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Faculty & Research

UCLA Anderson’s finance faculty are world-renowned and the finance area has long been recognized as one of the world's top-10 programs. Our faculty's backgrounds cover nearly all aspects of the field: asset pricing; derivatives; micro-structure; corporate finance; and investment finance. Their research is frequently published in the industry’s most respected publications.

Meet Our Finance Faculty

Faculty Research in UCLA Anderson Review

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When Younger Investors Overreact to News, Others Feel It

Inexperienced investors, lacking historical context, impact markets

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How an Excess of Stock Analyst Optimism Lands on Companies Least Deserving of It

Results of financially weak firms are difficult to forecast; in uncertainty, Mark Grinblatt finds, Wall Street’s views are overly generous

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How Tech's Disruption Alters Investors' Appetite for Risk

New technology’s upending of the old creates demand for alternative assets to offset risk

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Faculty Research Grants

The Fink Center supports faculty research by awarding annual grants to support research projects with strong publication potential in finance and related fields.
Meet the recipients of 2019-2020 grant cycle.

Mikhail Chernov

Professor of Finance

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Ashvin Gandhi

Assistant Professor of Strategy

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Mark Grinblatt

Distinguished Research Professor

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Valentin Haddad

Assistant Professor of Finance

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Bernard Herskovic

Assistant Professor of Finance

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Stavros Panageas

Associate Professor of Finance

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Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Assistant Professor of Economics

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Applied Management Research Program

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World-Class Faculty

At Anderson, we learn from changemakers who have made a profound impact on their industries and sectors. Meet some of our influential finance faculty.