Dr. Amir Yaron

Biography

Amir Yaron is the Robert Morris Professor of Banking and Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and his BA and MA in Economics from Tel-Aviv University. Professor Yaron serves as a co-editor of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and is an associate editor for Quantitative Economics and Financial Research Letters. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Journal of Monetary Economics. Yaron is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he co-heads the Asset Pricing group and leads the Capital Markets Economy group. His research interests encompass asset pricing, macro-finance, financial econometrics, and household finance, with notable publications in journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Review, and Journal of Finance. He has received accolades for his work, including the 2004 Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Award and the 2008 Geewax, Terker, and Company Prize in Investment Research. Professor Yaron's teaching focuses on investment asset pricing, international investments, and multinational firms, with many of his PhD students placed in leading academic institutions and the risk management industry. He has held positions as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Bank of Israel, CEMFI in Spain, and IIES in Sweden.

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