• Baba Prasad
  President and Chief Executive Officer, Vivekin Group, Inc.
  
• Jun Qian
  Associate Professor of Finance, Boston College
  
• Meijun Qian
  Assistant Professor 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
  Partner, Oliver Wyman
  
• 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
  Associate Professor of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hil
  
• Wei-Ling Song
  Associate Professor of Finance, Louisiana State University
  
• Philip E. Strahan
  John L. Collins Chair in 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
  
• Skander J. van den Heuvel
  Economist, Financial Studies Section, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
  
• Terri Vaughan
  Robb B. Kelley Distinguished Professor of Insurance and Actuarial Science, Drake University
  
• Bertrand Venard
  Professor of Management, Audencia School of Management, Nantes
  
• Ralph A. Walkling
  Executive Director, Center for Corporate Governance, Drexel University
  
• Chenyang (Jason) Wei
  Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
  
• Russell R. Wermers
  Associate Professor of Finance, University of Maryland-College Park
  
• James A. Wilcox
  James J. and Marianne B. Lowrey Chair in Business, University of California, Berkeley
  
• Steffanie L. Wilk
  Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources, Ohio State University
  
• Mei Xue
  Associate Professor of Operations and Strategic Management, Boston College
  
• Glenn Yago
  Senior Director, Israel Center; Senior Research Fellow; and Founder, Financial Innovations Labs, The Milken Institute
  
• Jinghua Yan
  Research Analyst, SAC Capital
  
• Ayako Yasuda
  Associate Professor of Management, University of California, Davis
  
• Feng Yun
  Professor of Finance, 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
  
• John Qi Zhu
  Assistant Professor, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  
• Hongmin Zi
  Professor of Finance and Insurance, Ewha University
  
• Maurizio Zollo
  Associate Professor of Strategy and Management, INSEAD; The Bocconi Dean’s Professor of Strategy and Corporate Responsibility and Director of the Bocconi International Center for Advanced Management Systems, Bocconi University
  
• Paul Zurek
  Associate, Cornerstone Research