University of California, Irvine

Faculty Member, Business

Merage Chair in Business Growth, and Professor of Finance

Merage School of Business

About

David Hirshleifer joined the Merage finance faculty in July 2006 after serving as the Kurtz Chair in Finance at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, the Waterman Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan Business School, and as a tenured faculty member at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

His expertise includes corporate finance, investments, and behavioral finance. Some of his recent research has been on psychology in firms and markets, and how emotions affect stock prices and managerial decision biases. He has also conducted research on risk management, determinants of futures prices, the effects of social interactions on markets, fads and fashions in economic decisions, and how psychological bias affects political and regulatory decisions.

Hirshleifer is co-author of Price Theory and Applications: Decisions, Markets, and Information, now in its seventh edition. He has published more than 40 papers, several of which have won research awards, including the Smith Breeden Award for outstanding paper in the Journal of Finance.

He has served as editor of the Review of Financial Studies, as associate editor of several other finance, economics, and strategy journals, and as director of the American Finance Association and the Western Finance Association.

Hirshleifer has presented papers and participated in discussions at many seminars and national and international conferences. His research has been profiled in U.S.and international newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media.

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