Dr. Pedro Bordalo

Biography

Pedro Bordalo is a Professor of Financial Economics at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His areas of expertise include behavioral finance and behavioral economics. His research focuses on the roles of selective attention and memory in driving attitudes towards risk and shaping beliefs and expectations. Bordalo's approach seeks to explain key evidence that challenges standard rational models, highlighting the systematic instability of risk preferences and the predictability of stock and bond market returns. His work has been published in prominent journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and the American Economic Review. He has been invited to present his research to regulatory bodies including the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, the US Federal Trade Commission, and the Financial Conduct Authority, discussing the policy implications of his findings. Before joining Oxford, he was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Bordalo holds an MSc and PhD in Theoretical Physics from Ecole Normale Superieure and Universite Paris VI, respectively, and has taught at the London School of Economics and Harvard University. He is actively engaged in presenting his research at conferences and seminars, and he regularly serves as a referee for leading economics and finance journals.

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