【Topic】Inefficient Investment Waves

【Speaker】Zhiguo He，Associate Professor, University of Chicago and NBER

【Time】Thursday, September11, 13:45-15:15

【Venue】Room 404, Weilun Building, Tsinghua SEM.

【Language】English

【Organizer】Department of Finance

【Target Audience】Faculty Members and Graduate Students

【Background Information】

Zhiguo He is interested in the implications of agency frictions and debt maturities in financial markets and macroeconomics, with a special focus on contract theory. His research has been published in leading academic journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics , , and Management Science.

He was awarded the 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Economics. Before joining the Chicago Booth faculty in 2008, he was visiting the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University as a post-doc fellow. He was a stock analyst at the China International Capital Corporation in Beijing in 2001. In 2007, He won the Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance, which is an annual competition of doctoral theses from top business schools. In 2012, He won the Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award which is awarded annually to an unpublished research paper and making an outstanding contribution to the field of finance. In 2012, He won the Smith-Breeden First Prize which is an annual award to the best paper in financial markets published inJournal of Finance.