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Gideon Saar is the Philip Rosalyn Baron Professor of Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research interests include market microstructure, behavioral finance, and stock market return predictability. His current work is focused on high-frequency trading, examining how individual investor trading can predict returns and how market transparency affects traders' responses to information during corporate events. Saar has published in several leading finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. Prior to his tenure at Cornell, he was a faculty member at the Stern School of Business at New York University. In addition to his doctorate in finance, he holds both a master’s degree in economics and an undergraduate degree in finance. He served as a visiting research economist at the New York Stock Exchange during the 2001-2002 academic year and is a co-editor of the Journal of Financial Markets, as well as a member of the Economic Advisory Committee for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
Cornell University • Ithaca, NY
Teaching and conducting research at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.
NYU Stern School of Business • New York, NY
Taught courses and conducted research in finance.
Department of Architecture