Paul Merage Professor Elected Vice President of the American Finance Association
David Hirshleifer, Finance Professor at UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business, was recently elected as Vice President of the American Finance Association (AFA). He was also assigned to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). As AFA Vice President, Hirshleifer will serve a one-year term on a six-person executive committee, in charge of coordinating nominations for prospective members of the board of directors, managing yearly meetings, guiding the content of The Journal of Finance as well as a range of other responsibilities. It is fitting that Hirshleifer should help handle the content for the journal, as he has held an editorial position with the publication, as well as others, in the past.
Booth Professor Releases New Book
Richard Thaler, professor of behavioral science and economics at the Booth School of Business, has spent extensive time exploring the notion that the central agents in the economy are “fallible, error-prone humans” and not the “rational actors assumed in traditional economics.” Thaler, who is considered a founder in the field of behavioral economics, is now releasing a new book on May 18, 2015 that further examines why people love to misbehave in ways that effect the economy so much. Continue reading…
Three Booth Professors Named to Finance & Development Rank
Three Booth School of Business faculty members have been selected by Finance & Development for its Generation Next ranking, which lists 25 economists younger than 45 who are shaping how people think about the global economy. The three professors were: Matthew Gentzkow, Amit Seru and Amir Sufi. Continue reading…
