Chester Spatt
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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
A.M., University of Pennsylvania
A.B., Princeton University
Chester Spatt is the Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance and the Director of the Center for Financial Markets at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. In addition to his academic duties, he is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of TIAA-CREF Institute.
Chester is the former Chief Economist and Director of the Office of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He has also served as a President of the Western Finance Association and the Society for Financial Studies. Chester’s consulting practice focuses on providing expertise on such issues as securities litigation and financial markets, financial regulation, credit rating agencies, mortgages, trading, taxation and asset allocation and valuation, among other areas.
Chester’s research and teaching interests include fixed-income, commodity and options valuation and hedging; the economics of financial market regulation; taxation and asset allocations; and market microstructure. His articles have been published in the leading academic journals including the Journal of Finance, the American Economic Review, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Markets, and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, among others. He has also served as an editor for a number of leading academic journals.
Chester has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton University, and a Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
