Richard H. Stanton
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Ph.D. in Finance, Stanford University
M.A. in Mathematics, Cambridge University
B.A. in Mathematics, Cambridge University
Richard Stanton is a Professor of Finance, Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow, and past chair of the Finance Group at the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley. He earned a Ph.D. in finance from Stanford University, a B.A. and M.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University, and has been on the Berkeley faculty since 1991. He is best known for his widely cited research on mortgage markets and term structure modeling, as well as more recent work on mutual funds and valuing employee stock options.
Recently, his paper, “A Liquidity-Based Model of Closed-End Funds” won the Best Paper award at the 2006 Utah Winter Finance conference, and his paper, “Managerial Ability, Compensation and the Closed-End Fund Discount” was nominated for the 2007 Journal of Finance Smith-Breeden best paper award. He has published numerous articles in top finance and real estate journals, is currently an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and is a former Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies.
