Background
Moskowitz was born in 1971 in West Lafayette, Indiana, where his father was a professor of management at Purdue University.
Moskowitz was born in 1971 in West Lafayette, Indiana, where his father was a professor of management at Purdue University.
Moskowitz graduated from West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School in 1989, and then attended Purdue where he earned a Bachelor of Surgery in industrial management and industrial engineering (with distinction) in 1993, and a Master of Surgery in management in 1994. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in finance from the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management in 1998.
Moskowitz has been a faculty member at Booth since 1998. Moskowitz has published several award winning research papers and was promoted to full professor in 2005. He is currently the Professor of Finance and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow at the Booth School of Business.
His 2004 paper, "Informal Financial Networks: Theory and Evidence" (with Mark Garmaise), placed first, and his 2005 paper, "Confronting Information Asymmetries: Evidence from Real Estate Markets" (with Garmaise), was runner-up.
In addition to his academic work, Moskowitz has served as a consultant to AQR Capital Management. In 2011, Moskowitz and co-author L. Jon Wertheim published Scorecasting, a book that uses statistical and other empirical research results to analyze conventional sports wisdom.
He also looked at the return to private business ownership, the trading and financing of commercial real estate, and the political economy of financial regulation."
He also won 2004 and 2005 Michael Brennan Award prizes for papers published in the Review of Financial Studies.