Follow them: 5 stalwarts of Finance academia

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  1. Michael Faulkender
  2. Leonard Kostovetsky
  3. Indraneel Chakraborty
  4. Anna Scherbina
  5. Christo Pirinsky

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Top Finance Professors to Follow, For Every MS Finance Student in USA

1. Michael Faulkender

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Michael Faulkender is the Dean’s Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also the former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the US Department of Treasury.

📚Research Interests

Corporate capital structure, risk management, corporate liquidity, executive compensation, and job impacts of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

📜Latest Publications:

The Job-Preservation Effects of Paycheck Protection Program Loans (2021)
Understanding the Rise in Corporate Cash: Precautionary Savings or Foreign Taxes (2019)
Taxes and Leverage at Multinational Corporations (2016)

🏆Awards and Achievements:

Alexander Hamilton Award for Distinguished Leadership at the Department of the Treasury (2022)
Jensen Prize: Second Prize for 2012 Best Paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the area of Corporate Finance
Barclays Global Investors / Michael Brennan Best Paper Award – Runner-Up (2012)

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2. Leonard Kostovetsky

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Professor Kostovetsky is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. He is best known for his research on financial economics, cryptocurrency, socially responsible investing, and investor heterogeneity.

📚Research Interests: Financial economics, Cryptocurrency, Socially responsible investing, Investor heterogeneity.

📜Recent Publications:

Digital Tulips? Returns to Investors in Initial Coin Offerings (with Hugo Benedetti), Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 66 (7), November 2020
Measuring Innovation and Product Differentiation: Evidence from Mutual Funds (with Jerry Warner), Journal of Finance, Vol. 75 (2), April 2020
Investor Heterogeneity and Trading (with Anzhela Knyazeva and Diana Knyazeva), European Financial Management special issue, Vol. 24 (4), September 2018

🏆Awards and Achievements:

Professor Kostovetsky’s research has been published in top finance journals. These include the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics.

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3. Indraneel Chakraborty

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Indraneel Chakraborty is an experienced Associate Professor and Department Chair, Finance at Miami Herbert Business School. He has a strong research background in international finance, investments, and emerging markets.

📚Research Interests: International finance, investments, and emerging markets.

📜Recent Publications:

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Financial Statement Complexity and Bank Lending
97 The Accounting review 155-178 (2022) (with Andrew J. Leone, Miguel Minutti-Meza and Matthew A. Phillips). 10.2308/TAR-2019-0411
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Monetary stimulus and bank lending
136 Journal of financial economics 189-218 (2020) (with Itay Goldstein and Andrew MacKinlay). 10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.09.007
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Managing Performance Signals Through Delay: Evidence from Venture Capital
64 Management science 2875-2900 (2018) (with Michael Ewens). 10.1287/mnsc.2016.2662

🏆Awards and Achievements:

Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Miami, 2021
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Miami, 2020
National Stock Exchange Best Discussant Award (Shared)
Indian School of Business Summer Conference, 2020

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4. Anna Scherbina

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Anna Scherbina is an associate professor of finance at Brandeis University. She has deep domain expertise in behavioural finance and asset pricing. And has worked at various prestigious institutions like the Harvard Business School and the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers.

📚Research Interests: Behavioral finance, asset pricing

🏆Recent Publications:

How Local Economic Conditions Affect College Enrollment Decisions (2020)
Disagreement about GDP Growth Forecasts and Bond Risk Premia (2019)
Measuring Mutual Fund Skill using Daily Trades (2018)

🏆Awards and Achievements:

Jack Treynor Prize, Q Group (2018)
Research Grant from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, Q Group (2013)

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5. Christo Pirinsky

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Professor Pirinsky is an Associate Professor at the Department of Finance of the UCF College of Business and Co-Director of the FinTech Program. He has an extensive background in academia and regulatory work.

📚Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance and Economics, Data Analytics applications for Financial Decision Making

🏆Recent Publications:

Corporate Leadership and Inherited Beliefs about Gender Roles with R. David McLean and Mengxin Zhao, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming, 2022.
The Deterrent Effect of Insider Trading Enforcement Actions with Robert Davidson, The Accounting Review, 97(3), 2022, 227-247.
A Language-Based Approach to Measuring Creative Exploration with Vladimir Gatchev and Buvaneshwaran Venugopal, Research Policy, 51, 2021, 104426.

🏆Awards and Achievements: