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Nava Ashraf

Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D.
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Christopher Avery

Roy E. Larsen Professor of Public Policy
Ph.D. Stanford Business School
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George Baker

Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D. Harvard University
Primary Fields of Interest: Compensation, corporate governance, human resource management, make v. buy, performance measurement.
Research Topics: Relational contracts.

Lucian Bebchuk

William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance
Ph.D. Harvard University
Primary Fields of Interest: Corporate governance, law and finance, and law and economics.
Research Topics: Corporate governance, law and finance, law and economics

Amitabh Chandra

Asst. Professor of Public Policy
Ph.D.
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Peter Coles

Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D. Stanford University
Primary Fields of Interest: Economics, game theory, market design.
Research Topics: Signalling in matching markets, memory and consumption splurges, strategic behavior in matching, the electronic mail game in asymmetric and multi-player settings.

Mihir Desai

Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D. Harvard University
Primary Fields of Interest: Corporate finance, foreign direct investment, international business, international finance, taxation.
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Jeffrey Frankel

James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: International finance, monetary policy, regional blocs, and international environmental issues.
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Louis Kaplow

Finn M.W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics
Ph.D. Harvard University
Primary Fields of Interest: Antitrust, law and economics, moral philosophy, tax policy.
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Asim Khwaja

Associate Professor of Public Policy
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic development, corporate finance, education, political economy, industrial organization, contract theory, mechanism design, and computational economics.
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Joshua Lerner

Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Alliances, entrepreneurship, innovation, patents, private equity, venture capital.
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Joseph Newhouse

John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management
Ph.D. Harvard
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Rohini Pande

Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy
Ph.D. London School of Economics
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Research Topics: Economic analysis of the politics and consequences of different forms of redistribution, principally in developing countries.

James Robinson

Professor of Government
Ph.D. Yale
Primary Fields of Interest: Political economy and economic and political development.
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Dani Rodrik

Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy
Ph.D. KSG
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic development, international economics, and political economy.
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Donald Rubin

John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics
Ph.D.
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David Scharfstein

Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Corporate finance, entrepreneurship, private equity, resource allocation, venture capital.
Research Topics: Entrepreneurship and venture capital; corporate resource allocation; and the financing and management of biopharmaceutical firms.

Robert Stavins

Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government
Ph.D. Harvard
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Roberto Unger

Roscoe Pound Professor of Law
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Legal, political, and social theory.
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