Andrei Shleifer
Biography
A Professor of Economics at Harvard University,
Andrei Shleifer holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from
MIT. Before coming to Harvard in 1991, he has taught at Princeton and the
Chicago Business School. Shleifer has worked in the areas of comparative
corporate governance, law and finance, behavioral finance, as well as
institutional economics. He has published six books, including The Grabbing
Hand (with Robert Vishny), and Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral
Finance, as well as over a hundred articles. Shleifer is an Editor of the
Quarterly Journal of Economics, and a fellow of the Econometric Society, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Finance Association. In
1999, Shleifer won the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic
Association. According to RePEc, Shleifer is the most cited economist in
the world.
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