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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