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He received his Bachelor of Arts with highest distinction (economics, mathematics, and philosophy) from the University of Michigan in 1981 and Doctor of Philosophy (Economics) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.
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He was the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is one of the prominent representatives of the school of behavioral finance. His research activities include: market for corporate control.
Corporate governance around the world.
Privatization and the role of government in the economy. Behavior of institutional investors.
Behavior of stock prices. The economics of corruption and rent-seeking behavior.
His research papers (many of them written jointly with Andrei Shleifer, Rafael Louisiana Porta and Josef Lakonishok) are among the most often cited research works in the field of economic sciences in recent years.
He heads the National Bureau of Economic Research Program in Corporate Finance. In 1994, he founded (along with Josef Lakonishok and Andrei Shleifer) LSV Asset Management (LSV), a quantitative value equity manager providing active management for institutional investors through the application of proprietary investment models based on the principles of behavioural finance.
