Education
Malmendier earned a Doctor of Philosophy in law from the University of Bonn in 2000 and a Doctor of Philosophy in business economics from Harvard University in 2002.
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Ulrike Malmendier
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Career
Her work focuses on behavioral economics, corporate finance, and law and economics. In 2013, she was awarded the Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association. IDEAS lists her as among the top 5% most cited economists and as among the top 100 young economists who started publishing 15 years ago.
In the New York Times, David Leonardt named Malmendier as one of the 13 young economists who are the future of the field
Her work on behavioral biases in financial markets has been featured in publications including The Economist, Investors Chronicle, the New York Times, Barron"s, The Boston Globe, Bloomberg, and The New Yorker. She has been profiled in The American Magazine and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Andrei Shleifer served as Malmendier"s adviser at Harvard. She worked as an assistant professor of finance at Stanford University from 2002 to 2006.
During that time she held visiting positions at the University of Chicago and Princeton University.
Malmendier moved to Berkeley in 2006 where she earned tenure in 2008. She currently is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and faculty research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor.
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German American