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Craig MacKinlay is the Joseph P. Wargrove Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests encompass asset pricing models, futures prices behavior, econometric modeling, and stock market behavior. MacKinlay is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Finance Association and serves on the NASD Economic Advisory Board. He has actively engaged in empirical implementation and validation of asset pricing models and measures investment performance, primarily focusing on pricing futures contracts, financial market microstructure, and credit risk assessment using statistical methods in finance. In addition to his research, MacKinlay is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He co-authored the notable book 'Econometrics of Financial Markets' and has contributed significantly to understanding non-random walks on Wall Street. His academic influence extends to various executive education programs aimed at wealth advisors, focusing on family wealth management, investment strategies, and private wealth management.
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