Alex Edmans

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~aedmans

Alex Edmans is an Assistant Professor of Finance at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute. Alex’s research interests are in corporate finance (executive compensation, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions) and investments, and he has published twelve papers in the top finance journals: the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. His study on the link between employee satisfaction and shareholder returns won the Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing and the FIR-PRI prize for Finance and Sustainability. His PhD thesis on the effect of international soccer results on investor sentiment and stock returns was a finalist for the Smith-Breeden Prize for best paper in the Journal of Finance. Alex’s research has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times and New York Times, and he has appeared on CNBC, ESPN, Fox and the BBC. He was named recently a Rising Star of Corporate Governance by Yale University, and appointed an Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Financial Management. Alex graduated from Oxford University with the highest Double First in Economics and Management, and subsequently earned a PhD in Financial Economics from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Before entering academia, he worked for Morgan Stanley in both investment banking and fixed income sales and trading.