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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, Risk Management and Finance
  
• Michael Boldin
  Economist; IT Technical Director, Wharton Research Data Services
  
• 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
  WP Carey Professor of Economics; Professor of Finance and Statistics
  Co-Director, Wharton Financial Institutions Center
  
• Neil A. Doherty
  Frederick H. Ecker Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
  
• Lorna Doucet
  Visiting Assistant Professor of Management
  
• Gerald R. Faulhaber
  Professor of Business and Public Policy and Management
  
• Dean P. Foster
  Associate Professor of Statistics
  
• Noah Gans
  Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management
  
• Chrisopher C. Geczy
  Assistant Professor of Finance
  
• Gary B. Gorton
  Robert Morris Professor of Banking and Professor of Finance
  
• 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
  Alberto Vitale Term Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management
  
• Christopher Ittner
  Professor of Accounting
  
• Howard Kaufold
  Adjunct Professor of Finance; Director, Wharton Executive MBA Program
  
• 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
  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
  
• Paul R. Rosenbaum
  Robert G. Putzel Professor; Professor of Statistics
  
• Nancy P. Rothbard
  Assistant Professor of Management
  
• Catherine Schrand
  Associate Professor of Accounting
  
• Nicolaj Siggelkow
  Associate Professor of Management
  
• Harbir Singh
  Edward H. Bowman Professor of Management; Co-Director, Mack Center for Technological Innovation
  
• Kent Smetters
  Associate Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
  
• Nicholas Souleles
  Associate Professor of Finance
  
• Robert F. Stambaugh
  Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Finance
  
• J. Michael Steele
  C.F. Koo Professor; Professor of Statistics and Operations and Information Management
  
• Robert A. Stine
  Professor of Statistics
  
• Adrian E. Tschoegl
  Adjunct Associate Professor of Management
  
• William C. Tyson
  Associate Professor of Legal Studies, Accounting, Management, and Law
  
• Michael Useem
  The William and Jacalyn Egan Professor; Professor of Management; Director, Center for Leadership and Change Management
  
• Skander J. van den Heuvel
  Assistant Professor of Finance
  
• Sidney G. Winter
  Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management; Co-Director, Reginald H. Jones Center for Management Policy, Strategy, and Organization
  
• Ayako Yasuda
  Assistant Professor of Finance
  
• Linda H. Zhao
  Associate 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
  
• 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